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[Assistant] Well, it'll be an interesting aspect of what hopefully will be a great game. When we return, we're going to flip it over to the other side when the 49ers have the ball and the Lions are on defense and we'll make our picks for the NFC Championship game next here on Chris Sims Unbuttoned.


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[Assistant] Alright, here we go. NFC Championship game when the 49ers have the football. And again, 49ers favored by 7 over under a 51. 55% of the spread money is on the San Francisco 49ers. They've got Christian McCaffrey, they've got George Kittle, they've got Brock Purdy, they've got Trent Williams.


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[Assistant] They might not have Debo Samuel. We'll see Brandon Iook as well, who was the second team All-Pro this year. What does that offense do against a Lions defense that has shown it is not


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[Assistant] So, aka Kaka, how does that play out when it's time to try?


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[Assistant] How does that, how does that, boy that would have been great. I would, I would have given him a big pile of money if he had said kakao in the air. And bless you by the way. Thank you. And bless you again. Thank you. Bless you again. Keep sneezing in the show, we'll go to kakao. Alright, uh, 49ers, offense, what do they do against the Lions defense, which is kakao in the back end?


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[Assistant] And we talked about that earlier on PFT live, bait them into putting their big guys in there and then spread them out. Swiss army knife, Christian McCaffrey, Kyle Yustchuk, move guys around and, and let Brock Purdy do his thing.


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[Assistant] It's amazing how Brock Purdy has become so polarizing. There's a group out there that says this guy sucks no matter what and he's overrated and then there's a group that's like


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[Assistant] He's Joe Montana already and you can rattle off any stats you want when you're the captain.


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[Assistant] We've seen Christmas Night Against the Ravens, and I know...


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[Assistant] Some of those were just bad luck. Shit happened. The ball goes up in the air and somebody just happens to be where it comes down. We saw the game against the Vikings. There are moments where it may be too big for him.


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[Assistant] So far. Maybe he can rise up to it. This is his test. This is his challenge. And what's riding on it is the possibility if he pisses down his leg, and I'm not saying he will, but if he does, you get Kyle Shanahan with his wandering eye. Who else is out there that I can have play quarterback to finally get us over the hump as they go from quarterback to quarterback to quarterback to quarterback. They did it to Jimmy Garoppolo.


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[Assistant] They, you know, they, they, they did it to trade Lance before he even got a chance to really be the weekend and week out starter. They'll do it to Brock Purdy. They were going to do it with Tom Brady. They were going to bring Brady in before Purdy even had a chance to have the year that he had. So, so I'll make my pick again.


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[Assistant] Make him beat us, because if I make Christian McCaffrey beat us, he will. I'm taking away McCaffrey, or at least trying to take away McCaffrey, and I'm going to make Brock Purdy beat us, and maybe he will, against a defensive secondary that, to quote Mike Tirico again, is not good.


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[Assistant] It's not good for me to abandon my preseason Super Bowl picks. I just can't do it. I never want to be accused of trying to have it both ways and I fully appreciate the fact that you're willing to try to have it both ways. I'm not criticizing you of doing it. I just don't want to open myself up to it.


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[Assistant] Taking the 49ers to win. 24-21. Lions cover. Lions cover. 49ers win. 24-21. Brock Purdy passes the test and takes the team to the Super Bowl. Thanks in part to the defense and Christian McCaffrey.


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[Assistant] Well, I got Chief's 49ers rematch in the Super Bowl. Either way, it's a rematch at the 49ers win. Best bets, or best bet, as the case may be, next year on PFTPM and Kristin.


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[Assistant] Alright, here we are, Chris Sims on Button PFTPM. Landing the plane with best bets, or as the case may be, best bet we have one. It can be a team to cover the spread or a team to


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[Assistant] Uh, or two teams to go over or under. I rarely go over or under. I'm thinking about it today, Chris. I'll let you do yours first.


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[Assistant] With only two games, I don't feel strongly enough about either of them to, to stake my claim to a best bet. And I'm holding a one game lead in the full season competition. So I look at the over under Kansas City Baltimore and I see 44.5 and I think there's going to be points scored in that game.


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[Assistant] I think it's gonna go, I got 30 to 27, that's 57 points if my math is correct and it rarely is. Now, I'm smitten by that score generally, but I see it being both teams in the 20s. And if both teams are in the 20s, at least both teams in the 20s, you're gonna have a chance of going over 44 and a half. So I'm taking the over, Chris, in the AFC Championship game.


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[Assistant] I got, you know, I, I think I've told you before, I text my wife during the games, my notes of the games and stuff, so that's what I'll point.


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[Assistant] Uh, Chiefs, and I-I like them at least by ten. Wow. Wow. Shereen?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, well, you didn't, so eat it, okay? Uh, I wish that the Chargers and their social media team came out with something creative. They're the best social media team in the business right now in the NFL. I wish they would have done something to crap all over you. That would have been fitting. I would have enjoyed that. I would have liked that. I wish they would have done it.


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[Assistant] I should have emailed them and reminded them to do that after the Sunday night pick segment. I wish I did it.


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[Assistant] It's always a coin flip. And then, you know, I mean, let's for your 2-0, but like, come on.


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[Assistant] So what? Exactly right. The league is crazy. I know I went one and two and best bets and I wasn't sure if I went oh and three. I thought I for, because I saw, I think the current line last week, I thought I got back door covered in the Eagles Washington game. Like I got back door covered in the mother ravens Cardinals game.


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[Assistant] So even when you make the right picks and you go, it's really right, you know, you're freaking lose anyways. And I'm pissed that I'm going to win two out of these three categories. I am.


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[Assistant] It's awesome, right? It's so cool. Everything about it. I love the way it looks. I can't wear it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. Cause I bleed blue in my veins, baby. I bleed big blue.


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[Assistant] I literally, I literally put it on on Monday night and was walking around the house or no, it was Tuesday night and I went


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[Assistant] I can't do it. I felt like a hypocrite. I just couldn't do it. And I had to take it off and I folded it and I was like, I told my wife, I was like, who can I give this to? That's an Eagles fan.


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[Assistant] I was like, I can't wear it. It's like, it's one thing for me to wear like maybe something that says Rams on it, right? They're not a rival of the Giants. They didn't beat my dad up when he was, when I was growing up. The Eagles on the other hand is personal and I couldn't do it. So great sweatshirt. Thank you for getting me it. I will not be wearing it again.


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[Assistant] Gosh, I mean, I know you're going Steelers on this one. All right. I mean, this is, how do you know? Don't have my phone. Well, cause you're a Steelers fan. This just lines up to Steelers pasta meatballs.


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[Assistant] Florio bullshit talk here. Okay. All right. You know, but I sat here. I know you, we talked about the game earlier today. The Titans are comfortable playing and


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[Assistant] Stealer type of football games, right? One score, field goal, fourth kit, fourth quarter, hard-hitting football games that way.


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[Assistant] Right? You know, I do think that the tie, the big question is the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Can he handle Renegade, you know, the Pittsburgh creativity on defense? Is he going to hold the ball and get stripped sacked?


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[Assistant] Like, that's the only hesitation I have in the football game. I think Tennessee is better than Pittsburgh. I think Tennessee will run the ball on Pittsburgh. I think Tennessee's defense is going to make life miserable like everybody does for Pittsburgh's offense. Right? So it is about Will Levis and just taking care of the football.


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[Assistant] I think he's going to do it. I'm going to take the Titans Thursday night football. Crazy stuff happens. I'm going 1716 Titans up you up yours up your terrible towel and up your renegade ass right there. Okay. Well, happy Thursday.


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[Assistant] That'll look good. All I need is some cold breath coming out. That'll make it look like a Pittsburgh, Tennessee Titans football game, hard hit in old school, like you said. So that's good. It's cold up here in the Northeast. I don't know what it is there right now for you in West Virginia, but you know, when I got in the car this morning, it said 27 degrees, which was the first time it said that in a long, long time.


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[Assistant] You know, in Denver, right? Worked with the Eagles last year.


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[Assistant] I think has a pretty good understanding of how Kansas City operates there, right? So that should be a tough challenge, I think, for the Chiefs offense. I don't know.


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[Assistant] You know, I guess in my heart of hearts, I know the Chiefs offense is good. I'm still not sure how good. I'm not.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the thing that you gotta look at with the Chiefs, and yeaah, they've played eight games, is they've had a pretty favorable schedule.


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[Assistant] And I kind of feel that way about their offense in their defense. Listen, we know they're good. I'm not, that's not, that's undeniable, but just how good I think it's still, I'm waffling in that department. You know, the defense, yeah, one of the top five defenses in football, but you know, again, you look at their schedule.


