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[Assistant] We still have a lot of August. Yeah, right. A team that's decent could have a running back issue. No, I know, you're right. Someone gets hurt and all of a sudden there's a need and these sides are like several million dollars apart. Sounds like it's not even close. Yeah, it doesn't sound like it's close. So, I don't know, that one's gonna be fascinating. One that I think you believe will


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[Assistant] No, there is a massive drop. A massive drop. To the second best receiver. Right. Yeaah. I mean in terms of production. Exactly. Uhm, talent wise.


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[Assistant] This stems from the idea that he believes this idea that a cancer scare was handled


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[Assistant] Well, the big problem is, like you mentioned, they have to pay a lot of different people, they have to plan for the future, and there are other guys that maybe that they value higher, he's not a household name. Now, Ezekiel Elliott is a household name. Dallas Cowboys do have a lot of other guys, they do have to pay, obviously.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, I also think they have better quarterback, better receivers than Dallas. Yeaah. And, I don't know, I just think, uh...


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[Assistant] And I just think it's an offense that's built around him. And it's not just around that game, it's around him, around his ability to do that.


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[Assistant] The Rams think that they have McVay, and now you can plug in a quarterback who


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[Assistant] Can do what Goff does, just based on the way McVeigh calls a game.


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[Assistant] I gotta wonder also if it's not based at least partially on leadership and personality simply because of


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[Assistant] Listen, even when Dak and the Cowboys were struggling last year, there was talk of, don't worry, a deal's gonna get done. And a lot of us were kind of puzzled. Like, why would you do that right now? I think it's maybe they know something about them that we don't. Tangibles. And meanwhile, with golf, they're winning.


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[Assistant] I thought you brought up a great point though. I'm really interested in seeing, you know, Antonio Brown, he's gonna get doubled. Very clearly, alright? Is Derek Carr going to look at him and throw that football? And when he doesn't, how is Antonio Brown going to react?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you text me, like, my dad really likes the way you dress. And I'm like, yeah, haha, good talking to you. I'll talk to you later. No, you've got to call me. He wants to talk to you.


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[Assistant] No, listen, it sounds like you believe in it. I do. Yeah. I believe. Listen, you know what the key to this job is? What's that? Sincerity. Oh. And once you can fake that, you've got it made. So you're right there.


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[Assistant] Well, and listen, you have to make a decision, right? You have to sit there and say, is this a fit? Is this gonna work? And why wait? If you don't think that's the case, why wait? I understand you're a new coach, and there's this idea that like, you're coming in, you're firing people, and maybe- That's what I mean. That's why it's a very gutsy thing for him to do. But you know it's not gonna work. Yes.


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[Assistant] Just do it. Right. Get it done with. Move on. The other stuff's interesting because the running's one thing.


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[Assistant] But this, apparently they want to be a team that's accountable. They also want to be a team that's not soft. Yeah, no, they're not. And I can tell you, that's, Bryan Flores is- And they're hitting.


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[Assistant] And they're hitting a ton already. And there's quotes there from players who are like, oh, like, this is helmet on helmet, we're smashing people, and this is violent out there. And that's all well and good. Is that sustainable?


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[Assistant] What's that? Yeaah. Wouldn't you rather have that? Because here's the thing, how good are the Dolphins gonna be? Not good. They're not gonna be. I can't imagine them being very good. Expectations are low, they should be. Right. Okay? So let's say they're average or below average to start the season, right? And now you're giving extra weeks to Rosen to learn that off. Yes, right. Now when you eventually bring them in, and it makes it easier because you're not winning games at this point,


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[Assistant] Now you're like, he had the time to learn it. He can step in, and now if he's not that good, we can decide, alright, what are we doing in the draft?


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[Assistant] First year head coach, veteran quarterback, guy that people respect, start the season, I think it just makes it easier. I just, I don't know, but I still want to see, but I really do want to see Rosen. And I want to see what he can do, and I want to see for an extended.


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[Assistant] And I want to see an extended stretch of play and I want to see what he can do.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we get the flora's and a little bit of news with what he said. So, but now we're on to delusional predictions. Which by the way, I feel like your dad was on the verge of giving us a Joe Flacco delusional prediction because he likes him that much. And I get it, but it would have been great if he threw something out there.


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[Assistant] So the family Sims thinks that Joe Flacco is elite?


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[Assistant] Sometimes they tell you things that are inside their head that are personal goals that maybe they shouldn't share openly with everyone because some of them are crazy. But sometimes they're just interesting and the one we're going to start off with is more of an interesting one and it goes back to Baltimore.


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[Assistant] And it goes back to Flacco's former coach John Harbaugh saying the Ravens offense will be unlike anything we've ever seen. So we're going...


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[Assistant] With the Baltimore Ravens offense being unlike anything you've ever seen.


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[Assistant] Creativity is one thing, durability is another because you have Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] 147 carries and 7 starts last season. Okay, so now he's the starter.


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[Assistant] He comes in, it's gonna be unlike anything we've ever seen. He already said, when asked about Cam Newton's career high, 139 carries, Harbaugh said, bet thee over the season. Well, listen, obviously, it's going over.


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[Assistant] Lamar Jackson potentially leads the league in carries. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Let's just quickly end this with this. Jackson 695 rushing yards last season. QB record is just over 1000. 1039. Yep. Michael Vick.


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[Assistant] Okay, next one, delusional predictions. Amari Cooper, I think he told Florio this. Uh, 2000 yard season is what he would like to have. That's what he is chasing right here. He's a guy who wants to get paid. Right. Alright. Right. Uh, and he's a guy who fits.


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[Assistant] Dallas, I mean, we gotta go back. How many people hated that trade? Hated that trade for Dallas. And he shut a lot of people up. So, you have Amari Cooper. Let's start there. One to ten, two thousand yard season.


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[Assistant] His career eye is 1,871, which is phenomenal. It's nowhere near 3,000 yards. Okay, so let's stay with receivers. Odell Beckham Jr. wants to pass Jerry Rice's all-time receiving yards record.


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[Assistant] That's a goal, that's a lifetime goal, but you look at what Rice has done. The numbers are incredible. And then you look at the pace that Beckham's on right now. At this age, 5,476 yards at age 26, at that season, actually puts him right there at ninth


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[Assistant] In, you know, well into his thirties. And he played into his forties. Yes. Which is another thing. Right. Well, no, Beckham Jr. now, to do this would have to play easily into his forties.


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[Assistant] Perhaps close to his mid 40s. Yea, that's the big thing.


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[Assistant] Well, he's not gonna need the money. I mean, so that motivation's gone. But, alright, so Jerry Rice, 1200 yards when he was 40? It's insane. But, here's the other thing. Who threw the wall to Jerry Rice?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Steve Young, Joe Montana, Rich Gannon. So a big part of this is now for your entire career, someone who is great, really needs to be throwing in the football. And in some ways, maybe that'll work in Beckham's favor at this point, because now he is a young quarterback. So now if he stays with Cleveland,


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[Assistant] Long term. Right. They can do epic things. And this quarterback becomes who we think he can become. Now, I don't know, I think it gets interesting. I hear you. I think it gets very interesting.


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[Assistant] I don't think it matters that much, because I don't think Beckham's greatness


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[Assistant] So big time, so we have Mr. Big Chest, Mr. Big Belly is your dad, and now we have big time. Alright, so Beckham, we'll see about that. Next one, Levion Bell. Alright, so Levion Bell.


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[Assistant] Nice year off, well rested. Okay, so 500 touches. If it means we go to the Superbowl, I can see that. Listen, that seems more like I threw this out there.


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[Assistant] 381 for Zeke, I've been told. 381, right. So, I mean, would you take the over on that? Would he go over the third levion?


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[Assistant] Now a much bigger threat coming out of the backfield to receive the ball. But I don't know.


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[Assistant] Alright, sidebar to that, stay with the Jets, uh, delusional prediction or not. Adam Gase.


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[Assistant] Says this team will be playing meaningful games in late November and December. Not exactly, we're going to the Super Bowl. No. But it's still a prediction and it's the Jets. Yes. And they don't often play those meaningful games in late November and early December. I think it's just once in the last five years that they did that.


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[Assistant] Alright, last one here, and this is one I'm kind of fascinated about. This is Eric Ebron saying that he wants 17 receiving touchdowns.


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[Assistant] 13 TD last year, he had 11 receiving touchdowns in his previous four seasons with the Lions.


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[Assistant] Now, I'd also say those were highly disappointing seasons with the Lions, cause this was a guy who coming out of college, I think a lot of people, me included, I thought he was going to step right in and wreck people in the NFL. So he was disappointing. Now it's Andrew Luck and they have this connection and he is clearly the red zone guy that Andrew Luck is looking for.


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[Assistant] Now he wants to go from basically being an underwhelming player. Right. To getting 13 last year to now improving upon that and getting 17 this year. Where does that stand? 1 to 10 in terms of- I'm not gonna say-


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[Assistant] And I also think it's just, to me it was a long time coming. Yeah. Where people were like, ah, this is out of nowhere. And it was, and I get that because of the first four seasons.


