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[Assistant] And the DB's got a good clue of, oh, this is where they like to throw hot when he gets exposed. He breaks on it, Bradbury interception.


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[Assistant] So they got it all. And this will be, you know, I know we talked about last week being the toughest challenge for Brock Purdy yet.


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[Assistant] Well, here's, we're going another level up now. He got a little schooling there in his sixth grade. Now he's going to seventh and eighth grade here. Or whatever you want to say. That was senior year of high school and now we're going to college. And it's just a different level of everything on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's going to be a game where you're going to see them living on the edge a little bit more. What I mean by the edge, the edge run games. That to me, if the, you know, if there's a, this is the Niners offensive line that's been better and better, but the interior part has not been perfect all year.


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[Assistant] That's the area where I go, I don't know if they're just going to be able to go like they did last week. They were kind of simple and just went set hut, ran it up the middle. Okay. Four yards, three yards, whatever. Started to wear them down as the game went over, went on. I don't know if they're going to be able to just do that against this group to where I just go, man, they're going to get in some of these fronts and.


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[Assistant] You're not going anywhere up the middle there. You're going to have to find some creative ways to kind of, you know, like we've talked about other weeks, get to C gap, get to D gap runs.


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[Assistant] To their success. To get the Eagles just to spread out horizontally a little bit. To now, okay, wait, fake the run, play action, boom, there's a little hole there. You know, the Eagles can pack it in there and make it real tough and chaotic with their size and you know, their linebackers are good too.


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[Assistant] Not necessarily through the passing game. You're right of all of it. Yeah, you're right of all of it. Even in the passing game. Shit, they're tough.


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[Assistant] You know, I know, you know, we've had our talks about Jalen Hurst. That doesn't mean he's still not damn good. And if there's opportunities to be had, he gonna hit him. He is. That's the one thing we know about him.


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[Assistant] He is, and they, yeaah, that's, they put the 49ers in some binds. I mean, they always do, of course.


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[Assistant] And we know with the 49ers a little bit too is it's not the greatest cover group to where if they can get them into some of these situations that we've talked about in the past where yea it's 3D zone but it kind of plays like man to man outside. I don't like those matchups for them. Let alone the Eagles like you're talking about and like you were saying with the 49ers.


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[Assistant] They are a team that's gonna understand the rules of the defense and go, wait, wait, oh, you're playing quarters? We got some plays for quarters, right?


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[Assistant] They're gonna have some. Dallas, again, was a team that just was throwing plays at the wall. I hope this one works against that defense. I hope that one, and that just, that never works against the 49ers. Like we talked about last week breaking this game down a little bit, you know, or the 49ers. You gotta understand them a little. You can't just think you're gonna call plays and move the ball on them.


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[Assistant] And Philadelphia's shown the ability to do that all year. Let alone, Philadelphia's gonna put the 49ers in the greatest bind.


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[Assistant] That I can think of off the top of my head. You know, I know the Raiders did this a little bit, but the greatest bind of like, oh no, our run game is every bit as dangerous as our pass game. You know, which one are you going to pick? Right? Now the 49ers are, their front sevens are amazing. We're talking about two great front sevens.


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[Assistant] Those 2D tackles, like we've talked about, BOSA, the linebackers, they give them some advantages that a lot of teams don't have. And I think the first thing you talk about is the run game, right? I think the 49ers can definitely slow down.


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[Assistant] The Eagles run game. I do. And one of the few teams in football that I actually look at and go, it's going to take a really good effort by the Eagles to run the ball consistently on the Niners.


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[Assistant] And the first thing is, hey, the power, just like we talked about on Monday, Eagles are one of those teams. You can just go, Hey, yeah, we're running it right up the middle. You know it. Oh, great. Good. 10 yards. Oh, we're running up the middle again. Eight yards. Yeah. Great. Hey, up the middle one more time. Here you go. Eight yards. They can do that. They're that good, right? Not against this group.


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[Assistant] And then you get into the quarterback design run stuff. I don't think there's anybody better suited to stop the quarterback design run than, than the 49ers. Two things give them a distinct advantage in my opinion.


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[Assistant] The speed and athleticism of their DNs, right? Bossa, Ekubat, I mean they're, they can fly. And then those linebackers again. And where, you know, teams play these read option plays different ways, I think the way the 49ers play it,


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[Assistant] Is gonna be more correct than maybe some other teams have played it in the past.


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[Assistant] You see a lot of teams, right, they read the defense and read option, right? There's Jalen Hurst, he gets it, he does this, he's watching the defense end, right?


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[Assistant] What happens is Fred Warner, who now is playing one of those A-gaps in the middle, right? One of those gaps between the guard and the, I mean the center and the guard, one of those two, right? Well, he's gonna go, as soon as he sees that mesh, he's gonna go, well my defense end's gonna get down there and kinda take the hole away, so now I can go to their hole.


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[Assistant] And he'll, and they're so fast, him and Greenlaw, that when you look at research of teams doing this, they're usually right there when the quarterback keeps it and you go, oh shit, quarterbacks, oh, oh.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to make a miss. Oh, I got no yards, right? And that's where they're a little different that way because of their personnel and how explosive they are.


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[Assistant] Uh, they can play it a little differently than maybe a lot of teams in football. You think that's a key to that? This side of the ball is those 49ers linebackers, right? Yes. Yes. The 49ers linebackers will be key. The front four will be key so they don't have to get in too many situations where


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[Assistant] We're playing man on Devonte Smith or AJ Brown. You know, you're going to be in some of that. You're definitely going to be in some of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that to me is a little of the key of the game. You know, how often can they get the 49ers into defenses that are like, oh man, we can't even, see the 49ers, what they like to do, and we've hit on this before too, where


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[Assistant] You know, let's say, let's say it's tight end and two receivers to the right and one receiver to the left. That nickel back likes to cheat. Remember we've talked about that before. He kind of likes to like, Hey, I'm out here covering, but I'm really waiting to help in the run game.


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[Assistant] And that's another thing that, you know, again,


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[Assistant] They can't get too overzealous with that because the Eagles have great answers to teams like that. Oh, you're, you're getting, you want to, you want to come in here and help with the run? Okay, here we fake with the run and then boom, AJ Brown who you're out over.


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[Assistant] We're going on a little bubble screen and now we got somebody blocking and he's one on one with your safety and you're over there going, Oh gosh, I hope our guy makes the tackle. Right? So this to me is going to be.


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[Assistant] Just like the other one, a great chess match, but maybe more of a chess match.


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[Assistant] Based around physicality as compared to the other one that's gonna be more around the skill guys, if that makes sense in the AFC.


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[Assistant] Eagles are favored. Eagles are at home. You got a rookie quarterback. You know, you match up really good, but you know.


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[Assistant] This is a game that, yeah, even if you don't turn it over and play flawless, you could still lose. That, that's what's, that's welcome to NFC championship football. That's, that's, that's what happens. You know, you can't count on that. So we'll see. Yeah, so I can't guarantee, you know, I know I would want to say no turnovers, all that.


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[Assistant] And they're still going to have to make some big plays in the game that are like outside the realm of Shanahan delivering it up, right? And listen, I'm not trying to even lean here either way. I don't know who I'm picking in this game yet. It goes for the Eagles too.


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[Assistant] But, you know, do I think the Eagles in totality are better than the 49ers? Yea, I do. I do.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's been a team that matches up with L as well as them as the 49ers all year. They're finally playing a team that's got like the pieces to where you go, ooh, this should be interesting. Some of their normal answers where you can't be right.


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[Assistant] You know, I think this is a defense that can be right a few times and you know, we'll see how that plays out.


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[Assistant] Just doing exactly what Shanahan says, and...


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[Assistant] Like something we've hit on a lot over the last two years. Just, we don't see three or four like, what the hell was he doing type of plays, right? That's what we, so, that's one or two plays.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, uh, that's what they are. And again, I, I, you know, I, I know some people have, I've gotten some flack because, you know, I've said some things. Brock Purdy's really good. I'm not trying to take any credit away from him. He's better than a seventh round player. A hundred percent. I mean, he's showing that he's a starting quarterback in football.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm just a pushback because I've had some people trying to tell me he's top five quarterback in the game all of a sudden. I'm like, what? Are you kidding me?


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[Assistant] You know? They're just, come on, that's all I'm trying to give some people. You know, and I think too, you know, he's doing amazing. And like we said, he's executing and doing things the right way. I do think he got the benefit of the team and the offense started to kind of come together right as he got in the game too. You know? They weren't running the ball all that great.


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[Assistant] And it was right around then where they started to figure out, okay, wait, this guy's our starting guard and they got healthy upfront and they became a better running football team as well.


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[Assistant] So, and again, that's not against him or anything. It's just the way the stars aligned a little bit that way. Uh, but as I've always said, there's great talent and Shanahan's a magician. He's a magician.


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[Assistant] And that's what's cool, you know, about the 49ers. And that's what's cool about the Eagles.