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[Assistant] And you go, well, what offense have they really had to play that's scary? Your Vikings offense is probably the best offense they played all year, right? And they're not even good at running the football. Maybe they catch Jaguars early in the year there. You know, but so I guess I have questions is what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Still in that department. What scares me about the Chiefs matching up, Chiefs defense matching up against


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[Assistant] The Dolphins offenses, how much man demand the Chiefs play. The Chiefs are aggressive. They call your bluff.


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[Assistant] Uh, and yeaah, I'm still questioning the overall greatness of the Chiefs offense. Mahomes was horrible last week. That was the worst game he's played in a long time. And I worry that yes, he'll be a bounce back week and he might light the Dolphins up a little bit, but I'm going with the Dolphins here in this one.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go Dolphins 28-24, fun game, lots of big plays, but they pull it off in Germany.


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[Assistant] Good, good, I'm glad too. Listen, what you said there definitely scares me. There's no doubt. You know, this will be kind of the...


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[Assistant] I think one of the big tests in going, wait, okay, so the Dolphins are going to be one of those teams that beats the teams they're supposed to beat, but they can't beat any of the teams that are equal to them or maybe a little bit better than them, right?


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[Assistant] You know, cause their schedule too. It's yeah, it's been favorable.


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[Assistant] We'll see. It's got a lot of intriguing matchups across the board in this one.


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll see how that goes. One of the things I don't, I want to double check too. You know, Xavier Howard, where he's at, that's going to be an interesting thing too, whether he can play. You know, we haven't seen him play in a few weeks. Him with Jalen Ramsey, you know, across on the other side of the field is certainly going to change that defense.


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[Assistant] Dolphins are already over there. Chiefs are leaving today. Dolphins are a little more accustomed to Deutschland. Acclamation. So yea, we'll see. Acclamation. Right.


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[Assistant] Well damn, yeaah, cause I ain't picking the Vikings, I can tell you that much. Alright, there's Slugger. That's not happening.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think Heineken is going to be a boost for the Atlanta Falcons football team. I do. Well, I think it's going to finally open up the field for the Atlanta offense a little bit and you're going to get to start to see


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[Assistant] The running game of Atlanta finally be what it's capable of because teams aren't going to be able to just go, well, you know, they can't throw the ball ridders all over the place. We'll just stop the run. I think it's going to open that up.


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[Assistant] You know, I have so much respect for everything in Minnesota. I really do. You know, Kevin O'Connor, Brian Flores, all that. I just don't know if I trust the quarterback situation.


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[Assistant] Quite yet. I don't doubt that they might be able to make Hall look respectable as this year goes along and really, you know, be competitive still to a degree, right? But I gotta see it first before I'm gonna pick them in a football game.


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[Assistant] Uh, Falcons, I think bounce back this week. I think get a little bit of an energy boost from the quarterback switch. I'm going to take them 24 to 13.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, this is, this is, we haven't had a start like this all year. It's, it's, we're got a civil war going on here. I love it. Good. Oh, for three. Let's get, let's keep it rolling here. Seahawks Ravens battle of the birds. Who's the biggest baddest bird of this group?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, you know, I have a, I have similar sentiments and, and, you know, I'd be interested to see, you know, the big trade the, the Seahawks made and Lennon Williams and how much he plays this week. And, you know, can he digest the defense a little bit? I would imagine he plays to some degree, just how much.


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[Assistant] I think that'll be a big factor in helping them out, not only this weekend or, and, and that stretch you've talked about, you know, that that's, you know, they're


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[Assistant] I think the Ravens, you know, quite possibly are the best team in football. I think they got it going right now. I know you heard me say earlier today, you know,


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[Assistant] McDonald, the D coordinator for the Ravens, I think is head coach material. I think their defense is the best in football when I just look at players and scheme and combined it all together there. And I think the offense is continuing to go in the right direction here. You know, I, I guess.


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[Assistant] You know, I could see Seattle's defense giving Baltimore some problems here and there. There's, they got some big time playmakers. What I really worry about is Seattle's offense. I still think it lacks a little creativity. They're still not solidified up front all the way and they just go through moments of.


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[Assistant] Like we don't see them for a period of time. Like last week, uh, you know, the Cleveland start out kind of hot. And then, I mean, literally do nothing in the second, third, and almost the whole fourth quarter until the very last drive of the football game.


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[Assistant] There's been a lot of that this year. We've seen them struggle against the Bengals. I think their offense is going to have a problem against this Ravens defense. I'm going 27-17 Ravens.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Browns are impressive. They let one...


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[Assistant] Sneak away last week. They did. They should have, they should have beat Seattle.


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[Assistant] You know, I think they outplayed them and they kind of messed the game up with their offense. You know, that's something that they need to be a little bit more aware of. When you have a defense like that,


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[Assistant] I mean, it really should be like, Hey, offense, just let's not the game up. That's goal number one. And you know, but the late interception and then the early strip sack fumble early in the game, those are two things that gave the Seahawks 14 points where you go.


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[Assistant] By the lake, rookie quarterback against this.


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[Assistant] Are you kidding me? I don't see a lot of, I gotta respect for what the Cardinals are doing. I think their defense will probably give the Browns some issues there. But all in all, I just don't think the Cardinals offense is going to be able to do anything here. And so I'm going Browns 21 to 9 in this one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, I'm not holding it at hope that we don't see Matthew Stafford still. I mean, just knowing him.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, you know it. You say it all the time. He's one of the toughest guys in the sport. I wouldn't be shocked if he got out there. I am picking the game as if it's Brett Rippon. Right? Uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't like what I've seen from the Packers. I don't know what else to tell you.


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[Assistant] You know, I really don't. I mean, they couldn't move the ball in Minnesota last week. I get that. They had issues. I think this Rams defense is every bit as good as Minnesota last week.


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[Assistant] I think they're going to pose problems for them that way. The bread ripping thing's really the big question here. Because, like, I would no doubt pick the Rams to beat the Packers if Matthew Stafford was playing here.


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[Assistant] I-I'm-I'm still gonna ride with them. I'm gonna play that they manage Brett Rippon.


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[Assistant] And that he's played enough football and he's comfortable enough in that system where they can win an ugly defensive struggle type of football game. I just got no faith in the Packers and what's working there right now. I don't. And I do think SRAM's defense is damn good.


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[Assistant] I do think the Rams will be able to run the ball on the Packers a little bit, which could make life easier on Britt Ripon. I'm going to go 17-14 Rams.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is a, this is a coin flip type of football game, right? And you know, one thing I'm mad that I didn't kind of talk about last week and that football game was like Vita Vaya, him not playing, him not being healthy, right? You know, he said he didn't participate again.


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[Assistant] The Bucks are a different defense when he's not there. And that's a position we overlook a lot of the times. When these great defensive tackles don't play, these teams aren't the same. Like we, we, we, if it was a receiver or a corner, we're always like, well, they might not be the same with them. We need to do a better job. I'm talking to myself too of going like, Hey, wait, one of the best


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[Assistant] The play guys in football might not be playing. That defense might not be looking the same. So I, I got my eye on that. This is a, is a tough one to pick.


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[Assistant] Right? I think ultimately where I'm going here is...


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[Assistant] Right. I got a little more faith in them as a total team right now. I think they're a little more balanced in their offensive attack as far as they can run the ball. And then we know CJ Stroud and company are pretty damn good too. Last week that Carolina defense is good. It gave them problems. Uh, but the other thing is with the bucks, I'm just like,


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[Assistant] You know, the Bucks can't run the ball and I don't think they're built enough and creative enough in the pass game with Dave Canales' OC that they're going to tear anybody up with their pass game. I'm going to go with the Texans 20 to 17. I don't feel comfortable about it, but they're at home and I think they bounce back this week.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, even with the trades, I mean, Washington has still got talent on the football field.


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[Assistant] So, you know, I feel like that in itself is a big letdown for the commander's football team. That kind of speaks to the locker room and the whole organization about where they are right now. Now their offense has still got some playmakers. We know that, right?


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[Assistant] Damn, I don't know. The Patriots defense is still good enough. I think they understand how to.