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[Assistant] I still go back, I remember watching him in college. Explosive. No one could deal with him at all. So, I don't know, uh, I think there's a chance I'm not as high as you. I don't think 6. I think he's right around this number again. I think he's right around


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[Assistant] When did you know that you could beat, since we had Take Your Dad to Work Day, again, since we had Phil on, when could you beat him in sports? When, like, did you play one-on-one basketball? When did that happen? I should have asked him. Damn, we should have asked him.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's not that much football going on. It's July, so, uh, we're here to answer, hopefully, some football and let you in on the personal life and all those things.


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[Assistant] Well, I just want to let the listeners know is the fact that, you know, we're going to change the schedule going, going forward here. It's going to be a little bit of a, a few week hiatus to where we won't be back and you know, making, making a pod or doing anything like that or in the normal routine, probably to the end of July again.


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[Assistant] You know, we're gonna- We will have podcasts. We're gonna have podcasts out once a week, probably, maybe two, depending on what happens here.


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[Assistant] But haven't been back since. But that's gonna be cool. NBC of course is televising it. We're gonna have...


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[Assistant] You know, a lot of access to a lot of NFL football players and other athletes. So those are things to look for. Aaron Rodgers goes like every year. I know, I'm hoping he's there. I mean, he would be target number one. When's the last time you talked to Aaron? I've only talked to Aaron Rodgers one time in my life, uh, for about one minute.


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[Assistant] And what is like, stopping him? I mean, stopping him is probably what the Patriots did in the AFC Championship game, which was, they made him inconsistent. And...


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[Assistant] They ran a defense that no team has ever run that defense in the history of the NFL. You know, those are, that's just something special we talk about. Yeah, I mean, they, they played man to man and doubled Tyree kill every play of the game. Had one safety in the middle of the field to make you think it was a single safety defense.


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[Assistant] And they instead didn't really let him play like center field. He doubled Tyreek Hill with the underneath guy every play. And that was a scheme that was unlike any other. So I think that's some of the things you're gonna have to see. You're gonna have to throw some curve balls at Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid.


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[Assistant] I think the biggest thing for me and the teams that had success, whether it was the Chargers in the second game, the Patriots, okay, uh, even the Ravens in the regular season a little bit slowed it down to a degree. One, I still think he's at the point of his career where


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[Assistant] Make him prove he'll take the short to intermediate pass, right? He's still probably a little overly aggressive. Andy Reid caused aggressive plays, but we saw from those, especially the Chargers the second time around, they just backed people up and were like, I don't think Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes will have the patience to keep checking it down and throw the short route.


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[Assistant] And what happened is they were right. So I think that would be one thing. And then I think the other thing people are going to look at, and I know New England got into this last year, uh, is the scrambling.


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[Assistant] The scrambling and his tendencies, and the big thing is his scrambling and running to the right.


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[Assistant] When you look at the stats and you break it down that way, his plays and the things he did, if you just think back in your mind about the highlight plays from last year, you start to go, oh yea, you're right, a lot of them happened to him running to the right. And I think that's another aspect you'll see teams try to take away, at least to slow down.


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[Assistant] He left plays and yards on the field with maybe being a little inexperienced in a certain situation or maybe just relying on his arm and not having his body or his feet in the right position to hit like


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[Assistant] Oh, there's Sammy Watkins open for a 60-yard, 60-yard touchdown. Oh, and he missed them. And we go, oh, so what? You know, they'll get, they'll get another shot in a few plays with Patrick Mahomes. Or they punted it away and then the next series they go down and score. But yeah, I don't think he capitalized on all that that was there to be had. And that's what's scary about Patrick Mahomes. I mean, yeah, I mean, we could be talking about,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it'll make me think differently of Aaron Rodgers if he can't make the LaFleur system.


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[Assistant] And, you know, style of play work, certainly. You know, again, I got no like personal like...


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[Assistant] I certainly would knock them down rankings or all time rankings or whatever it may be. I don't expect that to happen.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I think it, you know, if he goes here and shows that, okay, man, he's not coachable once, you know, once again, or, you know, at least that's the perception about him with Mike McCarthy.


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[Assistant] You know, changing the offense and the way that LeFleur and Nate Hackett think, ooh, this is the game plan and Aaron Rodgers'


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[Assistant] I mean, Mike Silver came to town, the head coach addressed it, then Aaron Rodgers addressed it. They're just gonna have to discuss and what they're in the process of doing is just figuring out where that line is, okay, to where it is, to where, hey, I believe in my offense, I'm Matt LaFleur and this offense has been very successful in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And also going, okay, I know it's been successful, but so is this damn quarterback I got, and he's been playing at an MVP level for like the last nine years straight.


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[Assistant] I gotta have some give and take with him there too, because he's gonna help me in my offense and get me out of jail in some tough times where my offense might not be, you know.


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[Assistant] Because I think this is gonna be certainly an improvement from what I thought was an elementary system. Anybody that's listened to me for years with Mike McCarthy is just, yeah, it's Rogers. He was the system. It's please help us, Aaron. And if you don't, then we're in trouble. And I just look at Lafour and go,


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[Assistant] You know, I like those two or three plays I've heard you check to in practice. I'll get, you know, those are good. Those are live. If you want to change them on third and six or more.


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[Assistant] Then go ahead, it's your show. I like this play, you know why I'm calling it, but if we don't get what I've taught you, what I thought we were gonna get all week, then you go ahead and get to Aaron Rodgersville and get us out of jail and make something happen.


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[Assistant] I am, and last year was the worst year of his career, and I'm not defending last year. He's, he's gotta, he's gotta play better this year. You know, you've heard me talk about culture shock and how they change their style of play, and I don't think he adjusted to it very well. But yea, for whatever reason, and again, we're in this, you know, I fought this with my quarterback rankings and everything, we're in this like...


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[Assistant] The quarterback's the only guy on the team. You know, we win because of the quarterback and if we lost, it's because of the quarterback. And I just think that's certainly been true with Matthew Stafford who's, I mean,


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[Assistant] Other than Dama Kunsu, you can't name a defensive player that's been up in Detroit throughout his career. They certainly haven't had any special defenses, I can tell you that. Okay, yea, they had Ezekiel Anze, right, who's, you know, had really one, two years.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, when he would miss a throw, oh, if he didn't throw the ball, or he wasn't so loose with his arm, he'd complete with some of those passes. But then they don't go, when he does hit one of those, they go, a good thing he throws like that, because if he didn't throw that sidearm throw like that, he wouldn't have completed that 60 yard bomb. So you can't always take the good with the bad.


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[Assistant] But yes, now it is very popular to be able to throw with all those different angles. And I can tell you in the quarterback world, guys like me and people who are in the weeds about quarterbacks,


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[Assistant] That was the thing that jumped out to me that I loved about Matthew Stafford coming out of Georgia. I was just like, whoa, this guy's, the arm is big time. It's a special special arm.


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[Assistant] Man, you might have a tough stretch of games where you just go, I gotta play, like, you know, hey.


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[Assistant] If you were, if it was a bad year and you were a marquee player, the team was definitely more of, you know, hey, it's week 14 and we're not going to the playoffs, let's just, let's be careful with them, make sure we got them next year, right? Like, certainly that'll be the case. If you're in the midst of a playoff, you know, hunt, and it's a must-win situation, ehm, you gotta play. There's, there's no doubt about it. You know, have you got a backup quarterback who's breathing down your back?


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[Assistant] And you got an injury where you go, ooh, I mean I'm not at my best, but I can play.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, I mean, head coach, listen, I'm going with Bill Belichick. I mean, that's just, that's too obvious for me. But why? I mean, he is great. He is great. He can coach the offense and defense side of the ball. He is great at


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[Assistant] Knowing his own team's strengths and weaknesses, he is magical at picking out another team's weaknesses, maybe not even with schemes, sometimes a roster weakness where he goes, ooh.


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[Assistant] They're not very good when they have to put a fourth corner on the field. Oh, okay, well we're gonna play a whole game where all four of these corners are on the field. Like, that's the thing where he's genius. It's not always just about the exact X's and O's, but he can give you themes of a game and go,


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[Assistant] No, we have to worry about, hey, offensive staff, we gotta worry about this, and defensive staff, we gotta worry about that. You guys come up with the game plan, but these are the things that are really concerning me, and you better have something to stop that, or make that better, or whatever it may be. So that's why I would give him the advantage there. Man, offensive coordinator, hey, I'm gonna go with like,


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[Assistant] Sean Payton, I think, right off the bat. I'm just thinking of right here. You know, I'm not going too deep into the all-time vault.


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[Assistant] Uh, but Sean Payton might be there for my all-time vault too. I mean, hey.


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[Assistant] Not only all the ways he comes up with creative pass game schemes, too. I think Sean Payton, the thing he doesn't get enough credit for is his ability to coach the run game, stay consistent with the run game. You know, they've never gotten away from that in New Orleans. So, yeaah, he would be a guy that I think I would have, uh, in that conversation.


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[Assistant] That's, that's, that's where I was gonna go with, right. So if I had to do a current one right now, I got Belichick, Sean Payton, right? My defensive guy, uuuh.


