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[Assistant] Well, and the other thing to keep in mind too, Dan Quinn getting closer and closer to his farewell, I believe firmly. Rams and Seahawks at home before the bye week and he got three interim


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[Assistant] coaches you could potentially choose from, guys who have been head coaches, and I think that, uh, especially after losing to the Cardinals last week, I think that the train's pulling into the station for Dan Quinn.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think the Bills offense is good enough to be favored by 16 and a half points over anyone, because first they've got to score the 16 and a half points. And I don't know that they can. I think they're going to win. The question is, will they cover the spread? It's the first time they've been this big of a favorite since the days of Jim Kelly and company. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I think that Ryan Fitzpatrick back in the starting line-up will give the


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[Assistant] The Dolphins, a little bit of a lift. And remember, he was a Bills quarterback once upon a time. Then again, he's played for everyone. It's easier to list the teams he hasn't played for, but I think they'll keep it respectable.


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[Assistant] 20 to 10 is what I have. It won't feel like 20 to 10. You know how 35 to 14 last Thursday night felt like it was closer? This will be 20 to 10, but it won't feel like it's 20 to 10 if that makes any sense. It'll feel like it was a blowout, but the final score will be something that you say, yeah, yeah, hey, the Dolphins did okay, even though they


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[Assistant] Well, I am curious about Josh Allen. He's popped up on the injury report and they had the bye week, so I don't know what the issue is, but even if they have to go Matt Barkley, I think they'll be fine against the Dolphins.


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[Assistant] I think it's called profootballtalk.com. You can like scroll through the stories and you'll see Josh Allen pops up on injury report.


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[Assistant] I mean a true Bengal Striped Tiger is bigger than a Jaguar, right? So, unless the Jaguar can run away, right? If that's an actual fight, if you're in the octagon, if you put the Bengal in the Jaguar in the octagon and the Jaguar can't run away, then the Bengal ends up eating the Jaguar. Almost as much blood as


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[Assistant] They had 20,000 empty seats in their last home game. I think the number will be significantly greater. Teams like this that don't have a built-in local passion, the fans check out quickly. And I think the Bengals have checked out. And I think that the Jaguars, even with the Jalen Ramsey stuff,


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[Assistant] Doug Morrone, I think will find a way to use that to their advantage. And they're gonna ban together and this is a game they should win. If they can't win this game, then they're just gonna fall apart this year and everybody's getting fired. They have to win this game. I got 23 to 13. You know, they've been in close games. They played the Saints tough.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they, they should have beaten the Texans and, and I think that they are good enough to win this one. Whether they're good enough to get on the right side of 500 and compete for a playoff berth, that remains to be seen. But post-Jalen Ramsey, they can finally clear that cloud out and just go focus on playing football. I think a lot of the guys in the locker room would be happy to do that.


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[Assistant] Cause you're not gonna pay him. Yea, you're not gonna pay him. You're not gonna pay him what he wants. Cause the market's now 22 million a year. And if you're the, the bangles are just cheap. They're not gonna do it. So if you can get


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[Assistant] A first round pick for him that becomes a guy that you can squat on for five years at a very low wage scale rate, then, uh, even better. And, uh, you know, especially if it's a low first round pick, because then you pay him even less. So I could see him trading to the Patriots for a first round pick between now and the trade deadline. And I think one of the reasons he's not playing, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't know this. I don't know this. You're just assuming, go ahead. This is just hunch, gut feeling.


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[Assistant] I think that, I think that he's doing a little Jalen Ramsey. He knows. And I think the Jalen Ramsey thing, I think the Jalen Ramsey thing is more common than we realize. It's just with Ramsey it was so blatant that we realized. But I think other guys do the same thing. It's not the hold out, it's the hold in. And I, I think that even though it was a legitimate injury on the front end, I think that


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[Assistant] Both sides are maybe delaying this because the last thing the Bengals need if they're thinking about trading him is put him on the field and get him injured again, then you can't trade him. So this may be a mutual sandbagging by the team and by the player, but I just have a feeling that the end is coming for AJ Green in Cincinnati and I'd probably be very happy about that.


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[Assistant] I think Cordy Glenn, maybe, would be a guy that could be gone.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's some rumblings of some dysfunction there between him and uh, the coaches. I'm trying to nail that down. As of right now, it's all uncorroborated, but uh, he's a guy who could be gone, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, defensively, you know, do you move on from Gino Atkins at this point? Do you, you know, he's, he's getting into his thirties. Is there a team out there that would pounce on Gino Atkins? I don't know. I could see the Eagles being intrigued by him to bolster their rotation. But, uh, you know, it all depends upon what, here's the thing. If there's a guy on that roster that you like and you're a contender, now's the time to call him. Now is the time, you're right.


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[Assistant] It's funny how you, how you do the horn thing. They, they did the horn for like something ridiculously...


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[Assistant] I guarantee you, I guarantee you, if the Vikings win, I will wear a Kirk Cousins jersey next Thursday.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, this is the perfect setup game for the Vikings and we've seen this movie multiple times over the last couple of years. The Vikings get two wins that they string together against the Giants and the Eagles and 937 total yards of offense and everything is fine.


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[Assistant] And then they go into Detroit, where it's been much harder to win in recent years. And the Lions are gonna be pissed off over what happened on Monday night. And they are not a 2-2-in-1 team. They are not a 500 team. They are better than that.


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[Assistant] And yes, they had their chances to beat Green Bay, but that game was taken away from them. And I think that this is one of those games where you get a little correction.


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[Assistant] And the Vikings will win the games they're supposed to win. They're very good at that. They don't lose focus. They don't stumble against inferior teams, but when they come up against a team in a big spot, I mean, this is one where they're going to be very aware of the opportunity that they have in front of them. And that's the situation where


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[Assistant] Kirk Cousins is likely to crater and turtle and not play as well as he needs to and if the Lions can stop the run, it falls back to the pass and it may not be as ugly as the Bears game was a few weeks ago.


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[Assistant] I, I, I mean, I don't really like I used to, but I do think that for a guy that's getting 84 million fully guaranteed over three years, we need to expect something more. It's similar to what you've been saying about Ezekiel Elliott. You get that money, then you gotta earn it. It's not for services rendered, it's for services to be rendered. I totally get it.


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[Assistant] And the betting has driven it down. I like the Raiders in this one. I like John Gruden going back to Lambeau Field where he spent three of his formative coaching years before he became the offensive coordinator of the Eagles and then became the head coach of the Raiders for the first time. I like the extra motivation that he's going to have.


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[Assistant] They've got the running back in Josh Jacobs and the offensive line to just, to do, to the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] What others have done to do to the Packers, what others have done to the Chiefs, excuse me. Run the ball, kill the clock.


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[Assistant] Keep Aaron Rodgers on the sideline. Aaron Rodgers had four of his pass catchers not practice on Wednesday. Devontae Adams has a toe. Marques Valdez-Scantlin got injured on Monday night against the Packers. He came back and played, but he didn't practice. Geronimo Allison got blown up. He didn't practice yesterday. And Jimmy Graham.


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[Assistant] Has an ankle injury and he didn't practice. And Rogers is still dealing with a knee thing that had him limited all last week. I, I think that, uh, the Raiders are gonna win this one. I really do. I think Jon Gruden's gonna understand.


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[Assistant] That it's critical to get touchdowns, not field goals. It's critical to deliver a knockout blow and not give Aaron Rodgers an opening. Because if you do, even if you're up nine points in the fourth quarter, that's not enough. And I think John Gruden understands that. And, uh, this is gonna be a fun one to watch. It's gonna have an old school vibe to it. You know, it's a couple of teams with the classic uniforms that never change.


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[Assistant] You don't get funky numbers. You don't get funky jerseys. They've told Nike to go screw themselves anytime they've sniffed around to get them to change their uniforms. It's gonna feel like an old school game.


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[Assistant] I think this is one of those and this is the same principle that allowed me to pick the Broncos over the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] Close game, evenly matched. The Texans traditionally have had trouble winning in Indianapolis, and I think the home team gets the edge here. It's that simple. They're only favored by one point, which kind of surprises me. That means the Texans would be a two point


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[Assistant] I think that the betting line is influenced by people taking the Texans because they saw them beat the Chiefs and


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[Assistant] To contain Deshaun Watson defensively and also offensively. Score enough points. 24-20 is the score I have. And again, it's one of those home team gets the advantage type picks by me.


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[Assistant] You can, I want you to remember this. Yes. When you pick the Chiefs because of the quarterback, you're picking the Texans because of the quarterback. If they lose, you gotta get past this. I'm smitten with the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Alright, here we go, Captain Planet. Low winds as well, so I don't think weather will be a factor. I look at it this way, the Cardinals have won two in a row, but who have they beaten? They've beaten two of the worst teams in the NFL, but for a missed extra point, they would have gone to overtime against the 1-4 Falcons.


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[Assistant] I like the Giants in this one. The Giants, even though they lost by 21 and you see that final score and you say, man, they got blown out by the Patriots. No, they didn't. They've played well. You'll see 28 to 10 against the Vikings. Oh, they got blown out. No, they didn't. And I think the Giants good enough to win this game at home. I don't know how I'd feel about it in Arizona, but I don't have to. It's in New York.