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[Assistant] They're not, it's not just quarterback, quarterback, quarterback. They go, wait, we got a team, we're gonna beat you in a lot of ways, and when our quarterback plays good, we almost become unstoppable. And that's where both of them, I think, are doing lately. And we'll see where that goes. I'm so excited for this game. This, to me, is like, this is like,


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[Assistant] I mean, old school, late 80s, 90s, NFC football. Maybe not with the, you know, star quarterback quite yet on both sides of the ball, but damn, the rest of it is just like, I feel like this is, you know, 49ers, Giants, Cowboys, 49ers, just like studs galore everywhere.


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[Assistant] I saw what you saw too, a little bit of like the grab of whatever there. Early on, I was like, ooh. But like as the game went on, I didn't, I didn't notice anything. He didn't seem like he was laboring. He was dominant.


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[Assistant] I mean the Giants, the Edge guys, did they play? I don't know. Were they there? That's what I want to say to you. They kind of just made sure they handled Dexter Lawrence and they were like, the rest of our guys will kick your ass. And they did. They're amazing.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Niners got a big overpowering offensive line. It's not like the Eagles. Those two tackles are both, like, sledgehammers and good pass protectors. And then of course you got Kelsey and the group you just mentioned inside. It's a special group. I don't expect, you know,


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[Assistant] A ton of problems. Again, this is where, like for the first time.


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[Assistant] The 49ers are gonna have to go, oh shit, I don't know if we can just expect our defense to end to go around the game all game long. Like we might actually have to help them out and try to stress their protections out a little bit more and do some of that.


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[Assistant] You know, that's what's cool about this too. Both teams, I think, can take each other out of the comfort zone a little bit.


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[Assistant] To make them do some stuff they don't really want to do on a normal basis. And, uh, I'm just interested to see what that is. Cause I, I don't know what it is yet. I'd love to sit here. I've like, I know I maybe told you more answers as far as what I expect from the chiefs of the bangles. This one's a little different and.


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[Assistant] How I can see the attacks kinda playing out.


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[Assistant] Bengals. Eagles going against a good 49ers defense. I think the way the Bengals are playing, the way they looked last week,


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[Assistant] The amount of points they've put up in the three previous matchups, right, against the Chiefs, I mean, again, uhm,


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[Assistant] Let me see, like last year we had, uh, what would they score in the AFC championship game? I'm going to pull it up right now. I'll beat you to it.


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[Assistant] So, I think there is why you see that. You know? And then I think there is why, yeaah, people are expecting that kind of high number. And...


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[Assistant] Another matchup of what they've done to the Chiefs. So I guess when you really unpack it, you do kind of, you kind of get it, especially with the NFC matchup and as good as those defenses have been.


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[Assistant] No one thought they would be here. It's, it's, it's uhm, and I, you know, I, I, I, I was shocked, I saw when it opened up, I was shocked that the Chiefs were favored. I want to go, wait, on a neutral field, everybody's healthy and good, I would think the Bengals would get a two and a half point.


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[Assistant] You know, favorite, let alone 85% of my homes or 90% of my homes. So I'm not shocked to see that. And then the history and the matchup and everything we've talked about. And again, like we said, the Chiefs are going to have to do some different things. This is the first time.


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[Assistant] And I feel like in the Mahomes era where we found a team to go, the Chiefs actually got to change what they do. Usually teams are always going, wait, we got to do this because we're playing the Chiefs and we got to do that. And if we don't do this, we can't beat them. This is the first time where I feel like it's, oh no, it's not you Chiefs. You guys got to make some adjustments here.


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly. So that's where it's, it's, it's intriguing. And uh, they're a special group there and I don't put anything by them. And I think they can make the right adjustments to pull it off. Who would you put your dollar on?


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[Assistant] That is really, I'd probably still take the bangles. If you just want to make, especially if it was like, wait, it's a large sum of money and I want to be safe with it and I don't want to lose it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'd probably go with the bangles. If you're like, Chris, you have to bet 10,000 on one of these. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And I go, damn, okay, I'm not going to go for the risky or the value bet or anything like that. I'm going to go, okay, I just, I like my money and I'll go with the bangles.


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[Assistant] So say you bet $100 on George Kittle to be the Super Bowl MVP. That would be awesome. First tight end ever to win that award. If you win, you will get $6,600. But if you lose, you will still get $100 worth of free bets.


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[Assistant] I had the Chiefs I believe beating the Bengals in the divisional round to go to the championship game and then beat the Bills.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to be married to my, that's the one thing I've been telling myself. I'm not just going to go, oh well, I picked this in week zero. I'm going to try to evaluate it for what we know, what we see right now. I can promise you that. I'm not going to worry about being right or wrong, you know, eight months ago.


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[Assistant] Because of who we see you had in the other end of the Superbowl matchup, you are crazy, Abraham. We're back to your crazy, okay, sorry. But a good crazy. A crazy in a good way. I like crazy. Better to be lucky than good sometimes, right? That's right. Do a little digging and we give less credit to Abraham.


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[Assistant] Yep, I know. Get into this, I appreciate the question, and you're right.


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[Assistant] And then she was like, wait, this isn't Cecily, I don't, let's, she was like, I think you can just watch, you know, they're not connected. And I was like, okay, I mean, I just thought maybe we would start with season one and just go to season two. But now we're on to season two.


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[Assistant] We've watched two shows. We'll watch three tonight. Hopefully three or four tonight. Maybe we'll get to two tonight. But it was pretty good so far. I am liking it. I, I had a good feel for it. I saw it during the football season on HBO and like was like, oh, this show is good. I just couldn't quite get into it because it's football season, but now I'm getting there. But thank you. Get into this.


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[Assistant] It's, it's tough, it's, it's, you know, I, I hear your logic there. Yeah, Eagles, Bangles, Super Bowl would be cool too. It's just funny, yeah. It's funny, I always find the connections funny and just how things work out in so many ways. It's just that,


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[Assistant] I mean, what is it the 49ers and Bangos with their links, like they played each other twice in the Super Bowl, you know, and they get close to the Super Bowl and they're both there hovering over each other. I always kind of find it funny how those coincidences happen, you know, from time to time. All the montages that will run in the Super Bowl if these


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[Assistant] That epic defense that we've only seen have sacked the quarterback more than the only team ever, the 85 Bears have sacked the quarterback more. I know. Damn, you're right. You're right. I know.


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[Assistant] Both games will be really good and I'm excited. Yeah, me too. And then, uh, I got to figure out who I'm going to pick tonight. I got a pretty good feel, but you're going to have to listen to my picks podcast with Florio, uh, the Christmas unbuttoned PFTPM collaboration. That'll be tomorrow. We'll do that late morning.


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[Assistant] Please tune in, check that out. Subscribe rate review, all christened on button things, please do. Keep sending them the questions. Whether you hate me or love me, please do. We like the haters too. I got no problem with that. I understand it's emotional, it gets personal at times. I'm not trying to get personal.


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to give you football stuff, so please don't hate me personally, okay? Alright, peace out everybody, be good. Enjoy Conference Championship Sunday. It is going to be awesome. Alright, be responsible, be safe. Ahmed, have fun. Thank you. 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] Is that what they call? I think you're right. Beware the Ides of March. Oh, Ides. Ides. What does ides mean? I don't know. See, that's where you, where I spent my time being dumber watching movies, you've read things like this that tell you and I, yeah. I think it means the middle. The middle, right?


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[Assistant] That's why you definitely can overpay for some dudes. Beware. Beware teams. Don't overpay for some dudes as Ahmed says in the Ides of March. Julius Caesar, dictator


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[Assistant] Well, in the, in the Ides of March, be careful about walking behind the Chris Sims Unbuttoned podcast scene here. Yeah. You never know what could happen. Could get called that, so, live broadcast, HR problems all over the place, it's just


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[Assistant] One of my favorite pods we've ever done. Yeah, you know, I might've messed up a few details here and there, but when you're doing it live and you have no idea what's going to come or, you know, what you're talking about, okay, blah, blah, blah, but still it was fun. I think we unpack some things, you know, in real time for the audience.


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[Assistant] I think it's something we're looking to do maybe a little more often. I think so too. I think when you reveal some


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[Assistant] I think it's a definite thing we gotta do. And hey homies, let us know when you want us to do it too. It would take your input. You're always involved in this show. You do have 33%, uh, or maybe less. I don't know. It's me, Pete, Ahmed, so maybe you're 25%, okay?


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[Assistant] Okay, yeaah. It's more of a team effort. Right. I mean, maybe they want to have a live YouTube today, so we could just talk about Aaron Rodgers all the time. It just will never end. It's just live, live on YouTube. The decision, Rodgers and Lamar Jackson until the end of time, until they sign. I mean, oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] I'd be more shocked than anything, right?


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[Assistant] You know, all the rumors that are circulating about, you know, all of a sudden now the Jets are in, you know, contract talks and reaching out to Mercedes Lewis and Randall Cobb, right? So all those signs are pointing towards that, let alone the biggest sign we got was yesterday and the fact that they signed Allen Lozard to a four-year, $44 million contract in a position where they're not all that desperate.


