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[Assistant] That's probably always the greatest advantage, uh, but not by such a greater, I mean, they're both very important. Both very important.


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[Assistant] A little careless, and I think he just misread, Malcolm Butler duped him. I think he thought, so, on the play itself, he's throw, I can't remember who the receiver is he's throwing to on the left sideline. But he's got a hole shot, right? It's covered too, he's gonna throw in that hole between the corner and the safety. And they have Beasley running a little option route in the slot.


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[Assistant] And Beasley makes an initial break out and Butler is looking at it. You know, they're well taught. They know what they're trying to do. He looks at it and he kind of makes a hop flinch like he might


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[Assistant] Like a rifle like we usually did because that to me is what told me, oh, he didn't, he, he saw the guy and he, he missaw him or didn't read the body language the right way because he threw almost a safe ball. You know, we're used to seeing howitzers, shoom. And that's usually how he throws that ball. That to me tells me he was fooled there a little bit by Butler and what he did.


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[Assistant] Insane. There's nobody in football that can do some of the things he did last night other than 15 and 12. And I'm not sure if they can even do some of the things he did last night. He's insane. And people just gotta start getting used to it. Cause yeaah.


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[Assistant] Fastball. They're playing coverage. Everybody's looking at him and his own coverage going and literally the defender who he throws it by.


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[Assistant] That's, that's what he can do. Now, yes, it was a rough night. Buffalo plays them again. They're not gonna make those. You know, I would like to think they're not gonna make some of the mistakes they made. You know, uh, they got caught on an off night. And then I think it'll be a little bit of a teaching.


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[Assistant] First off, Tennessee, all those things were talking about what they're doing on defense. Running, rushing three, rushing four, you know, four man line, one drops out, one blitzes. It's all coverage related.


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[Assistant] He's doing this too with zero run game. Zero, zero run game. And this is why for people out there who got on me about they need to draft a running back and Zac Moss and I'd maybe even venture into the Leveon Bell conversation about Buffalo because you could see they are not very good


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. Little differences. Little differences. They had balance, you know. Buffalo didn't have the luxury of...


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[Assistant] So they put a lot on Josh Allen right now. They are getting, to me, this is where we're gonna start getting into like the conversation we've had about the Chiefs. They came out in the second half.


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[Assistant] And if you remember the first drive, the drive he throws a second interception. A lot of short throws, things like that. That's their next move. Because this is what teams are going to start doing to them. Teams are going to start playing coverage, we don't think you can run it. Okay, that's fine, I don't think they can run it either. Let's screen game up, short pass game up.


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[Assistant] All those speed sweeps, you see the Isaiah McKenzie for the touchdown pass by the end zone and all those things. Do them, there's no, you can do that at the 50 yard line, there's like what, I wanna ask Andy Reid and Brian Day about that, like there's no rule that you have to do that at the 3 yard line. You can do it at the 50. You can do it at your own 25. It's very, if the guy drops, it's incomplete pass, there's nothing wrong with it.


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[Assistant] So, those things like, where we go, these are trick plays.


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[Assistant] They'll, for these teams who are pass based and want to win with their quarterbacks right arm,


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[Assistant] Very impressive. I mean, it doesn't matter. You know, yea, usually, you know, it's interesting because...


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[Assistant] They could end up being 4 and 12 and 5 and 11, but it's just the play, just like we've seen through 4 weeks. It ain't his fault.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's not him. He's doing special shit. I mean, it's almost 300 yards and three touchdowns every game. And, and, you know, in a lot of ways, they're not helping him out either. So we'll get into that. But yeah, he is, he can do things other guys in football can't.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, just pinpoint accuracy. I mean, how many throws did he make the other night where they put him in a third and long situation because they're over managing him, right? And you go,


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[Assistant] Well, wow, you guys did him a great favor by putting him in third and 12. What a way to manage the game for him. You're talking about like by calling run plays. Run first down, run second down. That was an issue the whole game, you know, but then he delivers and then like very few


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[Assistant] Mistakes of what he's seeing on the field. You know, he threw one ball I think on like the first drive of the game where he ran to the left and like


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[Assistant] Oh, he's a rookie, we gotta blitz him. We gotta blitz him. We gotta see if we can handle the blitz. Cause he's never been blitzed in high school and college football before. So he doesn't know what to do. It's the first time in the NFL and he's going,


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[Assistant] I'm so sick of that. It's like old school 1974 defensive bullshit thinking. Move on from the


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[Assistant] Thoughts. Every time the Saints blitzed in the game, they got torched. Every time they played coverage, he had a hard time finding people open. I find that throughout the league right now and yeaah, I mean, he


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[Assistant] Like we just talked about it a minute ago, you know, yeaah, the first touchdown pass, all outblitzed. Right. You're making the game easier on them.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. You make the decision for the quarterback. He's not reading anything. He's been taught what to do against the Blitz. That's an easy one.


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[Assistant] That was something that was drilled into him like the first few days of training camp where he's like, wait, I can't mess that up or coach takes reps away from me. So I gotta get that. And then what's he do? He makes the extra guy miss. He knew he had the guy, extra free guy on the edge. He just let him, he duped him. He just come in a little closer, you're gonna get me right around the edge, touchdown.


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[Assistant] No, he's got one of those arms. It's an Alan Mahomes type arm. It might not look as cool when he does it and all that, but it still looks cool, the finished product, and how it comes out of his hands and everything like that.


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[Assistant] Very efficient. It really is. That's where it's misleading. It's where I think people were misled in the draft evaluation. It's a little bit like Tom Brady this way. He can throw the ball really, really hard and make it look like


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[Assistant] So, what you're explaining is a guy that, yes, when we say it's effortless and easy,


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[Assistant] Uh, yes it is that but that usually means it's technically sound too and they're able to replicate it throw after throw after throw and that's what the great ones can do.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, again, it was all about big plays, really, for the most part, in the first half of them. They put the one drive together, it was impressive, there's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] You know, or really two drives together, I'm sorry, that la- that last one was, uh, off the- the interception from Drew Brees where they got that. But I think this is the big thing. You know, first off, we saw- I saw a lot of blitzing and overaggressive from New Orleans. You know, I even wrote down here, you know, so that all-out blitz, that touchdown happens, you know, and then the next drive,


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[Assistant] The Saints don't blitz at all, and the Chargers can't do anything. I mean, there's nothing that can be done there. And I think really, my big thing from this game...


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[Assistant] You know, hey yeah, the Chargers stayed in there and all those things. My big takeaway is I really liked what I saw from the Saints defense. I really did.


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[Assistant] I found out, yeaah, they messed up a few coverages. The long touchdown at the end of the game. He threw the big post right down the middle. The guy got tackled at the two yard line. Both were Patrick Robinson mental mistakes. That's really all it was.


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[Assistant] If you take away those plays, man, their D line dominated and they were all over the Chargers receivers like glue. Whether it was zone or man, they had a real good beat on it. And the Saints are another one of those teams that I always want to say, stop being so damn aggressive. Your front four is really good.


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[Assistant] It did, it changed really as the game went on, they realized it. And I know I'm trying to read through my notes to exactly, uh, where it stopped, but it, it, it, uh,


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[Assistant] The success rate between when they blitzed and when they didn't, I know this was another game where I just kept looking at it going, you blitz, you get burned. When you play coverage, they have a hard time finding people to get open, especially when your offensive line is not very good and can't pass protect that well.


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[Assistant] It's four weeks in a row where he's giving you the lead and then we manage ourselves into a loss.


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[Assistant] I said this in the show this morning, I'm gonna say it again. Take the training wheels off. Not Justin Herbert, they're already off him. Coaches, you need to take your own training wheels off. I don't know what you're doing. You're not, you're, first off, their O-line stinks. Their running backs are so average. So what are we playing for?


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[Assistant] Well, I don't really care between him and Kelly, neither one is that special. You know, it sucks that they don't have Austin Eckler. That's really where it hurts them. The talent of their team is their quarterback and their receivers.


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[Assistant] Alright, and that's where I just want to say, this last game especially, and I thought this a little in the Tampa game,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I was like, okay, it's the third start, you're still being careful with them, all that. But this game, they're just...


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[Assistant] Yeah, well you don't have to get totally away from it, but I think there has to be more of that like what you're saying. First down, play, action, pass.


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[Assistant] First down, play action pass, screen to the running back. First down, let me just get the ball out to the wide receiver and a little wide receiver screen, get us into second and six or seven, whatever it is. Just do some stuff like that to make up for your lack of a running game, which is not gonna happen. To me, that's what I would like to see.


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[Assistant] Again, they're a team where their assets, you know, their defense is banged up. On offense, their assets are Kenan Allen, Mike Williams, Justin Herbert, Hunter Henry.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean run the ball. That to me says throw the ball. So that's where I think they're missing out and I think that's a big reason why they haven't been able to close out.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Oh, I'm just annoyed. I mean, you know, like I wrote, I wrote 20-3 lead, two and a half minutes, first and second down runs, I wrote it's fucking Sean Payton and Drew Brees. They're gonna come back, guys. What do you think, you're gonna win just doing that and gonna win 27-3?