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[Assistant] And, or New Jersey, and, and I like the Giants to do enough to get back on track. Saquon Barkley was a full participant in practice on Wednesday, only three weeks removed from suffering that ankle injury against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think that the, uh, the Giants will be fine. 27-21 covering the spread, the three point spread.


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[Assistant] I think the spread should be bigger, as evidenced by the fact that I picked him to win by six. But I'm surprised that, I think that this is the Cardinals winning two in a row is influencing people and they think, oh, they're going to extend it to three. It's amazing how you see these betting trends based on recent history, but recent history affects the way people think about these games.


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[Assistant] And they got the short week too where they have to travel across the country. No, they don't have the short week. I'm thinking of last week. They're fine. It doesn't matter. They could have played, they could play tonight and go to Washington on Sunday and win this one. I'm surprised it's only a nine and a half point spread. The 49ers have proven that they are one of the elite teams in the NFL. Washington has proven that they are not. This should be


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[Assistant] At least double. Shouldn't it, shouldn't it be 18 points? I was stunned when I saw nine and a half. I think I'm tipping one of my best bets. But, uh, I think the 49ers romp, Kyle Shanahan, you know, this is the kind of game where if there wasn't the history between Shanahan and the Washington franchise,


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[Assistant] Maybe it's a spot where they could step in a pothole and get upset. Or at least the game would be close. Not this one. This has all the ingredients of a blowout, folks. And if I'm wrong on this one, I'm gonna have to reassess my life choices. That's how strongly I feel about it. I think the 49ers are going to destroy them.


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[Assistant] Here's what I say, here it is, here it is. On Thursday night, Eli Manning was dressed like Phil Simms, and unfortunately, played like Eam. What? E-E-M. What an asshole you are. You know how he says Eam instead of him? I've never given you a hard time for that. Yeaah. Yeaah, that was before I knew you. I wouldn't have had the balls to do that.


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[Assistant] Now I know why. You came over and you like, you put out that meat hook and you like gripped my hand and squeezed it like you were Adrian Peterson. It was in Houston. It was less than a month after that. Now I know why you were acting that way. Cause I'm thinking, who's this guy? Get out of here, you giant. Go back up your beanstalk, Sims.


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[Assistant] Look, I don't know about this one because I don't know about the Chargers. I don't know about the Titans. I mean, is there a way that could be a scoreless tie? I've got this thing mapped out as the Chargers winning just because I have no faith in Ryan Tannehill.


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[Assistant] I feel like he's gonna get injured, I feel like he's going to, he's, he's, like, this is my big chance, this is my big moment, this is my opportunity to redeem myself, and I just have a feeling it's not gonna work. And I don't know whether it's the quarterbacks, I don't know whether it's the, the, the, uh,


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[Assistant] The, the, the kid that's the son of the guy that started FedEx isn't a very good offensive coordinator. I, I, I just don't know. But I, the Titans for as impressive as they were week one, they have not been impressive since then. Shut out by the Broncos. I, this is just like, which team do I feel


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[Assistant] Less bad about at this point, and I guess the Chargers, that fire we saw from Philip Rivers a little bit too late on Sunday night, maybe that carries over. And also he's from, I think he's from Nashville. Not far, not from Nashville, I think he's from Alabama.


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[Assistant] Close by, right? Not far from Nashville. I think that's going to be a factor for him because for him the train is definitely coming into the station and he may be auditioning to be the bridge quarterback for the Tennessee Titans next year.


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[Assistant] But I just wanted to make sure that your pick wasn't influenced by, uh, you know, what do I have? 20 to 13. 20 to 13, you're going 20 to 13 chargers? Because really, they may have...


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[Assistant] They, they may have more fans if they were playing on the road. In, in LA, right? So maybe it would be better.


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[Assistant] I think they're kind of in control and they win that way. Okay, alright, let's go. But what do I know? I mean, I thought the Chargers were gonna beat the Steelers, and I thought the Titans were gonna beat the Broncos, so what the hell do I know?


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[Assistant] Go ahead, I'm surprised you don't have a Captain Planet app.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think this is a real gut check game for the Chicago Bears after being embarrassed by


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[Assistant] The Raiders in London, two weeks to get ready for it. Matt Nagy and Andy Reid, protege. Andy Reid, a guy who always makes the most out of that extra time. And of course the Saints weren't on a bye last week, so they didn't have the benefit of the extra time. I think that this comes down to the Bears defense playing like it did.


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[Assistant] The last time they played at home, like they did against the Minnesota Vikings and Teddy Bridgewater, a former Vikings quarterback.


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[Assistant] Was one and one and two starts at Chicago against a team that is a far cry from what it is now defensively. And I think that this is going to be one of those games where now that we have four games of Teddy Bridgewater film for Chuck Pagano, the Bears defensive coordinator breakdown. I think that it's going to be harder to stay a step ahead and this may be the one where


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[Assistant] You know, to the extent that anyone would suggest that Teddy Bridgewater should keep playing even when


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[Assistant] Drew Brees is healthy and no one is seriously suggesting that. After this game on Sunday, it's going to be, okay, when does, when does Drew get back? We're, we're five and two and that's better than we could have expected to be. When can we get Drew back?


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[Assistant] And it's weird, it's weird to think that because they were 12 and 4 last year. Of all the games that they would be least likely to lose, it would be the one against the Dolphins coming off of the Bible.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm intrigued by Earl Thomas and his knowledge of Russell Wilson from all the years they've been together, practicing, watching him during games, watching film, uh, whatever the case may be. I think that that adds an element that


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[Assistant] Bears watching very closely when Russell Wilson pops out of the pocket and tries to make something happen, because Earl Thomas is going to be in a better position than most safeties to have an idea of what Russell Wilson is going to do when he squirts away.


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[Assistant] One of the best runners they've ever seen and, and, uh, it's a nightmare to deal with him. Look, they have one of the best runners. He's had one of the best runners since 2012. And I think when you are used to seeing a guy like Russell Wilson in practice, when a guy like Russell Wilson comes into your stadium, you're in a better position to play him.


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[Assistant] And I think the defense is going to do better against Lamar Jackson than other defenses have done because they know from practice all the time what it's like to have to deal with Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] So, uh, I think that's gonna help them. They're gonna try to be physical with them, just like the Steelers tried to be. And, you know, one of these points, when you see the highlights of the hits Lamar Jackson takes, and I hope he doesn't get injured.


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[Assistant] But when you see the highlights of those hits, at some point, he ain't getting up and it's gonna be RG3 in the game. And that could happen on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Let me see here because when the injury report came out yesterday from the NFL, they had not yet completed practice. So I have gone to the Ravens website and I can report that Marquise Brown did not practice on Wednesday due to an ankle. That doesn't mean he's not going to play, but no practice. That's not a good sign.


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[Assistant] But well, okay, and then, hey, the Chiefs are no longer this, uh, you know, this unbeatable force, so I feel like the Ravens are a weak four and two. I agree. And I think it's all the more reason, I believe, the Seahawks winning the Seahawks Cup.


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[Assistant] Cowboys got some big injuries. I'm concerned about the injuries. Left tackle and right tackle. Who knows if those guys are going to play Tyron Smith and Lyle Collins. Amari Cooper, the indications are he's not going to play. Who's going to be the number one receiver? Michael Urban was on 105.3, the fan in Dallas yesterday, advocating for Antonio Brown to join the Cowboys. And you know what?


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[Assistant] That's not all that ridiculous of a suggestion if and when the NFL ever allows him to come back and play. They've got him in that weird limbo now where no one will touch him until the investigation's over. So the investigation is just never going to end and he'll never play football again or at least not this year.


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[Assistant] But I like the Cowboys nevertheless. This is a back against the wall type of a game. We've seen Jason Garrett do this last year when they were three and five on the road when the


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[Assistant] They won that game. They finished seven and one in the second half of the season. Make it to the playoffs and make it to actually the divisional round. This is one of those get your, your act together games for the Cowboys, even with the injuries at home. And, and that's, this is the third time this week I'm going with the close game issues on both sides of the ball, both sides of the line, both sides of the field.


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[Assistant] I'm taking the home team. 30 to 24 cowboys over the Eagles. I just think the cowboys are going to be in better position to get it right. And I didn't like the Doug Peterson.


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[Assistant] Small tear, small tear, but they want to wait for him to be completely healthy because the way he runs, he's so explosive that it may get re-injured. But I'd be stunned if he practiced yesterday. He did not practice. They're calling it an abdomen injury, but his trainer spoke last week to the Philadelphia Inquirer. It's a small tear in the groin.