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[Assistant] You know, to, uh, need an upgrade in talent there, right? So I would think that that makes maybe Corey Davis expendable, whether he gets traded, released. I don't know what happens there, but yeah, Rogers is setting things up and.


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[Assistant] Getting him in the way that he's gonna make this transition most comfortable for him. And yeah, I don't know what it's holding up. Nobody knows what's holding it up. I mean, nobody.


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[Assistant] I think you know that I know enough big time people in the NFL that I haven't got an inkling from anybody as far as if they know it's gonna drop on the Pat McAfee show today or what exactly the details are. You know, I've speculated maybe there's some contract things.


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[Assistant] You know, is there a way he can lower his number? You know, so the Jets aren't, you know, get bit in the ass later down the road. Florio doesn't think that's as big of an issue because of this, you know, option bonus he has involved in the contract that lowers his number significantly. You know, but also, I think really the biggest thing is probably, you know, a little bit of the trade compensation, you know, figuring out,


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[Assistant] You know, what exactly the final details involved in that and maybe the Jets also trying to figure out, wait, we gotta, you know, now we gotta put Corey Davis on the trade block. Let's see what we can do and trying to move some things around in their department a little bit to make sure they can bring in the guys Rogers, you know, wants to make him feel comfortable.


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[Assistant] You know, I had this conversation before today about who has more power. You know, because of the option bonus, okay, it doesn't make Green Bay necessarily desperate to do this right now at this moment. Right? To where basically from now to the start of the season,


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[Assistant] If Roger says, yeah, I'm coming back, it gets his $60 million price tag gets like converted to a bonus to where now his number only counts for like $15 million against the cap. So they're, they have like no pressure as far as salary cap.


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[Assistant] There's still pressure in, oh wait, he could say forget it, the Jets could go wait, we can't wait this long, forget it, we're just gonna move on and do something else, and then you're stuck with Aaron Rodgers, and they don't want that, so yeaah, they have a little power here, but I think what you're saying, what I'm saying is that


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[Assistant] His or his exact, like, maybe it wasn't a Freudian slip, but it was just real, that, you know, uh, Oh, can you envision him coming back? Well, yeah, I mean, if things don't work out the way they want to, I mean, he might as well just said, no, we don't want him back unless we're absolutely forced to have them back.


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[Assistant] So that takes away their power too, and uh, yeaah, I would think they want to move on from this conversation of being a distraction. I'd be shocked that if you're not listening to this right now, that he hasn't


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[Assistant] He told us he's going to sign with the Jets on the McAfee show, you know, earlier today and say, hey, there's a few details. I haven't signed the contract yet, but I'm going to the Jets. I'd be shocked if that doesn't happen today. And if it doesn't happen, then I'm going to get freezing cold


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[Assistant] I think the jets are sitting pretty. You know, Lazard's really good.


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[Assistant] So you add him with Rogers and you go, oh damn, that's, that's, that's, you know, Corey Davis has got a little bit of that like Evan Ingram New York thing. They paid him a lot of money. He's got a few drops and hasn't quite performed. They wanted to wear like just as the pressures on them all the time. It might be better for him to get out of town and just go somewhere new, right? A little bit like that.


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[Assistant] Lizard's really damn good too, as far as he's huge, he's a huge human being at like 6'5".


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[Assistant] You know, he can beat you one on one on the outside and really he's a


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[Assistant] Really good slot defender, let alone he's blocking the run game and do that. So I love that addition, you know, there. Everything else, hey, Chuck Clark, the defense they run, safety position's very important to them. They got two guys, you know, some guys there that


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[Assistant] The Randall Cobb, I know people go, oh, Randall Cobb. Yeah, Randall Cobb is like, no way would he be on the Jets radar if he's not Aaron Rodgers' friend.


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[Assistant] Doesn't mean you can't still come there and add some value to this team. It's the one thing I like about


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[Assistant] Like we talked about on Monday, why, or I think we did, I don't know, but why does Rodgers want these people in his, you know, in the building, right? You, you, you want to one, hey, for your own comfort, two, the most important thing, like how Brady wanted Gronk or anybody else, Antonio Brown, who knew him a little bit, whoever.


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[Assistant] Because you want them to be able to, you know, spew your message to their position group when they're in meetings, right? So now Alan Lazard can be, when they're in there and they're talking to us, everyone, you know, Rogers on slant routes likes when we hit the third step to kind of give a little, you know,


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and, you know, Mercedes Lewis, tight end, that's another conversation that's being had. Yeaah, they don't need a tight end. They don't. They'd probably have to make a move to clear the roster to sign Mercedes Lewis.


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[Assistant] Again, it's the same thing, and it's not like he's a bad player. He's a good player. He's big. He's got some value in the pass game. He's better in the run game. Uhm, so, but that's my two cents to get the Jets and Rodgers and all that. I mean, maybe Aaron just doesn't want to show up.


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[Assistant] Like, like what? Oh my gosh, the Giants got Darren Waller? I mean, phenomenal. And then like to go, ooh wait, third round pick? You know, that was a little surprising too. It wasn't after I started to kind of like unpack the details and think about it a little bit, understanding that.


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[Assistant] You know, one, hey, free agency spenders or pretenders, the giants are spenders and it's, it's smart spending.


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[Assistant] You know, like, look, look, they need a middle linebacker, badly. Bobby O'Kara Key is a really good...


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[Assistant] Value signing, like my TJ Edwards on the, yeaah, from like, where, you know, not a superstar, but you go, damn, I'm glad he's our starting linebacker. Damn, he's a hell of a player. And then you don't have to pay him huge money, right? So, I love that signing.


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[Assistant] You know, and of course then, you know, the ability to re-resign Daniel Jones and tag Barkley and all that big time. Sterling Shepard, they like him. Wondell Robinson will be back, right? So they're, they're sitting, you know, in a good spot. I don't think they're done. But the Walgreens thing was like, yeah, I mean, like a birthday gift. Just never saw that coming.


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[Assistant] Right. And I think within that offense too, I think again, what we saw from last year, I think day ball.


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[Assistant] You know, first off, coming from New England, knows how to use tight ends. That's always been part of their fabric and DNA up there. We saw he like Dawson Knox up in Buffalo, right? So that's a thing. I think with the offense we saw this year, right? Run the ball, bootlegs, play action.


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[Assistant] You know, we, we talk about like, you know, the Atlanta Falcons the other day when, when, um,


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[Assistant] They got Kyle Pitts and they traded for Jonah Smith, right? From the Patriots. I think a little of that same mold we talked about. Hey, run the ball. Hey, we got big people in.


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[Assistant] Oh, hey, it's too tight end set. Oh, it's a bootleg. Oh, it's a play action. Oh, wait, you got big. Oh, wait, we could split these guys out now and now be, you know, in the shotgun in the passing formation. I think that's how they want to play. You know, I think they showed that. And then Waller is a true mismatch, right?


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[Assistant] When he plays, when he plays, I think that's the question. Let's get into that part of it now, right? Cause like you and I were both shocked, at least at face value. When I first saw it, I was like, wait, what, a third rounder? Wait, Darren Waller? Yeah, Darren Waller healthy is worth way more than a third rounder. Exactly. But here's where I started to put it together.


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[Assistant] You know, first off, knowing that group out there with the Raiders, knowing how they operate in New England and their DNA, right? It's just, there's, there's a few things that I think would probably play into their thinking here. One, you know.


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[Assistant] Then knowing that group up there, this was always a point of emphasis on the wrong side of 30, right? He's 31.


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[Assistant] Alright, he's missed a number of games the last two seasons. Alright, so you add that


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[Assistant] You know, onto the fact that, hey, there's a prevailing thought, and this isn't news to you, news to you Ahmed, usually over 30 injuries in multiple years.


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[Assistant] Usually leads to another year of injury or maybe more. You usually can't shake that bug and New England plays those numbers in analytics, right? So this is New England, Las Vegas, and that's what they're doing. Here's the other part that I think plays into this too.


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[Assistant] People on the, people on the NFL that I know thought that


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[Assistant] Because there wasn't a ton of big receivers out there in the market this year, right? The guys like Jacoby Myers and company might fetch 15, 16 million dollars a year. Which is, they're not worth that. But, because it's Slim Pickens, I think people thought that price tag was gonna be there.


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[Assistant] Now again, knowing that group and knowing that they like that player when they were in New England with them and all of that.


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[Assistant] I can imagine them going, wait, we can have him for $11 million and signed up for three years here and be in a great spot. Okay.


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[Assistant] You know, and now I can have three receivers in Renfro, Jacoby Myers, and Devonte Adams who are like,


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[Assistant] interchangeable. We know Adams is the best, but you know what I'm saying where you can't pin either any of them into one area, right? You know, you know, some teams like we got Jamar, Chase, T Higgins and Boyd and you know their roles.