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[Assistant] Come on, no, you gotta know who you're playing there. So that bothered me a lot. Uh, I just want them to take the training wheels off. But like I said, I think the big thing is, more than anything, and I know it's not gonna necessarily look that way when you see the stats and the amount of points, but I do really like


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[Assistant] The way that I think like Davenport popped a few times. You know, Cam Jordan of course looks really good.


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[Assistant] Okay, you're not throwing to Keenan Allen, this is before he got hurt, or you're not gonna throw to Mike Williams in this play, or we're gonna double Hunter Henry here, and I love that type of stuff, and that led to them getting off the field more times than not, so uhm, we'll see where it goes, but like I said, keep your eye out, I think they're, I think they're getting it there in defense, in New Orleans on defense.


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[Assistant] I think, I think the biggest thing is, I think that Sean Payton tried to go early in the game like, hey, I'm gonna, we're gonna run the ball, I'm gonna try to do that.


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[Assistant] The Chargers were kind of selling out on it. You know, Gus Bradley, that Seattle defense, eight guys at the line of scrimmage, first series they had a little success running the ball, and I think that made me lead Sean Payton to want to stay with it maybe a hair longer than maybe he should have, which I don't really have a problem with.


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[Assistant] Really what the charger started to do, one of the things I wrote in my notes is just, you know, after that first drive,


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[Assistant] They started shooting gaps. Like the linebackers are just like, hey, you got this gap, you got this gap. And the linebacker, when they saw their gap open, instead of kind of waiting for Kamara to come or Latavius Mary, they just started running through it too. They created chaos that way. The big turning point is the drive we're talking about. It's 20-3, end of the first half, and they got into wait.


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[Assistant] Let's just spread the field and get the ball out of Drew's hands quickly. And they started getting into all the dink and dunk New Orleans Saints type stuff. And with the Chargers not playing a ton of man to man and doing stuff like that.


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[Assistant] They caught them in their zone coverages, and they just kind of picked apart those little holes. And that's where Breeze and Sean Payton are magical, when they kind of get that, like, okay, wait, this is how they're offending us, we kind of got a feel now, let's bring out our array of short passing attacks.


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[Assistant] And the Chargers don't have the type of defense to kind of take that away right now.


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[Assistant] He went to, he went to Seattle. I mean, he's the guy that started the scheme that caught fire through football. It's him. He's the one that went up there and sold it to Pete Carroll. So right now if it's to something, it's, it's to what?


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[Assistant] It's, uh, you know, it could be too predictable right now, again, especially


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[Assistant] Uhm, when you have some guys right now who are replacements and young and, you know, Melvin and Grimm ain't in there right now.


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[Assistant] You know, they're, they're missing, uh, Chris Harris Jr. They're missing Derwin James. So they got guys that are not only, like, mentally making some mistakes, which has happened in, that happened in this game. The long touchdown of Jared Cook down the middle. Kenneth Murray.


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[Assistant] Rookie linebacker, he kind of messes up what he's, how he's supposed to play the coverage. I think it's him and second year player Nessier Adderley, the safety, who are supposed to be over there with that guy, but they kind of messed up the rules of what they were supposed to do against that formation and that coverage.


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[Assistant] And it led to a big play. And that's not necessarily, the play was meant


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[Assistant] And perfectly called to stop that play. Which, which one are you talking about? The Jared Cook, uh, I'm going to say that, the 41 yard touchdown pass. There you go, I want to get into that.


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[Assistant] Well, it's an interesting play as far as how they played the coverage, but they're basically playing a coverage of what I would call, like, I just called it P11 Double Robber, right? Double Robber. Double Robber. Because they had 8 guys in coverage, they had a Robber to the trip side, and a Robber to the weak side.


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[Assistant] And Murray, who I believe is one playing the wrong technique at the line of scrimmage, he's playing


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[Assistant] Outside technique on Jared Cook, which allows now Jared Cook to go inside of him.


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[Assistant] He's supposed to be inside leverage in my understanding of the cov- coverage. And then also stay inside of him as he's running that deep post cross. Didn't even come close to do that. Didn't even come close to that. And then the safety should be on top. So then, uh, Drew Brady drops back and he's looking at his first read.


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[Assistant] Wait, oh, Kenneth Murray's underneath it. Let me see if I can throw a lofting pass. Oh wait, no, the safety's over there too. Let me find something else. Right? They may, they messed up.


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[Assistant] He like got paused by the seam on the other side or whatever it was. He got, he got infatuated with the three receiver side a little bit to where


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[Assistant] Everything, I don't think that was his rules. And you know, other things that I piece together. If you watch the game film, Kazir White, the number 44, the linebacker, who was kind of playing that other robber spot, he was a linebacker that was playing like 15 yards off the ball.


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[Assistant] He turns around as Jared Cook's catching the ball, cause he's running up field, cause he realizes, wait, why is this guy wide open? He yells at both of them.


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[Assistant] And you can see, I mean, Kenneth Murray, after he scores, he puts his head down, Nasir Adderley puts his hands up like they were disgusted with themselves. They know they messed something up. That was, that coverage was called to stop that


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[Assistant] Big pass plays usually, right. Exactly. So, yeaah, that was, uh, one where I think inexperience and youngness kinda came back to, uh, bite them in the ass.


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[Assistant] You know, I do realize, I just think more than ever,


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[Assistant] Michael Thomas' importance to the offense in Drew Brees. Just because, yea, Drew can't throw the ball down the field and be effective that way. You just want him to be able to do it enough to keep teams honest and get those 15 and 20 yard completions here and there.


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[Assistant] But Michael Thomas' schematical importance and how he opens up other people, but also just the


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[Assistant] You know, for games like we just saw, where he's amazing is, you know, catch the ball for six.


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[Assistant] Breaking arm tackle, the linebacker gets 12 yards, you know, catches another one, it's 8 yards. You know, catch another 4 yard pass and ends up a 12 yard gain. It's like those little things, they're always in good positions, it's always moving the chains, always ahead of it.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's 3rd and 6th, he gets 8 yards to get the first down. That's where they miss him. And then it makes everybody else and the rest of the offense so effective that way. So right now,


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[Assistant] Uh, but it, it, it's, it's making Alvin Kamara maybe in some of the things he's doing. I mean, he's still awesome. But that's when they're hitting on all cylinders is when...


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[Assistant] It's like, oh yea, pick your poison. Oh, Thomas, Kamara. Oh yea, we got Jared Cook over here too. Oh, you want to do that? You want to double both of them and leave him one? And that's where I'm amazed by right now.


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[Assistant] What they're doing with Camara is, I think, the cool thing. I mean, and, and I just two seconds. Yeah, because they use them everywhere. They know they have to exhaust him more because Michael Thomas is not there. And really, it's amazing because I think we have a little spray chart.


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[Assistant] What I'm amazed by always is all the different looks they can give you out of the backfield right out of like, he's right next to Drew Brees in the shotgun.


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[Assistant] And he can run basically like 6 or 7 different routes that all at the start of the snap look like he's going to run the same route.


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[Assistant] They could throw screens on the outside to him, a tunnel screen, like we saw him drop on that first or third down of the game, right? You know, he can play the slot, but when he gets in the backfield, and let's just say Drew B is in the shotgun and Alvin Kamara is off to his right, he takes that little outside release arc and then he comes downhill,


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[Assistant] And they have the option route. Alright, so the option route. He's got three options on that. He can break inside. He can sit down on his own coverage. If the guy's playing a man inside leverage, he can break out. So it becomes a five yard out, a five yard in, or a five yard curl route.


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[Assistant] Then he has what we would call in this, and I know they call it the same way.


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[Assistant] They call it a Trojan route, where he runs like the old angle route, the old Texas route, right? Where it looks like he might run to the flat. We gotta get out there and stop him from running the flat route. And then he puts the brakes on and he angles out over the middle. They have that. Then they have that same type of thing, except he wheels up the sideline and goes there. Then they have that same type of thing.


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[Assistant] And he runs his seam, he just runs straight up the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] That's where they really put you in a bind. Yeah, that's where Sean Payton's amazing, cause he, he knows how to play games with, oh, you're doing this, or you're trying to take away this guy, or, well, I got something else for you with the other guy, and here we go.


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[Assistant] I, I, I do, yes, I'd like that. It's just, it's so, like, it's just like the same thing we're just talking about with Tennessee and Buffalo, right? Yeah, I do like that generally.


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[Assistant] But, because Seattle's another team that we're gonna talk about where I'm gonna go, I'm so sick of the five man blitz that gets the same amount of pressure the four man blitz does, except we just leave a guy wide open. Right. I mean, they're the kings of it right now. Like, we're gonna send one


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[Assistant] It's, it's bad. Now, there's a lot of things to talk about, you know, as far as the Seahawks defense. We've hit on it a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, am I surprised that Dalvin Cook and company ran the ball the way they did? Yes. Do I think a few times, especially when Cook got out of the game, did they catch the Seahawks going, ah, I don't think they'll give it to Madison or the running game as much. Let's play a little coverage and it caught them by surprise. Yes, I do.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know what else to say, you know, about the Seahawks defense. It's not going to get much better.