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[Assistant] You're going with the push. You're not picking, you're not picking a winner on the, on the, uh, betting line because the Cowboys are three point favorites. That's why I went with six. 30 to 24. You know, how about, how about


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna call overtime, but I could see something like that. 24 all at the end of regulation, Cowboys score a touchdown in overtime, but I think 30 to 24, Cowboys win, they get to four and three, and the storm clouds part just a little bit for Jason Garrett.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the Patriots with the extra time to get ready for this game and also considering how well


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[Assistant] Patriots are very aware of what it means when you're in that big spot. They're very comfortable in that big spot. The Jets we saw in prime time earlier this year against the Browns and they lost by 20. Now that was without Darnold, but I just feel like the Patriots train is not going to get knocked off the tracks by a Jets game.


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[Assistant] In primetime. It's coming later if and when it comes, but it's not gonna be against the Jets.


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[Assistant] It does toughen up though, they play the Ravens, they play the Texans, they play the Chiefs, they've got the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] So they've got the Eagles still on the horizon. Not that those are great teams, but they're better than the scrubs that the Patriots have been playing. I think it's going to be a lot like the Thursday night game we saw last week. It's going to be close for a while. It's going to be, oh, the Patriots, they may not win. Then it's going to be, they're going to win, but they may not cover. And it's going to be, oh, look, they covered. Same deal, same formula.


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[Assistant] Okay, tell me your first. I'm going to start with a game we just did. Okay. A game we just did, New England Patriots. I've been, I've been picking the Patriots like every week in the best bets and they've been covering almost every week. The only time they didn't was the last time they played the Jets. So this time they atone for screwing up my best bet and they cover by


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm going to take the same one. I talked about it earlier. I was stunned, stunned that it was only a three point margin between the Rams and the Falcons. I don't know what people are thinking to bet it to that point where it's even money on both sides. I think that, and this is another situation where people are influenced by what's happened recently. All the Rams have lost three in a row.


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[Assistant] Oh, they only scored seven points against the 49ers. Oh, Jared Goff only threw 78 yards.


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[Assistant] That was against the 49ers. This is the Falcons. The Falcons aren't very good. The Falcons defense is horrendous. And I think the Rams win this one easily.


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[Assistant] And you know, I think I made it clear earlier in the show that, uh, that's...


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[Assistant] That's one of the ones I have too. I was stunned that it was only a nine and a half point spread and I'm going to take Washington. And you know what? I'm going to suggest something. If neither of us get fired by next year and we do this again, when we do this, we need to do the best bets in a draft format where we can't duplicate.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, my point is, my point is, because there could be weeks when we have the same three. That's less fun. When MDS and I did this last year just as a VOD, we did it as a draft where you couldn't duplicate.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I think that, I want you to think about that. I want, I want to know whether or not you're up for the challenge. Because it's something that we can, I'd even be inclined to implement it for the balance of the issue.


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[Assistant] Now I know that Richard Sherman will be very upset that we are giving the 49ers respect because he wants us to say they're bad so he can use the things we say as motivation. Right, he wants us to stick to our guns. If that's what it takes, if that's what it takes, let me just, let me just give him a little something. Richard, the 49ers stink. You stink.


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[Assistant] And you're gonna lose this weekend, and you can use this as your motivation. If you only listen to that out of context from the rest of the show, you'll be fine.


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[Assistant] This is the way to go. Breaking news has come out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's top for me. Yeah, that's top for you. If I didn't have the mic, I would go the other one on button as well.


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[Assistant] It's better today. Speaking of, uh, down there, and I'm referring to shoes, I did notice that these jeans, as long as we're talking fashion, about six, seven years old, and they're flared at the bottom. I don't know if it's alright.


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[Assistant] I thought that went through a near perfect ball considering when he had to throw it and where he had to throw it. So that's number one.


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[Assistant] I agree with it would have been a super difficult catch. If you just froze the moment and had a picture of the moment the ball touched Aguilar's hands, it was awkward. It was way behind him. Just that picture, I totally agree. There's something about a completely nuanced and high level receiver or pass catcher where he can tell


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[Assistant] When the ball is in midair. And I give him, uh, I cut Aguilar some slack because he didn't see the ball off of Wentz's hand.


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[Assistant] Yes. Which is to me a big part of a pass catcher being able to judge it and track it well. Agreed. Didn't see it off his hand. Agreed. That makes it really hard. It does. But when he glanced up at it in the air, he had a second, second and a half to take his route.


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[Assistant] Like you talked about, he was going, he was kind of running across the field. He was. To adjust it, if he would have seen...


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[Assistant] And again, this is very high level nuanced stuff. It doesn't mean that he can't play. But if he could have noticed when the ball was going up in the air, when he saw it, where it was going, and a lot of really good guys can do this, he could have adjusted his route. So it wasn't a reach back, it would have been more of a here.


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[Assistant] Would have been about a two or three yard adjustment. Agreed. So the fact that he dropped the ball with the way he ran, I don't have a problem with that.


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[Assistant] I think he should have adjusted his route. He should have been able to track the ball, adjust to where it was going quicker, and made it not so awkward at the point of impact.


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[Assistant] Thinking about protection and also the fact that you want to incorporate some more opinions and questions from Instagram. Right. Emil Martinson says, was it the Lane Johnson injury that derailed the Eagles offense or did Belichick change something after the 95 yard touchdown drive?


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[Assistant] We're dropping out. Man, we're in deep crap. It's also a bit of an aberration because they have to worry so much about Jackson running.


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[Assistant] I think evaluating Carson Wentz, he's one of these guys, numbers give us an indication, but...


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[Assistant] With Carson Wentz, it's difficult to look at his stat line and attach that, those numbers


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[Assistant] So what, how you felt watching him play? Yeaah. It's kinda like the game against Atlanta early in the season. Right.


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[Assistant] They're very good. And correct me if you think I'm wrong here, but I thought that the game plan and Tom Brady's play both felt very uninspired.


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[Assistant] Moving on to Broncos and Vikings. Yeaah. Let's start this one out. All under the umbrella of what happened. Right. On some key plays. This is a tweet from Rhett. Diggs 54 yard touchdown. Looked like maybe a dope design. Maybe some great improvisation. Definitely bad zone communication. What did you see?


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't know if everybody has the play and you're looking at me like I'm an asshole. No, I'm not. Which means it's gonna be fun. I don't think everybody has the play where you, where you fake.


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[Assistant] The run to the right. Right. You sprint seven yards to the left. Right. All with the hope that you're gonna get that free safety to go with you. Yes. Which they did. Yes. And opened up perfectly for the post in where he was supposed to be. It did.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes. Two things jumped out to me. Yes. I did like the design because it took the free safety and moved him just like throwing a board. Like, boy, if we could get the free safety over there, we could run the post. Right. And that little half rollout moved him. So I thought that


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[Assistant] To me that stood out as pretty cool. Number two is adding on to what you said about the throw. Normally when you hit a post route.


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[Assistant] It's kind of an up and over, and we've seen Cousins do that a number of times. He throws a real pretty ball, a lot of trajectory, and lets the receiver run underneath it. This was more of a dart. It was a rifle. It was 45 yards, just like you would throw a 20 yard seam route, and I didn't know Kirk Cousins had that in him, to push it downfield with that kind of ball, and to put it right exactly on him.


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[Assistant] One more, one more shout out to Kirk Cousins. 29 out of 35. Right. Okay, he's piling up week after week of numbers.


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[Assistant] Similar to this, and just like I talked about with Lamar Jackson one week, I think it was 15 out of 17, and because he's doing this a number of times, it gets overlooked. 29 out of 35, three touchdowns, no picks against a very good defense. A very good defense. A top five defense in football. With three touchdown drives that they had to have in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] Podtasticle. Yep. Which is quite a handle. Ooh, thank you. Uh, can you break down the cousin's bootleg touchdown to Rudolph? Yep. How was he that wide open?


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[Assistant] I see something different and tell me if I'm reading this the wrong way. Yes, you probably are.


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[Assistant] I agree, I agree with what you just pointed out. However, three deep zones. So just by basic virtue of that, the corner to the far side of the field has that third of the field.


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[Assistant] So to answer the question that we were attending to on Twitter.


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[Assistant] You sang, they just caught him. They caught him at the right time with a very good play.


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[Assistant] No, no, I'm listening. I'm listening and looking at where we're going next. I would like to keep in mind that maybe the backside corner wasn't supposed to come in as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. What'd you think of both, uh, both pass catchers? 81 on the first attempt. Right. Again, same play, fake stop, throw it hard, throw it fastball, and then no offense at the end.


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[Assistant] That's for sure. Phil, I want to get you on some quarterbacks. Yeah, let's do it. Go ahead. So, Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] I know you're not a big stack guy, Phil, but no interceptions the last five games.


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[Assistant] Let's go from somebody who hasn't thrown a pick to a trio of guys who threw four over the weekend. I want your thoughts on each one of these. It can be what they did in this last game or just big picture. Philip Rivers with four interceptions last week. Is this close to the end?


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[Assistant] Rudolf. Mason Rudolf also threw four. Yep. Bench him, keep him.


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[Assistant] On that list in your mind, which one would you covet the most?


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh. Especially if you were gonna draft a quarterback high that you wanted to sit behind somebody. Yea, maybe a bridge quarterback too. Yea, I hear you.