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[Assistant] I mean, am I allowed to pick another defensive coach? I mean, another, I don't, I can't pick Pete Carroll, can I? Yeah. You think so? Does that work as a coordinator? Yeah. Okay, good. I guess I just did with Sean Payton, so what am I even asking myself about, you idiot? Pete Carroll.


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[Assistant] My head coach, okay? I'm going to go with Bill Walsh as the OC. Okay, I like you there.


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[Assistant] And then I think I would do, I think I might go buddy Ryan D coordinator.


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[Assistant] I might, there's some really good ones out there as far as D coordinator, defensive coaches. I mean, of course I'm thinking of some of the Steelers, uh, from the seventies, who I can't even think of there. Eighties defenses, gosh, I mean, yeaah, I think so. I mean, Buddy Ryan, that Bears defense, that Eagles defense, I'm gonna go


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[Assistant] Why does that stink? Because I hate saying that about, yes, I do. I think Bill Belichick is the greatest coach in American sports history. I don't give a damn what the sport is.


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[Assistant] All I know is in the one sport he coaches in, they've tried to make it as equal as possible for everybody and he's made it as unequal as possible for any other coach at any other time in any other sport and I think that's just amazing. That is the most amazing thing.


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[Assistant] They were stacked, there was no salary caps, they were stacked too, right, they could win, they could, they could overpay and, and have better players, period. Yep, they did.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well yeaah, I guess, you know, I guess they're just assuming that I registered and then I got that extra year to come back after that, right, and come back. Yes, I do. You know, it's hard to say it at the time because you're in it and you want to play and of course I was 19 and I thought I knew everything. I'm a grown man, dad, I want to go to Texas, I might play as a freshman.


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[Assistant] You know, and that was one of the reasons I really switched from Tennessee to Texas, because Tennessee, I knew I was going to have to redshirt, and it was really bothering me, because T. Martin was going into his senior year, and of course they had just won the national championship, so he was going to be the quarterback, and I was really like, unsettled by that.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, I think that was really the plan. It was obvious. Right, right. And then Texas, I knew there was going to be a chance they were going to let me compete with Major Applewhite from the get-go.


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[Assistant] And that was enticing to me. But yes, I wish that, I've even said this to my dad. I wish my dad would have gotten in my ear. My dad was awesome because he let me be me and make my decisions. Uh, but that was one of those where I wish he would have been like,


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[Assistant] I'm just telling you, it'll be a good thing, richer, you'll get a little older, you'll mature, you'll get smarter, and then you take over, and you'll be ready, and you know, and it's all those things, I wish you would have said that to me, but it's very hard when you're in the moment.


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[Assistant] Practice can't emulate it. Yeah, okay, yeah, we get some useful things out of practice, but unlike other positions in football or other sports in general,


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[Assistant] Quarterback is impossible to practice because they're not live.


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[Assistant] You know you're not going to get hit. Right. A lot of the times the defense is set up to do certain things to make sure the offensive play works and executes the right way. And they're the defense and practice and


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[Assistant] Uhm, gosh, there's the place, the place, the lake place, there was a place on the lake, and it's like, I want to say Jake on the lake, it was great, like, outside, have a margarita, eat some food outside on the lake with great


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[Assistant] Out in the country side, Salt Lick's the best barbecue I've ever had in my life. Really? Yes, it's about 25 minutes outside of Austin.


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[Assistant] I'm looking on Yelp right now, there is a Jake's on the lake. Is there a Jake's on Lake Austin? No?


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[Assistant] The Oasis on Lake Travis? Oh, that could be, I know that, yes, I know that, that's another great spot, okay, so that's certainly good. I was always a fan of Texas Land and Cattle, alright, that was just, it's a chain barbecue place, but a big fan of that. Yeah. There was EZs.


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[Assistant] Okay, easy's was like a fifties diner type of like feel in it.


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[Assistant] Awesome food. Okay, that was another go-to. When you would go out.


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[Assistant] They still expect you to pay. They go, hey, you can pay, right, Chris? And yes, that was, that was truly, uh, yeaah. I was expected to pay in a lot of those situations more than time. More times than not, I would let it be known before we even went out just to take the pressure off everybody. Cause I might go, hey, we're gonna go get some food. And guys like sometimes might be like,


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[Assistant] No, no, man, I gotcha. It's, it's okay because yeah, I, I recognized that I was fortunate to have money in my pocket and I had a cool mom who would like send down FedEx of like cash like behind my dad's back and be like, yeah, and like, you know, be like, hey, here's some cash for you. I thought you might like it. That's my mom's voice.


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[Assistant] Kyle Shanahan, he had just transferred from Duke. We go out one night on 6th street, right? One of our places is the drink, okay? That was our go-to spot.


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[Assistant] And he's there, he's coming from Duke, right, which is like not exactly like they love their football there, uh, as compared to their basketball. And he's an amazement of like the people in general, but we're sitting next to each other and he's like,


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[Assistant] It's like, no disrespect, but these people treat you like you're John Elway. And I was like, I know, it's crazy, right? I haven't done shit. And they were like, but yea, that was, that was part of it. It was a great experience. It was a great school.


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[Assistant] You know, Austin, they love their football so much too. If you lost, I certainly heard those people too, who are like, hey, Sims, you suck. They would yell that? Oh, definitely. Or call me a Yankee. That was a big thing that I got called a lot. There was definitely an anger by some group of people there that I was a Yankee and I was the quarterback of the team. But whatever, I didn't give a shit about those people either way.


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[Assistant] Tampa, yeah, it wasn't quite the same. Tampa loves its football team and it's a smaller city. That's true. And certainly would go into places and people would, you know, recognize you in that way too. Uh, but yeah, maybe not to the extent.


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[Assistant] You can, yeaah, and like, yeaah, you know, yeaah, in New York City.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I, I could go out to dinner with Brandon Marshall, who's, you know, of course this handsome, you know, huge, wide receiver, broad shoulders, muscles, you know, million dollar smile, all those things. Like you go out to dinner with him and I think, I see people and I think they recognize him, but they're also like, uh,


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[Assistant] They are the Browns. So what if they do get off to a slow start? I don't think they're going to implode. Like I don't think we're going to see like, oh we were expecting 8 and 8 or 9 and 7 and 10 and 6 and they went 3 and 13 or 4 and 12. Like I don't see that happening one bit. Now can I see them


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[Assistant] Okay, maybe, uh, struggling early on in the year and then maybe not quite meeting expectations and having just maybe all of a sudden they, let's just say it's titans, jets, rams, ravens, right? Let's just say they go one and three somehow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it'll be like, they're gonna have to battle and get an ugly seven and nine and eight and eight that way. But I do think they are over the implosion of, we're gonna be so freakin' bad now, we're gonna have a top five pick. No. I just think, first of all, I think a lot of Freddy Kitchens, uh, like the, you know, the fact that, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, again, I'll say this for the millionth time with Odell Beckham Jr. Cannot find a teammate, and you've never heard a teammate come out and say one bad thing about him. And anybody I've talked to here in New York- Have you talked to Eli? No, Eli probably would have some, you know, some things probably to say about him, certainly.


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[Assistant] That's, that's a good one. Simeon Rice, my next teammate of mine, I certainly think he's in that conversation too. I do. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] He was one of the best pass rushers in football for an extended period of time.


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[Assistant] You know, I look at guys like Jim Plunkett, and go, man, he's won two Super Bowls, and nobody talks about him for Hall of Fame. Okay, and Super Bowls seem to be the benchmark, and here he is with two of them, and he is never talked about, so he would be a snub that jumps out to me. Along with- ooh.


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[Assistant] Isaac Bruce of the lost of the, you know, the St. Louis Rams back in the day.


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[Assistant] You know, that's another guy where I go, the numbers are phenomenal, the player was phenomenal, and unfortunately he didn't have a big personality, so I think he gets lost in the shuffle there, and like the huge offensive numbers that have come after him at the wide receiver position I think kind of screw him over as well.


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[Assistant] First ballot, Hall of Famer. Yeah, I mean, I would sit here and say Torello is the third greatest receiver of all time. So yes, he should not have waited one second, but yeah, because of the way he acted and rubbed people the wrong way and you're going through a list of like all-time snubs and just seeing everybody jump out of it.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'll tell you another one that jumps out to me that I know. You just said it right there. You just said Richard Seymour. He'd be another guy. See, Richard Seymour...


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[Assistant] He's stuck in, I'm this huge human being, and I messed up offensive game plans for years, but there's no stat for it. So nobody can, where are the sacks? What did he do? Oh, no, no, he doesn't have any of those.


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[Assistant] You know, three, four defense ends in the history of football. He was an overpowering force and was scary. And I got to play against him once and yeah, we were mismatched there and we were worried about our matchup against him all week long because of the size and power that he had.


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[Assistant] He's a receiver I think of where I go, he'd make a hell of a safety. He's physical, he's tough as hell.


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[Assistant] He's smart, he's got ball skills, like that's a guy I'd throw out there right off my bat and just go, yeah, he's offensive, he's a receiver, so he knows he's a great athlete, but he's got a different mentality than most receivers to where that physical nature comes into where, yeah, I think he could throw his body around and hit people and do that kind of thing. He kind of jumps


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[Assistant] Okay, like guys like Ezekiel Elliott, right? Leonard Fornette.