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[Assistant] McDaniels likes a little bit more, you don't know the roles, you don't know what to expect. You can't pin this guy to always only the slot and runs these rounds, right? So that, I think his belief is that opens up the offense.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of people, right, I haven't gotten to the tight ends yet, but there's three, four names being thrown out as far as tight ends being drafted into the top 25 picks. They're sitting pretty in the first round, early second, whatever, to get one of these tight ends.


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[Assistant] You know, I've had a coach tell me that it's the best tight end class they've seen and that they can remember. So, it's like, the depth is good, the high end talent is good, so that's all there. So then again, me going back to the New England thinking of what I do a little, like,


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[Assistant] Again, that's where they play analytics and they go, wait, Darren Waller up there in age 30 something years old. Oh wait. And the Giants had interest in willing to trade.


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[Assistant] Oh, and he's has an injury history and we're a little scared there. Oh wait, we get Jacobi Myers locked up three years. We know it. We're good. We get a tight end on a rookie deal four years. So now we have two players, right?


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[Assistant] Was seven years ahead of them, as compared to, oh Darren Waller, oh, we got one more for sure, but I hope it's more than that.


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[Assistant] And knowing that group out there, I'm guessing that's their logic. Alright, so let's compare the two teams. Sorry about that long explanation, but there was a lot of unpacking there in that one. That's what we do here.


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[Assistant] I think if I had to do, I'm gonna go with the Giants right now. I am, the fact that they got to, you know, get Daniel Jones done, got the Saquon Barkley thing done, and then Darren Waller, that to me was three


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[Assistant] Big time moves. I don't, I don't dislike what the Raiders have done. I don't. I think they're doing smart. And again, like we talk about with the Raiders here.


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[Assistant] It's the long play. This is not about like, oh, we're trying to flip this around in a year and it's going to be a Super Bowl contender. They're trying to make it to where they're like next year and then they're good for 10 years. That's what they're trying to do.


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[Assistant] At the end of last year? I'm sure. I'm sure. But I think that's where you and I tried to speak logic into it a little bit. And I think he was confident in the fact that Mark Davis is smart enough


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[Assistant] And with all those hires that he made that like, okay, wait, this is not about right now, this moment. This is a...


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[Assistant] You know, they can make you believe in their overall plan because of that too. But I, you know, hey, Jimmy G.


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[Assistant] For them, they're gonna like him better than Derek Carr. And for most, yes, Derek Carr is better than Jimmy G. But, I think that, you know, Jimmy G's ability to stand in the pocket, play tough, and then pull the trigger into tight windows,


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[Assistant] There's more to it than that. The money is a thing too. And they knew Derek Carr wasn't the long-term answer, right? They knew that. So you can't be mad at them for this move here right there. And you know, we'll see. I'm interested to see if they maybe still draft a quarterback. Is there somebody that maybe floats around in the early second that they go, Ooh, I like this guy. You know, he's got a future here, but


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, that was a huge move yesterday. And then they, for the Raiders too, the Marcus Abs, getting him at safety position, that's a nice signing as well.


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[Assistant] It is. Now, I would expect that's where it goes from the Raiders. You know, just that now it starts to become...


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[Assistant] Some defensive guys to round out that side of the football because offensively they're in a pretty good position all in all, other than maybe a lineman here or there.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, you know, I forget highest, you know.


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[Assistant] They're, they're, they're the highest spending teams. I'd love to even like, maybe that's something we do for the next pod. We go into like, what about some of those teams that were like two and three in those years? I gotta think like, they get worse. Well, I gotta think like, like Tampa Bay spent a ton of money the year they brought Brady. That's right. They might not have been the highest, but it was up there and look what it did for them.


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[Assistant] You know, so there's, I would think some examples, and I think yes, we are officially in the era of, like,


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[Assistant] I think that's fair. I think that's fair. I think you're right. You're right about that too. You're right. And I think we're seeing that a little, you know, with maybe some of the teams we saw spend some big money here. But yeah, certainly on that list right there, I think there's some of that for sure.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Broncos, I became like at the combine and the draft, you know, there's a lot of Broncos media there. And of course between Sean Payton and the Russell Wilson conversation.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of people that wanted my opinion. And I kept getting, well, how does Sean Payton rebuild Russell Wilson? And I said, well, the first thing he's going to do is get the biggest group of people you've ever seen in front of him. And I just kept telling people that and, uh, yeah, you know, Hey, sunshine's on a dog's butt every now and then. And I got that one right. But yeah, there.


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[Assistant] It just, it all makes too much sense. It's all positive. And yeah, they've definitely been one of the best teams here early on in free agency as far as what they need.


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[Assistant] Exactly. These all make sense for what Sean Payton is. You know, the big people like we talked about on Monday. That's where Russell's gonna feel good. He wants to control the ball like we talked about Bill Parcell's school thinking Powers is a big dude. McGlinchey is a big dude. You know.


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[Assistant] I think the 49ers wanted to keep McGlinchey, but you know, when you're a team like the Broncos who had a good amount of money to spend as a new head coach, yeah, they're going to.


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[Assistant] Overpay maybe a little bit for a guy like McGlinchey to get his culture and first year off to a good start. So does that. Then like we said that Zach Allen, I think that dropped on Monday too, right? We talked about that on Monday. Maybe after it was after. I think so. What a great signing that is. I mean one.


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[Assistant] Poor man's TJ Watt, or JJ Watt, that's really kinda what he is. I mean, I'm not trying to say he's JJ Watt, you know what I'm saying though, it's that type of role.


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[Assistant] Can play 4-3 defense end, can play 4-3 defense to tackle, can play 3-4 defense end and two gap and do all that, so he's very versatile, let alone, who's the new defensive coordinator for the Denver Broncos? Oh, that's right, his old defensive coordinator from the Arizona Cardinals, so he's got an inside look and know what he really is. Valuable backup in Jared Stidham?


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[Assistant] Now Russell Wilson's got a little bit of a hot poker up his ass, right? He can't just go, Oh, it's Johnny No Name behind me at quarterback. I could throw 74 interceptions today in practice and nobody's gonna care and they'll never pull me. Now he's got a guy that, you know, pushes him a little bit, but it's not threatening.


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[Assistant] And then Peyton can have a guy that goes, wait, I know this guy that's gonna play quarterback, he'll be able to run my offense. And then you said it, Symaj, P Ryan's hell of a player. And not only between the tackles runner,


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[Assistant] Alvin Kamara come out of the backfield, catch the ball roll, right? And that's what Samaj AP Ryan's done for the Cincinnati Bengals. He's been their third down back. So yeah, I really like the signings. Maybe not your superstar signings, but you just go, really good player, really good player, good player, good player, good player, really good player. And that, that's, that's, uh, yeah.


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[Assistant] Is, hey don't worry, I got you protected. This is why I got this big f-


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[Assistant] I mean, like, again, for what they are and how they want to play?


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[Assistant] This makes total sense. I mean, when I think of Atlanta, like we talked about Monday, it's, it's big, it's physical, it's ball control, right? That's what they're going to do. We talked about the guard. He's awesome. He's the best guard in football. Lindstrom. Yep.


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[Assistant] Michaela McGarry is a good, good tackle, you know, who's homegrown there. And yeah, keep that going. Cause we know they're a run first football team. So that's great. We talked about Lorenzo Carter. Yeah. They're into big people on the edge of the defense and all that. Lorenzo is a huge D end outside linebacker type.


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[Assistant] So that makes sense totally as well, right? And then, man, I mean,


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[Assistant] Their defense needs, I still think another splash player here.


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[Assistant] You know, safety was certainly an issue. Jesse Bates, best safety on the market, and can do...


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[Assistant] A lot. I mean, both safety positions, nickel, whatever, he can kind of do it all. So that's amazing you got him. Anya Matas, again, again, a guy that can be a tentacle for the new D coordinator from New Orleans, physical in the run game, gonna be great there, but also can, you know, vouch for the new D coordinator in the building and, and, you know.


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[Assistant] Send his message to the rest of the locker room or the D lineman there. So I love that. And that's the same with Caden Ellis, who's a good middle linebacker they signed, also from the Saints. So, yeaah, I like it. Now it's to me, it's like...


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[Assistant] You know, what, what is it, where's, uh, we gonna get another receiver? What about the pass rushers? Maybe, again, I like the running back Elgier, but if you're gonna play that style, man, I'd, I'd maybe wanna see somebody a little more talented there. So how are they gonna play out the rest of this free agency? And then of course the draft is gonna play a factor in filling out those spots too.


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[Assistant] I'm going with the Broncos, one because of Sean Payton.


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[Assistant] Division's scary as hell, AFC's scary as hell, is like, you're right. But more wild cards now. Yea, right. And, you know, their team is still damn good, and they got Russell Wilson, and I think he will bounce back, and Sean Payton is worth a few wins, for sure, at least. Falcons


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[Assistant] Love it. South up for grabs. Man, Michael Thomas back to the Saints with New Orleans makes me think, well, they're clearly the best team in the division right now. But.


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[Assistant] I think I would still give the edge to the Broncos because I'm unsure of the quarterback position thing. You know, you brought up Taylor Heinecke. Yep.