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[Assistant] Let's bring this to a close here, uh, this way here, Phil. Which four interception quarterback from last week, we've hit three of the four, would you want as your starting quarterback next year? Rivers, Rudolph, Jameis Winston, or Kyle Allen?


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[Assistant] So it works good. And it's nice to get guys when they're, they're not too far removed from the game, but they're away from just speaking in uh, politically correct.


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[Assistant] You're allowed to get to know them. Exactly right. Because they don't have that shield up. No doubt. That Forte talking about, you know, oh, that's football? Yea, right. You're getting knocked around, oh, do I like this? Yea, I do listen to that. Yea, yea, yea. Everybody has a moment like that. Definitely. Very cool. Yup. Alright.


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[Assistant] Say that about your dad. It cares about him. Alright, what the f*** happened? Back to it on the Zeke Elliott game clinching touchdown catch. Yes. Great game, Cowboys-Lions. Yes. But what happened on that game-winning play?


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[Assistant] Yes, and we talked last week about, you know, that combination or potential combination was at the heart of one of the main plays we talked about, Cowboys-Vikings. He tried to hit him. He tried to hit Zeke on the outroute. He was covered by Kendricks. So now it comes back. It wasn't like, it wasn't a tough route.


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[Assistant] I think for a running back to go from that kind of fingertip catch with that kind of balance from catch and being off balance to when he was at full speed was like that. Yes. That was as incredible of a little, you know, tiny little part of a play as a running back had all week.


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[Assistant] Yes. You know it when you're watching it. Like, if someone asks you, if someone walks in the room and says, oh, Dak's numbers are pretty good, what's he doing? Yeah.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't say, ah, he hit a bunch of screens, he's checking it down a bunch.


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[Assistant] He is pounding the ball into tight windows in the intermediate part of the field.


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[Assistant] I mean, what he's doing, like, this one game, I'm like, wow.


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[Assistant] That was really good. I felt this way about him a number of times this season. You go back and line it up and there aren't a lot of quarterbacks playing better than him right now.


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[Assistant] And Kellen Moore is seeing the exact same, and why wouldn't he? Seeing the exact same way you are. The number of times he's dropping back and making difficult throws is up in the 30s. It is. And Zeke is touching it in the 20s, in the running pass, so it's a nice balance. But I always thought this offense was about 21. I know. And this year it's much more about quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] One thing that he's doing that I noticed about him and some other quarterbacks is we always praise the offensive line. And they do have a good offensive line. But with that extra second to second and a half that he gets when number one's not open but he's allowed to hang in there.


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[Assistant] He doesn't get sped up and flustered. No, he doesn't. You know, like you know as a quarterback, I probably shouldn't be holding it this long. Guys are going to be coming after me. And some very veteran quarterbacks will look a little flustered with that extra second. Agreed. He looks very comfortable with the extra time he gets. Yep. And finds whoever should be open or whoever is open.


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[Assistant] I'm 245, I'm 250. At least. Yeaah. It's one of those things that TV doesn't do it justice. No, it does not. I was covering a game of his in San Francisco a couple years ago and I wanted to interview him. So I'm walking behind him the whole time after the game. Right. And I was like, oh my, this is the biggest quarterback in the league. Yeaah. Now Cam Newton is bigger. Yes, right. Just in terms of total size. It's thick. It's acid.


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[Assistant] But, as, I mean, if you're evaluating him as the number one part of that offense, he slipped a little bit.


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[Assistant] Let's take a stop at the NFC South. Focus on Drew Brees and Sean Payton. One of the plays that they put together for the touchdown came in the first quarter. Gerald Holm at Tampa. 16 yard touchdown to Michael Thomas. If you appreciate this kind of thing was a really cool scheme, a cool way to get him open. So what happened on that touchdown?


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[Assistant] You got it written down. As you're finding, on your right, it was Breeze and a Shotgun. He had Camaro behind him. The tight end to the left was basically attached. And then to the right he had three wide receivers. And he had, Thomas was the inside guy.


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[Assistant] And the two outside guys ran basically quick slants, and he ran a little hesitation wheel route.


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[Assistant] In behind. Exactly. And the cool thing they did is they kept in the tight end. Right. And they're running back to blocks. Yes. They blocked with seven. I'm paying attention to you. They helped. They're helping the quarterback. Alvin the quarterback. Leave guys in. Right. So they only released three and those three did the job.


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[Assistant] It's also very well designed because if you can picture those two quick slants, oftentimes the inside guy will just run a little flat route underneath. Yes, right.


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[Assistant] And it also played to the weaknesses of Jameis Winston, like you and your dad talked about, about how.


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[Assistant] Okay. I have the uh, I have the question. Alright, there it is.


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[Assistant] Jared Goff's deep ball to Cooper Cup. Everyone knew it was going to Cup, but it still ended up with him wide open. Feel free to use commas when you tweet if you would like.


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[Assistant] Second quarter, 351 left, Ramshead third down and five. Second quarter. On their own 49 yard line. Here he is, I got it, I believe it right here.


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[Assistant] It was a poor decision because the cup went deep. Well this is what he's told to do though.


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[Assistant] Yo, yo, it's Monday. Divisional playoffs in the books. We got the final four. It was awesome weekend. Chris Sims, Ahmed Fareed, the wimp Ahmed Fareed right here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just, you know, that's alright. I know you're my friend and you are trying to save me and I probably need, I need saving like 95% of the time. But every now and then, I don't want to be saved. I want to be inappropriate. And you make that very clear.


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[Assistant] But what's up everybody? Uh, check out the podcast rate review, please. We're going to get into this AMA's here real soon. I know that.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're gonna recap, divisional, divisional weekend. Yep. Had some awesome football games. I was there to witness Vikings 49ers. That was great. You heard. I was. Flew across country. Cool. Don't let anybody tell you there's no home field advantage there.


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[Assistant] Then there was the Saturday Night Surprise, and then the Gifts of Sunday. I mean, both of those games were amazing. So we're gonna hit it all here. We'll hit little things. You lead the direction where you want to go from here on out. You look good today. Good to see you. Oh, thank you. It's the first time I've won this shirt.


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[Assistant] texting friends like, oh man, I mean, I don't want to see Houston, Tennessee AFC championship game. I can't believe this. And yeah, I was texting with Florio and Matt Casey, you know, the producer, just talking about things during the game, but I was.


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[Assistant] I was sitting there going, man it's 24-0, I'm definitely, they're in trouble and I'm concerned, but I was also sitting there going, like, they're not out of this, they weren't being like,


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[Assistant] You know, I don't care, I don't care if they were playing the Houston Texans or the Cincinnati Bengals. When you blow a coverage and then drop a punt,


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[Assistant] And then, what is my other one? Uhm, how did they get that other one? Hold on, blow a coverage, drop a pun, and there's something else they did and I'm blanking out on it. Mental errors? No, hold on, I'm being-


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[Assistant] Nooo. All those drop passes, block puns. Oh, and then, yeaah, block pun, thank you. So, I don't care who you are, you blow a coverage, let me redo that, get a punt block for a touchdown, and then drop a punt. If you're playing the Bengals, you're gonna be down 21-0, let alone the Houston Texans.


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[Assistant] For that fuel gold, uh, other than that, it wasn't like I was sitting there going, oh man, this doesn't look good. The Chiefs look outmatched. I just was going, they're, they're, they're shitting down their leg is what I was saying. And can they just kind of like find something to jump?


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[Assistant] To me, that was the right play there. And listen, I'm not sitting here like, you'll see, I second-guess some guys this weekend. There's other decisions I don't. I'm gonna second-guess Billy O'Brien again here in a second. I'll just tell you that. But this one, you're up 21-0. Okay, you've driven down the field.


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[Assistant] Go up, go up 24-0. Now, most people go, oh, you're left in a three-score game. First of all, again, it's 10 minutes and 58 seconds left in the second quarter. So let's start counting the scoreboard for what it might look like three hours down the road. Like, nobody's the wizard of shaz over here, alright?


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[Assistant] You go up by 24-0 on the road, you bring something positive away from that drive. Those are my first thoughts. My second thoughts are to be up 24-0 and you say, oh, it's a three score game. Yeah, it's a three score game if the offense can score six touchdowns, which is three real touchdowns and two two-point conversions. The chances of that happening are not great.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I like that. The second thing I would say to you, had we seen any semblance of a drive by the Kansas City Chiefs offense at that point? No, we hadn't. Yes, they dropped some passes, but they had done nothing to that point.


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[Assistant] So Billy O'Brien's going, well, I mean, gosh, okay, you know, maybe we get to stop and we go down and kick another field goal, we're up 27-0. Okay, it didn't work out that way. You know, 24-0, they settle for the field goal. Yes, they return the kick for a long, a long game. Guess what though?


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[Assistant] You know, it's 24-17. Still a three-score game. So it wasn't like that big of a deal. 24-7, yeaah. Yeah, 24-7. Exactly right. It's still a three-score game. And then, uh, so I-I-I like the decision. Rather than going for it, up 21-0, and then if you don't get it,


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[Assistant] And then, Kansas City goes and drives down the field and it's 21-7, 21-7. That would have been even totally different either way. And you can't predict the future and go, oh, McColl-Hardman's gonna have a great kick return here and all of that. So I had no problem with that decision right there with 10 minutes and 30, 58 seconds left in the, in the second quarter.