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[Assistant] If they want, if they decided a few years ago that they wanted to play middle linebacker, I think they could've done it. You think they could've done it? I do, yea. Like if they just said it in high school, like, hey coach, I'm, forget running back.


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[Assistant] I go yeaah, their power, their, you know, their explosion, and then their willingness to deliver blows, I would look at those guys, like Miles Jack, Miles Jack, remember him from UCLA, Jacksonville Jaguars, he's a running back and then got moved over to middle linebacker, I could see that kind of be in there.


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[Assistant] Those are some good ones, you're right. Those are usually the guys, but I don't know, those are a few that jump out to me.


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[Assistant] So as you get older, it happens more and more. Hey, but look, you said it, like Lamar Jackson is a guy I look at and go, yeah, he can play receiver. Can't Cam Newton? Do I think if he didn't play quarterback and they wanted to go play defense end? How many positions could Cam Newton play?


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[Assistant] I know, he could maybe be. Defensive end. He could defensive end, tight end, maybe go to big body wide receiver like Alshon Jeffery. I think those three right off the bat I look at and go yeaah, I think he could probably have done that. Quarterback. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that was, uh, yep. Playoff game. I believe we're down 17-3.


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[Assistant] We ran, uhm, fake 14 blast bootleg left, right, and I was gonna keep it, and John Gruden had the faith in me that I was athletic enough to get to the corner. What was going through my head?


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[Assistant] I know I was concerned with him, because I was going, ooh, it's me and him for a race through the pipeline.


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[Assistant] And man, it's the playoffs, and damn, I gotta get in right here. So I was really worried that I was gonna have to have some huge collision at the goal line. And as I was running there, I'm going, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh. And thank God, Dan Benning, our pulling guard that was supposed to be out there in front of me, just got enough of him to where it pushed him, and he pushed him from the back to where


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[Assistant] He kinda had to just, he was losing his balance. He kinda had to dive before he wanted to. And when I saw him dive, I said, okay, thank God. And I said, I'm gonna jump over him.


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[Assistant] So I don't have to hit him now. And I ended up getting in the end zone and threw the ball and all that. And no, that was a special moment for me. Uh, Gruden didn't say anything special to me at that point. I mean, we were kind of down and dug ourselves in a hole. So we had some work to do. He was like, yeah, you got to keep doing more of that. Yeah. He was like, yeah, motherfucker, you better score next drive or we're not going to win.


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[Assistant] Battle Royale. Favorite game I ever played in though. That was your number one game? Number one game. Nothing like it. NFL, playoff, football. You want to talk about an energy in the stadium that you could feel? When I walked in the stadium, I knew it. Were you nervous?


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[Assistant] Going into it? Yeah, I was always nervous, but I felt like at that point of the year we had been on a good run and I had played well. It was like a good nervous. It was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm finally playing in a playoff game. Like I remember going to my dad's playoff games and here I am playing and that was


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[Assistant] Yes, definitely. I truly at times did think of that and throughout my career to where I wanted to be like, dude, you're too conscious of everything. Just shut up and listen to Gruden and worry about the defense, you know, cause I'm going,


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[Assistant] I hope my brother's at home watching me in the playoff game. You know, I hope my brother, I hope my mom, everybody's happy with the, I hope I can pull this out in the fourth quarter and make them happy and do things like that. So yeah, very conscious of that. And you know, honestly, it's very important to try to block that kind of crap out of your mind. New England last year.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes, when he went and played Sunday Night Football up in New England, I knew Patrick Mahomes was going to get off to a bad start of the game, and I would love if we could like, paste this onto our podcast or video for people to watch.


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[Assistant] I knew he was going to get off to a bad start because I knew he was not entrenched in the game. I could tell he was very aware of...


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[Assistant] Oh man, I'm on Sunday Night Football, I'm in New England, it's Belichick, it's Brady, this is big time, and you know how I knew it? Because when he got in the huddle for the first play of the game, and they have the sky cam right, he looked right at the sky cam, he was very aware that it was right there, and it was shining, and he looked at it, and then called the play. And when I saw that, I said, ooh.


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[Assistant] He's got, as I'm gonna, uh, the last samurai from, have you ever seen that? Last samurai from Tom Cruise? Too many mind. Too many mind. That's what they tell it.


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[Assistant] Stop thinking about everything else, just think about the moves, the fight, envision the fight.


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[Assistant] Like Brady, if they did the same thing to him on the first drive, where he's at in his career, he would've been like, oh, there's a camera there? Great. He would've been like, no, I've got my checks, and I gotta tell the coach this, and I gotta tell the right guard to remember this, and da da da da da.


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[Assistant] Stop that. McDonald's. That's why I never made it to the NFL. I really wanted to show you that play, but I can't see it. Okay.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the producers in my ear are saying, great, they're gonna place it in. And you're saying I'm correct there, right? Pete in the back, they're saying, yeah, Pete says thank you.


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[Assistant] Right. Gosh. I guess we're, I guess we're- Ranked through athleticism and who wins in a battle royale. Okay.


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[Assistant] Oh, so those are two different rankings maybe. Right. Alright, so athleticism?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with PaulieB1. Absolutely. And I'm gonna make you two. Okay. Yeah, you're a better athlete than Florio and my ex-podcast guy, Lefkoe, without a doubt, okay?


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[Assistant] Yes, a little bit. I taught him how to throw the football better at the Super Bowl. Okay. Wasn't bad. Wasn't bad. I don't know about the movement yet. I'm not sure about that. Looks a little gangster.


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[Assistant] A lot of people run, I don't think, but. Right. Yeah, no, I've never seen you run either. That's true. So I have no idea. Now, Battle Royale? I still think it's Paul. Uh, it might be Paul I.


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[Assistant] Really? I do a jog. You go for jogs. I do a jog. I'm the opposite.


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[Assistant] As in, as Jeff Hosteller, my dad's, uh, old backup quarterback and the quarterback who won Super Bowl 25. No, I do not. I am very happy to be Christopher David Sims. Thank you. Uh, but man.


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[Assistant] Jeff Hosteller was always great to me. Couldn't have been a better guy to me. Even when him and my dad were going through the quarterback competition in 1991. Did they get along? Yeaah, they did.


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[Assistant] And he always treated me well when he was in the locker room and went out of his way. And I've even heard stories of like him, you know, he was really concerned when I lost my explain. I heard he had called people in the NFL, like checking it check, checking up on me and all that. Have I ever told you my house seller story? The cleats? I haven't told you that. Well, for those, uh,


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[Assistant] So Jeff Hosteller, when he was competing with my dad, uh, in the off-season one time, my dad had to go down and get some rehab or something like that. I'm in the, it's, it's off-season. Nobody's there, right? Except for the trainers and my dad.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, it's after school, I bring my homework, I'm really laying on the floor of the locker room doing my homework, and nobody's around. And I start to have some bad thoughts. I go, man, Jeff Hosteller's stealing my job, my dad's job. I'm gonna do something to Jeff Hosteller's stuff. Okay?


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[Assistant] So I said, okay, I'm going to do this. And what did I do? I got a bottle of shaving cream and I filled his cleats with shaving cream. I know. Thinking I was like, I'm getting them. So yes, I've told this story before publicly. This is not the first time. Yeah. Yeah. In one of those moments where I thought I was being a good son loyal to my dad. How old were you? I was like 11.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. I don't know what happened. I'm guessing he thought somebody else did it to him as a practical joke. It's not like I was there. You told your dad you did it? Ever? I did. I told him, but not like directly after. I don't know if I told him like 20 years later or like maybe a few days later or a few weeks later.


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[Assistant] Professional, at the professional level, where in college, high school, I feel like it was more cutthroat competition, like, oh, I'm not gonna teach him anything, screw him, let him screw up. The NFL, I don't feel like that's the attitude, I never did, and I can't tell you how many actually young players came up to me, even in my career, to go,


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[Assistant] You're confident in your abilities, you have this secureness about you that way, and you really realize it's about you, right? You always hear that. You know, hey, I can't worry about what you're gonna do. I just gotta be the best me.


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[Assistant] And see if I can capitalize on being the best version of me. And then if I am the best version of me, let's hope everything takes care of itself from there. And I think that's more the approach in the NFL.


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[Assistant] You know, young guy, yeaah, you know he's there to steal your job and take your job. You're gonna work hard. You're still gonna work hard and do everything you gotta do to be your best be, but you're also like, realistic enough to go, this kid's a good kid, he's working hard here too.


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[Assistant] I want my little boy to be a baseball player. I mean, I tell them that right now. Just play baseball. You know, it's, it's, uh, I love football and I already can tell he wants to play football more than anything.


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[Assistant] You're not going to let him play football? I am. I'm going to let him. He wants to play this year. This is like he's going into third grade. He wants to play tackle football this year. And do they have that? They do. Yeah. Third and fourth starts. And then, yeah, I know, right? I know. I know. I mean, it looks like, you know, the pads, I don't even know how they'll fit them really, but, but, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, just, you know, again, football is awesome. You know, I love football. I live it. I do, you know, I'm obsessed with it, but gosh, baseball. Your wife is okay. She's okay with it. Yeah, she's okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so right, she's scared, but she always goes, oh, this is your department, and you, you know, if you think he can play, then he'll play, whatever, and she just kind of goes along with it. Uhm, but yeah, baseball, I just look at it and go, gosh, it's...