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[Assistant] I just would like to see, yeaah, I think that less of the always selling out eight guys at the line of scrimmage, you're not gonna run the ball on us.


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[Assistant] They need to be on the trade block in a few weeks and try to find if they can get a shutdown corner or a pass rusher. I'll take either one. But I just know, one of the things I wrote in my notes is, I mean,


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[Assistant] The Seahawks can't stop the run. So if the numbers are equal, right, and it's seven on seven, they're losing.


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[Assistant] It's, it's probably more D-Line right now. It's, the D-Line, they only got one good one, and it's Jaron Reed. The rest of it, they get, they get dominated on a snap by snap basis. Jaron Reed's really the only high, high level player they have in their front seven.


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[Assistant] Bobby Wagner's still good, don't get me wrong, but he's not like the Hall of Fame linebacker we sued three, four years ago. And I would say the same thing about KJ Wright. So Reed's the only difference maker they have there.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the other thing too, just on the personnel standpoint, before we move on.


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[Assistant] You know, the fact that they can't play man, you've heard me say this, you know, they have corners who start for them.


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[Assistant] Who most teams would go, you can't play corner for us. We'll bring you in to cover Travis Kelsey. Cause you could be that guy. You could be like the Patriots third safety guy who covers big receivers and covers a big tight end.


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[Assistant] That, that, like, what they thought they were ahead of the curve of with this defensive scheme and all that is 10 years ago now. That might as well be 100 years ago. Move on, they have to change because now they're really in the predicament of, like we've talked about, can't stop the run unless they outnumber it.


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[Assistant] Can't rush the passer with four, leaves them to have to play man every now and then, and those guys, they're tall, long corners, they can't change direction, they can't cover anybody man to man.


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[Assistant] I know, well, you know, the one thing they got going for them.


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[Assistant] And now this is the first game I saw them kind of die some slow deaths with some of these long drives, right? And everything like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, they need Jamal Adams back. You know, but, but the one thing they got going for them in every game just about, they create two or three plays. And it always gives Russell a little bit of an advantage. I mean, this game, they kicked the shit out of the Seattle Seahawks for the whole first half. It was only 13-0.


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[Assistant] So they did a good job in two of those three drives holding the field goal. So there you go, you go in the half time, you whoop the shit out of some team. Right. And there's only 13 nothing and you know Russell Wilson's on the other side. Yea. Right? So you know you're going to be like, oh crap, we might have blown our chance to really put them in a stranglehold.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the one thing they got for them is because Pete and Ken Norton Jr. are at least aggressive on the defensive side of the ball, that it does create chaos a few plays every game for the other team. And it's benefited the Seahawks with the two turnovers against Miami that helped them. Of course,


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[Assistant] They scored, what did I, they wrote, they scored a touchdown like three out of five plays because they drove down, scored a touchdown to start the second half. He threw the interception. Or no, you got the fumble, the strip sack fumble.


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[Assistant] And then they got the ball back and he threw the interception and KJ Rowan handed it. So like right now, I think that's about as good as it's gonna get for that Seattle defense. I don't think it's gonna get much, much better than that.


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[Assistant] They had a few plays, and this is what I did like from Seattle, where they doubled Justin Jefferson. Now they're a team that usually doesn't do that kind of stuff. They're kind of like, this is what we do, and this is what...


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[Assistant] They had a few moments where they were like, wait, they gotta throw the ball here. We're not gonna let 18 beat us. And, uh, yeaah, they gave him some, some issues from that standpoint. To where I think Justin Jefferson's put enough on film now, where everyone goes, hey, Adam Thiel is good.


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[Assistant] But this guy's better, and we gotta watch out for him. And, uh, yeaah, that was cool. I mean, again, the Seahawks play hard, they're physical, uhm, the, the scheme, like you've heard me say, it's not great, but they get the most out of their talent, which is, which is, I think, very average on that side of the ball. And, you know,


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[Assistant] They're having to coach it up, even to stop the run plays. You know, they're always having to slant the line one way or slant the other way. And they got gashed on a few plays because


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[Assistant] Everybody slanted one way and one guy messed up and it left a huge gap. And then Minnesota would just gash him for a 10 yard gain or a 20 yard gain. But those are the things they have to kind of risky do right now to kind of make it work.


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[Assistant] I mean they're having to play 5 and 6 man fronts almost every play right now.


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[Assistant] Definitely not. He was, uh, he was. He was phenomenal. I know he had the interception. You know, KJ writes a good player too.


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[Assistant] When you're not on the field in the first half either, the defense looks pretty good too. You know, that's the other issue. You know, 12 plays, 77 yard drive for over 6 minutes to start the game. 17 plays, 64 yard drive. Do you hear that? 17 plays for 64 yards.


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[Assistant] 10 minute, 13, 10 minute and 13 second drive.


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[Assistant] You know, then the next drive is 11 plays for 57 yards. I mean, so that's insane. Now that was quicker.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the first issue, and then I think the other thing is, you know,


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[Assistant] Minnesota played coverage. Just like we've heard. It's the theme of the day. Here we go. They weren't stupid. They didn't play man to man. They're a little bit more usually of a single safety defense. Whether it's zone or man, they kind of play single safety a lot.


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[Assistant] Mike Zimmer, I think he finally said, well listen, I like to outnumber the run and do all that stuff too, but I just can't trust my guys.


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[Assistant] On DK, Mac F, and Tyler Lockett, and he played a lot of quarters, quarter, quarter, half, things like that to where


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[Assistant] And they didn't let Russell run around and go crazy.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, Seattle had a few, a few penalties throughout the first half that, you know, put them in some third and fifteens and whatever else and they just couldn't overcome it. So, I think that would be the breakdown of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, I think the, the big thing is first off, the defense created some short fields for them. That helps. You know, that's, that's the big thing. They got, they got two touchdown drives, two plays, 15 yard drive, one play, 29 yard run. That was it. So, you know, we'll look back at the end of the day and go, oh, he had three touchdown passes. Whoa, he really came on fire there and got them back in the game.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, you know, that's just the reality of the situation. Makes the great pass to Metcalf on that, that, that first touchdown pass, uh, or his second touchdown pass, first DK one, uhm, which was a great throw, like to the left side, kind of like a skinny post or whatever it was. But I, I can't sit here and say that I saw


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[Assistant] Some magical thing or a different plan of attack from them. Vikings played pretty good on the defensive side of the ball. They didn't give...


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[Assistant] Like, I just can't believe Mike Zimmer went down like that. I think that's where I'm surprised. Not that they had to do it all game, but on the last drive of the game, the one thing I think, if I'm Minnesota, I'm gonna go...


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[Assistant] I also think though, anytime there is one on one, Russell Wilson needs to be more aware of DK Metcalf and just take a chance. Who cares?


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[Assistant] You know what they did? Who's they? The Minnesota stupid purple team. They blitzed five.


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[Assistant] So there we go. Here we go. Blitzen 5. Why? I don't know. We're gonna leave one on one with Dansler a rookie mid-round pick against


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[Assistant] What I'm gonna say is now the best receiver in football. Woah. Yeah. Number one. I'm, I'm, I can't deny. I mean, just what I see. It's just what I see. I mean, how stupid am I that I didn't have on my top ten receiver list? What an idiot I am. I thought you did. Nope. I chickened out.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, I chickened out. With some of the young guys who I was like, ah, they're going into year two, let me just make sure they have another good year, solidify them. Like him, DJ Moore, Terry McLaren, I wimped out on all of it. I might have had DK mad at 10, right? Did I have Metcalf at 10? I had him off. Right, so I think I had him at 11.


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[Assistant] That was my number one receiver. I did. Yep. Yep. But, uh, alright, so back to the point here. Sorry to, you know, you get me talking and sorry. They're playing man to man. They blitz five. It's one on one.


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[Assistant] You got a rookie corner out there in Dancer27, who's long.


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[Assistant] He runs a slant and go. So he gives just a little slant nod. Corner does a great job. Doesn't bite on it. He's just 4th and 10th. I'm not biting on a slant. Great job. But he plays so far off.


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[Assistant] That Russell and DK recognize it, like he's like, wait, I know I am supposed to run the go part here, but I, we're gonna have to throw it 87 yards by the time I get going past this guy, he's so deep.


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[Assistant] So, DK was really smart and almost kind of gearing it down a little bit. And Russell noticing, wait, he's not going to catch that guy. Let me just kind of throw a jump ball.