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[Assistant] They understand Eric B. Enemy's offense. And then this is the kind of, the commander's defense is not very good. This is the kind of defense that I think Mac Jones and the Patriots will have a balanced attack on and be able to move the ball and have some points. I'm going to take the Patriots to win 24-20.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, I'm taking the Saints. I am. You know, eight and a half is a little much for me though. I will say that. I do think the Bears are going to be able to run the ball in the Saints a little. I do. You know, the other thing too is the Bears, you know,


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[Assistant] Derek Carr and some of those, he can be a little gun shy at times, pulling the trigger into some tight windows and things like that.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I think the Bears are gonna hang around and make this a little more interesting than we probably all expect. I'm taking the Saints to win, but I'm not gonna take them to cover 24-17.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things here that, you know, I could sit there and go, yeah, I could see the Panthers pulling this off.


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[Assistant] You know, one, I mean, you, you know, I think highly of this Panthers defense and EJ Evero.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, I think Bryce Young and company looked good on the offensive side of the ball last week. It's going on the, an upward trajectory.


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[Assistant] The Colts defense is crumbling right in front of our eyes and everybody's starting to destroy them on a weekly basis. You got Frank Reich, who's going to want to shove it up, you know what, on the Indianapolis Colts a little bit there too. There's that motivation. That scares me. Having said all that, there's only one reason.


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[Assistant] I just can't do it. I can't take the Panthers. I'm going to take the Colts. And the biggest reason is this. It's just that...


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[Assistant] The Panthers have not been able to stop the run all year long, right? And, you know, maybe if there's a team that's, okay, we can only run the ball and we're not that exotic in the pass game. The Colts can throw the ball too. Shane Steichen is unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Shane Steichen in the run game is right up there with Shanahan as far as creativity and stuff they do there. And that's where I just think the Carolina Panthers are in trouble.


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[Assistant] The, the, the Colts are on fire running the ball lately. It doesn't matter who it is. Uh, so I'm gonna go Colts in a close game, cause I think the Panthers will be motivated cause of Frank Reich, but Colts 23-20. Oh damn, it's a three point spread.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I mean, what the, what the f*** is going on? How are the Raiders favored by a point and a half? I mean, how, how is that?


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[Assistant] I can't pick him. And Daniel Jones is coming back! That's what I mean, I can't pick him. I know that the Giants offense is nothing special or anything like that.


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[Assistant] You know, the Raiders defense is respectable as we see. As you saw last week, they hang in there. They're well coached by Patrick Graham. They really are.


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[Assistant] You know, but, but with this type of week, all these distractions, a rookie quarterback playing against, let's not forget the Giants defense is not, it's really good. It's really good.


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[Assistant] So, I'm gonna go with the Giants. I don't think it'll be easy. It's gonna be ugly. But I'm gonna take them 20 to 14 to win this game.


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[Assistant] I'm not picking against the Eagles anytime soon. I'm not. They're just too damn good. They really are. And, you know, I broke my own rule a few weeks ago when they played the Dolphins, and you know I'm always a guy that's like, hey, when it comes in doubt, the team was speed and the team was size, I like the team was size.


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[Assistant] And that's again, Advantage Philadelphia Eagles there in that department.


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[Assistant] The Cowboys are ultra aggressive on defense. They have a bunch of people at the line of scrimmage. They want to play in your face, man to man. And to me, that's just, it's almost impossible to beat the Eagles that way. They're going to have to hope the Eagles make a blunder. Jalen Hurts fumbles, does something.


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[Assistant] You know, that has been happening a little bit more than we're accustomed to this year as Jalen Hurts being very loose with the football. He's up there in the league leader and turnovers in that department as far as interceptions, fumbles, all of that.


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[Assistant] You know, I just think Dallas is compromised with the size of that Eagles offensive line, like we talked about last year, like we talk about all the time. And then therefore it's going to be man to man on the outside with Devontae Smith and AJ Brown.


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[Assistant] Who like you said earlier today is an MVP candidate, right? So that advantage goes to the Eagles. The other side of that ball, you know, Dallas' offense was better last week. They were more aggressive.


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[Assistant] Down the field and, and trying to, you know, open the field up a little bit, even when they wanted to throw the ball short, they send people deep and cleared it out and let somebody work underneath. I think that's a much better, you know, um,


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[Assistant] Is that if Jalen Hurts, Stripsack, Fumble, or Dallas can create some sort of defensive touchdown. And I think that's everyone's goal when they play the Cowboys is don't let that happen. The Eagles are smart. They're good enough not to let it happen. 30 to 21 Eagles.


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[Assistant] You know, two points, I understand that. And I think the Bangos defense is probably still being questioned by, you know, betters in the sports books and all that type of things. I get that. I'm kind of playing that they've turned the corner here.


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[Assistant] And they're gonna, they've been playing better football, you know, as of late before the bye, they started to play better football last week. Of course, I thought they were very good against the 49ers. They really were Brock Purdy. You know, this is where the game has messed up, made some of the best plays I've ever seen Brock Purdy make in that football game.


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[Assistant] Uh, and if he didn't, I mean, they might've got blown out. I'm one right now that I'm, I'm riding the bangles on the upward trajectory. Like we've seen the previous two years. The old line was great last week.


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[Assistant] Burrow had time. Burrow's ability to be healthy and run around. Those four or five plays a game that he does that for offense that you know, I don't think is exactly schematically overly creative or anything like that. It really helps that out, let alone their offense has grown.


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[Assistant] Joe Mixon looked great, alright, and I'm gonna go with what we saw last year. You know, everybody's got a team that they don't match up well with. The Bills love to play zone defense. Joe Burrow is the best zone defense, zone


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[Assistant] quarterback in football. You can't do it. As we saw last year, he picked them apart and I'm not a believer yet in the Bill's offense. I was a start last week with what we saw against the bucks. They did spread the ball around. That's how I'm happy for that. And hopefully that can continue here.


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[Assistant] This game, you know, at home in Cincinnati, that place is going to be going crazy. I'm riding with the Bengals 28-20.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is a tough one. I mean, it really is.


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, the Jets defense we know was damn good.


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[Assistant] I, I, you know, I don't think anybody's gonna be able to move the ball consistently on them, you know, throughout a game. I don't, you know, the big question is just the Jets offense and what it can do there. And even though, you know, I'm not a huge fan of the Chargers defense, you know that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but this isn't necessarily the toughest task in the history of football and slowing down the Jets offense. I think it really all comes down to is, you know, will the Jets be able to run the ball in the Chargers? The Chargers have been okay at stopping the run this year.


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[Assistant] It's been, you know, getting diced up in the pass game and stuff where you just go, like, how the hell did that guy get that open against them? That's the thing you worry about with the Chargers. I've kinda gone back and forth with this football game. I have. Uh, at the end of the day, you know,


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[Assistant] I just don't trust the Jets offense yet. I don't. And I'm gonna take the Chargers in this one. I'm gonna take, I'm not gonna have them cover, but I think their offense has enough answers to move the ball and kinda just surgically pick apart the Jets that way. I think that the Chargers protect well enough in this one that


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[Assistant] Herbert will have time and the Jets D line won't ruin the game, right? You know, so that's where, that's where I look at it. But it's the Jets offense that I really question. And I think with Staley getting


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[Assistant] You know, looks at that offense last year when Nathaniel Hackett was in Denver and everything there. I think only helps him out. I'm going to go with the Chargers. I don't feel comfortable about it. I mean, yeah, 20 to 17 Chargers. Excuse me.


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[Assistant] I hear you. Listen, that's what scared me. I literally have it written down. Jets, 20 to 17. I wrote down chargers, 2017. I started to write jets again.


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[Assistant] And then I crossed it out and went back to the Chargers. It's, I, I certainly could see a plan out. It won't be a best bet. I'm not betting on this game because that, what you said, I mean, the Chargers are a team that finds a way to mess games up and the jets are on the other end of that spectrum where they kind of hang around, like you said, and pull one out way too much. Very scary for sure.


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[Assistant] You go first, you go first. Always putting me first. Go ahead, let me hear it. Who's your first one?


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[Assistant] Sold. Sold, counselor. I will double down on that with you. So that's probably the kiss of death, and now we will f*** that up for everybody. But I'm with you. I'm riding with the Bangalore as well.


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[Assistant] Damn, I'm going with it. Sold counselor. I'm going the same way there. I'm, I'm with you. I worry a little bit that the Cowboys are so desperate to prove they can beat the Eagles and they run trick plays or whatever else, but I, I, I'm with you. I'm going Eagles as well.


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[Assistant] That's, that's a gutsy pick right there. I can't do that. I did think about Seahawks Ravens, cause I do like the Ravens. Six points is a lot.


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[Assistant] I don't feel good in it. So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna go, I'm attacking your mother effing Vikings. That's right. Here we go. Falcons. Okay. I'm taking the Falcons to cover the spread. Good. Good. Good. Good.