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[Assistant] Baseball, you can control your own power too. You can be on a shit team in baseball and still be considered, ooh, this is one of the best players in the sport. And football, as you've heard me say many a times,


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[Assistant] You could be one of the best players in the sport and the public have no idea because there's no numbers and stats to justify it or the wins to justify it either. You get dragged down because it's the ultimate team sport. And of course there's the physical nature and the safety and all that too. So yeaah, I look at that as a father go.


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[Assistant] Gosh, I hope he plays baseball, but it doesn't seem like it's going that way. Yeah. And your daughter? My daughter wants nothing to do with sports. She wants to be a farmer and ride horses. Oh, really? That's all she cares about. Okay. Yeah. That's cool.


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[Assistant] Either with animals or environment wise. I mean that's just where my passions are I feel like. Something whether it's


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[Assistant] You know, helping the earth, the environment, how we can live better or change some of the bad things we have in our culture that are hurting the earth. I would do want to do something like that or something along those lines with animals too. I'm just, I kind of have passions for them. I'm a huge animal lover.


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[Assistant] Have a lot of animals that we own as is, but yeah, yeah, we try to want to do that, you know, the endangered species or, or things like that, try to protect them or spread knowledge about it or, you know.


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[Assistant] I have two dogs, four chickens, and four cats. You have four chickens? Four chickens.


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[Assistant] She was pretty in the face, okay, but she, that's where I got my size and that's where my dad got his size from. Uh, she was like a big Irish, you know, farm hand that way, but he's got a lot of good stories about Grandma Sims doing stuff like that.


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[Assistant] We have, uh, you know, eggs, right. Eggs and, and, and I don't eat eggs. Now the rest of my family does. Yeah, I'm not a egg guy, okay. But yeah, eggs, give them to, you know, family members, do things like that. That's really the big thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're a little bit more social than you think. And we let them free range. Like these ones we have right now are young. But when they get to adults, we let them free range and they'll eat anything. I mean like whatever you don't eat for your dinner, you can throw it in the yard to the chickens and they will go to town on it.


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[Assistant] First one I'll throw out there is the Seattle Seahawks. Okay? To me it's a great setting. It is the loudest stadium in football for my money.


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[Assistant] The way the setting is, you know, set there at the bottom of the city. You can see the skyline of the city when you're on the field. It's just cool. And it's like a modern, cool looking stadium to go along with it. So that would be up there towards me, uh, towards the list. Man, hey dude.


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[Assistant] Get a ticket and go see the New England Patriots in New England. That's, that's a special thing too.


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[Assistant] You know, Lambeau field part two. We're going to be talking about that in history going, this is where Brady and Belichick played. This is a special stadium. Yeah. And the Boston fans and New England fans are amazing and it is a great home field advantage there. And of course, yeah, their fans are cocky, but still it's, it's worth the price of admission to me and it's a great,


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[Assistant] Patriot Place, what Mr. Krafft has set up. Not only the stadium is amazing, but, you know, the strip mall he has that's connected to the stadium and all that. It's really a cool setting, I think. So that would be up there for me. Soldier Field. There's so many good ones. There is. I love Soldier Field though. You do. I do. I haven't been to Jerry's World.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's nice and clean and new, but you're right, it doesn't seem like it's got a culture to it yet or anything. I feel like MetLife? MetLife? I agree. You know me, I'm a Giants fan all the way.


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[Assistant] None of my Giants friends, friends like MetLife. None of them. All of them are always like, ah, the old Giants stadium was way better. I think that's been, they've received this kind of a dud up here in the New York area. Not that it's like, horrible stadium, but it's just nothing special. I think the Denver Broncos,


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, their stadium? Yeah. Mile high there, and I know it's something else now, I can't think of it. Yes, that's a great fan base, it's...


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[Assistant] Again, the setting is the mountains, like, right in the background, so that's pretty cool. Houston, Reliant, I think that's a cool one. Yeaah, it's a big, awesome indoor facility, yes it is, and it's grass-field, that's with the retractable roof, it's pretty good.


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[Assistant] Pittsburgh is up there, definitely. Not a whole lot of personalities. Minnesota's new stadiums, off the chain.


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[Assistant] And I really gotta say Philadelphia because everybody needs to experience Philadelphia Eagles fans once in their life.


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[Assistant] That's a special group. There's a reason there's a courthouse down in the basement. Uh, cause they, they are. They're crazy in a good way, but they support the team.


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[Assistant] Tampa Stadium's pretty cool. It is. I mean, I wouldn't put it towards the top, but the ship's cool. I mean, just bring your sunblock, cause you're gonna melt, okay? The Raiders, that stadium stinks. If it weren't the aura of the black hole and their cool fan base, I mean, the stadium itself, you walk in, you just go, well, this is a crap hole.


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[Assistant] There's no exact science to how you should hold it. The first thing is just hold it to where you feel comfortable, okay? And I, yeah, I mean I don't want you to be comfortable and like then you have no hands on the laces or something like that. Yeah. That's not gonna work for, if you're trying to get some results.


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[Assistant] I am a two and five guy, okay? Man, I need to cut my nails. I am a two and five guy, so that's how I grip the football for anybody out there. This, the ring finger there with my ring on it goes in the two slot, right?


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[Assistant] So there's my two, and then here's my five, right? So that's how I grip it. I would suggest for anybody with normal size hands to just go up one ranking for everybody. Go either to the first slot, one,


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[Assistant] And four, or maybe even one and three, depending on that normal size hand. But I would tell most people that would be the way to do it. One and four, you certainly can do it.


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[Assistant] That's kind of how Tom Brady holds the ball and John Elway threw the ball like that a little bit at one point of his career too. So you could do that if you have a normal size hand like we're saying or some what is really in vogue right now with some of the new quarterbacks is to have it on one.


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[Assistant] And then have the pinky finger underneath the lace a little bit, like underneath four. Which I don't understand how anybody throws like that.


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[Assistant] But that's a little bit like how Kyler Murray and some of these new quarterbacks with smaller hands are gripping the football. And man, the results speak for themselves. They can spin it and throw it still. But I would say that would be my suggestion. Small hands, average size hands, work your way up.


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[Assistant] I had tinkered with it in my career. I was normally a two and five guy, but I went through some periods where I felt like I was one and four. Okay. And I felt like I even went through a period. This was a short one where I went three and six and really grabbed the fat part of the football.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I felt like I had great control, but not necessarily all the power I wanted. That's how Brett Favre grabbed it, three and six, and that's really rare, but Brett Favre's hands were gigantic.


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[Assistant] Alright, well spread your hands out. Try to do like another like, do a two and four. See if you can do that. Like nope. Like there and there. How does that feel to you when you do that? Terrible. Terrible.


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[Assistant] Like the Aaron Rodgers. Whenever he's on, I watch, oh Aaron Rodgers. And I have Deshaun Watson. You haven't heard that. Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] He wants another one. Okay, I mean, I probably should think of something for like, Brady maybe, okay? I mean, I think he's justified that. You know, as you can tell, I've gone with some of the younger guys there. Gosh, Brady could use one.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and yeah, Josh Allen could be a guy too. I just gotta have it, like, Mahomes came just out of thin air. So, so, I, I, my, my buddy was like a big deal when I was growing up, and it was Mahomey, and I was like, I don't know, I just started humming it one day, and I went with it. And then you know what came after my buddy.


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[Assistant] Kids sister. Kids sister. Wherever she goes. I go. Kids sister. Yep. So yeah, I'll think of something though. I'll have one. Just give me some, I need some time to get away from football and just be stupid in my brain for a few weeks. And I'll come up with something stupid.


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[Assistant] Well, I embraced it before that and then I think I was at an age there in college in my young years where, you know, I let, you know, I wanted to be cool and the peer pressure probably I was probably like, I can't wear a top button even though I kind of wanted to, but. You had to conform. I had to conform and then I finally


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[Assistant] I'm not a beer drinker. I'm not a beer drinker. Landshark. You ever heard of that? The Jimmy Buffett? I mean it's light and easy. And then another one that I do like when I see it.


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[Assistant] No, I just feel like the spoon will be used more useful. I mean, it might be tough in some situations, certainly, but at the end of the day, you'll be able to, like, you're not gonna drink and get much soup at all with a fork. Now, would you eat steak?


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[Assistant] You can still scoop it up in there. It could work. You're gonna have to cut it into pieces


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[Assistant] It's a spoon food. All the way for me. You can work it as a- I do rice and beans every day, like usually, and I do a spoon with it.


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[Assistant] Yes, so I walk around with Bran Flake cereal when I get done with PFT. That and my uh, Organe protein shake usually. But no, cereal is a cereal.


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[Assistant] The veggie bowl guy. I'm a veggie three-pointer, really. What's the veggie bowl? The veggie, you know, you go to Chipotle and you ask for a bowl to go, right? Yep. And they just kind of give you that, you know, uh. The tin on top. The tin on top of the, the reused recyclable paper or whatever. Right. Uhm, I usually get three scoops of white rice.