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[Assistant] And kind of behind the DB and I'm just gonna let my super freak go up and get it. And what did he do? He was a super freak and went up and got it. So that's all there was to that on that play. That's all it was. It was just, our guy's better than yours. You blitzed me. He's one on one. Good thing you blitzed me. Man, I would rather have that guy out there double


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[Assistant] I'm gonna put it in the spot where we're gonna get it. Right. And really, it's like you to me. If I was DK, and I was running, and you were the DB, like with your, you know, you're kinda turning, I mean that's where it was. Like we're going that way, Russell's over there.


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[Assistant] You were kinda there, that's where Dancer was, with, you know, his hips open like he's running down field, and Russell sees it. And he goes, alright, I'm just gonna kinda...


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[Assistant] Throw one up and let DK go up and get it, and I mean, DK, it wasn't even, I bet you Russell, when he left his hand, he was probably like, ooh, I might have thrown it too high. That was too much, yea. Right. And he jumped 12 feet in the air, and I swear he paused at the top of the jump, but was like, wait, I don't want to come down yet, stay there for a second, and then he caught it and came down.


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[Assistant] Lock it that Russell Wilson threw a little hard and outside to where he got two hands on it but it would have been a tough catch. Then they threw a fade route to DK Metcalfe in the back right corner of the end zone. So they had attacked outside, outside, hey we're just gonna go one on one, our guys better than you. And they got into a formation where uhm, let me just get to it here, here it is.


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[Assistant] Snub meaning? You know, snub meaning like the two receivers to Russell Wilson's left are Lockett and DK Metcalf and they're about


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[Assistant] So they did that, which a lot of the times too, now if you're a defense, you're worried about, ooh, this could expand out, you know, they could end up running one guy in the flat and one guy on the corner route to the corner.


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[Assistant] What are we gonna do there? I don't know, but we'll let it play out.


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[Assistant] And really, all they did was put DK on the croc, they ran double, they, they protected with the tight end, kept him in, kept the back in to block.


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[Assistant] And, they ran, I wanna say, I'm not sure, that swain up top.


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[Assistant] And a crossing route over the middle with DK Metcalf. Now.


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[Assistant] The middle of the field's open. You know, the Vikings are playing man to man, and the linebackers, for whatever reason,


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[Assistant] Really came up aggressive. This is one thing I don't understand about the defensive call. Like there's no play-action pass here. Where are they going up to?


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[Assistant] I don't understand that. So we're going to avoid the middle of the field basically to let them throw a crossing route where now it's man to man. We got two crossers and Anthony Harris who's trying to help out on the crosser because he knows 27 dancers in a tough spot here because he could get picked. And Anthony Harris is the safety


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[Assistant] He's just playing center field and he realizes the pick plays in front of him and he knows that his guy's in trouble. He makes a great break on the ball. It's just...


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[Assistant] The ball itself was perfect. I mean it was a perfect throw.


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[Assistant] And, you know, again, they ran a little bit of that green dog aspect where 50 acted like he was blitz. He got the right tackle to come off the right defense end and thinking he's gonna blitz to tackle him. It left 95, I believe that's Weatherly, unblocked, or no, that might have been, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh, I can't say his last name, 95, in the Vikings. Pete, you're gonna have to help me with that one. I'll just say with 95. Yeah, but 95. But look at this. This is the other thing that I think is brilliant of this.


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[Assistant] The guy that's a freerunner in 95, Russell Wilson, make some pause just a little bit.


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[Assistant] But because they sent that linebacker up into the middle of the scrimmage.


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[Assistant] You know, again, it's just, it is the theme of the week for me. Like, why? Right.


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[Assistant] That was where he was. He left. It's just, I see too much of that in football right now is driving me crazy. But, you know, ultimately it just comes down to Seattle once again. They just never give up. They always make big plays when they need to. And...


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[Assistant] No matter how badly they're outplayed or whatever it is, they just continue to kind of compete and find a way.


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[Assistant] If you're not up by more than 20 points, well first off, this year, right now, I mean as we're seeing, 17 point leads are not saved. There's no crowd noise. Quarterbacks are as calm as ever.


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[Assistant] There's no anxiety in the stadium. You don't, if you're the home team and you're down by 17, you don't hear, boo, you suck, you suck, which then causes the coach to like call plays that probably he wouldn't call if it was a calmer situation, but now he's feeling the angst of the fans and all that.


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[Assistant] Or, you know, if you're, you know, the team on the road and you're up by 17. Err, no, no, what am I saying? If you're, if you're a home team up by 17 or whatever, the other thing too,


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[Assistant] It's just, there's no crowd noise. Defensive lines can't get off in these big moments anymore where, okay, our defense, we're up by 17, our crowd, we're at home, they're loud as hell now because we're up 17. D-Lion's gonna get to pin the ears back and get off the line of scrimmage. They have that advantage gone without any fans.


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[Assistant] It stinks. It stinks for those moments. You're right. Because it's, uh, you wanna watch.


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[Assistant] The 12s. Yeaah. And that stadium. Right. I mean the screen shakes sometimes, they yell so loud. Right. You know, we missed that, that game. The Patriots came at the one yard line, that would have been another one where you're just like, ah man, Seattle, that place would have fell to the ground, it would have gone so crazy.


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[Assistant] It definitely has, and that's all they're doing. Now, they're better at playing man to man, uh, and all of that, but yeaah, the offense itself, I don't sit there and go, oh wow, they're doing a lot of great things. Now, that last touchdown catch he had up the middle, that was all Big Ben and Claypool.


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[Assistant] That was a total Big Ben realized what coverage they were in.


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[Assistant] And he told everybody what to do, cause he knew he had found the flaw in the Matrix. And he was, oh wait, if I do these little ra- which he basically took advantage of Quarters coverage.


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[Assistant] The guys on the outside ran hitches. The slack guys ran corner routes to keep the attentions of the safeties and quarters.


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[Assistant] Which now puts the middle linebacker in the middle of the field one on one with Chase Claypool. And he acted like he was gonna kinda run over the middle and catch one. Right. And then ran up the field. And the safeties who were looking at those corner routes had widened a little bit and they could not recover by the time they realized they were being tacked up the middle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right, and you're right, it's Clyde Pool, out to the right, they got, uh, I think James Washington in the slot over there, and, uhm, oh wait, hold on, I'm a playoff, I'm a playoff, sorry, here we go, here we go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right, but it's still, to the right side here, you got...


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[Assistant] Let me make sure I got this right. Alright, he's got Claypool to the left of the inside of the three, Schuster in the slot, 14 all the way out on the left. On the right side he's got, I believe it's Washington at the slot, and then the tight end Eberron outside. And, like I said, this is a play where we call these jerk routes.


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[Assistant] It's basically, yeaah, those two slot guys, Juju and Washington, ran those seven routes, corner routes, to make sure the safeties


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[Assistant] You catch their attention. Oh no, he's running at me and ooh, he's kinda breaking out. I gotta kinda shadow that way as he goes and by the time they realize it, they've been exposed up the middle. We called it a jerk route because you were gonna make the Mike Meinbacher look like a jerk. Right. He couldn't be right. It was a three-way go.


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[Assistant] You know, it was really a four way go. You could stop and place, you could kinda stop and then cross his face, or you could act like you're gonna run a shallow cross and stop and come back up the other way, and if you got this coverage, coverage,


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[Assistant] You are alerted to, you can take it up the middle of the field. And Big Ben knew right away with his formation and everything, the way they lined up, he was getting this coverage, and that was all him that made this part happen.


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[Assistant] No, no, because he's probably hasn't even had to really think about this type of route yet in this coverage. Now this'll be something from going on.


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[Assistant] To where yeaah, it just leaves too big of a hole on the middle of the field. Now, they're running this coverage


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[Assistant] Not thinking that, I bet you there's not a lot of like film that shows they send a guy up the middle of the field on these type of routes to where they were playing their percentages thinking, you know, most of the time they run a shallow cross or something short with that guy, and our middle linebacker 47, Jerry, he'll be okay there.


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[Assistant] Obviously they found a flaw within the scheme itself in that play and yeaah, they're gonna have to either check out of that coverage next time they're in it in that type of formation or be alerted to having to have it changed up a little bit with how they defend it.


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[Assistant] And that could be maybe telling the quarter's corners to, hey, you gotta just make sure you drop back, don't take the cheese on anything short, that seven route's gonna come to you, that corner route, and we got a linebacker out there who's gonna run to the flat to get that short route anyways, they have to play it off better as a whole unit there to defend it in that coverage at least.


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[Assistant] So that'll be a big time issue. And they don't give you a lot of throws in the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] So this will be a totally different game plan altogether. Let me just say this. I'm not necessarily impressed with Pittsburgh's offense. Pittsburgh's offense is still a work in progress. What do you think of Roethlisberger? I mean, he's playing well.


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[Assistant] But I don't look, to me they're biggest, I just don't know, I'm really not sure what they are on offense yet. I think they're kind of a work in progress. They can't run the ball at all, really. They can't, they don't ever get underneath the center anymore. It's always shotgun every play.


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[Assistant] It's a lot of quick catch and release from Ben 2. It is a lot. That's exactly right. So I, again, I just don't know, I don't know always what's trying to be done. He's a great thrower.