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[Assistant] I, you know, I don't know. Here's two schools of thought that we could go here. Is Taylor Heinecke there? Cause okay, it's Desmond Reuters job and he's there to be, if it doesn't work with Desmond or he gets hurt, we got you.


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[Assistant] Or is this all a ruse and it's just like, they're going to draft another young quarterback and they got Tyler Heinecke too. I think it's going to be, they're going to go with Desmond Ritter. That seems to be the prevailing thought around the NFL. I have no inside knowledge from them overall, but that seems to be what most


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[Assistant] I like, I, he was my, one of my favorite interviews. I love the guy, right? And... That's why it hurt you to watch the film. Well, it just, the throwing is not good enough. That's, and I, you know, again, it was better, but still not...


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[Assistant] No, like, this is where I wanna, I wanna make sure I'm clear with this, cause I do, there's potential for this kid, but I don't think it's to where I would go, hey, this year, right now, you're two, you're our starter. Let's go.


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[Assistant] Like, okay, maybe if, you know, another year or two down the line and you're in this position and you start to go. But I just, yeaah, that would worry me. From what I saw in certain games. I just don't think it's good enough in that department. But again, too.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe they, they have a better view of it than I do. Maybe they feel like, hey, it's, it's really going an upward trajectory. We want to run the ball anyways. We're not looking to 45 passes a game and lasers all over the field.


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[Assistant] We want a guy that, yea, can run himself a little bit, orchestrate the offense, bootlegs are good, and then take care of the football, and they might just be happy with that. And I wouldn't shock me either. And they've shown they can win that way. Yea. Right? So if they add a few more players here to this team, you know, they can be a pain in the butt with this style of football.


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[Assistant] Perfect for that scenario. You know, gonna draft a quarterback who won.


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[Assistant] Now it's not like the quarterback has to start week one. If he's not ready, okay, good. We got Andy and we'll find out some point during the year where we can put you in there. Also, we got nobody else on the roster right now that we really trust, you know.


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[Assistant] Even if there was an injury to that first round quarterback, okay, we got Andy Dalton, he can come in, he's played a ton of football, and that works that way, right? So, that's where it makes sense. It protects them from all facets. I know they have Matt Corral on the trade block, that's been said.


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[Assistant] I doubt there's going to be anybody out there, but you're not going to trust him to be your backup like we talked about the other day. Not yet. He hasn't got a sniff of preseason football yet, let alone the regular season. So I think that was a really, really smart signing. I thought that.


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[Assistant] Really, it might be him that goes to the 49ers with Sam Darnold, right? Instead of Sam Darnold. They took Sam Darnold. This made sense for the Carolina Panthers to get Andy Dalton. Yeah, so what do you think overall here? So Sam Darnold, yeah, out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's solid. To me, it's, it's just like Von Bell.


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[Assistant] So that's going to be big time on the defensive side of the ball. He's a really good player. He's an attitude setter for your defense. So EJ Evero is going to love Von Bell. Shy Tuttle, like we talked about, they are lacking some big people. You know, stopping the run for them has been a little bit of an issue the last two years. So that's, I love that.


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[Assistant] You know, Hayden Hurst. Athletic, aggressive, can block.


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[Assistant] You know, H back, tight end can kind of do it all, right? So that's really good. It's just really good role players, not superstars, but again, this is a team that has a little more talent than I think people realize when you just, you think, oh Carolina. You know, we've talked about, the defense has got some stuff there, right? Now,


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[Assistant] You know, oh, hold on. And then I know, I know we got, you know, the, the receiver issue. That stinks, they lost DJ Moore. It does. Right?


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[Assistant] Again, we're sitting in the era of, like, receivers. You can get good ones. Second, third round, I mean, fourth round. They're available right now. They're kind of growing on trees. Yeah, exactly. You can even


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[Assistant] I think they're going to be, I mean, Terrace Marshall shows promise. They got a Preston Williams there. Okay. Loviska Schenaltz there. Right? They have Shy Smith who contributed last year. Right?


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[Assistant] I'm choking as I'm thinking that, but I think he is. And then they got Tommy Tremble at tight end now with Aiden Hurst. So yea, they need another guy there, you know, but none of those, I don't look at it and go, oh wow, they're really, really hurting at the wide receiver position. This is all about that number one pick move and getting the quarterback they want


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[Assistant] And now they'll continue to fill out the roster around that.


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[Assistant] Slay is still a really good football player.


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[Assistant] What a price tag, if I remember. You know, Pete, maybe you could look this up on the meantime, like 17, 18 million a year.


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[Assistant] I think maybe there was a little unhappiness there, right? He was, at some point.


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[Assistant] I think kind of forwarding with asking for a trade. They just gave Bradbury money yesterday.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know what went on there other than that, you know, maybe that to me looks like it's a guy that got a little disgruntled and maybe wants, I don't know, more money out of the situation. I don't really get it. I'm kind of surprised that that happened right there.


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[Assistant] I'm looking up, what I want to look up real quick is just I'm trying to look up his contract here just real quick as we go just to get a little bit of a base thought on that. Just to see if that could actually be the issue here.


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[Assistant] 26 million cap number this year, Pete says. Alright, so that's a big number for a guy that's, you know, again, getting up there in his age and a good corner, but not like the top corner in football.


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[Assistant] Right? So, yea, 26 million dollar cap hit, 17 million dollars, uh, as far as like, you know, what he was supposed to be paid this year.


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[Assistant] And this kind of ends, yeaah, I think we're spot on here.


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[Assistant] I think we're getting to the point here, because next year it's 12 million.


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[Assistant] Right? So, I think we're getting to a point here where they see, oh wait, this guy wants a new contract. We got Bradbury. We signed him.


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[Assistant] It is coming to the end, right? They prob- they obviously couldn't trade him. Probably because of, again, the years of his career and because of the number he's getting and then also knowing he's gonna ask for more contract, or another contract.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that, that says it, but still shocking. I thought when they lost out on Javon Hargrave and didn't re-sign him, that that, they would be comfortable in some of these situations and still be able to handle it.


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[Assistant] But maybe again with the trade, I mean the draft picks they have and all that, maybe they're looking at it and going, hey, future, first, one of the, you know, first, second round, we can get a good corner in this draft and we feel like we can replace that and be okay and, you know, in a few years be just fine and dandy. So they've lost a lot. Holy cow. They had a lot of free agents. We knew this was a possibility.


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[Assistant] It changes their team. You know, it's still really good, we know that, but... You know.


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[Assistant] Now we're looking at it and going, ooh, who are they going to fill in there? Ooh, that position group's not, you know, no longer in the top, you know, top of the league conversation there.


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[Assistant] Uh, Chauncey Gardner Johnson, where does that go? How much money is he asking for? I mean, Chauncey Gardner Johnson's an awesome player. You know, he must be asking for top of the line safety money, and that must be holding him back.


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[Assistant] You know, again, he deserves to be paid, and maybe not like the top three safeties in football.


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[Assistant] But there's some guys out there that are making 13, 14 million dollars a year where I go, John C. Gordner Johnson's definitely better than those guys.


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[Assistant] And he needs to be on a football team. So I don't know. Obviously he's asking for too much money. Maybe like an Orlando Brown has almost priced himself out of the market a little bit. We'll see where that goes, but that would go a long way to make an Eagles fans feel a little bit better if they could sign him back. He's awesome versatility. You know, he's like,


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[Assistant] You know, like we were talking with Jesse Bates a little bit, but even more versatility to be in the nickels position in the slot there. That's where he's awesome too. Um, but yeah, we're going to have a different look from this, from this Eagles football team.


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[Assistant] One, like we talked about, you know, with the T.J. Edwards signing on Monday that I was wrong about the contract numbers, right? The changes, it's an imperative, important position for that defense. So they got their


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[Assistant] Bobby Wagner and their KJ Wright from the Seattle scheme, right? It's, and again, as we talk about, when you talk about fast defenses, it's usually like, oh yeah, I mean, all corners are fast. It usually gets into like defense ends and linebackers that make a defense, whoa, whoa fast as compared to just fast.


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[Assistant] So that, I mean, they got two awesome players there.


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[Assistant] DJ Moore, we know, superstar. I mean, not just good, superstar. If he's on a really good offense with a really good quarterback the last few years, we're talking about DJ Moore as one of the four or five best receivers in football. DeMarcus Walker. Wow.


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[Assistant] Like everybody in football is looking for guys like DeMarcus Walker. He's again, he fits that line and this is a 4-3 defense rooted in that Seattle scheme where it's defense and defensive tackle. Just win the gap, do that. So he's awesome from that. Nate Davis. Like one of the most athletic guards in football. I mean.


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[Assistant] Athletic weirdly strong for his size, right? And the fact that, I mean, what's Nate Davis way? Like you want to look, Nate Davis is like, I think the only guard in football that's like in the 280s, right? Somewhere in there.


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[Assistant] But yea, to get him, uh, hey, Travis Homer's got some home run type speed. Uh, no pun intended there, but yea, I like what they've done maybe more than anybody as far as just changing the team.