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[Assistant] He was not like, oh gosh, I don't want a GM cause he was trying to hire Nick Casario. He wants a GM. He just wants a GM probably that...


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, how dare he to do things the way he thinks they should be done or shares a certain vision with him, right? He came from New England. That's what they do. That's why they dominated two decades. Okay. So I don't like that. Plus,


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[Assistant] You know, again, if I was gonna, you know, my only thing with Billy O'Brien is, yeaah, his offense lacks big time creativity. It's still a good offense. He's still a really good head coach. His teams are still really tough. Situationally, he's usually really good.


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[Assistant] And tell me who's out there that you're going to replace Billy O'Brien with. That's crazy, it's crazy talk. And it's the second year with Deshaun Watson, alright. You know, I know this is Deshaun Watson's year three, his rookie year towards ACL. So second full season with Deshaun Watson. Second playoffs. Won a game this year with Deshaun Watson. Last year they went out in the wild card game. You know, he went to the playoffs a whole bunch of other times.


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[Assistant] quarterbacks that aren't even third string quarterbacks. So that to me is just insane, Bill. Billy O'Brien is one of the better head coaches in all of football. Is he Bill Belichick? Is he Sean Payton? No, he's not. But nobody else is either at this point.


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[Assistant] Right. Well, now let's dive into that one. Now you want to go mulligan Monday? I bet you he wants a mulligan there. Now again, it's 24-7. The big kick returns.


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[Assistant] A fake punt at your own, what were they, 31 yard line? 31. To me, like, that was like the moment where it was like, oh, uh, you know, like, uh, you know, the, the sleep, they, they brought up the sleep, the, the, the sleeping giant wasn't awoke yet. He might've been like, tussling in the bed, but this is like, he brought out the smelling salt. It was like, okay, wake up.


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[Assistant] Wake up! And they woke up. And now you give them the short field a second time, they score again. And now it's a ten point game, the stadium's going ruckus, and now you go, oh no, now they're legitimately back in the football game. So it's that fake punt, and I'll go back to what I said before,


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[Assistant] We still hadn't seen Kansas City go the length of the field and score yet.


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[Assistant] To me, you punt the ball away there, you save that fake punt.


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[Assistant] For maybe later on, when it needs to come in handy, where you go, okay, no, no, Kansas City definitely has the momentum right now.


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[Assistant] And we need to retake it. And right there, I don't think Kansas City had the momentum. Was it teetering? Yes. But I don't think you were like, oh no, here comes Kansas City. I wasn't ready to say that yet.


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[Assistant] Uh, but after the fake punt, the miss, and then them scoring a few plays later, then I was like, uh-oh, watch out, things are gonna change, and then the fumbled kick return happened, and then it became a real game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it's either that, I don't know what was going through his head, but, uh, yeah, that almost cost them, because of course then they score on third down because of Mahomes magic a few plays later. But then it got to 24-21.


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[Assistant] And then you felt like, uh-oh, like, and to me that was when I was like, alright, there's just, there's no doubt Kansas City's gonna win the game now. Because even as I was sitting there watching and they were down, I was going, man, Kansas City still looks like the better team to me. As we started this conversation out, they were just messing things up. And then it became Mahomes Mania and the offense just started clicking. And once you get them on a roll like that,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think he was just trying to say they don't have that like great cover safety or linebacker that maybe can cover them. Listen, there was a number of plays. They did really good job on Kelsey. And I just put, I put a few things on or one on social media. I think we got another one coming up here.


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[Assistant] Where, like, he's covered, they've called the right defense, everything's good, but the pass protection's good, and his ability to go, oh wait, I've run this route, but they've covered me, and I'm gonna uncover this area, and Mahomes' ability, because of the pass protection, to also stay with him in those moments,


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[Assistant] Then to make throws down the field to him, that was amazing too. I mean, listen, Ahmed, there's a few plays where, I mean, it's, they're, they're, the guy defending Kelsey's running the route for him.


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[Assistant] You know, the Texans don't have a great pass rush, so that's been an issue for them. Then there's another play where they double him. I mean, he's doubled.


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[Assistant] They got him doubled running a crossing route and he sees it and he kind of like slows up in the middle of the field and then hits it again and splits them and Mahomes throws a rifle out the backside of one of the guys doubling them. So, you know, there's sometimes that's what's frustrating about Kansas City. You can watch a lot of plays on this game and go, it's the right defense. They got him.


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[Assistant] But there's just nothing you can do to stop the talent on the field at times. And that's the biggest issue. The biggest thing to me too, uh, uh, Ahmed, is Kansas City gotta aggressive. You know, Kansas City, they gotta, they gotta...


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[Assistant] When teams played them like the Texans do, the Texans played man to man almost the whole game. They tried to switch it up to zone a few times, and my homes carved them up, and I think they just said, well, f*** that, we can't get a pass rush, and if we play zone coverage, he'll just buy time and pick us apart. So they said, okay, screw back, go back to man to man. And they did that, uhm, but two things happened.


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[Assistant] What's the point of having Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins and Patrick Mahomes if you can't throw the f**k ball deep? Like, what's the point? I don't know, what'd you draft them for, to throw slant routes? Right? So, you gotta do that because why? You're good at it. And the other part of that is, what happened when they started to do that? They started to get pass interference calls. So who cares if you complete it or don't?


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[Assistant] Because Bradley Roby, when you have good pass protection and you're playing man to man, you're covering Tyree Kill, when Tyree Kill goes down the hill, down the field for 30 yards and then goes, whoa, I'm gonna now run this way, he's gonna get held because nobody can run with Tyree Kill like that. Nobody on the planet.


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[Assistant] So that's why they have to continue to stay aggressive that way. And then the other thing that happened too is Mahomes realized


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[Assistant] Wait, they're not really staying in their pass rush lanes and they're playing man to man when I drop back? I'm gonna run! And that's when it became deadly because now the Texans are going, oh we're worried about all these pass concepts and this talent and our backs turned and now we got people all over the place rushing Patrick Mahomes and he made a few runs and that's


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[Assistant] You've heard me talk about some of the bread and butter plays that the Kansas City Chiefs run, like, you know, verticals, and then, you know, Travis Kelsey's running a deep cross underneath all the verticals. Well, they would do the same thing, but like Travis Kelsey would look like he's running the deep cross and then put on the brakes and break out the other way.


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[Assistant] They're bread and butter plays that now make the defense and Romeo Cornell and the guys guarding going, Oh wait, they have some, they got some curve balls and some change ups today. I better watch out. I can't overplay some of these routes. And I thought that was really well done by Andy Reed in the offense and Eric Biannimi as well.


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[Assistant] That is taking your ego out of the equation. Or, I don't know, maybe actually, it probably actually shows he's got a big ego because he thinks it's all about him. I don't know which one it shows. But either way, yeaah, it's funny. I mean, guys are like that. I was like that. I used to watch my dad. And when things didn't go good and he was in a road game,


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[Assistant] I hit every room in the house that day. They lost like 42 to something to Steve Young and Company in 1993. I, I, I was like, well, okay, 14, nothing. I gotta, I gotta change your room. And then I went there, it was 21, nothing. I was like, oh shit, this room is not good either. And then it was like 42, nothing. I was like, all right. We need a new house. I need a new house. Get us out of here, dad.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that's the way fans are. Yeah, and in football especially, you become, you know, uh, what is that? Superstitious.


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[Assistant] I wasn't panicked because of the way I said, there's a difference between being down 24-0 when it's self-inflicted mistakes. I was panicked, don't get me wrong, I shouldn't say that. But I knew there was still a chance. Uh, you know, like I said, there's a difference between being down 24-0 and you've messed up.


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[Assistant] Then, 24-0, and we haven't had any mess-ups, and they're just like 10 yards, 12 yards, 10 yards, 12 yards, you know? Stringing out 10 yards, 12 yards, and then that's the difference. If it was like that, I would've gone, oh shit, they're done, it's over. But it wasn't like that, and we all know how quickly they can score, and it was just about getting that play, and that m- I've never seen a game, I just say this to a


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[Assistant] Never seen a game that had more special teams plays that dictated the flow and energy of a football game. It was unreal that way. Uh, but Kansas City, it just, you know, they're tough. Their coach doesn't panic. Mahomes is unreal.


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[Assistant] And they got playmakers, Amin. You know, that's why you draft playmakers. And they have a credible eye for it. Because, oh, things aren't going good. Somebody will make a play to jump start us.


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[Assistant] And we've seen for the last two years that somebody usually does. They get it going, and whether the play is there to be had or not, their actual talent gets them over the hump when some things aren't there to be had, and that got them going, the McColl-Hardman return, and they, uh, really were never the same after that.


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[Assistant] He does it through game planning, his attitude, his attitude rubs off on his players. It, it encourages like...