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[Assistant] They really are. And I think that right now they kind of realize they can't run the ball and they're just going, hey, let's spread it out and let him make the decision and go from there. But it's why they've had a hard time putting teams away too, because they can't run out the clock.


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[Assistant] They almost have to throw it, and it's letting teams when you have a 31-14 lead or the lead they had against the Giants or the Broncos kind of slowly creep back into the game because they're not running the ball or putting a team away with that one extra scorer to kind of end the game.


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[Assistant] It was. I mean, there was a lot of good in it. I know. I mean, there's a lot of unbelievable throws.


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[Assistant] Uh, Fulgham now. I mean, that's it. I mean, they're the only two guys on there. You know, but, you know, again, you know, I know Miles Sanders had the 74 yard run. Okay, but he had 10 rushes for six yards after that. Right. So I don't look at that as going, oh, that's a good running day. Yeah, you hit them with a draw play.


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[Assistant] Some unnecessary blitzing. They blitz an NFL high 50% of the time. Yeaah, it's too much. They don't need to. What's the point of paying all these great pass rushers if you're doing that?


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[Assistant] What's the point of having four great pass wrestlers if you're bringing in a fifth all the time? That makes no sense to me. I understand the thought process. See, they're trying to bring five because they want to get like five one-on-one matchups.


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[Assistant] Just steamrolling those 5-1 or one of those 5-1-1 matchups. Again, it goes back to everything we've talked about in the podcast so far. Okay, yea, you brought 5. It didn't really get there any quicker. Now there's this huge hole in your zone defense.


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[Assistant] And you're screwed, or you're playing man-to-man, and you're not that good at man-to-man. They picked on Joe Hayden this game. Yeah, they did. Big time. I mean, whenever there was man-to-man, they went, we're throwing the 23.


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[Assistant] Because they don't think he can run, which is definitely a legit question. Whether he has, it's always been a question, but especially at this part of his career. He's an amazing zone player, he's great tackler, he's got great instincts, but when it comes to pure man-to-man cover skills,


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[Assistant] They're, uh, in, in, with Dupree and Watt and Tuett and Hayward, they just don't need to. And they're really creative with some of their zone coverages and things they do.


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[Assistant] But I don't think they're maximizing on how good their defense is right now. You know, the fact that you let Jeff Driscoll and everybody had the ball at the 10 yard line to win the game, or Daniel Jones and that shitty offense was moving down to come back and do it, or, you know, even the Eagles, being as close as it was for a while, got to 31-29. You know, that to me, yeaah, they're winning the games, but


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[Assistant] Just be stopped. Go into the three and four man rush.


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[Assistant] Do some of the things we talked about with Tennessee. Yeaah. You know, hey, this guy blitzed, this guy dropped out, it's still a four man rush. Do all of that. Their, their, that's to me their greatest gift is this is what has made them, you know, awesome in some years is because it's like you're talking about again. You've already brought this up.


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[Assistant] I don't know what they're doing here. Who's come in? And then they're great at disguising and doing crazy coverages behind us. So you used to get a double whammy. And, uh, it just, again, it just seemed like the week of...


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[Assistant] Needlessly blitzing across the NFL. We're gonna blitz. I don't know why just because we practiced it and I feel like I gotta call it. Right. And I don't know, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think so. I think it's the way to go right now. I do, you know. I don't think you're doing yourself any...


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[Assistant] Justice by blitzing and being a man to man all the time unless you have just


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[Assistant] Hey, the Baltimore Ravens? I get it. They got two all pros at corner.


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[Assistant] You know, even the, the Patriots, I can understand them doing it, but they don't ever do that. They don't. They're more of like play man and then we'll have a bunch of other guys play zone around it or we play all man or we double guys and all that. So, uh, Steelers defense to me is just the big issue there. Uhm, we talked about Joe Hayden. You know, I do think


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[Assistant] I don't know why the Steelers played so much man to man in this game. I know why they played so much man to man in this game. Cause they probably felt like there's no way that these receivers can beat us, this group. And because they played so, eh, you know, they floated with danger a little bit, in my opinion, because of that. So where I would have liked to just see


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[Assistant] They got caught, I think, with this. Sorry, I know I'm rumbling, but I think they thought, okay,


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[Assistant] We can match them up man to man. I think the other thing they were probably a little worried about with their zones. Philadelphia, we've talked about this a lot, has 9 million ways to throw the ball 6 yards. And I think they were a little worried that like, oh, they're good at that aspect. This is the only thing they're good at actually.


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[Assistant] That's, I think they were afraid of dying a slow death that way to where we are. We're playing all these zones and it's great, but he's getting the ball out of his cans quick and they're sitting in the right holes to where we can't stop it. That would be at least what I would think. Travis Fogum, is he that good or just a one game aberration? He's pretty damn good. No, he's pretty good. I've seen more than, you know, the last two games have been pretty damn good to where I go.


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[Assistant] No, they think they got something here. You know, you don't want him to be your number one, I don't think. No, you don't.


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[Assistant] I think he's certainly solidified himself as a part of this offense, uh, as we go forward. Now, let me just see if I messed out anything else. I don't, you know, the all-out thing again. Oh, they let up another touchdown on the all-out blitz too.


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[Assistant] I just want to make sure we get that, you know. Uh, the third TD of the game that gave them 22 points to 8 yard pass to Greg Ward.


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[Assistant] Another all outlets don't understand it, don't get it, they were having great success playing coverage. Uhm, and I guess, uh,


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[Assistant] Oh, alright, but no, it was just all of that, I just wanna make sure I don't miss anything, and I'm trying to like, make sure I hit it all, you know me, I write all these damn notes, but here's just to sum it up, I just wrote, what's the point of having the great pass rushers if you don't rush for? And then, you know,


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[Assistant] Uh, I wrote Wentz. Damn, this is like my synopsis at the end. I wrote, say what you want. Wentz made some unreal throws. And then I just wrote, okay, so at what point do you just say, okay, Wentz is hot. Let's stop playing man to man and go back to our zones. Okay, especially when they have


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[Assistant] Why are we letting them off the hook too by letting our quarterback throw the ball all the time? Make them protect for a little time.


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[Assistant] Like, this is why, like, the Rams play zone defense, because they go, we want the quarterback to read something real quick, because Aaron Donald will be there by the time he reads it. You know? And that's how, I think Pittsburgh needs to take that. Then, I wrote, I hate blitzing in the red zone, they gave up the TDs, and then,


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[Assistant] They're not maximizing what they are as a defense right now. They are without a doubt one of the best defenses in football. They're letting up too many points in yards. Could be even better. And just over my evaluation, that would be the issue to me.


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[Assistant] It's amazing how the easiest, like, things, sometimes you're like, wait, who is tech number two?


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[Assistant] Don't tell me, and I'm not cheating, alright, just so you know, I'm just looking at teams. I trust you. You know how I do it.


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[Assistant] The last game we were just talking about, we were just talking about, oh, Carson Wentz. Yes! Pete, Pete.


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[Assistant] Good job. No, I don't get it. Ehhh. Pete says no. I don't deserve it. Pete said no. Holy crap. I couldn't, I don't know why he didn't register in my brain as the second quarterback drafted. He was the second pick in the draft too. Second pick in the draft. Damn it.


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[Assistant] I can't even, I gotta look at, I'm pulling up the games from last week, just going like, what am I missing here? 32 years old!


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[Assistant] Andy Dalton. Holy crap. I didn't, I didn't register in my brain.


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[Assistant] Nope, it's not the chargers. I was almost going to blurt that out. That doesn't make sense. Right.


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[Assistant] You're gonna have to give me a second here. Okay. Oh.


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[Assistant] GamePix collaboration podcast that'll also be on Peacock at PFTPM at 5 o'clock on a Thursday. It's everywhere. We'll be back for that. And, uh, you, back in the fall, you staying on What the Fuck Happened Wednesdays for the most part?


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[Assistant] Just Monday. Alright. Pete and I have to meet. Alright, you guys meet it up. Alright, get ready. Everybody be good out there. We'll be back. Keep sending your questions through Twitter, anything. Seriously, want to get into more specifics? Would love to. Break stuff down. Whatever you want. I'm always game.


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[Assistant] Stay safe out there. Check out the picks pod. We're doing okay, me and Florio. You might make some money if you listen to our best bets. Who's doing better? He's beating me in the best bets. I'm beating him in everything else. That's fair. Okay, good. Alright, good. I just want to make sure. Alright, peace out. Good to see you. See ya. See ya.


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[Assistant] Alright, so this is gonna be our thing. Every time you're on the pod, we're gonna do another division, right? Deal. Alright, deal. Cause I actually am very interested, and let's have a playoff.


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[Assistant] As we go throughout. See, maybe include some fan voting. I am. I'm interested to see what team actually is the best. Does it have an inkling to maybe give us a clue of who we can see succeeding in the playoffs or anything like that as far as teams, conferences, divisions. I am interested in that. I mean.