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[Assistant] I get maybe five on Monday night. Okay. Last Tuesday night I get a little sleep for sure. Last night I probably got like six and a half, seven. What the hell are you doing? You're old. Go to bed earlier. Why are you getting five hours of sleep? You work at your house. Go to bed.


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[Assistant] I do an intense podcast on Monday night. I don't walk out of the building to 12. You go in there and like just rub shoulders with all the big wigs and like talk every, you know, once every minute or so. Geez. I mean, come on. Damn. Gosh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I am going to pick the Chiefs. Yes. I don't know. Again, Thursday night always scares me a little. The way that Broncos game unfolded.


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[Assistant] The other day, I guess I feel like there might be a little bit of, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] A bad taste in their mouth, and they've gotta have a bad taste in their mouth altogether.


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[Assistant] Right? You heard me say like today on PFT, the Chiefs do play aggressive and get in your face. And I think Sean Payton can have some, some things for them on that side of the ball as far as making some plays in the pass game. Plus they know they're going to have to push the envelope anyways.


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[Assistant] Because they know their defense ain't that great and you are playing the Chiefs who we know even though offense is not


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[Assistant] You know, what we're used to, there's still a very good offense. It's just more of a hard work, longer sustained drives, that type of thing there.


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[Assistant] I'm going to go a little bit though, weird game, Thursday night, chiefs think they're better and they take their foot off the gas pedal and the game's a little bit closer than we all expect. I'm going 27, 23 chiefs.


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[Assistant] Man, our, our network, our company, Football Night in America? I don't know. I mean, I don't know. That would be, that's the baby of babies right there. I mean, the whole company can't think of anything but Sunday Night Football and the Olympics. And so I think you'd be in deep, deep shit. I do.


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[Assistant] Titan-ish type of football game, right? Whether they can win the game or not, we'll see, but.


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[Assistant] This is not a game where you look at and go, wow, well they gotta play, you know, uh, a high powered offense here, or at least one that's not high powered to this point. It feels like a game that's gonna be in that.


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[Assistant] 20 to 17, 21, 17 type of range, which is, you know, very comfortable for the Tennessee Titans. It's also pretty comfortable for the Ravens, unless they're playing the Steelers. I mean, that's, that's their kind of game as well.


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[Assistant] I think the Ravens are the better football team. The Ravens defense is very good. I have a hard time thinking that the Titans are going to be able to move the ball on a regular basis on this Titans, I mean Ravens defense, right? And I do think the Ravens offense is close. It's close, like we saw last week.


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[Assistant] I mean, yes, they can run the ball. All right. And, and you know, LeBar Jackson, quite honestly, I don't know, Mike, what do you think? It should have been an extra 150 yards at least just through drops, let alone one or two throws that he missed.


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[Assistant] So, uh, I like the Ravens in this one. I think it's a good one. It scares me because of that. It is a Titans type of football game, but I'm going to go Ravens 21-17.


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[Assistant] It's a big football game. It is. I think it's, you know, definitely a big game for Washington, who's another team that, you know, kind of like you just talked about with the Tennessee Titans. It's a little bit all over the place, right? I mean, you could look at the schedule and go, uh, you know, they could, they could easily be one in four.


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[Assistant] You know, they pulled off somewhat of a miracle or a lucky win of the Denver Broncos. I'm a little disappointed in what the Washington defense has looked like this year.


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[Assistant] You know, it, it, it's, it's dust up Del Rio time again. They need to go back to full insurrection. They're better when they try to insurect, alright? Alright. But no joke though, like they're way too talented to be letting up all the big plays they are.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, it's crazy. You know, Ron Rivera, Jack Del Rio, they're both defensive coaches.


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[Assistant] Like we've talked about, they got five first rounders in the front, seven. They got a pretty good secondary. They should not be the 25th ranked events in football. And what I worry about is they can't stop the run and they're playing a team that can really run the football and, and


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[Assistant] I do think Desmond Ritter and the Falcons finally kind of unleashed him a little last week. They took the training wheels off.


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[Assistant] They were more aggressive. He got the throw from a position of power more. They stopped over managing them to where it actually makes it harder, right? And the other thing too is the Falcons because you've heard me say every week is really good and they can stop the pass and Washington's more of a pass football team. I'm going to go Falcons 24 20.


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[Assistant] Are you making this up on the fly today? Like, are you just calling the numbers? Like, you talked right there, like you didn't know who you were gonna pick and then you just talked yourself and you're like, I have it, I have it, I have it. Yeah, you do as you're ready to get down right now. I have it, I have it, I have it, I have it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I hear you. I have a lot of the same sentiments you do.


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[Assistant] Right? I really do. Uhm, uh, the Bears are, they're, they're dangerous if they're clicking the way they've been clicking the last two weeks on the offensive side of the ball. But like we've said a lot of weeks, like the Vikings defense


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[Assistant] Is significantly better than last year, right? They don't give up a lot of big plays. I don't imagine DJ Moore getting behind this group and going, you know, for 70 yard bombs like we saw last week.


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[Assistant] And I think, you know, I think that Brian Flores will have a plan to contain fields and is scrambling to a degree, which hasn't been a huge thing when you play fields in the Bears right now. And then I kind of have the same thought as you, the Bears defense has been better, but it's still not very good across the board. And I think that we'll see a little bit of a puka Nakua


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[Assistant] This is like, this is definitely one of my favorite games of Sunday, that I'm looking forward to. I think you're probably in the same boat with me. I mean, there's a lot of cool storylines, there's a lot of star power on the field here.


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[Assistant] Right. You know, the one thing I want to check as we sit here too, and I just, cause, cause I got it locked in here, but I just want to go, where are we at with the tackles?


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[Assistant] Uh, as far as the Seattle Seahawks. That's one thing I'm a little worried about. And I see we have limited participation for Charles Cross, right? So maybe there's a chance he plays this week. But here's my big thing.


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[Assistant] The Bengals defense has been underwhelming. I'm disappointed with how they've played this year and partly that's been because of the offense has hurt them too. But man, a lot of big plays like you've heard me say and a lot of big plays, you know, in the run game too.


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[Assistant] And this is an offense that can run the ball and make big plays with Kenneth Walker. And if you get too overzealous trying to stop that or worry about that, we know they can make big plays in the pass game on the outside too.


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[Assistant] I think this is going to be a little bit of a high scoring affair here. Seattle defense, like you said, it's getting better. It's kind of that trend we've seen the last few years that it just gets better as the season goes along. And it was not that it was horrible this year, but they got some talented guys. They're versatile up front.


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[Assistant] They got the corners in the back end that I think can match up with Cincinnati when they need to to play some man to man, right? And watching back the Bengals film from last week against Arizona, hey, it was good. Definitely better than what we've seen, right?


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[Assistant] I'm still, I guess there's a part of me that's still not sold that they're back to the bangles we thought they are. I'm gonna go with the upset here. I'm going Seahawks 34-31. I think we have a fun shootout high-scoring game in this one.


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[Assistant] I didn't think you were going to go Seahawks with me there. I thought you would go Bangles here. I thought that would be one we would differ on. I wouldn't have bet on that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, this is, you know, if you made me pick the two best defenses in the game right now, it would be the Browns and the 49ers.


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[Assistant] From what we've seen. So I understand the low scoring affair. And then you add on top of that, that they're expecting it sounds like a monsoon there in Cleveland on Sunday, which I don't know. I think honestly probably hurts the 49ers. The 49ers are the team that


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[Assistant] We know both defenses are good. The 49ers are the team.


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[Assistant] Where the offense has a lot of explosive players, and I think that slows them down to a degree. And maybe evens the playing field a little bit more, where the Browns, it is still rooted in run game, and especially if Deshaun Watson doesn't play, it's gonna be rooted in run game. So that scares me, but I think this will be a low-scoring affair.


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[Assistant] Right? But I just think the 49ers are a better team in totality here. There's just more offense, there's more answers for them on that side of the ball, and the Deshaun Watson


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[Assistant] You know, the inconsistencies of the Brown offense and then whether or not he plays and the fact that he hasn't played, you know, and hasn't practiced at all here in a few weeks, even if he does, does not make me feel like, oh, he's going to come out and just rip apart the 49ers defense. I'm going to go 21 13 49ers.


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[Assistant] This is an interesting football game. I, you know, I got respect for both teams and what they're doing here. Right? You know, Houston, how could you not like what we've seen so far from that football team?