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[Assistant] And like also like we always talk about sizzle splash players, you know, guys where you go, wait, these guys can make some big plays and some big moments to change the game around. And it was a tight football game and now you won.


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[Assistant] Because Tremaine Edmonds tipped the ball with a pass down the middle and it got tipped in the air interception. Or DJ Moore caught a bubble screen and ran 50 yards up the sideline, right? You know, I'm big into that. The league's too close now to just think, oh, we're going to out-execute everybody every play every week the whole year.


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[Assistant] How many games could we come in here on Monday and go, it really came down to these two or three plays. That was it. The game was dead even. It was two plays. I changed it. It was a long snap. Yeah. Right. I mean, it's just so, you know, that's where these guys are. Those kinds of guys. Oh, and Nate Davis is listed at three 16. So I was a little off three 16.


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[Assistant] The other guard on Tennessee, that was lighter. That's where I got him confused with his weight. But either way, going back to that subject. One more thing. It's been a while.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, he's, he's, he's played with some better passers at this moment, but nobody that's like, oh wow, this crushes it. Yeah, Baker's a better passer, Sam Donald's a better passer.


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[Assistant] None of them can change a game like this guy, Ken. Yea, he can open up more things. Exactly right. And he's a pretty good deep ball thrower, which DJ Moore is going to like that too.


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[Assistant] But like as we discussed with the way they play and his skill set and all that too, DJ Moore is going to get some, some looks and some things now where he's going to be like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. They're really going to run this coverage right now on this play, you know, cause they're so worried at him running the ball and all that.


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[Assistant] To where, yeaah, I just love the combination, let alone I love the combination along with the other receivers there, but certainly the most dangerous and scary potential he's played with.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. He's one of those guys that I think, you know, yeah, everybody would look at in football and the defensive side and go, damn, he's good. I wish he was on my team. Like one of those, not a superstar.


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[Assistant] Right? But you'd go, shit, he can play slot corner and play man to man for my team anytime, you know, he's not your number one, covers the number one receiver, but everybody else, you go, oh, I like him. And then he tackles and does all the other things as well too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's good. I mean, if he can be, if he's healthy and ready to go, that's, you know, that's again a smart value signing of the guy that, you know, adds depth. He is a starting caliber player.


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[Assistant] Oh, and it's good by the Lions. Again, I think it's gotta be still probably one more guy at some point.


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[Assistant] I do, I mean, I like bugs. We talked about bugs at one point during the year, you know, a little bit with, he's just kind of immovable inside. He was one of the...


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[Assistant] He was one of those where, you remember we talked about the Carolina Lions game?


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[Assistant] And it was, the Carolina ran for like 297 million yards against you guys. I was going, it wasn't the D-Tackles fault, right? Remember they kind of exposed the linebackers and a few skein things where I went, D-Tackles, I've watched the last three games, they're not getting moved. It's, it's the other guys that are the issue.


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[Assistant] So I like Buggs from that standpoint there. You know, Anzalone, yeaah. He's athletic. You know, he can do it all. He's the modern day linebacker. He's very good in coverage, sideline to sideline. So I think these are all good signings right now. And I like David Montgomery.


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[Assistant] That's exactly it. And I think he's a great compliment to DeAndre Swift, who can be more the explosive and run for a 60 yard run. But Montgomery is like...


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[Assistant] He's an upgrade over Jamal Williams, that's for sure.


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[Assistant] And for, for my money. And that's no disrespect to Jamal Williams. I know he's done a lot of good things, right? Got a lot of hype off the 18 rushing touchdowns where I want to go, listen, a lot of guys could run the ball in from the one yard line. Let's not, you know, make him the best running back in football because of that. Uh, I think it's a really good compliment with De'Andre.


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[Assistant] Well, they got a retool. I give them credit. I kind of said this to Florio a little yesterday where


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[Assistant] Good for them for not just standing pat and resting on laurels and going, oh, you know, we had a good year and yeah, our defense wasn't great, but we still won games and we pulled them out. Like realizing like, wait, this isn't going to get done. And they're probably watching film going like, how the, how the fuck did we win all those games? Like, how did that happen?


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[Assistant] You know, so yeah, good. Well, good for them for not, you know, staying the same. Cause if you're staying the same, you're getting worse. You know, Patrick Peterson. Yeah, it's, it's, but it's at the end, right? So it's, it's, it's not a huge loss for them.


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[Assistant] You know, and you can get younger, you know, and save some money there. Eric Kendrick's still a good football player. You know, but again, I think it's a little bit of the coming to the end conversation there. Dalvin Tomlinson, I would think you're going to miss him a little bit.


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[Assistant] That goes into a little bit the Cleveland conversation, cause Cleveland poached him, right? Let's do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and alright, so I'll just hit on that real quick. You know, Cleveland paid them a lot of money. But I think because they, they, I know they...


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[Assistant] I think when they lost out on him, they went, oh crap, we need some big people in the middle of our defense here. Jim Schwartz, he's from the Belichick Parcel School of Coaching.


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[Assistant] And Albert Hainsworth those years, right? He wants somebody big in the middle to stop the run a little bit and do that. So now they, okay, probably overpaid a little bit for Dalvin Tomlinson, but they really needed the position. So I get it. I'm not mad at him for that. Uhm, you know, but.


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[Assistant] I think the other thing's on top of that, and I'll be interested to see, I mean.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's the Neil Hunter. You know, Zedarius Smith has kind of talked about wanting to trade. I don't know where that goes. So they've protected themselves by signing Marcus Davenport.


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[Assistant] Right? Whose fits there. Brian Flores, the new D coordinator there, let's not forget. So, you know, Davenport, yeaah. This is a Matt, Matt Judon type of guy, right? That you see is a typical New England 3-4 outside linebacker. Makes sense there.


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[Assistant] Byron Murphy's a really damn good player. Yeaah. And he's an upgrade over Patrick Peterson. He can play nickel or outside, he can do either one, he's really damn good. So that's probably what led them to, you know, releasing Peterson, and I think it was, uh, I think Peterson only had one more year left on his deal anyways. And then they got tight end Josh Oliver, who,


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[Assistant] Has some physical talent, just hasn't really put it together yet.


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[Assistant] You know, but they're, they're a team that knows how to use the, the, uh, tight end a little bit. So we'll see. Yeah. You know, we'll see. And I would think that, you know, the defense continues to be a little bit of a focal point here as we continue the free agents.


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[Assistant] Our number one thing we talked about with them last year, right, was they're too small.


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[Assistant] You know. Athletic. Athletic, but way too suede the athletic side. So where you go, wait, when the, when the Chargers running for a hundred yards on you, you know, you got a problem when you run defense, right? So I would, I, you know, good for them for addressing that issue right off the bat.


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[Assistant] You know, because it is. It's just too speed oriented and like I just said with Jim Schwartz, you know, hey, speed's good, but...


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[Assistant] He's a believer in size as well, and he's at least getting that started there in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] A little bit here, you know, I think that's, that's the big thing, right? I mean, yeah, they were in a good spot.


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[Assistant] They kinda, okay, they had a little bit of a down year.


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[Assistant] Right, I'm trying to make sure I get this right with Baker being injured that year after they had gone to the playoffs and probably should have beat the Chiefs in the divisional round.


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[Assistant] Baker plays through the injuries. Doesn't work out that way. We go, okay, say they're still set up for next year and Baker will be healthy, but then they...


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[Assistant] I know, now you choke. Yeah, Okoronkwo. Yeah, Okoronkwo. Now they gotta, you know, again, like, edge guy, linebacker, DN, 3-4 outline, outside linebacker, can do kind of that kind of stuff there too, so it's, uh, I think a good start for them.


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[Assistant] Love him. You do. I do. I mean him with Jalen Petrie on the back end. Wow. Yeah. Instincts. Ball hawks. And then Jimmy Ward has an element.


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[Assistant] Of just one of the most unbelievable kamikaze tacklers in football. That's, that's what I love about him. And then, like we've talked about a few times here, he's an ambassador for the new head coach in the locker room and what to expect. And you know, he can be that too. So he can help the culture start to get jump started for, for, uh, Domingo Ryan.


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[Assistant] That's kind of what it is. It's good moves. It's certainly round out the roster. You know, you couple Brandon Cooks with Robert Woods and Noah Brown. That's such a pretty damn good three right there. That really is. Uh, I still sit here and, you know, I guess still won a


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[Assistant] Difference maker or some splash players from the Houston Texans, I still think that's needed. You know, just as far as like,


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[Assistant] I guess Brandon Cook still fills that role. I guess we're just worried that we're getting towards the end. There's a little injury history there. Yeaah. You know, the running back is awesome. We know that.


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[Assistant] I guess what I'm saying is the defensive side of the ball more than anything. Just again, there's a lot of good on their D-line, but yeaah, you know, I'm big into the player that can make the play. Somebody that can give us the sizzle. And that's the part they're still missing and we all expect them to do quarterback at number two, right?