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[Assistant] Oh, let's not be, let's not be scared in the big moment. Let's, let's go for it. You know, and that's the way is sometimes he's so much like that, that he messes up in big moments because you just go, no, just run the ball, please. And he's like throwing a 50 yard bomb down the field still.


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[Assistant] But he's aggressive, and it lends to his players playing free and never feeling that pressure. And, uh, you know, that's a big credit to him that they hung in there. And, you know, I felt bad for the Texans, but the Texans clearly were not the better football team on the field that day. I don't know what else to say. And as you can see, the Kansas City Chiefs are a different team.


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[Assistant] You know, their offense is good. We know that. They can pass protect. They're D-line.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, it wasn't like the first time around. Carlos Hyde wasn't like moving the pile at six and seven yards a chunk. This D-line in Kansas City, even without Chris Jones, has depth and size. And that's the amazing thing about the win yesterday. We could sit here and argue that Chris Jones is the second best player in the Kansas City Chiefs. For them to do what they did.


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[Assistant] Against that team without maybe, without definitely their best defensive player was amazing. Frank Clark, gotta give him a shout out. He played the best game of his Kansas City Chiefs career. And the other thing they did, Ahmed, that was impressive to me on the defensive side of the ball, I've talked about Spagnolo. He changes up coverages, does all these different things. I always love that about him.


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[Assistant] Whoa, nobody's open downfield. Whoa, I'm gonna dance for seven minutes and run in a circle like a chicken with his head cut off. And then maybe he got around the corner for six yards.


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[Assistant] Because they did what we've talked about on Sunday Night Football a lot. They never let their defense ends go past my homes. Really, for the good part of the day. They stay, I mean, Watson, excuse me. Yeaah, they tried to corral them and keep in the pocket and didn't open up lanes. And that was a big part of the game as well because they saw Buffalo get burned with that crap last week.


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[Assistant] Look at him. He's big. What? He's a giant human being. He is. I mean, his arms, everything. It's outside linebacker, like, dealin' the end, playin' tailback.


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[Assistant] Do you want to do it? I had a little game for you on Derrick Henry. Yes, but first thing I just want to say this is like, that put Derrick Henry in an uncomfortable spot. He had to go up there and immediately go, we're just joking. Yeah, because he's from Alabama. He came right after Mark Ingram. If you see, if you watch the game right after the game is over, they sit there and talk on the field forever.


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[Assistant] So, I'm sure, like, he's like, damn, I'm gonna have to answer this. Now, this is what football players do, and it's not, like, disrespectful to Mark Ingram, and Derek Henry's right.


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[Assistant] Were people probably doing that in the locker room this week in Houston to make fun of Mark Ingram? I mean, uh, you know, in Tennessee, sorry, to make fun of Mark Ingram and stuff. Yes, they probably were. That's how teams get motivated. That's what things get to. Oh, he's a dork, we're going to smash his face. Freaking dork. That's just the way football players are. It's not personal.


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[Assistant] I would rather, I would rather escape than unblock Jadevion Clowney. You think you'd have a better chance at that? I do. I feel like, you know, defense of ends are so like, oh, I'm going to kill the quarterback that you can give them the okie doke when you see them unblocked and they're coming at you. You know, cause they can't wait to kill the quarterback.


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[Assistant] There's no avoiding. If I have to tackle him, yeah, I can go low, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to make the tackle. It also means I can probably get concussed with his knee hitting me in the head as he runs me over. I would rather take my luck with dodging.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, he's not going to be in the top 15 or 16. I can already tell you that. That's not happening. He didn't play like a top half of football quarterback. You're right.


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[Assistant] I practice enough and I'm very angry at Ms. Hunter for spelling that name as in Danielle like my wife and calling it Danielle. It's very confusing to me, yes. No respect, no disrespect, Danielle. But I got that one down. It was almost as scary as I was.


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, but it's 30 times a game, but I mean, like we saw the other night, a lot of the damage was done, you know, with carries 1 through 20. Really, right? And same with actually the Patriots game. I mean, he didn't go off in the second half, it was really the first half. So, uh, man.


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[Assistant] I mean, their own line has been so impressive. I mean, it really has. They're getting their money's worth out of some investments. I mean, they paid Roger Saffold, like he was one of the better guards in football.


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[Assistant] They got Ben Jones at center a few years ago in free agency from the Houston Texans, I believe. If my memory serves me correct there, I got too many people going in my head here. And then of course, top 10 picks with Taylor Luan and Conklin at the tackle position.


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[Assistant] You know, they've been playing phenomenal. So there's no, you can't take that away from them.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't have thought in a million years that they could run the way they ran against the Baltimore Ravens defense. You know that. That's why I, I mean I thought the Ravens were gonna win this game by at least two touchdowns. Matt, Matt Judon was unblocked on that big long run. And he bounced off Derrick Henry. Like bounced off him. And he's what, 265?


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[Assistant] I mean, so, O-line's playing great, and then Derek Henry never misses a hole.


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[Assistant] Okay, and then he has Freakish Ability. He's got great patience, he's got very good vision, he really understands where they run the outside zone play, and a lot of these big runs we're seeing are all on the outside zone.


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[Assistant] And, hey, if they get the reach block and kind of seal out the edge, he stays running outside. But as soon as he sees, ooh,


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[Assistant] We didn't, we didn't seal the edge, and we're not, I'm not gonna get outside, and the linebackers have flowed too fast. Man, he can put his foot in the ground, and really, I don't think TV does him justice for how fast he's moving. You know, with big people like that- He doesn't look fast at all. Right. He doesn't look fast until you see people chasing him, right? And then you're going, man, nobody's catching him.


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[Assistant] But he's covering so much ground with each stride, he's just, uh, one of the freakiest people you've ever seen.


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[Assistant] The results weren't. You know, they could say whatever they want. I don't know. Baltimore, you know, again, they seemed certainly rusty.


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[Assistant] I can see that. You know, think about it this way. Like, the offense really wasn't stopped, the Ravens. They continued to move the ball. Think about it. First drive, they're going down the field. He throws a ball high to Mark Andrews, intercepted. Then he gets the penalty on top of that, right?


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[Assistant] Ravens do a good job, third down. Tannahill throws a, a fade ball down the left, you know, left sideline in the end zone. Jonu Smith catches it with one hand and gets his left ass cheek on the, to be in balance. I mean, that's just a player making a play. That's not being out coached or out-schemed. You know, uh, Brand, Brandon Carr was there. Okay, the guy just made a great play.


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[Assistant] You know, the second drive, they're going down again. Now this is where I disagree with John Harbaugh. I did not like this call. The fourth and one on their own 45 yard line. And I know everyone's gonna go okay.


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[Assistant] Baltimore, yes, Baltimore, Baltimore, Baltimore, just done this all year. Eight for eight. I get it. I get it. Fourth and one. I get it. And this is, this is a tough one to me. But to me, this goes back to, you need to read the tea leaves of the moment right there and see where your team is at and the game is at.


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[Assistant] One, I don't think you can unequivocally at that point just say, oh, we're dominating the line of scrimmage and we're gonna do whatever we want. Alright? That hadn't come about yet. Two, to what are your point you're just saying, they really hadn't played a meaningful game since week 16. They've had three weeks off.


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[Assistant] They might not be rolling. Four, three. They're playing the hottest team in the sport maybe. I mean, there's nobody hotter.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I just, I look at it that way and just go, you know, that was a dicey decision. To me there, I err on conservative. Especially when you feel you're the better team.


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[Assistant] Right? To me, that would have been another one where I would have gone, punt it down there, pin them back. Your defense is great. There was nothing on the drive before that told you, oh, the Tennessee Titans offense is going to give us problems today. We hadn't got there yet.


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[Assistant] It was only 7-0 and he threw a jump ball in the back left corner in the end zone, right? So you're not getting like dominated yet to me to where you panicked to make that move. Now I know they did that all year, but I'm just saying I didn't love that move. That was not my favorite.


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[Assistant] Like, they're pulling a guard from the left to the right. Ahmed, just so you know, he was supposed to go outside.


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[Assistant] From everything the blocking tells me and he decided to go somewhere in the middle. I think he thought he saw a soft spot and he thought he would just jam it in there and it just wasn't as soft as he thought. So he didn't follow his blockers for one. That was one issue there. But I just, I just didn't love


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[Assistant] I know, I know. This is not like a full Tropic Thunder moment. We've seen, I'm not saying this is like the worst decision in the world. Again.


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[Assistant] My thought is more that this is not the regular season. It's the playoffs. It's more interesting that they weren't able to get those. It was. I mean, yes, you're right. It is interesting. The Tides of Sea Titans have big people, so they were able to stand in there and kind of withstand the power of the Ravens, you know, run game straight ahead.


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[Assistant] You know, the thing I just look at, again, regular season is different than the playoffs.