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[Assistant] Right. Uh, I, I look at that and go, yeah, it's not going to be an easy day for Derek Harren company against that group in Houston.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're fast, their front seven flies around, right? They're kind of conservative with their coverages in the back end, and that's where they can make, you know, life a little harder on you here, right? Uh, I think my biggest concern is really more, and as much as you know I love CJ Stroud,


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[Assistant] It's just the, the New Orleans defense is pretty damn legit.


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[Assistant] And they smother some people. And I don't imagine like the Texans being able to rely on the run game to control things in this one.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go a little bit in an even game where I look at it and just go a little bit with the culture of the Saints and they got a few more veteran players and know how to play in this type of football game. I think offensively they might have turned the corner a little last week.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and I do respect Derek Carr kind of battling through this shoulder injury. I'm going to take them 24 to 17 to get the win on the road.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I think, uh, and I know you heard me say this.


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[Assistant] Even when the Jags, I believe, lost a two in a row, they were close.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of self-inflicted mistakes. It wasn't like I was watching the film going.


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[Assistant] Damn, they're physically getting beat up. Damn, they're slow or all this, right?


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[Assistant] You know, hey, they were toe-to-toe with the Chiefs like we saw. They really messed up the game. I'm not saying they would have won for sure against the Texans, but they made some big mistakes. But there was things to look at positively. And of course, then we saw in two games in London, them kind of build on that. And we saw it last week, their best performance of the year against the Buffalo Bills.


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[Assistant] That's where, the Jaguars are one of the most talented teams in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And, you know, we've said it, they're young, they're still kind of learning their way here.


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[Assistant] But I think the offense has turned the corner. They can run the ball or beat you with the pass, right? That's the one thing I look at and they need to capitalize a little too. Last week's game shouldn't even been close. I mean, Trevor Lawrence got stripped sacked right on the fringe of the red zone twice or maybe one of them was in the red zone.


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[Assistant] They really dominated. It was a lot of late yards by Buffalo when the game was kind of over that even led to their statistical looking better that way.


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[Assistant] The Jags D line is phenomenal. The D, the secondary is really good. And like I said, it's a Colts defense that's not been as good as I was expecting. That's what I'll say. And I think it's too much of them to ask to stop this offense that truly is balanced and can beat you either way. I'm going to go Jaguars 30 to 20, Mike.


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[Assistant] Jackson Deville is gonna whoop your ass. He's gonna put some kitty litter all over your crap this weekend. I like it.


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[Assistant] I mean, yes, in the wind department. The Dolphins are...


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[Assistant] I mean, is this historical we're watching? I mean, they're, they're going to break. As we look at it right now, you just go there. They're going to break like every record that's important in the single season, the history of football.


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[Assistant] I mean, right now we're going Tyree Kill on pace for more than 2,000 yards. Tua Tat- Tua?


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[Assistant] The Panthers offense sucks, right? They got nothing there and there's nothing that makes me think they're going to keep pace with this group right here. I'm going Miami 38 to 20 at home and I think it's easy. It's, it's like 38 to 20 and they pull their foot off the gas pedal somewhere in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] You know, I still, I guess there's a part of me that, you know, thinks that this, this Patriot team...


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[Assistant] We'll rebound and fight a little bit, right? I think the big thing is their offense can't make mistakes. Their offense can be ordinary and not.


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[Assistant] Sure. But they can't let the other team score points. That's the one thing we've seen in both of these blowouts. They've literally gone, hey, defense, you guys score for the other team.


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[Assistant] And that I gotta think is gonna be one of the number one things they talk about there this week. But you look at it overall and you just go, okay, one, the Raiders defense is not bad. They've been a pain in the butt all year other than the Buffalo game and their offense put them in some bad positions in that football game.


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[Assistant] And it's, it's of course got one of the best pass rushers in football.


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[Assistant] And it's against an offense that's a New England Patriots. That's not good. Period.


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[Assistant] And then I think you add on top of the other side of the ball where you go, yeah, there's no match you done. We know the secondary is depleted.


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[Assistant] We know McDaniels knows their system a little bit and what they like to do on that side of the ball. I just see more answers for the Raiders to win the football game. I think Josh Jacobs looks, looked better last week. He's getting there. He's getting in game shade. He's had to lose some weight. That's been one of the things going on there.


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[Assistant] You know, and then of course, Devontae Adams and Jacoby Myers, like you talk about, and we talked about it on PFT today, Jacoby Myers is a damn good football player. I'm going Raiders 20 to, 20 to 16. I had 2017 written down the spreads three, so I'm going to make it 20 to 16.


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[Assistant] Who do you have? Well, this is one, the Cardinals of course have been respectable. We know that, right? They've done a great job. You know, with a, with a below average NFL starting quarterback, right? You know, not a lot of household names on the defensive side of the ball. I give them respect.


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[Assistant] On the other side though, I mean, I would put the, McVeigh is having one of his best years coaching ever. He really is.


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[Assistant] I mean, what he's doing, I know it's not all about wins and losses here. You know, the, the fact that, hey,


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[Assistant] It's 20 to 14 and Matthew Stafford missed the 2-2 at well wide open down the middle Midway through the fourth quarter where you're going damn he hits that that's gonna be a touchdown and they're gonna be beating the Eagles I mean they hung around there It's because of the coaching and they know what to do on both sides of the ball the Cardinals defense is


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[Assistant] Not a, not great pass rushers, okay. So they can't take advantage of the Rams bad defensive line. And there's just too much zone free access to these receivers. That's the one thing that really jumped out to be watching the Bengals Cardinals swim from last week.


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[Assistant] And that just bodes well for the Rams, where we know, oh, drop back, you're playing zones, McVeigh's gonna find a million ways to get Cooper Cup to read the coverage and sit here and go there and against this coverage, and they're, they're not gonna be stopped that way.


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[Assistant] So I'm going with the Rams, and of course I think the Rams defense is just superbly coached. And the talent is probably a little better than I gave it credit for. I'm gonna go Rams 27-17, Mike.


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[Assistant] That in this gangrene verse gangrene match of the, I felt like you were like percolating, maybe taking the jets or making it real close. So I kind of want to see where you got some pasta meatballs working here with a little Parmesan on it. What have we got going here?


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[Assistant] It's amazing. I love it. I don't know what to say. I'm like, one, a little surprised. Two, I'm almost like, oh man, Jets, if you don't win or do this, it's just going to make Flurrio hate you guys if you don't. And he's going to crap all over you from this point on. So I'm interested to see how this goes.


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[Assistant] I hear you, the Jets have been playing better. There's no doubt about that. That, that, that's right. There's two things that worry me though. Is one...


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[Assistant] The Jets can't stop the run very well. I mean, not very well. It's bad. It's below average.


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[Assistant] And you know my thoughts on this Eagles football team. They can run the ball.


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[Assistant] Pretty much on anybody, and if you wanna slow it down, you gotta go to such an extent to stop it, that you're compromised in the pass game.


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[Assistant] And Jalen Hurts has shown to me this year that he has gone up another level as a passer at least in that it's not just throw a goal ball to AJ Brown, throw a jump ball to Devontae Smith.


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[Assistant] I kinda said it to you last week, you know, there's more over the middle, there's more touch passes, there's more pure passing within the pocket that I'm liking to see there. And I worry about the Jets


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[Assistant] Oh line versus Eagles D line. I do. I mean the Eagles D line is phenomenal.


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[Assistant] I'm going to play a little bit of the other side of this, that the Eagles are going to turn on the film a little bit and go, damn, there's some talent on this Jets football team and it's going to get their attention. And I think we're going to see an Eagles team


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[Assistant] Play one of their best games of the year here this week. I just think they're too much. And I think with the pressure, that's where I don't trust Zach Wilson when people are on him constantly. And that's when he gets a little careless with the football. I'm going 28 17 Eagles.


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[Assistant] Like to where I went from maybe a few weeks ago going, yeah, they're a playoff team to no, I'm, I've turned the corner and gone, they're a super bowl team. The lions are a super bowl football team. Their offense is as good as anybody in football.


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[Assistant] It's right up there with the 49ers and the Dolphins. To me those are the three best offenses in the game right now. Creativity, balance, can do whatever you want. The defense has, is the real deal. They're size up front, they're better in the secondary, they can get after the quarterback, and they seem to make a play or two every game.


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[Assistant] I think they're too much for the Buccaneers in this one. I do. I'm gonna, I'm gonna take the Lions and I respect what the Bucs are doing and Baker Mayfield's been doing a real good job, but I'm gonna take the Lions 30 to 20 to win this one on the road.


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[Assistant] Dr. Needle is back in it. I know. This is, uh, there are some interesting storylines here. It is the battle of New York a little bit.