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[Assistant] I would think that defense is going to be a pretty big part of their uh, resume here as the off season continues and into the draft.


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[Assistant] He's going to want to get it going in his direction, right? Every head coach for the most part would love you, hey, I coach the defense, let's go all in on the defense so I look like I'm the man, right? And then we'll go from there. Uh, so I would think that yes, that's going to be a little bit of a, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] And Samson, have you come? Yea, have you come, right? Like, really freaking good player. Edges player. Maybe not the sack artist that Yannick Ngocwe might have been, right? Who they're not going to have back. But, Samson's a much better all around football player.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I was wondering, like, what a guy like him might get, you know, on the open market. I did, because this is another position, like we talked about a little with the receivers and Jacoby Myers, where there was limited options out there, and


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[Assistant] You know, I think some of these guys that we thought, oh, they're only worth this, might get more money just because, you know, there's not a lot out there this year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so nine million dollars a year. Okay, yeaah. You know, I think there's some people out there that thought it might take ten, twelve million dollars to get him signed, but that's a really good signing and he's perfect for them. He is a good pass rusher, but he is also really damn good in the run game. He has a physical presence and been one of the more


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[Assistant] Under the radar, really good players for the Rams and the 49ers over his career. He's not a superstar, but you just go, damn, I'm glad he's on our team. Yeah, he's not our highest paid D lineman or anything like that, but you gotta have a guy like him, you know, on your team and he's awesome that way. And they traded away Stephon Gilmore.


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[Assistant] Give Zeke Elliott too many carries just because of the money and not necessarily because he deserves it from the talent aspect, right? You know what I mean? Again.


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[Assistant] We, we hit on this a lot last year, the last two years. We got mad respect for Ezekiel Elliott, but they blew out, they blow opportunities almost in every game I watch by going, they just give him the ball too many times. Right? So it's come and gone. He's an awesome, he's a Cowboys legend, that's for sure. I wouldn't be shocked to see him back with the Cowboys still.


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[Assistant] You know, yea, you got Trayvon Diggs, we know that. Right? Daron Bland, rookie last year, did a really good job.


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[Assistant] Your other two guys, Anthony Brown and Jordan Lewis, who were big stars for you, or not big stars, but really good damn players, they're hurt.


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[Assistant] You know, one has Liz Frank, one has the Achilles. Anthony Brown, if I remember, is a free agent.


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[Assistant] Right? He's a free agent that I look at that's gonna go, oh wait, I'm hurt and the market's not as good as I want it to be. And the cowboy's gonna go, oh, it was too bad. But we still like you and we'll give you a pretty good payday. So that's just how it feels, but this protects them from that.


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[Assistant] You know, they also have the Calvin Joseph kid, remember from Kentucky, who I believe he's going into year three. But I don't know if they knew that they had another guy other than Diggs and Bland that they could really depend on. They know they're okay with those Daron Bland and Diggs, but you know, not only depth, but just another starter. And Gilmore's still good. He's not.


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[Assistant] You know, what he was when he won the NFL defense MVP, but he's still damn good. He can still play some man-to-man coverage and


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[Assistant] It's a defense that, it's a scheme is exactly where he just came from. He was in the Colts, Gus Bradley. Now it's Dan Quinn, the Cowboys. They both were in Seattle together. The Seattle scheme is rooted in that. So there'll be a lot of familiarity in that as well.


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[Assistant] He doesn't think that, I can tell you that. If I'm speaking for him, he's probably like, damn, you're making my life harder than it should be sometimes. So what do you think? I mean, are they better, worse, about the same than they were two days ago? I'm gonna say, I mean, about the same. These aren't game-changing type moves.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, okay, maybe they're a hair worse, but not to the point where I go, the rest of free agency and the draft, they can make up for this stuff right here, right? I mean, first off,


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[Assistant] Sam Darnold, great signing. I love that. And I talked about Andy Dalton a little bit with that before as well. I thought it would be that type of guy that they sign, right? Just in case Purdy's not ready to start the year. Now hey, I got a guy that's experienced and can play and we'll let him hold down the fort for two or three weeks and then Purdy's ready to go, right?


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[Assistant] Not to have that ability all the time, yeaah. Now some of that might be the teams you're stuck on and you just, hey, life's hard when you're on some tough, bad teams, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that to me is probably where the difference is, but then the main headline, like you said, Hargrave. I mean, Hargrave, Hargrave, Hargrave. I mean, are you kidding me? They got Javon Hargrave? I'm sorry, Kristen, the F's words are going bad now. Yeah, we knew it was going to happen after censoring yourself, and it was very difficult. I gotta make up for it on Monday. Right, right. But you got, like,


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[Assistant] A guy that's top 5 defensive tackle in football, period.


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[Assistant] And now you add them with your defensive line already? Oh, it's just, it's, it's, it's amazing. It's, it's the best D line in the sport. It is. And it also,


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[Assistant] I think the other thing that plays into this is Jevon Kinlaw.


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[Assistant] You know, the guy they drafted a few years ago to South Carolina in the first round, he's been injured.


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[Assistant] He hasn't been able to play at a high level yet either. So now it's like, okay, wait, you know, we don't, you don't have to play every down and start every time. And, you know, Hey, maybe when we put Armstead out of DN, you get to play D-TAC or whatever, but they're not risking it all on Kinlaw's development and health either. And I think that's probably part of this. I think exactly.


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[Assistant] So, and yeaah, they're going, okay, you know, the Eagles are gonna be good, and these teams, and we might have to play Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl. We better get some D Lyman here. So, and then, you know, when it comes to offensive Lyman, yeaah, some losses there, certainly. But damn, Shanahan's a master with the O-line.


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[Assistant] You know, when they re-signed Tashaun Gibson, I thought, oh, that could be trouble for Jimmy Ward.


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[Assistant] You know, they got him. Of course, Hufunga's there. Ward wants to play more real safety it sounds like. That's what he was saying. So, you know, I'm not shocked by that.


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[Assistant] They can't keep them all. The 49ers overall, like when I, cause when we got done on Monday, I was like, wait, I gotta look at the 49ers salary cap situation. How are they gonna do all this, right? Cause they gotta re-sign Nick Bosa here. But when you really break them down into the years in the future, you start to look at it and go, hey, they're kinda set up. I mean,


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[Assistant] You know, Debo's accounted for. McCaffrey's accounted for. There's no big quarterback contract. I mean, that's a, quarterback thing's a big deal. It's a huge deal. It's a huge deal. Kittle, you know, is coming to the end of his contract. Yeah. Right? So, they're in a spot, like we talk about with the quarterback thing sometimes, or teams that want to get a big deal done.


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[Assistant] They can't plan for the future because they don't know what to allot in the future to certain players. You know, I don't think they're in that spot.


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[Assistant] You know, you start to break them down, you go, wait, you know what, they're actually not paying as many players as I thought they were. Yeah, Trent Williams is getting a lot, but who else on the offensive line is getting a lot? Right. Not that many, right? You know, oh.


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[Assistant] Fred Warner, oh, oh, yeaah, okay, he's getting paid good money, but still, again, it was signed two years ago, and, and it's planning for the future to where they got that slotted, that's fine. You know, Dre Greenlaw, Dre Greenlaw's second-team All-Pro linebacker, they're, he's,


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[Assistant] That's why it's hard to ever, ever use as an excuse. You know, sometimes I'm like, well, it's going to be tough. How many times I've said that over six years, it'd be tough with their salary cap situation. And then they make four moves and you go, well, okay, well now they got $50 million and they can spend it. Okay. I guess it's not that tough. That's all you had to do.


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[Assistant] That'll be good. Still fine. Not a problem. Not a problem.


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[Assistant] Right. And you know, a little bit like what you heard me say the other day with them, they are...


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[Assistant] You know, like the Steelers, when they pick a receiver, you go, oh gosh, this guy's gonna be good because the Steelers got an unbelievable eye for receivers. Kansas City's got a little bit of that with the offensive line. He's kind of a O-line whisperer, Andy Reid. You know, there's a reason he looks like that, okay?


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[Assistant] Got a little old line in his blood, alright? He's like, listen to that guy, he looks like us. Yea, he likes to eat like them, he likes to look like them, okay? A little bit. But yea, I think that's, you know, where that goes, and then...


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[Assistant] With them, I just never know, like, is there somebody coming up the ranks that, you know, they go, hey, we think this guy's gonna be good. You know, is there like a Lucas Niang who they took from TCU two years ago? That's what I mean. That's what I never know with them. I'm still though, back to your point, shocked that Orlando Brown's out there.


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[Assistant] You know, I heard Adam Schefter say yesterday or whatever that, you know, a lot of the league still views this as a right tackle. I don't know what tackle he plays. He's really good. I mean, he's obviously, like we talked about with Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, priced himself to such a point that teams are like, well, you're really good, but you're not the best tackle in football.


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[Assistant] So, that's what it seems like, but yes, not, not worried. That's one thing of them.