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[Assistant] They'll skip over it. They'll skip over it. The rice, if you ask for like, you know, like, can I have extra rice? They act like it's their rice patties in the back sometimes. And I'm like, relax, like, I'll pay for it. I'm starving and I'm not gonna eat the meat over there, so fill me up with some rice. And I have to say that a lot of the times, like, I'll pay extra, just give me more.


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[Assistant] So you go, so your order then is the white rice or? White, I go white rice. Yes, I've been going white rice. I've been going white rice. I was brown rice for a long time. I switched to white with black beans. Black beans.


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[Assistant] Maybe a little hot, you know, a little of their spicy sauce every now and then.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like this guy. Beans not beef. Chips and guac at the end of it or no? No, usually not. I usually, you know, if you fill that thing up with enough rice and beans, I mean, that's


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[Assistant] Alright, so they're 88 pounds, I'm 230 roughly. I really range from about 227 to 232, given on how much food I've eaten in a week. That's kind of my range. Right.


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[Assistant] I've seen, you know, my little girl just turned 13, so I'm very familiar with what 12 year old boys look like. They have no muscle or thickness to them at this point. They are wirey. They're more wirey than anything. And even when I've like messed around with those kind of like, you know, pushed against them, I'm like, man, it's like nothing there. It's like paper.


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[Assistant] Eight and under, I feel like I'm okay. Eight or less, is that crazy? I feel like I could like, if eight 12 year olds came at me, I feel like I could eliminate two of them before we even get going. Like I'm just gonna throw the right and the left and be like, okay, it's down to six.


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[Assistant] I know, well we still haven't gotten to hang out. We're hanging out in this month though. I got time off, we're gonna get together, I'm gonna pollute your brain with lots of stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I want to give a shout out there. I mean, that's the Mike Florio, first of all, is amazing and Pro Football Talk. What he created is really, it's a special website. It's the one and only. I mean, and for me, and I know a lot of people in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Even whether they like or dislike Mike Florio, they like pro football talk a lot. It was an unbelievable invention of him and it gives you just great knowledge of everything that's going on around the NFL. So kudos to Mike and PFT and NBC.


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[Assistant] PFT live, this will be, uh, we're on a sabbatical, but we'll restart there, July 29th, you know, right there is the start of training camp, so we have stuff to talk about, and then Mike's got his PFT PM podcast too. Everybody's gotta tune in and watch that.


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[Assistant] Mike's as smart as they get in football and diving in deep into certain subjects. He will break them down and make you think about things you never thought of.


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[Assistant] But not that athletic though. We don't know. We just don't know. No, definitely not. I know, he's not that athletic.


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[Assistant] Chris, awesome. You the man. As always. Peace. Everybody have a good July 4th. See ya.


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[Assistant] He is a wrecking ball, uh, you know, in a china shop, or whatever they say, right? Isn't that how they say that? Right? No. Like, it's not how they say it.


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[Assistant] Oh, tomato, tomato, wrecking ball in a china shop. You wouldn't want it. Bowl in a china shop. You got the freaking point, okay? You know what I meant, it was gonna be a disaster.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, oh, Liam, Liam loves, he, he, he's like Florian and he loves the pick apart cause they're very intelligent people. I do not claim to be very intelligent and I certainly with my English language would be all over the place. You take liberties with it. Right, right.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean the fact that we got Patriots Steelers on Sunday night is awesome too. Uhm, but today we got a good one. We got, hey, have you rated and reviewed the podcast?


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[Assistant] Uh, Ahmed is gonna, he's gonna read off questions. And we also are gonna go through the divisions today. We are going to do my playoff picks, my Super Bowl pick. I'm gonna give a little logic to each division, how I see it breaking down. I really spent a lot of time over this the last few weeks. And then Sunday morning,


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[Assistant] Really sat down and for the better part of like four, four and a half hours is when I was like, okay, I'm really going to sit here and try to play this out in my brain. I feel like I have the answer key. So that's coming here in a little bit. It's the answer.


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[Assistant] Like last year I said the Chargers were going to be a major player in the AFC. The year before that, I know I had the Saints making the big run again to go, the Saints, watch out for them. This is not like Drew Brees. So those are the ones I take pride in. I got a few gems in there this year.


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[Assistant] I'll say that. And I got four total newcomers to the playoffs. I love that. Overall. So we'll break that down and kinda see how it plays out.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, really smart. I think that's the first thing I look at it with like the Cowboys and looking at it through their lens. So listen, am I on the Jones family about I want them to pay Ezekiel Elliott? I certainly am. But the Jones family has shown one thing. First off, they have a great eye for talent.


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[Assistant] Second thing is they realize that what wins football games is upfront battles, offense and defensive line. They've taken great pride in strengthening that part of their roster and staying ahead of the curve, Ahmed, as far as keeping those core guys together.


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, Travis Frederick, Zach Martin, Tyrone Smith, Lyle Collins, these are all first round talent type guys. Lyle Collins had the unfortunate draft day incident where he got like accused of a double murder out of nowhere, okay? He was obviously not guilty or nothing happened.


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[Assistant] That was the disaster where most people valued him as a first round pick. What they're doing to me now, Lyle Collins, like we just said, a guy that goes undrafted now, okay, they're getting out in front of these contracts, which I think is the brilliance here because yeah, he gets a five year contract. It's a total of six years because this year counts to where two, three years from now,


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[Assistant] And one of the most important areas of their team, part of their area of the team that is, of course, one of the most dominant in all of football. And that's where I like the move overall. And I don't think this affects Dak Prescott or Ezekiel Elliott one bit.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think these are all things just planning forward and you get a guy who hasn't had any, made any serious money and you get them for the log. You dangle out some money in front of them and go, oh, you haven't made any. Here's some insurance for yourself so you don't get hurt. Here's a nice little payday. Might not be totally what you want, but it's still pretty damn good and hard to say no. And that's where I give the Cowboys credit.


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[Assistant] Here's two guys over here we knew there was going to be some negotiating with and we're just going to have to finagle and figure out things about the salary cap as far as, you know, what about money each year to make it all work and be cohesive that way. But I think all in all, no, I don't think it's going to affect. And again, come on.


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[Assistant] I would have told you five days ago, I was like, ooh, it doesn't look good for week one. From everything I've heard, not only just from media reports, but a few people I know close to the situation, they think that this is going to get done here in the next 48 hours. So I think we're going to see Zika Aliya in week one against the Giants, maybe not to a full 100%.


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[Assistant] You know, full steam ahead but still out there and certainly a threat.


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[Assistant] Genevieve and Connie had all the power here. I mean, the Texans, they're looking like they're looking to win right now. They need players right now. They've realized they have the Sean Watson on his rookie quarterback contract. He's not taking up $35 million a year, like you're saying, where you got to start thinking about how to orchestrate your roster now because you're paying a big chunk of change that way. Uhm, so,


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[Assistant] Again, I don't think they were going to get nearly the value in the trade as far as the value for the player overall. Okay?


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[Assistant] Willing to sit out, at least willing to sit out an extended period of time to where maybe, yes, he came back to make sure the year counted as a credited year, right? Uh, and to where then maybe if he had to get in a tough situation next year, he could find another way to do it, whatever, either way.


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[Assistant] Either way, they did not like that. Okay, so they wanted to get him off the books.


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[Assistant] Change the subject, not have a distraction. They got a few guys that play that position in general, a Barcavius Mingo, right? Who can play that? They got another linebacker in the trade as well. Okay, but I think the big thing is the third round pick is where they looked at it generally and said, okay.


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[Assistant] But the big, the big thing more importantly to what the value of the Houston Texans to me is really with the Seattle Seahawks. Sure. Because the Seattle Seahawks, and I just want anybody that's listened to my podcast, whether I, when I was a Bleacher reporter now,


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[Assistant] Jadevion Cotney is one of the best defensive players in football. His sacks and tackles are never gonna say it. That's just not the kind of guy he is. He's not like a legit 12, 15 sacks a year type guy.


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[Assistant] I would tell you the last three years is probably towards the top of football as far as


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[Assistant] Now we can, oh, are they the best front seven in football? I mean, that's where they went. They went to, ooh, they're really good too. Ooh, maybe it's the best. When you talk about him, Ezekiel Anza, LJ Collier at the end of the first round, who hasn't played yet, but is about to be healthy and ready to go here. Okay. Jaron Reed who has a six game suspension.


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[Assistant] Who's one of the best interior D tackles in football. Puna Ford in the middle is a hell of a player out of Texas. And then you talk about Bobby Wagner, KJ Wright, and Michael Kendricks to go with it. I go, ooh, watch out for that team. But the Seahawks are very much back to the formula that got them to Super Bowls. Waves of pass rushers. Oh, oh gosh.


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[Assistant] The second group's in, oh, I can take a breather. No. Oh, no, no. The second group's in and they're like as good as most first team starting defense alliance. And that's where it's special to me.


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[Assistant] I'm not as worried about the Texans getting jobbed on this trade.