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[Assistant] Daniel Jones' ability to play a course is a factor in this decision.


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[Assistant] Because Daniel Jones, where he doesn't, where people don't realize his value is how many sacks he gets off or gets out of. How many times he throws the ball where you're going, he's about to be obliterated, but he's tough and he hangs in there and makes a throw.


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[Assistant] Right? But I don't see many avenues here to which the Giants can win this football game. Come on, let's be serious. I mean, I think like Josh Allen would probably have to shit and piss down his leg at the same time for them to lose this game. That's kind of how I look at it.


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[Assistant] You know, does day ball have a little bit, a little bit of a clue?


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[Assistant] On McDermott's defense and some of the things they do, sure. There's no doubt about that. He might know a few things that the rest of us don't or other people in football don't, but I know I think it's such a big advantage that the Giants will now become an offensive juggernaut against the Bills. No.


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[Assistant] Right? You know, the, the where, the, the where I can see this game maybe just being a hair closer is where I always go to. Is the Giants defense is a pain in the butt. They are.


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[Assistant] And I think that Wink Martindale will be able to figure out ways to not let Josh Allen go totally off here.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I'm, the, the Bills are gonna win the game. I'm gonna say it's 28-17. It probably could be more than that, but I feel like it'll be a little bit like they'll get the lead and kinda take their foot off the gas pedal and just coast their way home. So I'm gonna go Bills 28-17, Mike.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I could see this is a tough one as far as total points.


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[Assistant] There's a part of me that can see this becoming a little bit of a shootout.


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[Assistant] There's also a part of me that goes, oh, maybe it's a little tighter and low scoring too, and I'll, I'll explain. You know.


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[Assistant] First off, the Cowboys offense is underwhelming. I know you don't listen to my podcast and I don't expect you to, but you know, you know, I do mind.


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[Assistant] Breaking down a film and all that. And it's, it's kindergarten, the offense. You know, I put a lot of people on Dak Prescott this week about him not playing well. I'd go, I'd go, let's go sit down and watch some film and go, what do you think Dak Prescott could have done so much better that would have helped their team out?


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[Assistant] They didn't have three people open the whole night. And it's so basic on that side of the ball. It's scary. Now, the one thing I look at and go when they can run the ball.


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[Assistant] Then their play action pass becomes a thing, and they become, they look like a different offense, right? And they might be able to run the ball against the Chargers. The Chargers defenses we know stinks, but their big problem has been past defense, not necessarily their run defense.


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[Assistant] So that's where I go, I'm a little torn on how that goes. The other side of the ball, we know Dallas' D is real, there's no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] But they do play a lot of man to man and they can be aggressive and we know they got Justin Herbert and they're not afraid to throw the ball down the field with Kellen Moore in a little bit. And they can protect the passer about as good as anybody in the game.


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[Assistant] So, that's where I'm a little bit like, I can see them protecting and making a lot of big plays. I can see Dallas going, wait, they protect pretty good. And they got Justin Herbert and let's be conservative. Either way, I'm going to pick the Cowboys 23-20. I don't feel comfortable about it though.


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[Assistant] I can see the Chargers winning this football game for sure, but I'm going to go with the Cowboys in a tight one.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, the first one, and man, it's a crazy league.


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[Assistant] My thought has gone a little bit and this is what I did last week. I'm going to bet with the teams that I know and then I'm confident in their consistency.


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[Assistant] 13 and a half, I can see it being more. I'm going with the Dolphins.


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[Assistant] Well, that'll be it. That's going to be the end of that slot machine right there. So you could shove it right up to your back to Vegas. So F you mofo. Okay. Cause I'm going.


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[Assistant] Fly Eagles fly. You could take Zach Wilson and you could take the vaccination organization, but I'm going with the Eagles. Okay. I don't like it. The jets can't stop the run and I don't trust Zach Wilson with a lot of pressure on him, which I think he's going to have this game.


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[Assistant] I picked the Eagles 28-17. I can see it being worse. I'm going with the Eagles.


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[Assistant] I kick your ass. Good. I like it. Alright. Let's see. You put your money where your mouth is here. Cause the next one I'm going to the raw. The lions, the lions will eat a buccaneer every time they see them and I'm going with them. I don't know what to think of the bucks quite yet. They're better than I thought. I know that.


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[Assistant] They could seriously, also I could look at it and go, they could have one win, right? The Lions are legit on both sides. I got them winning 30 to 20. They cover that three point spread easily. You got something for me? You want to dance? Come on, pick it. You know what? Come on.


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[Assistant] You're going Dolphins? Alright, I'll go just for fun. I'll go the, the, the, the bills. Okay. Cause the giants are about dead in a gutter. So I'll take that one there.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what up homies, thanks for watching. Remember, subscribe to Chris Sims on Button. Right now we got Sunday Pod.


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[Assistant] My Super Bowl pick. My team. To win it all.


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[Assistant] Uh, so we're gonna give you, uh, all the different games, uh, our insights that are different than anyone else's insights on every one of these games. Of course they are. Well, they're original. That's where it is. Uh, the bounce back games section we will have. We will also have a across the pond section. You may be able to guess the game that we're gonna talk about in that one.


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[Assistant] Uh, we have, we have a heartbeat section, so maybe some teams we thought might be dead. Maybe they're not dead after all. Uh, we're going streaking. So some teams that continue to win and.


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[Assistant] Give me the headlines and we will not forget the Thursday night game and the Monday.


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[Assistant] Night game still to come. That's a lot to get in. We got a lot, but we've got here for, we've got the energy. So let's start with the bounce back games. The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Baltimore Ravens 17 10. You knew this was going to be a low scoring game. Pittsburgh was blown out last week at Houston. If you remember.


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[Assistant] And there were times in this game where I thought, well, the Baltimore Ravens...


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[Assistant] They could, they could blow them out. Dropped touchdown in the end zone, Rashad Bateman. Like, watching this game, the Ravens left so many points on the field.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you go Pickens at quarterback, and you go, uh, maybe he played it in high school, I don't actually know, and you gotta try to cover for yourself, but, uh, six catches, 130 yards, the game winning touchdown, 41 yards on this one, cause even with all the points the Ravens left on the field, it still didn't look like the Steelers had enough to get over the finish line.


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[Assistant] If you're, if you're just listening, they're at the 40, there's a minute 24 left, second and nine, and there's no safeties, the corners, and Marlon Humphrey is on pick-ins, I mean, they are just like, I mean, they are, the farthest guy back is the linebacker there, six yards.


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[Assistant] You know what team is 0-2 in the division? The Cincinnati Bengals. But, good for them, they did bounce back and they got a win against the Cardinals. 34-20, wasn't sure that was necessarily going to happen after what we saw last week against the Tennessee Titans. 27-3, I mean the offense had been terrible.


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[Assistant] Ted J Rowland says damn okay, Burrow is back. Keen to see if Bengals can push on here. And so let's just go.


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[Assistant] Inside the numbers, with AWS to start this one right away.


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[Assistant] Because Jamar Chase got going. Let's hold the Joe Burrow conversation just for a second here. And let's look at the numbers for Jamar Chase because maybe that is in tandem with how Joe got his flow back. 19 targets, 15 catches, 192 yards, and 3 touchdowns.


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[Assistant] It was a career high 15 receptions, 192 yards. The three touchdowns was targeted on seven of nine routes against man coverage hauling in six catches there for 59 yards and two touchdowns. He leads the NFL.


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[Assistant] With plus 446 yards over expected versus man coverage since 2021. So when he's manned up.


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[Assistant] We wanted AWS to reconfirm what we think about our guy Jamar Chase here. Uhm, and so, yeaah, so,


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[Assistant] Exactly. Like, stop him. And if you're not gonna do that, we're gonna keep going to him. And if you do that with a double team or whatever, we're gonna do something off of that.


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[Assistant] How did that happen? Because you almost look as, you know, unhealthy as you did all season at the end of last game. I guess just a week of treatment can do that for you.


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[Assistant] Uh, one other indication that Joe Burrow is healthy, and uh, Pete, if you want to throw the dots up there on that 63-yard touchdown, the second touchdown of the game to Jamar Chase. According to NextGenStats, uh, the ball traveled 58.1 yards in the air. That was Burrow's lar-, uh, longest completion by air distance of his career.


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[Assistant] That is, that is the perfect segue to our next bounce back game, and that is the Dolphins defeating your New York Giants. Who? 31 to 16. And so Pete, let's show that. We were just talking about it. Next Gen Stats does have that. The Dolphins remain fast.