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[Assistant] You know, teams and defensive coordinators go for brokemore in the playoffs. They'll do things that they maybe not would have done in the regular season because they just go, man, this poses issues with us, but I got to go for it here because I don't want to get burned by it or whatever else or we're going to be at home anyways. So they, they go for it in those types of those situations. So I don't love it because of that. And like I said,


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[Assistant] This is a team that came in that's hot and battle tested and really already played two playoff games because they had to win week 17 and then they had to win last week in New England of course to where your team is not like


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[Assistant] I understand it, but you know, I mean yeaah, they, they were rusty, you know, Lamarr made a few bad plays, uhm, but the thing with that is, so then there again, the titans haven't had to go the field yet, they haven't done anything, and you're gonna give them hope.


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[Assistant] Just in case you guys weren't confident, here you go. Here's confidence on a platter for you.


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[Assistant] And then they dial up a play to go for the jugular, and he hits, you know, the, what is it, Kaleef Raymond, the kid he hit for the deep post. Kaleef Raymond, yea. For the 45 yard touchdown pass. One catch, only catch of the game for him, 45 yard touchdown. So even with saying that though, they're not stopping Baltimore. Baltimore goes down, gets a field goal, had some drop passes. Okay, so that was another issue.


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[Assistant] You know, Seth Roberts drops a deep cross that might score. You know, Willie Snead drops a third down pass and they might get the first down four, right? So they settle for a field goal. Then they stop them, right? Then they go down and get a field goal before the half.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I think you're right, but to that point there it is, it's like 14-6 and really the Titans offense hasn't really sustained a drive yet during the game.


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[Assistant] So that's why I would say like, I didn't like the 4th down decisions. And specifically, don't like the start of the 3rd quarter 4th down decision.


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[Assistant] I don't. That means start of the third quarter. They drive down again, right, to start the third quarter. Just go up 14, make it 14-9. You're the better team and you're starting to get settled into the game. That just, that's my thought.


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[Assistant] And again, I know this is second guessing on a Monday. I get it. Monday morning quarterback? I'm playing Monday morning quarterback. Well you're gonna see other decisions that I agree with here as we go along from certain coaches and things like that. I'm not like...


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[Assistant] I have my reasoning for that, but that would be my thoughts there. And to your point, like why you thought that, why did you think that? Because we haven't seen Baltimore down since their last loss against the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I think it did get them out of their comfort zone. I think, you know, also to like what you're saying, I think they panicked. I think they were a little bit like, wait, we steamroll everybody. Have you not paid attention to us the last 14 weeks of the year?


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[Assistant] So then they don't make the fourth down, right? Then the big break, now they break a run. Now they go down and score to make it 21-6 and you're going, whoa. And then Lamar does press. The next drive is he holds the ball, there's nobody open.


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[Assistant] And he kind of, he's so desperate to make a play, he kind of loses track of who's around him in the pocket. He just made a guy miss, but like hey, they're going to come back and still try to get you just because they missed you. But he kind of kept patting the ball, waiting to make a big throw, strip sack fumble, blah, blah, blah. 28 to 6, game over. That's all there is to it. Shocker, like shocker.


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[Assistant] Bill Parcells had a quote in the paper that week when the Giants went up, up and beat Green Bay. And I'll never forget this and it really rang true to me. He had a quote here in the papers in New York where he went


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[Assistant] Green Bay went out there to put on a show, and the Giants went out there for a fight. And I feel like that's what happened in this game. Baltimore just kinda came out, hey we're Baltimore, we're gonna put it on a show and show everybody that we're awesomer. And Tennessee was like, nope, let's strap it up tight, we're coming in between the tackles.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it, there's no doubt. I mean, he really hasn't had to to this point. You know, and again, those are like, yeaah, he's 2-0 in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] This made like three or four plays, right? You shake your head because you go, that's why I always say it's ridiculous when we give all the credit to the quarterback. You know, four years from now, we're all going to look back and go, Ryan Tannehill was 2-0 that year in the playoffs. Yeah, I know, but he's thrown for 150 total yards so far.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll say the zone scheme, I think, got the Ravens a little bit, because, you know, you've heard me say the Ravens are so big, so powerful, and this is what I didn't do with taking into account. You know, the inside-outside zone scheme is not their cup of tea.


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[Assistant] You know, they're not made to like athletically go down the line of scrimmage and try to stop the zone. And when he did, okay, yeaah, you got out there to stop the zone. Like we said, he put on the brakes and would make a cutback and they're not that fast in the front seven to adjust off of it. I think that's what jumps out to me. Kansas City's front is


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[Assistant] Every bit as good as Baltimore at stopping the run. I think actually they have a better, maybe not quite the size of Baltimore, but a little more athleticism, and especially if they have Chris Jones. Uh, Kansas City, I'll say it, you know, maybe it's the second week in a row. I would be shocked if the Tennessee Titans run the ball the way they have the last three weeks against the Kansas City Chiefs. Would be shocked.


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[Assistant] But we'll see. If they prove me wrong, they're going to the Super Bowl. Anything more on that game? Nah, I think we hit it all.


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[Assistant] Oh, Brian Schottenheimer figured it out. No, it was just Russell Wilson going, alright, screw it, guys. I'm gonna make it happen. And that's really all that happened. There's no other way for me to say it. The one thing I'll give Brian Schottenheimer


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[Assistant] The least, the thing they stayed consistent with a little bit in the second half is play actions and boots still a little just to get Russell on the edge, a few completions here and there.


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[Assistant] Like that. Got him on the edge for run pass, right? Or just getting out of the pocket to create some lanes, to make some throws. That was a good thing they did. But like, you're right. I mean, it's unbelievable. You know, it's just, it's amazing how they never feel out of it. And they shouldn't.


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[Assistant] Uh, but their offense doesn't know favors. It's almost like a role reversal. That's all I'll say before I cut. I know I could chop.


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[Assistant] But like, it's like, this is like Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson four years ago, where it was the other way around, where I wanted to go, man, can they help out Aaron Rodgers? Does he have to do everything? And then I was like, Russell Wilson at least has a defense in a run game. Now it's the other way around. You know, Rodgers has a little defense in a run game, and Seattle is just like,


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[Assistant] Russ doesn't do it, they can't win a game. They had more of a run game when, when Carson was playing before he got hurt. But they've fallen apart in the run game. And the Packers did what we've been asking.


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[Assistant] They aired, they did not go like Johnny Meathead and go, we're gonna stop Mark Sean Lynch and put nine guys in the line of scrimmage. He's not gonna run against us. No, they kept two safeties back. They played it really smart.


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[Assistant] I get you, and your, and your guard, one of your starting guards is not playing, and now the backup is not playing too, so you're on your third string guard. So you're not doing your best stuff early in the game, and it ends up losing.


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[Assistant] To where, you know, a lot of people I know, I hear this too, like, why doesn't Russell Wilson do this? Well, you know, the way he's playing at the end is out of desperation. He's been back into a corner. So he has to play that way.


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[Assistant] Like he doesn't want to start out a game that way. You know, when you start out a game plan that way, that's the day all of a sudden the scheme works and there was people open and you're like, man, you missed them, but you were too busy scrambling or running around. Like no, he lets it naturally come that way. And this is Pete Garrow. He wants to play through the run game and defense and all that. But yes, it handicaps someone a game like this. It definitely did.


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[Assistant] Because they ran into a team that was going, oh, okay, we don't think your run's that good. They stopped the big pass plays like we talked about.


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[Assistant] And then they had an offensive coordinator in Lafleur who had some creative things, the first few drives, and Rogers.


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[Assistant] And Aaron Jones, and they made some plays, and all of a sudden you look up and you go, we're down 21 to 3. And now he's like, alright.


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[Assistant] I guess I gotta let it go. And, and that's the frustrating thing about them. And that's the way they've played all year. That's the way they do it. But again, if they want to continue to play through Russell Wilson, and he's gonna be the star of your team, they need to have more pass concepts. They probably need to get another weapon and receiver. This is the way you're gonna play. Or you have to dramatically change and improve your defense this offseason.


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[Assistant] Because that's the issue there, too. It's just not telling. All the things we've talked about with Seattle all year long.


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[Assistant] The secondary can't play man to man. Anytime they had to play man to man. What was it? Big play by Green Bay in a big moment. All those third downs at the end of the game, whatever it may be. They just don't have enough people that can do that. The scheme's predictable. They changed up a few things with the scheme this week. I'll give them some credit there.


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[Assistant] You know, it's like, at some point in the NFL, every team's gonna see their kryptonite, and Seattle found their kryptonite on, on Sunday night.


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[Assistant] Right, it's been two teams I haven't had a good feel for either way the whole year. And yeaah, I guess I just wasn't sold on...


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[Assistant] Green Bay's toughness and whether they could win the games the way they've been winning them against a game, a team like Seattle. I guess I had more faith in Seattle winning those type of games, but I was wrong and, uh, my favorite quarterback ever proved me wrong and I can deal with that.


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[Assistant] I think so, yeaah. From a player's perspective, I think they changed the mantra of their defense and their team a little bit to be like, oh no, eh, like we got more of a like a F-U in your face, physical personality on defense. You know, the other guys I'd give credit to are Mike Peddon.


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[Assistant] For having the vision to how to use them and probably tell a good and coost like, hey, I'd love to get an outside linebacker like these two guys in free agency. They got it done. So Goody deserves credit. LeFleur.