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[Assistant] Like, Receiver and O'Limon, I'm never going to worry about with Kansas City. They got the eye. They know what to look for. So, uh, it's not incredibly troubling. It's just, I'm amazed that Orlando Brown's out there right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they got, you know, a guy like Darian Canard, you know, who was a rookie last year from Kentucky. Those are guys where again, I don't know, I didn't see their development last year. Uhm, but like I said, I'm not terribly worried for them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, work to do, but like nothing again. You're not freaking out. I'm not freaking out. I mean, we knew Jesse Bates was gone, right? We knew that. That's why they drafted Dax Hill last year. That's why we were during the draft process. I go, you know who Dax Hill is? He's Jesse Bates. Oh wait, they're drafting him? Oh, well that makes sense. I mean, that's literally what we did.


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[Assistant] So, you know, they got a Michael Thomas there, right? Who's a solid football player? You know, who's to say that they don't add something else here? I know they drafted the Tyson Anderson last year. So there's maybe something there as far as, you know, guys that we don't know or what their development looked like. But no, I'm not overly concerned here.


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[Assistant] You know, again, Samajay Perine, yea, that hurts. I don't know if there's a running back I look on there. Like, what's, I don't know, what's gonna happen with Joe Mixon? This all goes into this conversation.


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm just, I think the best thing that's happened to them is getting Jermaine Pratt signed up. That for sure. That to me is one of the under the radar, him and Wilson at middle linebackers, one of the under the radar duos in the whole sport. They are phenomenal from every facet.


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[Assistant] Nothing special. You know, McGovern, good, you know. Get some guard help in there, sure. He's a good pass protector.


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[Assistant] You're not that high on Matt Milano, are you? I like Matt Milano. I thought he was a little overhyped last year. I actually really like Matt Milano.


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[Assistant] The whole world went a little too far last year, which is funny how that can work with like, you know, cause he'd be one of those guys like three years ago, I was telling people they were really good and they were like, really? He's not that good. And then now it's like, oh, you can't tell me he's not the best linebacker in football. I'm like, no, I can actually. I'm going to tell you right now. He's not.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Awesome wall player. I mean awesome. Let alone, you know, quarterback of the defense type of guy too. Sucks they lost Tremaine Edmonds. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] You know, that's one there though, that was an expensive price tag. I think that's another one where you can classify, like, new coach, they got a ton of money, I know it's not a new coach, but second year coach, and they're willing to spend the extra two, three million dollars a year to make sure they got a guy that they needed in an important position.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're going to go Milano there. You are. You are. At least for me. As much as I love, I mean, and I really love Tremaine Edmonds. I mean, he's a player. And he's a specimen.


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[Assistant] Do I look at him and go, oh, he's one of the two or three best linebackers in the game? I don't. There's not enough splash plays out of Tremaine Edmonds for me to put him in that category.


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[Assistant] Right? Uh, but there's still, nonetheless, really good, awesome in pass coverage, sideline to sideline, and of course his length and size is an issue when you're trying to throw around him in the middle of the field. One more team we're going to talk about.


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[Assistant] I mean, no question. I mean, they're just, you know, you said it. What's there to look at on their roster that go, this is an issue, or they need to upgrade this?


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[Assistant] I don't know if there's really one that exists, you know, even that I know on Monday I brought up like the offensive line or maybe that. I don't even know if I really believe that other than I just think they need to play together and kind of develop a little. It's not like it's like, oh wow, they're so.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? I hope I'm conveying that message the right way. I'm not so sure it won't be better next year even if they don't make moves just because of getting used to the system, getting coached a little bit better there. But that's like the only position I can look at to go, yeah, they need an upgrade there. I mean everything else. David Long?


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[Assistant] David Long is a heat-seeking, heat-seeking missile at middle linebacker. I mean, he's gonna be amazing for them.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, uh, that, that was a, you know, for me a big loss for the Tennessee Titans. Undersized, fast linebacker that is everywhere on the football field. We talked about Jalen Ramsey and what he does and the multiple positions he can play. Uh, so yeaah, I mean, you, you said it. I, I would be shocked if,


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[Assistant] We don't do our little exercise in early June, top rosters in football, and dolphins aren't in both of our top fives.


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[Assistant] What? I know, it's- I mean, when you- I mean, what? I know, right? I mean, the Dolphins are the most talented, you still got the Bills and Josh Allen, the Jets, I mean, all of us, so the Jets might be the- another team is in the top five roster conversation here.


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[Assistant] And then you got the freaking Patriots that are, that aren't going anywhere. I don't know how good they're gonna be, but they're not going anywhere. They're gonna be still in the playoff convo. So yea, this might be the best division of football. Division shaping out.


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[Assistant] So that may be surprising to some. Your Lions are the team that I would certainly be the, in the Chris Sims, you know, bet MGM parlay preview. I'd have them number one too. You know, with the best odds to win the division.


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[Assistant] You know, the Bears, the Vikings, they don't know what to expect there. I'm just gonna say, if I was gonna throw down extra money, I would still throw it down on the Packers. Just for the value betting. Like, if you just made me a, you gotta pick who's gonna win, wham bam, gun to your head, as we like to do on this. Right? I would go, okay, I'm gonna pick the Lions.


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[Assistant] If you're talking about, oh, you know, you can throw down $100 and really make some money or do something like that, I'm gonna go with the Packers. One, the Packers defense is still gonna be good. It was disappointing last year, I get that, but it was still good.


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[Assistant] They got some good ol' Lyman, the running backs, you know. I think Jordan Love's gonna be fine. I wouldn't count them out. I wouldn't have them this far down the list, I guess is what I'm saying. I'm a little surprised to see that.


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[Assistant] A wide open division. Yeah, I think that's true. I mean it is. No doubt is that true.


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[Assistant] So, say you bet $100 on the Packers to win the NFC North, like I was saying. I think it's got a good value. If you win, you'll get $450, but if you lose, you still get $100 worth of free bets.


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[Assistant] Well, hey, Bakers certainly, there's a quarterback, you know, you still look at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and go, wait, who's going to be the starting quarterback for that football team? That, that makes sense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. I don't think that's going to be it, so I'm intrigued by that. Orlando Brown, because of the things we've discussed already. C.J. Gardner Johnson, no doubt about it, because I mean, again, I think he's one of the better safeties in the game.


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[Assistant] You know, Odell, I don't know, there's a part of me that doesn't think anything's gonna happen with Odell here right away. It's gonna be like talked about a lot, but I think with what he's asking and all of that, you know, I think he's more of like teams are gonna kind of figure out their roster a little bit and then go, okay, we do need somebody else, you know, put out the,


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[Assistant] The bat co- the bat emblem for Odell to bring him in, right?


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[Assistant] Well, I think there's a relationship there. I do. I think that they're, they flirted with Odell a few years ago. He went to the Rams, right? I don't think, I don't think the Packers had the money to, to give Odell. Yeah. So, but yeah, and I would understand him, you know, wanting to go there.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know if the Jets would necessarily want that, but it sounds like they're gonna do whatever he wants to do right now, but I have a hard time thinking that happens. Other names that are just interesting to me.


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[Assistant] Hey, Tackle Isaiah Nguyen being out there. We talked about him a little bit on Monday. You know, wasn't his best year last year, but he's, he's been a starting tackle in football for a long time. Patriots? Patriots, exactly right. First round out of Georgia. Uhm, the, uh, what was the other one I was gonna go with?


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[Assistant] Marcus Peters, still a good football player at the corner position. You know, not an island superstar anymore, but still really damn good that way. I'm interested to see what happens with him. The other one that I'll bring up is DJ Chark. DJ Chark...


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[Assistant] And Paris Campbell are two receivers out there that have to me, superstar potential, right?


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[Assistant] You know, and I don't know what they're asking for right now, and I'm sure they're probably asking for a little much, and teams aren't comfortable with that.


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[Assistant] But, they are the two guys that, like, if they go in the right situation, I go, uh-oh, watch out. I mean, Charger's 6-4 and he runs low 4-3s.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I do look at to go, you know, they can be game changers. I understand there's, you know, been a little injury history with Paris Campbell and it's risky and all of that, but I guess those would be the last ones I'll use to kind of round out our list for now. What about Levante David? Yeah, you're right. Levante David. Buccaneers. Yeah, I mean, still.


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[Assistant] Awesome football player. I know, I need to break it down a little bit more into like- He's older, he's 33, right? It's 33, again.


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[Assistant] I think it's, this could be one that, yeaah, where's his price tag? Has he lowered a little bit? Or, you know, let's kind of let free agency play out. Maybe we get one OTA session and we get two or three practice, get to evaluate our team a little bit. Oh yeaah, we do need a middle linebacker. Okay.


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[Assistant] We'll give Levante David, you know, a little bit something closer to what he was asking for in free agency and get it done that way. I wouldn't be shocked to see that happen.


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[Assistant] You know, it's some close races between some of these other spots here. And I'm, I'm, uh, certainly, Pete heard some of my frustrations earlier today of nitpicking here to figure out how I want to rank these guys a little bit.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna say like, you know last year I'm not thrilled with my performance.