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[Assistant] And three on this top five list, then you got Tyree Kill, and then you got Raheem Moster, which I think is like an oh by the way, we also have a really fast dude who might be the fastest running back in the NFL, uh, if it wasn't for the other guy in his team.


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[Assistant] We'll wait till it's final and then we'll talk about it in full. We'll give it the appropriate, uh, time that it deserves.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and yeah, he won't have, that's what he said, he won't have ten interceptions this year. Dak said that, uh oh. Uh oh. There's three.


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[Assistant] He's up to four now. Oh boy, that's not good. So maybe he meant he'd have more, but they'd still be more explosive of an offense. Like you promote sometimes. Don't be afraid of the interception. Alright, back to the Dolphins here. Uh, they have 2,568 total yards of offense this season.


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[Assistant] That passes the 2000 Greatest Show on Turf Rams for the most ever by a team through their first five games. And they asked Mike McDaniel about that, and you know what his quote was. He said, quote, Mission accomplished. Our whole goal this entire offseason was statistical output through five games. Then he did a little wink and pointed up.


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[Assistant] He's a funny funny guy, but he is able to get these fast dudes in open space on a almost play by play basis.


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[Assistant] So let's take a look at a couple of dots here because Hill does go off for 181 yards in the touchdown today. The 64 yard, uh, catch and run. Was that the number one play? Is that the 22 mile an hour one there, Pete? I believe it is here. So here it is. If you're watching on Peacock.


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[Assistant] Sunday Night Football, NBC, uh, James Lennox 19 is sad. He goes, Chris, where do the Giants go from here? They look like the worst team in the league offensively and now they lose their quarterback. So Daniel Jones left with that neck injury, did not return, admitted after the game his soreness and that pain does feel similar to the injury he had in 2021.


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[Assistant] And it continues, as I mentioned, as we go to the Across the Pond section of our podcast here today. Uh, the Bills are the next opponent of the Giants, and so the Bills are gonna have two Across the Pond games in a row. They go across the pond to play, and that's where they play. And then they gotta come back across the pond again to play in America. That's two in a row, right? You gotta cross the pond to play this game. You can use that in football.


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[Assistant] Missing a majority of last season with that torn ACL. Uh, Matt Milano, left in the first quarter. It ain't good. Uh, knee injury. I came in today, it ain't good.


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[Assistant] Here's the injury report, too, if you're watching. Tredavious White, he's out for the season with an ACL. Shaq Lawson was inactive today with a toe. Christian Benford, shoulder. Uhm, Daquan Jones, a pec injured today. And so...


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[Assistant] Colin tweeted into us, damn okay, Tottenham stadium. Why do you claim the souls of so many men?


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[Assistant] The bills, their three and two start, not terrible, but it is their worst since 2018, the last time that they missed the playoffs, which is an indication how good they've been, and also is an indication maybe we shouldn't have apologized for leaving the bills out of the postseason picture. Maybe we rescind our apology from last week.


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[Assistant] For their next game too. So that'll be difficult for them. We got a couple teams now as we move on to the section. We have a heartbeat. We thought they might be dead. Damn. We thought that we might have to bury them early, but no.


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[Assistant] Hold on, hold your horses. The Falcons defeat the Texans. 21-19 Atlanta. Coming off losses to Detroit and Jacksonville the previous two weeks. They hadn't scored more than seven points. Neither of the losses. Desmond Ritter woke up.


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[Assistant] In this one. And you had challenged him. You had floated it out there that maybe it was Taylor Heinecke time.


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[Assistant] He goes 28 of 37, 329 yards. A touchdown. He had a rushing touchdown as well. He came a big late in the game. He stepped up with your mounting pressure on the quarterback position in Atlanta.


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[Assistant] I did write in my notes here, even though we started it with Desmond Ritter and the big numbers, they did only score 21 points. And I wrote credit to the Falcons defense for keeping Texans in check because they did have to face some short fields and fumbles and turnovers and missed opportunities by the exact


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[Assistant] Ritter is now 31 and 0 as a starter at home in college and in the pros. So at Cincinnati he was 26 and 0 at home and now in the pros as a starter he is 5 and 0. That's amazing. Lock him, lock him in Atlanta. Take away his passport.


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[Assistant] There is a little controversy in this game though. Yea. I heard in the broadcast, they were going with Bajan.


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[Assistant] I've heard that a couple other places, and so Pete did some digging, and you're a Texas guy, so maybe you have some inside information on this. Uh, his mom.


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[Assistant] How come you pronounce your name like that? Bijan. And he goes, I don't know. I guess people say Bijan. And that's just how I say it. And so someone asked him, like, well then how should it be said? He's like, well,


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[Assistant] My mom thinks it's like Bajan, but I say Bijan, you can pick whatever one you want.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright, alright. Pete, you heard it here first. Chris is going with Bajan on Football Night in America until he gets too much, too much negative feedback.


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[Assistant] Nathaniel Hackett gets his revenge on Sean Payton for all the negative comments that he made in the off season about the bad job that Hackett did.


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[Assistant] Sean Payton hasn't done a great job so far. They lose by 10. 31-21. The Jets had three straight losses since that week one overtime win versus the Bills. And so they needed this one, uh, badly.


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[Assistant] What do you think? Cause Andrew Hazard, 989, says damn okay for Nate Hackett beat Sean Payton. That is the headline.


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[Assistant] P Ryan, it was a high pitch. It was a reverse. And it was funny because I was listening to Matt Ryan. He made a couple good points when he was on the call for this game. He didn't like that call from Sean Payton because


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[Assistant] Sauce Gardner had just gone out of the game with an injury, and he was like, he got a practice squad player now in the secondary, number 31, who had come into the game. He was like, why are you trying to run a reverse? Why don't you try to attack that guy the first play with Sauce Gardner? So he didn't like that.


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[Assistant] You're right, there was a fumbled punt returned by the Jets, but then Russell Wilson was sacked, fumbled it right back to the Jets after that, so they couldn't take advantage of that one, so there were some miscues back and forth.


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[Assistant] Real deal Quincy Williams. Amari Jett says to you, we gotta give him a little shout out here. Damn okay, Quincy Williams, uh, in the conversation for a top five to top three linebacker in the NFL. Dude is everywhere around the field. He had nine tackles, two sacks, and a forced fumble there at the end.


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[Assistant] Something to be happy about if you're a Broncos fan. The result was not something to be happy about. Or was this tweet from the New York Jets at the end that there's the King of Queens who has become a meme on the internet now. Multiple memes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the look that you have on your face. So the, uh, Jets get the win. They have the last laugh. Two and three, the Jets. Two and three. Good defense. They'll be in the mix.


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[Assistant] It is over in Santa Clara. It has gone final. The 49ers have defeated the Dallas Cowboys. You're finding this out for the first time on this podcast. We will give you the final score. 42 to 10. Uh, that was domination. Complete domination.


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[Assistant] 25 first downs for the 49ers, 8 for the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] They didn't have a reception over 30 yards. Dak throws for 153 yards and those three interceptions. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Brock Purdy goes 17 of 24, that's 71% completion percentage, which is a significant drop off from last game, which was what, 90 something percent? Yea, something like that. 4 touchdowns, no interceptions.


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[Assistant] Joe Montana ran the West Coast system to perfection. I would argue every quarterback who is good runs the system and the system helps the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Nine touchdowns, no interceptions this season for Brock Purdy. Christian McCaffrey has a touchdown for the 14th straight game right now, but Heinrichson John has a little bit of a concern with him.


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[Assistant] Is Shanahan overusing Christian McCaffrey, who has been injured before? The amount of plays we see him in begs the question. Can you keep going at this current pace into the postseason and still be effective?


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[Assistant] Not accusing you, uh, Henriksen, John, of stealing our talking point. No, no, I think it's a good one.


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[Assistant] Well, he's going to have to be great if he keeps this up because he's on pace for 408 touches this year. He led the NFL coming into the week with 97 touches. He had another 19 carries and three catches.


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[Assistant] Not literally kill him, you know, figuratively. You're gonna need him next year too, so yea, keep him alive at least. Uh, you know, some teams though,


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[Assistant] They don't need some of their biggest playmakers. They're just so good that they don't even need that. As we go into the we're going streaking section, of course I'm talking about my Detroit Lions. You look at the injury report, no Amon Russ St. Brown out for the game. No Jameer Gibbs out for the game. Didn't matter, didn't stop him, didn't slow him down. 42 points against the Carolina Panthers.