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[Assistant] As I am for what they gave up for the next trade to the Miami Dolphins, to me that was the one where I scratched my head and said, whoa, that's like, they just paid like superstar compensation for guys that are good, but not


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[Assistant] Yeah, I definitely do. Plus I do think it's probably a little rich to pay two first round picks and a third round pick to the Miami Dolphins for, you know, for Laramie Tunzel who


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[Assistant] He has potential to be that, like, franchise-left tackle, okay? But he hasn't lived up to, like, his top ten tick-pick billing yet. I'm not gonna put him in the, oh, he's one of the five best tackles in football conversation. No, he's not.


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[Assistant] He's somewhere between 6 and 14. I think if you ask some coaches around the NFL, that's where he is. So that's still really good. He's still really young. He's got all the attributes to be that, that franchise guy. And I don't think Miami wanted to part ways with him either. I don't, I think they want, they wouldn't, well, he's one of the few guys on our team that's good that we want to keep.


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[Assistant] But when they said, whoa, two first rounders and a third round, that's like Khalil Mack shit. And I think that's when the Miami Dolphins were like, fine, let's do that. Let alone, okay, they got rid of guy Kenny Stills, who has value.


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[Assistant] We're not doing anything this year. We're not good. Now they have picks and draft picks to really make some big moves next year in the draft that they want to, like to get a quarterback or anything like that. They're going to be in prime position to do whatever they want.


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[Assistant] But yes, I mean, for me, for the Houston Texans, who I know are evaluating themselves going, we're in the Super Bowl window. They think they're in the Super Bowl window, and I get that. And they filled two big needs with Tunzel.


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[Assistant] You know, skill set as far as a deep guy who can beat you deep over the top and Deshaun Watson can throw bombs at him and then Hopkins can do everything underneath. That should work well. Uhm, and they needed the tackle. They did. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] But, uh, overall, yeaah, it was a crazy weekend, and, not a, like, I'm not a huge fan of what the Texans did as far as their compensation, but I'm not gonna sit here and go, it was a D, or an F, what they did. They filled roles on their team, they made themselves better, and they got something out of a situation where,


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[Assistant] Peter King podcast, gotta do a read. Season preview, spectacular on Wednesday, okay? He's got his playoff predictions out, so you'll hear about that a little bit on the Wednesday podcast. Plus this week, Drew Brees, Freddie Kitchens, and Juju Smith-Schuster.


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[Assistant] Download, subscribe, you know where to find it. Come on, if you're listening to a podcast, you know how to download other podcasts. The Peter King podcast, I do suggest that one.


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[Assistant] Yes, here is the season, the future, the teller, the oracle is here.


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[Assistant] We're giving it all away for free. And just a spoiler for our camera guy, Johnny McDonald, okay? Giants aren't making it into my playoff picture, okay? So just get over it right now. He's got a grin on his face, I just wanted to wipe that grin off. And he's leaving, he just left the bill and he's out of here, he just quit.


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[Assistant] There's nothing really not to like about the team. Okay. Uh, plus they have a, uh, you know, the first week is tough, but a favorable early season schedule. I do look at this, um,


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[Assistant] It's Browns, it's Ravens, it's at the Eagles, it's the Cowboys, it's at the Texans, and it's the Kansas City Chiefs. Wow. That's pretty real, right? Yep. That could be the stretch where I just look at it and go, that could be the difference between them being a one seed or maybe a two or a three seed. But more times than not, that time of the year, New England's rolling in all cylinders. They win the AFC East. Here's my thing. Yep. I like the Jets and Bills a lot.


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[Assistant] I, I, I kind of thought, ooh, I might pick the Jets and Bills to go to the playoffs. When it came down to it, I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. There's too many unproven commodities. I think both organizations are going in the right direction. I certainly do. We're not gonna waste our time talking about the Dolphins. We know they're in rebuild mode.


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[Assistant] I think the Bills and the Jets are gonna be a pain in the butt for a lot of people. I think they're gonna be in the playoff conversation come week 15, 16. I still think they will. I think there's a lot of good coaches and good players on both those rosters. Ultimately, here's my big thing to take away with the Jets.


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[Assistant] Their first, the start of their schedule is just brutal, okay? I think they're gonna fall into too deep of a hole early on to work themselves out of it. Okay, Bills, I know, okay, Bills are good. They're at least as good as the Jets. Okay, the Browns, at the Patriots, at the Eagles, Cowboys, at the Patriots again, and then at the Jaguars. Right, so I look at that and go,


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[Assistant] I don't think they're going to survive that stretch enough to put themselves in the spot later on. So that was my biggest reason. And the, the bills, a little bit, uh, of the same type of thing. Again, these are unproven commodities with young quarterbacks going in the right direction. I just got to see it a little bit to believe it. And the bills I thought had a really tough end of the season schedule, I think will ultimately knock them out. But either way, I think they're pains in the butt, but I just go with Patriots and the AFC East.


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[Assistant] You could see he could catch the ball coming out of Georgia. He just wasn't afforded a lot of opportunities. And then...


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[Assistant] You know, last year kind of the same thing. I mean, really Sony Michelle didn't start hitting on all cylinders until late in the year last year. He was kind of dinged up, battled with some injuries and then finished really strong. But when you keep a guy like him on the field, again, with New England, who's amazing at doing personnel sets and formations and everything like that, you know, of the late it's been,


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[Assistant] You know, here's our runni the bell cow. Oh, jam passing situations and d play to their hand of tha to do that. They can reall up in the past game. You can be a shotgun guy t and you go, oh, I thought get in a power formation Oh, no, both tight ends spl


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[Assistant] Oh, well, that's not even close for me. John is the guy I go with all the way. Okay. I like Jim. All right. Jim's a good coach. I don't like Jim. I actually dislike Jim. Okay. The person, I do not like Jim Harbaugh. I root against Michigan every week. Okay.


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[Assistant] I'm able to differentiate. He's a very good football coach. Is he overrated Jim Harbaugh? Of course he is. We talk about him like he's Urban Meyer and Nick Saban. I want to go, what negative ghost rider? The pattern is really full and you're not in the pattern, okay?


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[Assistant] Jim is a phenomenal football coach, uh, John, excuse me, and I think John's one of the best head coaches in all of football.


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[Assistant] And like I told you, I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few weeks. I've gone Browns in the playoffs, Browns out of the playoffs, Ravens in the playoffs, Ravens out of the playoffs. But I think I really got into just


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[Assistant] Roster, okay, and schedule. I got the Ravens going to the playoffs. I'm not going to give them any, should I give away how I'm ranking them? Okay. Uh, as we go.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, I think one thing, again, I'm big on early season schedule. Okay, the Baltimore Ravens early season schedule is the two worst teams in football. All right. It's the Dolphins and Cardinals. If they're not 2-0, then they've really messed something up. Their defense is still top notch. I think they have one of the best secondaries in football, one of the best front sevens in football. O-line is top notch.


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[Assistant] The ravens for me are, yes, a playoff caliber football team.


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[Assistant] Very all close or have the same record is gonna come down as tiebreakers. The AFC is a tough year to pick it, to pick this year. But either way, ultimately what I come down to, and I'll talk a little bit more about the other teams who I left out and why, the Browns roster is too talented. The addition of Steve Wilkes on defense I think is an improvement.


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[Assistant] Sheldon Richardson and Olivier Vernon on the defensive line is legit, okay? And then the offense, the only question there is at all.


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[Assistant] Is maybe at the right guard position. Other than that, they are pretty damn stout across the board. Again, I think they lose some games here or there. They might lose their way, might be some ups and downs, but I just think ultimately the quarterback, the talent on the team, the system on both sides of the ball is too good and I think the Browns barely get in.


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[Assistant] Playoff team, like they barely get in cause they, they get to end the season with bangles, cardinals, ravens, bangles, and they win like three to the last four to get in on some tiebreaker over somebody. That's kinda how I envisioned it all playing out.


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[Assistant] I'm going three. I am. I'm going three. I got the Steelers winning the AFC North. Now, hey, the one thing that really scares me, and again, I think Pittsburgh's on a mission. I do. I really, I think the first off, their team is phenomenal.


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[Assistant] Again, one of the better offense and defense alliance in all of football on both sides. Devin Bush is going to be the savior of that defense overall. I think they've shirred up their secondary. Hey, missing Antonio and Le'Veon Bell. Hey, they missed Le'Veon last year. They were still pretty damn good in the run game. I know James Connor's not Le'Veon Bell.


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[Assistant] But I just think the Steelers are refocused, no distractions. And you've heard me say this, they're still one of the most big- biggest physical teams in all of football. Let alone they have a quarterback that can dice you up in the pass game. This is where I get scared with the Steelers though. It's really about the first six weeks of the season. Patriots, Seahawks.


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[Assistant] You know, that'll be the big stretch for me. Where if they can go four and two, or not just be three and three or two and four, I think they're really gonna set themselves up to win that division ultimately. That's, that's interesting. I mean, that's a lot of talent.


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[Assistant] So that means we're gonna have a Steelers-Browns wild card game matchup, just so you know, right now. So we've got a Steelers-Browns wild card, right to start, right to start it all.


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[Assistant] No, I don't. I think if you made me pick, I'd pick the Tennessee Titans to be last. But that division is so close. Again, this is where the winner of this division might be 10 and 6, and there might be two teams, there might be a 9 and 7, an 8 and 8, and a 7 and 9. I mean, it could really be that way.