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[Assistant] I can see that. I think we might have some arguments too, probably. You probably had to leave a few guys off where you're like, damn, I had to leave him off. I had to give us three linebackers on


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[Assistant] Well, I think to your point and what you're saying right there, like, I think it's fair to say now, especially after this second game, we saw a little Inklings two weeks ago against the Packers to go, ooh, Gronk kind of looks good. Wow, he's getting there. And I think there was another step upwards or in the right direction again for Gronk to where I went, uh-oh, Gronk might be, not just looks good, he might be back.


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[Assistant] All the way back, uh, you know, again, not, not saying prime Gronk, but damn good towards the end of the Patriots Gronk. I mean, that's where we're at. So that place specifically, first off, hey, that's a Gronk Brady special. I mean, that really is. It was Gronk split out to the left. All right. And they're going to check out that matchup and there's basically no matchup.


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[Assistant] That they're gonna go, ooh, we don't like it. You know, it might have been simple as, if as long as it's man to man, you and Gronk,


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[Assistant] Just figure it out. Oh, it's a linebacker, maybe you want to run a slant. Maybe he's playing the outside. Oh, it's a DB and he's playing the inside, run the fade. I don't know if it's called or if they figure it out at the line of scrimmage, but there's a concept to the right, a bunch right, and then he's got Gronk split out to the left all by himself.


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[Assistant] Now if he gets a double coverage look on Gronk, then he'll play the concept on the right and try to figure that out. But the play is all about Gronk and the matchup there.


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[Assistant] You know, quite honestly, it's Nevin Lawson. Uhm, who did a good job. He does a good job. Right. But that doesn't matter. That's why it's, that's why you put him out there because it's just like, well, he's just too small. He's just not a big enough guy to be able to


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[Assistant] Mess with him off the line of scrimmage and then, you know, when it comes to the, the bumping and all that when the ball's in the air, you know, just a little like flick of the elbow for Gronk is gonna knock you away and you're gonna be like, oh man, I can't get there to grab the ball. I mean, he doesn't have to do it like intentionally. He could just be like turning around and he hits you and it's over. But Brady threw a freaking strike and he just throws it, you know,


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[Assistant] What a high and wide on the outside corner there. And there's no chance for an Evan Lawson. None at all. And then it just, they make it look so easy. Brady threw the ball phenomenal in this football game. I mean, I can see why Chris Godwin had a broken finger, you know, on his touchdown catch. Through a freaking laser. I mean, a laser.


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[Assistant] Brady is throwing it as confidently and as good as I've seen him throw it.


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[Assistant] I'm telling you, in a few years, it's, it's that good. And not that it was that bad last year, but it's the confidence right now and just letting it go and going, damn, I'm going to let it go. I'm not worried about, ooh, it might be an incomplete or I don't want to throw this deep pass because it'll be incomplete and who knows what happened. Uh, I really liked that aspect.


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[Assistant] It is all about Bruce Arians and Byron Lefwich. I do. And of course Brady deserves credit too for adjusting what he has done or how his mindset of playing the game. But I don't know if you saw in my notes, but the one thing I wrote was just that


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[Assistant] Bruce really increased Brady's confidence level to throw the ball down the field and be more aggressive. And he did it the right way. You know, he, he, as you've heard me say before, and this game had held true too. When they have the tight end or two tight ends in the game, or sometimes they even have three tight ends in the game,


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[Assistant] They usually keep in a six or seven man protection and then go, hey, Tom, you know, you're protected, you know, and you're 43. I understand Brady's gonna be a little looking over his eye when you're 43 and getting hit a lot. You're protected.


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[Assistant] Trust the big boy. We'll make the right skein downfield and the worst it'll be is a one on one and you throw it up to a Gronk or a Mike Evans and we like our chances because we don't feel like that's 50-50. We feel like it's 80-20. You know what I mean? And I think they built his confidence that way where Grady in New England


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[Assistant] Not that they didn't have that element of their offense, but they were more like, hey, this is our play and if that big shot down field just presents itself, we'd like you to throw it down there.


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[Assistant] Tampa is more of, no, this play is to throw it downfield, and we're gonna block it up, and we want you to really think throwing it downfield. And I feel like they built his confidence up that way now to where...


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[Assistant] The last few years for Tom Brady. He wouldn't even have attempted it. When he threw the ball, Scottie Miller is not open.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're about even as far as him and Nevin Lawson at that point. So if you're watching this on YouTube, you'll see our little dots moving. It's basically like a


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[Assistant] Trips left formation, they motion in the outside receiver just a little bit but it's all goes as you can see, right? It's 3 go routes. Except Scotty Miller was in a little tight so it's like a wide release go route.


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[Assistant] But, the other thing here too, Omman, see that 87 dot there on the 40 yard line? There's the tight end. They kept him in the block. So it's a six man protection once again. So Brady, he's gotten to the point now where they're like, hey, we're gonna protect ya, don't worry, don't peek over your shoulder or anything like that.


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[Assistant] If you see one-on-one, let it go. And he's letting it go. And that, I mean, Brady, you know, again, I've said it before, I'll say it again, his arm is an all-time arm. I know it's not Brady and Roger, I mean, Mahomes and Rogers and Brett Favre, but it is special. And just that throw there itself.


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[Assistant] High, effortless, spinning hard, on the money, touchdown. I mean, I didn't even know Scottie Miller could run like that, but, uh, that I think is a great example of what Bruce Aarons and Byron Leppich have done to kind of nudge him to be a little bit more aggressive this year.


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[Assistant] Well, he certainly, hey listen, I mean yeaah, he's, he's got big time talent around him. I mean, it'd be hard to argue, you know, there's not too many teams you can sit there and go, alright, you know, Gronk.


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[Assistant] Mike Evans, Godwin, Scottie Miller, you know, Leonard Fournette and Jones are running back. I mean, they can match up with anybody as far as that's concerned. I don't agree with Peyton Manning. I don't. Now, do I love that, like, just from the


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[Assistant] He did pile it on to Brady, and I don't agree with him. I really don't.


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[Assistant] You know, I understand what Peyton's trying to say, cause he's thinking


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[Assistant] Brady mixed up with Mike Evans and should have ran the go down the right sideline and that's what Brady was still thinking he might do. And he threw it there for Evans and Gronk just happened to be running across. But here, there's a few things. First off, this is an across the field read. So he's going,


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[Assistant] You know, there's one receiver to the right, Mike Evans, and there's tight end receiver, receiver, and he's gonna go to the right, and then slowly go across the field to the left. That's his reads, right? One to two to three to four. And he's just gonna go right to left. Well,


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[Assistant] First clue is to tell me that it was intentionally for Gronkh. Is Gronkh is running over to that point the whole time. Like he knows he's going, I'm the second read. I have to get over there. Because we're putting that backside corner in a bind. If he played really far off in cover three,


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[Assistant] They would have thrown the hitch, right? But he came up and was somewhat aggressive Jair Alexander on Mike Evans and now he readjusts. He kind of flinches in the pocket and you don't see this huge head move, but I believe you see the head move to Gronk and that's where me and Peyton disagree there. And that to me,


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[Assistant] I think that was a phenomenal throw. So I disagree with Payton. I love that he called him out a little. That was fun. But nonetheless.


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[Assistant] That's, you know, no, there's not. Really, I think it's one of the more complete, they're one of the more complete teams, I think you've heard me say that, and I think they're one of the most complete offenses in all of the NFC, definitely.


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[Assistant] They can run and overpower you. Of course they can spread it out and Brady can pick you apart. They can block it up and take shots down the field. But, to what you said, that's the big point. When you have a scheme that can screw people over, and then you have players that can win one on one matchups, that's when you become...


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[Assistant] Oh, well, you know, our scheme's good. It's Andy Reid zing zing zing zing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they can do it in so many different ways. They have great scheme versatility on the offensive side of the ball. If they had to get into a run game slugfest and it was rainy out and things like that, they'd be okay. If they had to get in a spread out, shoot out, they'd be okay. And then of course we know they can get into a balanced offensive game too as we're seeing.


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[Assistant] I really love the way Brady's playing, their offense, everything about it. Uhm, it is, uh, it's really a good look.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Devin White, like, he kind of, like, just kind of an example of what you're saying. Last year we saw talent, but he was a little bit like a chicken with his head cut off at times, or he's, you know, he's young, he doesn't know where he's going. Oh, he took this fake and he's running 20 yards to the right, the ball's over here, all that. You saw the talent.


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[Assistant] But I think year two, Todd Bowles scheme, him in the NFL, that goes for the secondary players too, some of the corners last year that blew coverages and things like that.


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[Assistant] Man, Ahmed, I'm telling you they're the best team in the NFC. They really are. They are. Again, with the defense they have. Because a week ago, or two weeks ago, you said you're almost there. I'm almost there. And now you're there. I'm there. I've been saying it since Monday. I've been going, they're the best team. You give me them versus Seattle. You give me them versus Green Bay.