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[Assistant] For playing a style that fits Mike Petten's defense too and having the vision to, you know, a lot of things, whether it's the toughness through the run game, that's what he's instilled in the Packers.


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[Assistant] Well, one thing before you start it, LeFleur stole a few plays from Shanahan and what he did against Seattle. So you saw that, like LeFleur, of course, comes from Kyle Shanahan's coaching tree. So yeaah, he probably saw that and goes, ooh, that makes sense to fit in our offense. He did that. Had a few tendency breakers, I think, again, you know, to where, you know, hey, the Devonte Adams, the last,


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[Assistant] And some good play design like you were saying. Good play design, uh, but he's a really good player.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe I don't give him enough credit sometimes. Sometimes I don't say he's like a game changer that way. Maybe I need to readjust my, my thought on that. Really? Yea, because I think what I look at sometimes is I just go, I don't know if he's a game breaker to where you go, oh my gosh, we have to double. Now Seattle got out of their comfort zone.


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[Assistant] They doubled him a few times, which I give Seattle credit for. They usually don't do that type of stuff. Uh, but ultimately, yeaah, he's talented, he's dependable.


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[Assistant] He's got a great connection and feel for Rogers and Rogers for him. And then you're right, some of the game plan plays. You know, they really did a good job. Hey, that last touchdown, okay?


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[Assistant] He, this is a play that Green Bay has run all year. He run, it's play action pass by Aaron Rodgers. Jimmy Graham's runnin' the deep cross. And all year, he's done this. He's run a deeper cross or like a post route over the top of it.


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[Assistant] He did what I just told you with Travis Kelsey a little while ago. He went, errr, put the brakes on and went out. You don't think that was design? You think that was... It was design this time. This was design. This wasn't like Kelsey reading it. Instead, this was like LeFleur going, hey, we've run this play a lot and you always do this.


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[Assistant] Let's do that this week. And Trey Flowers, who probably was told all week in Scout Team and covered it and saw it on film, he was running for that post like a bat out of hell.


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[Assistant] And then he stopped, and he couldn't stop. And all of a sudden, bam, he catches the ball with all that space, puts on the breaks again, cuts across the field, touches it. That was a huge moment in the game. Huge. 21 to 10.


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[Assistant] And you're thinking, ooh, okay, here comes Seattle. Watch out. It's the third quarter.


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[Assistant] And Rogers had the unbelievable third down throw to Jimmy Graham down the middle where he ran like the deep cross post. And then he had that throw right there that I, to me, that drive solidified the game. I mean, obviously it did. But that was a huge answer for a team that we know was starting to gain some momentum and see.


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[Assistant] I would've guessed that you still had a better chance of winning with punting the ball than going for it on 4th and 11th. You know, I would've. You know, again, it's 4th and 11th, the chances of converting that are not good. You know, you've been stopped, what, the two drives before that, at least maybe one drive before that. Maybe that was a... But either way...


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[Assistant] You know, so first off, the third down sack, right? Hey, tight end covering Bach and Preston Smith. You know, I love that one.


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[Assistant] Oh, I drew the line there. Guys, we're good this week. We got, we got Preston Smith blocked. I drew a line and we crossed it and he's blocked. Oh, that's right. Jacob Hollisters.


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[Assistant] Not really a blocking tight end, and he's going against one of the best passers- Oh, that's right, there's humans involved here. It's not just an X and a- Oh. So that was stupid. I killed him. I'm not totally-


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[Assistant] I would have punted. I just would have. Yes, I would have. First off, Green Bay hadn't scored since halfway through the third quarter. So they had made a number of stops at this point.


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[Assistant] No, they didn't. There's no other way to say it. And they actually got down to two third down throws. The first one was the big game, the inside slot fade to Devontae Adams. Guess what? They're playing man to man and they can't play men.


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[Assistant] So that came back to bite them in the ass once again. Ugo Amadi, the rookie 4th rounder was on. From Oregon, right? Is that where he's from? I think he's from Oregon. But either way, yes. So there, there. And that was a great play by Rodgers too. Not only the throw again, which was pinpoint.


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[Assistant] The nuance of what he did. Anybody go back and watch that. He knew he was going there. He gets the snap and he looks to his left because the safety was favoring Devonte Adams in the deep middle of the field.


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[Assistant] But since he licked left, looked left and gave it a good look, the safety moved over about five yards. And then he came back and boom, threw the ball just right. And the guy, you know, Demonte Adams goes out of bounds, blah, blah, blah, gets the first down and then the next third down.


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[Assistant] I don't think he got to the first down. They got a favorable spot, but they couldn't, you couldn't really tell where the ball was and all that stuff. And they got lucky. So yeah, they got lucky there, but like don't give me like, I don't want to hear like,


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[Assistant] That was the difference in the game, no. The Packers got screwed over on the first drive of the game, the first play the Seahawks ran, Jacob Hollister fumbled, the Packers recovered it.


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[Assistant] And that was a bullshit call too. So, you know, again, I'm not gonna look at those type of calls. The Packers won the game, they outplayed them, they did the right thing.


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[Assistant] I couldn't get over it actually. And I think, you know, uh, Liam and Mike Florio, we watched like the first quarter on the field together. I think we were all like, whoa, this like, I don't know how you could hear anything. And you could tell that was an issue from Minnesota early, but I was really impressed. And I love the stadium. And of course, 49er fans,


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[Assistant] Are, are very passionate. They always have been. You know, I grew up hating the 49ers, of course. They made me cry a lot with Joe Montana and beating my dad and all that shit. But, uh, it was a really cool episode.


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[Assistant] I love the stadium, first off. I was before this, I have been there a few times. I love that it's kind of clean, like there's not like, it's got some really like white, almost modernish, right? I like how all the press boxes and suites are on one side, like the Staples Center, like in like basketball, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I think it's kind of cool and loud wise. Listen, I'm not going to sit here and say it was as loud as like...


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[Assistant] You know, the 12s in Seattle when I've been there before, or maybe even like the old RCA Dome the Colts used to play in, those are like I think the two loudest places I was in my NFL career. I don't think it was as...


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[Assistant] I think it was louder than Arrowhead last year. I'm just saying that right now. I was an Arrowhead for Divisional around last year. I think this was louder. Yes, I do. It gets a little hot in the summertime. Yes, it does. One side of the stadium where the fans will bake. Yep. Somebody like me, you caught me on the wrong bench.


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[Assistant] Just so much better. Well, here's like an in-person point of view, the first thing that jumps out at me more than anything. I mean, if you saw San Francisco in person, you'd go, whoa.


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[Assistant] I get how they can dominate, because they got some, you know, they go back to the like, the, you know, the bar fight test.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, you get in a fight. I mean, San Francisco's gonna be in the final four or five. They just got between Buckner and Armstead and Bosa and D. Ford and, you know, even the way Quan Alexander and Jaquiski Tartluk and Richard Sherman, who's a huge corner.


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[Assistant] Then you got McGlinchey, who's like a giant, and Joe Staley, and Lakin Tomlinson, who's a huge guard. You know, you just look at those guys. Oh, and then there's George Kittle. So their look on the field, like Minnesota's impressive. I've seen Green Bay in person. I hadn't seen San Francisco in person in two years. They are, they look the part.


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[Assistant] So, when you see them in person, you start to realize why they physically dominate games like they did on Saturday, and that's what they did. I mean, come on, there was no chance. I mean, the Vikings, yeaah, they scored a touchdown, great. They scored a touchdown because of a pass interference and a jump ball that was perfectly covered. The guy just didn't make a play on the ball, and Akila Witherspoon got benched. That was the end of that.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, out physically dominated the vikings, out schemed them.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, Jimmy G had some shaky moments there at the end of the second quarter through the interception that was set at the Vikings up to the field goal. You know, shaky a little, you know, but then I think Kyle Shannon just said, you know what? We're dominating the line of scrimmage. F**k that. We're going to run the ball. Like, and he just kept running the ball to start the third quarter on the Vikings. And if an aim broke, don't fix it. And he just, they slowly pounded them into submission.


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[Assistant] You're right, you're right. It is. They're actually like, they're backwards. They're almost like, they're like Baltimore. Except they just don't do it with Lamar and Jackson. They do it with a lot of deception before the snap, after the snap, whatever it may be. And they rip off chunk plays in the run game.


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[Assistant] Now I, I know that was one thing like Shanahan was a little scared of. Like I think he knew he could run the ball on Minnesota, but just in my little conversations with him, he was kind of telling me like on, on, uh, Friday.


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[Assistant] I had truck Harrison Smith's gonna make a tackle at like the 10 yard mark or the 12 yard mark or something like that. And yeah, that's what happened. They never really busted a huge one.


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[Assistant] But it was 8. It was 7. It was 5. It was 8. It was 10. It was 4. It was 2. It was 8. Like, it just was a constant, you know, up your butt jo-boo effort there. And then the defense dominated on the other hand. And then again, we saw, you know, the issues with Minnesota arise. Like, right? We talked about Kryptonite. There's your Kryptonite. They couldn't run the ball.