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[Assistant] It's a big question, okay? Uhm, the playoffs generally have at least four new teams every year if you look at the history of the NFL playoffs, alright? I got three new teams coming in the AFC, alright?


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[Assistant] The defense is certainly one of the three best in football. And now they just got a guy like Josh Allen, a top 10 pick who's just shown that he's a freak of nature. Okay, the Titans, I told you about them, I'll get them out of the way. I think Titans are good, a pain in the butt.


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[Assistant] Okay, that, you know, what is the identity of the Titans? I don't know. They're kind of one of those teams where they go, oh, there's a lot of good, but there's nothing they do great or no one great unit or anything like that. So that's why I say no there. Okay?


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[Assistant] That Indianapolis Colts really like the football team. I like Jacoby Percet. Again, I'm not having them go to the playoffs. I don't think they're gonna like fall off the planet. I think they're being very much in the conversation. They were a playoff team with Andrew Luck. They were definitely gonna be in the playoffs with Andrew Luck. And now without him they're not. I gotta see it. And it comes down to like some of this is a little bit of


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[Assistant] I go, damn, I, you heard me say, Andrew Luck is worth two wins a year to me because of his clutch factor and what he can do late in the fourth quarter. He's been as good as anybody in football since he's come into the league. I got to see Jacobi Percedo do that before I, you know, so, so I think


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[Assistant] You know, and your luck makes them 10 and 6. Without them, I think they're an 8 and 8 football team. I got them on the outside. I hope Jacoby Percet can prove me wrong, but right now I'm not picking them to go to the playoffs sometime.


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[Assistant] Okay, so there's a few things. Still not sold on the O-line, even though they improved it, that's good. Okay. Alright. You know, hey, Kenny Stills being there is gonna help, but I am a little bit worried of like, it's Deandre Hopkins, Deandre Hopkins, Deandre Hopkins, alright? They are a little bit of a one-trick pony in the pass game too much. And, if I was gonna knock anything with Deshaun Watson,


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[Assistant] And it reared its ugly head once again in the preseason. He will not get off the first read.


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[Assistant] Every play is the last play of the game. Every play. And it's, it bothers me a little. He's really gonna clean that up. And when I say last play of the game, I mean, every play is, look at DeAndre Hopkins, he's out there, oh, let me scramble around, it's a jailbreak, let me make a play.


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[Assistant] And he makes a play more times than not. That's great, but that shit ain't gonna happen against the good teams in like late December or the AFC playoffs or anything like that. Some of those teams that are close to them, whatever it may be, it just scares me. No Judevion County on that side of the ball, okay?


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[Assistant] Whitney Merciless was not the same guy last year. They lose Kareem Jackson. They lose Honey Badger. Okay, they lose Lamar Miller. Those are big losses to me. To wear the Texans, I still think they're a pain in the butt. I just think they just missed this year and don't make it.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think that'll happen. Maybe if this contract didn't just happen, okay, but the fact that they gave Jacoby Percett two years, 30 million. I mean, this year he's the guy. There's nothing he can do to mess it up. Nothing. Chad Kelly's been phenomenal. One of the best quarterbacks of everybody in the preseason. He tore it up. Now he's suspended for the first two games.


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[Assistant] They got Brian Hoyer to be the backup, okay? One, because Chad Kelly is a little bit of a knucklehead, so you don't want to make him your backup. Off-field stuff has shown that. Two, he hasn't played a lot, and the Colts look at them and look at themselves and go, we're a playoff slash Super Bowl team. We don't want to trust the Chad Kelly who hasn't played a down in regular season football yet. I understand that.


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[Assistant] Let me just say this too, the last thing with Brian Hoyer. It's a one year deal.


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[Assistant] I know it says three years, 12 million. It's nine million guaranteed.


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[Assistant] Sure. I mean, three years might as well be a decade in the NFL. This is where I'm excited for the Raiders. The offensive talent is through the roofs. Through the roof. Or multiple roofs. If you have multiple roofs, then yeaah. It's through all the roofs.


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[Assistant] I mean, it takes no, you know, dummy to figure it out. I mean, if I say the names to you, like Tyrell Williams and Tony O'Brown, J.J. Nelson, Josh Jacobs, you go, oh, damn, that sounds pretty good. Oh, Trent Brown's at one tackle, you know.


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[Assistant] I know, it's, it's hard. You know, I tried to find those teams where I just, ooh, I'm not sure. Okay, I'm a little bit of the belief of if you stay the same, you got worse. Okay, it's the NFL. It's, you gotta get better every off season and you gotta do something to improve your team. So, I do think the Chiefs improved their football team, first off.


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[Assistant] Tyree Kill being there is huge, we know that. Uhm, McCole Hardman at receiver.


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[Assistant] I just would be shocked along with Travis Kelsey and their O-line that their offense isn't every bit as good as last year, if not better. Defense I think is better as well. Uh, I think the scheme they're gonna play, Spagnolo,


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[Assistant] The way the players they built there, they're gonna go a little more size oriented, be a little more physical up front, not so wide open. Their defense stunk last year, we knew that. So, Chiefs, I feel real good about.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, the reason I have them in number two seed.


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[Assistant] Is the last four weeks are tough for their schedule. And I think ultimately that's where they might lose out as the one seed to the New England Patriots. And just to give you a glimpse there, they're at the Bears and at the Patriots late in December for the last few games where I think ultimately that's where they'll lose their tiebreaker to the Patriots and that's why the Patriots get the one seed.


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[Assistant] You know, seven and nine, eight and eight, nine and seven. And I think the Broncos are one of those football teams. Yes, I do. I go back to the Broncos, the same thing you've heard me say about like maybe the Raiders defense.


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[Assistant] I don't know if there's enough difference makers on the offensive side of the ball for me to look at them right now and go, Oh, okay. Yep. They're going to pull out, you know, those, those two or three games that are on the fence.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know. I mean, unless their defense can be like dominant like it was in their Super Bowl year, where Von Miller and Chubb can just get strip sack fumbles and win games that way, which is very tough to do, I just don't know if the offense will be good enough. So that's where I question that. Now, the Chargers, just to give you my two cents to be on that, alright?


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[Assistant] One, I mean, the Chargers won a lot of games by the skin of their teeth last year, in general.


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[Assistant] Two, okay, Phillip Rivers is a year older, alright, and I did not think it ended off like great last year either. Melvin Gordon, he doesn't make or break their team, but let me, like, let's be clear, Melvin Gordon's the best running back the Chargers have. He is special.


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[Assistant] Whether he wants to plow it up the middle for a three yard gain on the goal line to score a touchdown with power or catches a screen and runs for 80 yards. He's the only guy on the roster that can do that. Austin Eckler can catch a screen and he'll run for 30 or 40 yards, but he's gonna get chased down and tackled. Melvin Gordon's gonna score a touchdown. Alright, I worry about that.


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[Assistant] No, right. There's nothing there right now. So I don't see it happening at least anytime soon. But then, Derwin James out for the year. Okay. No Tyrell Williams at wide receiver. I think that hurts. Okay. Russell Okung dealing with some stuff. Doesn't sound like he's going to be playing anytime soon. I just look at all of those and I just think overall I go,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the Chargers are one of those teams that's just on the outside looking in. Pain in the butt, very good that way, but I don't know, it's just, I'm playing a little bit of the percentages gut and my feel here overall. Got it.


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[Assistant] Giants are, yes, Giants are not going to the playoffs, we'll just hit that right now. They're a pain in the butt, I think they're going in the right direction, I think they're going to pull off a few upsets this year, but I don't think the New York Giants are going to the playoffs, no. Redskins, same thing, okay, let's just get them out of the way.


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[Assistant] You know, corner play, question mark. Okay, yeaah, I just don't, you know, quarterback play, kind of a question mark. So I don't see the Redskins, uh, you know, making any serious runs.


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[Assistant] He belongs there. I think he's very close to there. I don't think he's in their category. No, I don't.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I think where Doug Peterson's been really amazing is in playoff football, but I think if you look at regular season football, there was some stale moments last year in their offense in general. You know, uh, even at the end of the year, you know, when Nick Foles won the Superbowl in the regular season, they were very stale at the end of the year that way. He's a really awesome offensive mind.


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[Assistant] Exactly, they do. Yes, they play a full, complete game. He's, he's, he's a great head coach because he's a great leader. The players love him. You know, he's seen, he's very honest. There's no BS.


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[Assistant] So that makes the greatness of his head coach. As far as play callers, no, I'm not going to put him in Josh McDaniels, Sean McVay, Sean Payton, uh, Kyle Shanahan.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna put him in their class yet. I think he's that next level down guy. Him, Andy Reid, there's a few other guys along there that I would mention that I'm probably blanking out on right now.


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[Assistant] And then their secondary scary good too. They got young guys who are a year older. They got a guy, Sydney Jones, who they drafted in the second round from Washington a few years ago. He's a really good player. I just look at the Eagles and go, damn, they got everything. Okay. I got him being a number one seed. And one of the biggest reasons I got him being a one seat too, Ahmed.