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[Assistant] I'm taking Tampa, again, just because they can beat you in so many different ways and they really don't have a weakness to their football team and their defense, you know, the front seven special.


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[Assistant] I mean, their front, again, like their offense, their front four, it's like, oh, you gotta play the Ravens and stop a, a kill or run game. They'll be fine. Oh, we gotta get, we gotta get into nickel and dime cause we're playing Seattle and they're gonna throw a replay. They'll be fine. They can do all of that. And then of course, Devin White and, and Levante David in the middle, I mean, they're like the erasers.


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[Assistant] And it gives them then more scheme flexibility because they can tell their defensive line of times to do crazy shit. Hey, slant this way, this guy twists. Yea, it might leave a big gap in the run game here, but don't worry, these two freaks at linebacker will clean it up.


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[Assistant] And that's where they're special right now, let alone they're really well coached in their zone coverages, and if they gotta play a little man to man...


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[Assistant] If they gotta play, they have a shut down island corner. Carlton Davis is no doubt one of the top ten corners in football. Now I gotta look in, I'd have to make a list to figure out exactly where he is, but he is going to be


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[Assistant] The next big corner contract you'll see in the next year and a half or two where he's gonna get $15 million a year or something like that. He's that type of guy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then just understanding his defense too. You know, his defense, it's exotic. It's got a lot of different rules, things like that. But I think, you know, yes, some of those young corners, Devin White, who you're talking about, I think they've got a feel for it now.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, I would just say watch out for the Bucs cause they're like some of the AFC teams we see and there's just no weakness to their football team and the NFC doesn't have a lot of those. You know what I would say?


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[Assistant] It's okay. The Raiders did a lot of good things. That was a tough matchup for them. They're outclassed. And you know, the area where they always want to have their greatest advantages is their offensive line. And of course they had the COVID issues.


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[Assistant] Because it's the Bucks, they couldn't control the game with their run game. Because you just can't. With Sue...


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[Assistant] And JPP and Shaq Barrett and Nunes Roches is playing really good. And uhm, I'm missing the other defense alignment I wrote down there. McClendon who they trade for. He's popped a little bit. They're just an immovable force that way. And that really took away a big aspect of how the Raiders beat people. Raiders are good.


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[Assistant] But it was a tough matchup. They're outclassed by the Buccaneers. It wasn't a game, I think you saw this in my notes, I didn't write like, oh the Raiders played bad, they just got slowly worn down by a better football team and that's


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[Assistant] It didn't kill them. It was 23-3. 49ers didn't end up going to score on the drive or anything like that. In fact, Jimmy Garoppolo ended up going to interception himself to J.C. Jackson, I believe. But, but, yes, I would say, so just a list of, that's, yes, the third, the least worst of the three, right? I have no real problem with that. By far- By the way, on that point,


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, 57 yards, yes. I'll say this about that play. I mean, his arm strength is real. He's got some mechanical issues the last two weeks. You know, he's got the whole like, hey, I'm throwing to 12 o'clock, I'm in the middle of the clock, I'm throwing to 12 but I'm stepping at 9.


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[Assistant] Where he's wrong on that play just to hit on it, you know, there's the old phrase, if he's even, he's leaving, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, Jacobi Myers, that phrase does not apply. Alright, so that would be where I would just go, dude, this guy doesn't outrun people with the ball, like that's not his game. And he was not in front of Mosley at that point when he let the ball go, so. And he tripped. And he tripped, exactly right, so there was no chance. But that was the third


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[Assistant] And this is, Cam's gotta work on this, cause this is two games in a row, it's too much. Nobody's open, get off the spot, move. Stop standing there just like, being, oh I'm, I'm the damn Terminator and I'll sit here all day long and you come hit me, somebody will get open and I'll throw it. No, they're not gonna get open. Your receivers aren't good.


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[Assistant] I couldn't tell if the guy jumped. I thought maybe somebody touched it. Maybe he didn't. I just think he just threw it into the ground. He might've. He's been throwing some balls, what I would call like a screwball, comes out of the side of his hand and nose dives. That's what it looked like. Right. So it was a horrible decision.


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[Assistant] And then a really bad throw where it was like, you know, I understand sometimes you're gonna throw an interception. The game is not perfect.


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[Assistant] Interceptions you can live with as far as like, oh he threw in the spot, he was hoping his guy could get it. He did throw it, but man the defense made a great play or whatever. This was not one of them. He threw it in the spot that only Fred Warner could get it. Pretty much. And he made a good play. So, so that was 10-3 that made it 16-3 a few plays later. And now they're stuck into a game, which is not good for them.


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[Assistant] Alright, so now let's get into that last interception, right? Uhm, the one off of the hands of-


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[Assistant] Exactly, and then you explained it exactly right. The play was for Edelman all along. It's called the Jerk Route because...


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[Assistant] We're gonna make the one linebacker in the middle of the field look like a jerk because Edelman has a three way go. He can stop and come back or he can stop and go forward and in a lot of cases sometimes you can stop and go up the field vertically too. So there's a lot of things you can do there.


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[Assistant] He is open. Cam's eyes stay way too long to the left. He's got a little seam and a hitch out to his left, which he has the freedom to throw if he likes it. He looks at the seam a little too long, but then he comes back to Edelman and he's got some people at his feet. His feet are totally cockeyed. He's throwing a ball to two o'clock and he's stepping at nine o'clock. So that leads, again, when you're like that,


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[Assistant] It's gonna lead to inaccuracies, but I think the big thing is the thing you said. He throws the ball too hot. It was too hard, first off.


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[Assistant] I mean even if he puts it in his face, there's no way he's gonna catch it. It's gonna hit his face and bounce in the air. I mean he just threw it way too hard, let alone behind the receiver and all of that, and that tips the ball up the air interception for Jamar Taylor and night-night.


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[Assistant] No, he's always had little issues with it where it's like, oh, here's, Cam's throwing it great for five weeks and all of a sudden one game it gets bad.


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[Assistant] And maybe two, and then someone says something or he realizes and he fixes it.


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[Assistant] And then it goes back to good again. But he gets in a horrible, and I'm gonna just do this here standing up, but again, you know, if I'm throwing the ball here, alright, he does this too much to throw it there, right? That's, it's just not gonna work consistently good. Yeah, he'll make some throws like that, sure.


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[Assistant] To do it consistently, no. And it does at times, listen, he goes, let me say, it's five and out, it's good drive for a field goal, it's interception on the first play that we just talked about to Fred Warner.


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[Assistant] And then it was a three and out. And it was 23 to three. It was a game over. So there was four drives. The game was over. Now there, you know, we'll talk about the defense in a minute. But even on the three and out that I talk about here.


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[Assistant] That then leads to the game being going to 23-3. He throws a third down short throw to his left side.


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[Assistant] And it's the same thing. He throws one of those low balls you just talked about. He gets his front shoulder way jacked up high in the air. And now when you don't step there, where else can you go from right here except to go that way a little bit? And of course that's going to lead to the ball going down.


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[Assistant] You know, so if you're up here, yeaah. Okay, you want to be up here maybe if you want to throw a bomb, but not when you're throwing a ten yard route.


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[Assistant] No, they're not. And especially with Edelman not being like totally 100% either. You know, yeaah.


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[Assistant] And the running game can start with Cam, too. It can. That can be Cam. It can be. And that's, you know, again, I think the silver lining a little is...


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[Assistant] When they wanted to run the ball, they, it showed they were going to be capable. But the game just, they got, it got lost and they couldn't like hang with it at all. You know, they wanted to play a game that was going to be 20 to 17. 23-20.


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[Assistant] And then okay, we can stay balanced so we can stay with the run and Cam's design runs and things like that.


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[Assistant] And then we'll hit you with some cool play action passes and some other things where guys are going to all different ways because of our run game. They still can do that at a high level. But yes, when the game got like this, it was a real issue. And, you know, all we can, all you can really say is that's the way, I think you said it.


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[Assistant] They can't, they have to play a certain style of football. They can't play shootout football against the better teams.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they can. There's no doubt about it. They're still a really good football team with a lot of good talent. You know, now one thing, the matchup played in their favor too to where they could play a little man in this game because they weren't worried about anybody. Right? So that was good for them.


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[Assistant] Regardless, you know, when you talk about their defensive line still, Armstead, Kinlaw, Jones, Hyder,


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[Assistant] You know, even Street and Givens behind them and those guys, it's a pretty good front. I know it's not superstars and people are never gonna look at it and go, oh, but I'm just telling you, just- Kerry Heider, by the way, is always making- Yes, he is. And DJ Jones in the middle is one of these guys that I'm telling you he's gonna become a free agent in a few years and the 49ers aren't gonna be able to keep him because somebody's gonna pay him a lot of money.


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[Assistant] You know, so they have a lot of guys that, yeaah, they're not superstar names, but me as nerdy football guys sitting here trying to tell you, damn, they're good players though. I'd like them on my team. I'd certainly. So between that, and then the biggest thing for them, Ahmed, is a little bit like the last thing we just talked about in the Bucks. Those two middle linebackers fly around everywhere.


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[Assistant] I mean Fred Warner, you heard Tony Romo on the telecast at all, he called him the best middle linebacker in football. Do you agree? I don't think that's, I don't think, yeaah. He's in that conversation. He is one of those three, four guys where I'd go yeaah.


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[Assistant] You know, he's really special in the space. He can cover Julian Edelman man to man. I mean, he has a few plays where he locks down Julian Edelman.


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[Assistant] Yes, what I'm saying, especially if their safeties are healthy, and we can have a Mosley healthy, and if you can have Sherman back in the lineup, I would say yes, this defense, I think right now is still a top five, it's number five defense in football, and I think it can stay there all year long. I do.


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[Assistant] Okay, 23 games in the last two seasons. I mean, they're easily good for two touchdowns a game. So 46 touchdowns is going to be too low.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go, oh well maybe not now with that reaction. I'm gonna go shut up, stop messing with me. I'm gonna go 65. 65? 35 according to Pete. Oh shut up.


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[Assistant] Totally was. Now the ball wasn't on that specific play intended to go where it was.


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[Assistant] Right, the play was made for a cutback. You know last week we talked about the Derrick Henry zone, tied in behind the line of scrimmage and then we cut it back, right?


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[Assistant] You know, so they're running inside zone to the right. The tight end on the right is going to come behind the line of scrimmage and kick out the back side weak side defense end to where now, hey guys, we're running zone to the right. Oh wait, let me plant my right foot in the ground and I cut back and we have this huge hole.


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[Assistant] Lauren's guy messes that up a little bit. He shoots the gap. He doesn't really play, oh, I'm gonna go down the line of scrimmage and play my gap like most people do. He decides just to go attack the football. So because of that, Wilson can't cut back.


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[Assistant] Just because the play is meant to be made a cutback run, doesn't mean the front side just goes, ah, we don't have to block on this play, they're going over there. They still block it perfectly as well, and Wilson does a great job of weaving through the traffic, but it's-


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[Assistant] The run game design, even on that play, I just, I just want everybody to understand this. You got your five offensive linemen, they got a tight end to the right, and Kittle who motioned over to the left.


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[Assistant] Right off the tackles, right? They're just stepped back a little bit. The receivers are also tight. So that action happens, that zone right, tight end comes behind. Kittle releases into the flat on the weak side.


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[Assistant] Just the way they block it and how they attack it is special and it just exemplifies what the game was. Which was an overall, a sack, I mean an overall attack and assault.


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[Assistant] On Bill Belichick's edge of his defense, of front seven especially. And Shanahan didn't let him off the hook.


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[Assistant] He said, you don't have, you don't have the tackles. You don't have good run stoppers. I don't care how many people you put in the box. I'm coming after you. We can run the football and they have a lot of weapons and different ways to do it, which is so special. I mean, again, when you start to get into Devo Samuel, Brandon Ayuk, George Kittle. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I would sit there and go, that can challenge just about anybody in football and especially the way the 49ers want to play where they get all those guys the ball in the run game. I mean even the full back and the tight end get the ball in the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, but they also teach the running back now. Too smart. Well, they teach the running back too to read that.


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[Assistant] Now this play didn't matter because like I said, Lauren's guy kinda shoot the gap and he wasn't able to cut back so then he just kept straight and he weaved through traffic there.


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[Assistant] Yes, and that speaks to the point once again. Why does Shanahan want to do that? Because guys like Ja'Juan Bentley, they're slow.


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[Assistant] They can't stop the edge runs. You know, so Shanahan just constantly attacked


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[Assistant] The outside edge and then, oh, Bill overplayed.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm gonna set the edge and force you back inside. And then he would go right up inside the edge. Oh, you're gonna overplay it. Oh, we'll assault you this way. Oh, the edge is here. Great. You set the edge. We'll push the edge out a little farther. And now we've exposed you right inside the edge and it was just a constant attack on that all day long.


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[Assistant] Outside, inside, inside out, outside in, all of that, and they did it so many freaking different ways, it's unbelievable. Oh, it's a toss crack on the edge. Oh, it's outside zone on the edge. Oh, it's


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[Assistant] Full back lead, you know, between the tackles and the tight end, right onto the edge. Push the edge out, like that type of play. The speed sweeps.


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[Assistant] The swing routes where he'd throw the back way out and then the receivers are blocking the corners and the safeties.


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[Assistant] Kyle could have hung 55 on New England. Kyle called off the dogs in the third quarter. He was very nice.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know if Bill would have done that to Kyle, but Kyle's cool that way. And I think he has a lot of respect for Bill Belichick and he wasn't interested in like trying to embarrass him or anything there. But, New England's will


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[Assistant] That was the game. When they scored that, it was 23-3. They knew it was over, and that was it. It was good night. Yea, we'll go into halftime, we'll try to come out here and make it look like something. But they knew it was over. As a player, you know, woah, this isn't our day.


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[Assistant] And they don't, we don't match up good with these guys. And I think New England realized that about second quarter they were in deep trouble.


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[Assistant] Yes, I would. I still think they're gonna be in it. Now, I'm not sitting here gonna just lock it down and go, oh, they're in the AFC playoffs. No. I still think I see enough things to go.


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[Assistant] I think they could still be a six or a seven seed and be a pain in the butt.


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[Assistant] Again, they got young guys, cams are in the new offense. The offensive line was a mismatch for a little bit, so you got that, you let alone you can't practice. And like I've said on PFT a few times this week, when you can't go to practice and do things like that,


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[Assistant] You know, it hurts New England more than anybody. The greatest thing they have on their organization in the last 20 years is Bill Belichick and his ability to coach everybody, keep his finger on everybody, the details of this, the creative things that go through his brain, someone that gets lost when you're not in the building every day. His, some of his genius gets lost that way and I think that's hurt them, but they still have a


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[Assistant] Making it so easy on your quarterback. Everything, it's just amazing. I mean, it really is. I mean, it's just, he's, he's killing it right now. Uh, and you know, nobody, nobody tests defenses, run fits, and how you're gonna stop certain things better than, than Kyle Shanahan. He's the best in football at that.


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[Assistant] The 49ers? I don't know, that division's just so tough. Yeah, but don't count that out yet. Don't count that out. They all gotta play each other. And that Seattle defense still sucks. So, this, this, there's still a lot of work here to be done. And I don't think they're out of the division yet. Uh, and the way they're looking again,


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[Assistant] Talk about Tampa, complete team, best team in the NFC in my opinion. San Francisco ends going up on this trend here.


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[Assistant] You know, they're gonna be a complete team too. And the same thing with the Saints I'd throw in there to go watch out. Those are the teams I look out to I think can be a player in the NFC for real still. We'll see where it goes.


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[Assistant] No, no, well, he, he was, you know, it was a good, aggressive throw. It was third and, what, short, right? Or it was short yardage situation. Where the hell did I write this play? Okay, here we go, sorry.


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[Assistant] The bangles are playing a really like somewhat aggressive defense too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, four verticals. Four verticals up the field.


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[Assistant] And, hold on, let me just get to the game here. And he put the ball, you know, in a spot that was good, of course, but I do think they got a little lucky with a little push as far as


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[Assistant] When the ball was in the air, you could have called off as a pass interference. To people's drones? Definitely. Definitely. There was a definite noticeable push there altogether.


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[Assistant] I was surprised the Bengals were playing that aggressive. I really was. But I think all in all, it just speaks to the day Baker had in general. I mean, Baker really threw the ball well and aggressively. And there was no second-guessing and there was no like, you know, the Baker-Mainfield like, wait, I want to throw. He just came back and he was in rhythm and it was BAM, he let it go all day long.


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[Assistant] And really, I mean, the ball came out of his hand clean. Everything was great that way. You know, it was one of the better games he'd had this year. I will say that watching it on TV, I thought it was more impressive than I did on, than on film. And not to take anything away from it.


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[Assistant] You know, they have the run game they're allowed to rely on, and he got a lot of easy completions through the game too, where I just go, man, that guy's wide open, and again, I'm not trying to take anything away from him, but I'm just saying,


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[Assistant] It was, it was easier for him to put up those stats.


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[Assistant] As compared to Joe Burrow, I guess is what I'm trying to say. And nonetheless, it was still a really good day by Baker-Mainfield. I mean, come on, the pass he had to Njoku down the middle for the touchdown pass to...


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, in the early fourth quarter, that was a phenomenal throw. It was one of the, it's the best throwing day Baker Mayfield's had in a while, honestly, in my opinion. And I think that's the good thing they can continue to build on.


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[Assistant] Is the Bengals. He is the team. They put the whole game. It's unbelievable. The whole game is on Joe Burrow. It's just like, hey, game started. We can't run. We're not very good at pass protecting. You gotta throw for 404 touchdowns or we're not gonna be able to win today.


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[Assistant] And we still might not win if you do that. Obviously. But.