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[Assistant] 42-24. Third straight win for my Lions. Best start since 2011. They're 4-1 right now. And I will tell you what, I can count on one hand the amount of Detroit Lions games I have seen in my lifetime that I have


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[Assistant] Enjoyed, like the one that I saw today, because it was just so easy. That is very rare. We get to the fourth quarter and I know the Lions are going to win.


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[Assistant] So here was on draft day, you know, a lot of people chuckled when they took the running back high and they took the linebacker high, Jack Campbell.


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[Assistant] But when they traded down, and yes, they could have taken Jalen Carter, and he would have been awesome, and I would have, I would have enjoyed that, so they could have done that in an alternate universe, and I would have been okay with that. But when they traded down, they got Jamiri Gibbs, and they got at the top of the second round pick.


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[Assistant] And with that top of the second round pick, they got the tight end from Iowa, Sam Laporta, who is a beast, who continues to be a beast. And I think we have dots and it's 31 yard.


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[Assistant] Uh, touchdown. This was the double pitch reverse. We have the dots on the double pitch reverse. This made it 28 to 7.


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[Assistant] They're entering the conversation now of top 3 in the NFC. I think they're in that 49ers Eagles Cowboys. I mean, you could make the case for Lions over Cowboys. They don't play with the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] Carolina, the only winless team this season. Could be a long year. It's gonna be a long year. Their D is good. And they won't have the number one pick. That goes to the Bears. No, I know, I know.


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[Assistant] He came back in the, in the game and like Stafford was like, I'm just gonna throw to him exclusively. It's like he, I'm gonna just get him his numbers as if he had played up until this point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we should show the combination between Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown, because for the second week in a row, and many weeks from here on out, they will dominate and they will fill up the stat sheet. Uh, there it is for Jalen Hurts, 303.


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[Assistant] Yards through the air. 72 on the ground. Two total touchdowns. AJ Brown 127 through the air. Third straight game with 125 or more receiving yards. They're unstoppable at times. They are.


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[Assistant] 251st career regular season win passes Tom Landry for 4th all time. Round of applause for Andy Reid right here. You want to clap for Andy Reid?


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[Assistant] We're up. The Vikings kinda kept it close late. You know, their cousins, they're never gonna give up. They're used to playing in these close one score games. Played in a ton of them last year. Won a ton of them last year. Not, uh, on that same side of it this year. They dropped to one and four. Uhm, but what'd you make? What's your big takeaway from the Chief's victory here by a touchdown?


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[Assistant] Lips smacklin' good is on that path. He goes, what are you seeing from my homes in the wide receiver room with the chiefs? I'm not worried, parentheses, yet.


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[Assistant] But what do they need to improve in? Also, don't forget to sleep, guys. We will, we will sleep when we're done with this one. But yeah, I mean, the wide receivers, the relationships he has, he's always spread it around, right? Especially since they went away from Tyreek, and we saw it last year. It's just like, I'll get all you guys involved for one or two or three catches a game. Um, but yeah, with the weapons they have, and yeah, how do they get into a rhythm?


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[Assistant] Or him fading away on a third and 18 early in the second half and throwing it up to the 50 yard line and Watson just taking it away.


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[Assistant] Good thing for them is they're still finding the rhythm and they're 4-1 while they're still finding the rhythm. They are still winning. It is time for Give Me The Headlines presented by Hyundai.


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[Assistant] We have two games to talk about here. We'll start with the Colts, defeating the Tennessee Titans, 23-16, the final score. Your headline for this game is... Well, a running Colt gathers no moss. Wow. Do you believe that?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Pete says it makes so much sense. And he says that because he came up with it and sold it to us. I've never heard of a cult.


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[Assistant] I mean, the run, the ball, like that on the Titans? So 23 carries for Zach Moss, 165. Jonathan Taylor came back, signed the big contract, which, you know, part of me is like scratching my head on why they relented on that.


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[Assistant] Do you know why they, because Moss has been running very well. They've been very effective as a running team. They made all the points why you don't need to pay a running back. And quite honestly, the offense was proving that. Fact.


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[Assistant] GardnerMinshew comes in there and saves the day. He does this a few times a year now. This is like, we're into the GardnerMinshew part of the season right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sammy Lambert also wants to give a damn okay to Zaire Franklin. He says gonna have 100 tackles by Halloween. He's awesome. 12 tackles today, 57 tackles this season. Second in the NFL.


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[Assistant] I just never thought we would see this. It was the same headline we used last week. We just had to throw the part two in there. It's his second worst loss as head coach, Bill Belichick. His worst was the 35 point loss at Dallas last week.


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[Assistant] There you have it. There's a run coming now for the New England Patriots. They're gonna get things figured out and put things together. But yea, I don't know. They're starting over.


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[Assistant] That was Give Me the Headlines presented by Hyundai. We don't want to forget real quick as we almost sign off.


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[Assistant] Big thanks to Pete back there punching the buttons late on a Sunday. Gabby is back there doing the graphics. Matt Casey making sure that we don't do anything too crazy late on a Sunday. And everyone in digital putting this together late at night. Uh, Bears, we gotta, we gotta praise the Bears. Might not have many opportunities. They beat the commanders 40 to 20 in Washington.


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[Assistant] Oh, it was borderline pick six. Right. And then we're talking a 14 point swing at that point. But uh, I did like Sam Howell though. I was watching him, I was like, man, I really like Sam Howell. I agree.


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[Assistant] Okay, let him do what he's going to do. Keep throwing them more. Uh, last one. You said last one like three times. I don't know. Uh, we're past midnight now, so this is really the last one. Packers at Raiders, the Devontae Adams Bowl.


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[Assistant] It's funny, Jordan Love seems to, every game, and he's young, right? This is his first year and his first few starts, but he's having some of those Jimmy Garoppolo moments, it seems like, every game, where you're just like, oh man.


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[Assistant] More excusable for him, he's just starting his career, but you worry that that could cost him a game.


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[Assistant] Alright, last thing, how good are the lions, right? Let's just end with that one. Let's just go back there.


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[Assistant] But the stories, even though the games don't necessarily come down to the last second, I find the storylines very compelling.


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[Assistant] Well, Challenge Flag, technically that's what we do. You should know the scores of all the games by the time you listen to this podcast, right? We just give you a little...


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[Assistant] Live, stupid look into a game that is not live to you guys tomorrow. As we sit here at 6-0 Giants and the Bills are third and three on the three yard line, three yard line. Big moment of the football game right here. The G men are making things tough.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's week 6 in the NFL. It was a defensive kind of week. It really was. There's not a lot of like marquee offensive plays or standouts throughout the league. The quarterbacks who put up the best stats.


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[Assistant] Uh, most of them were a part of the losing team and a losing effort.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. First off, what's up? How you doing? Good to see you, man. You alright?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll see. He's gonna, he's gonna, you know, he's just, he can, like you said, probably get away with it most of the time, but like last night, it'll be a learning curve to go, wait, hold on, I gotta change a little bit.


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[Assistant] And then yeah, you know, for his sake, hopefully he doesn't have any more humbling moments as the season goes on here. But those are the things you learn, you know, right? We're watching a guy here in Josh Allen, who I don't know, there's things he does in Wyoming. I don't know if he can get away with it, right? So sometimes guys make those proper adjustments. Sometimes they don't. I do feel like with Caleb Williams at times,


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[Assistant] He forces the Mahomes stuff a little bit. Where I wanna be like, Mahomes never forced this stuff. He just played the game and he tried to do it the right way.


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[Assistant] And then it became, oh wait, I'm kinda getting comfortable and somebody's hanging on me, I still think I can throw the sidearm 40 yards down the field, right? So he grew into that. I do feel like Caleb Williams at times is trying to live up to being that guy already. And sometimes that affects and makes some of these decisions a little iffy for sure.


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[Assistant] He's letting you know like he does every year. Yes. You know, he usually puts out a picture of him opening up a champagne bottle or he's pouring champagne and he should. It's a special thing for


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[Assistant] Uh, and yeaah, we know there's only been one team that's really threatened them. And that was the 2007 Patriots. Today, they get to celebrate a little early. They get a little Halloween early gift here. Now they can just chill and watch ball.


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[Assistant] It's not the time of day. It's not actually the time of the day, right? That wouldn't be fair to the betters there. But it certainly didn't ex- not that- yeaah. I will say this, flat out.


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[Assistant] When I heard Deshaun Watson wasn't playing, I was pretty much like, well chalk it up, the 49ers are gonna win the football game. I didn't think it was gonna be easy.


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[Assistant] I think that was after the P.J. Walker throws a bad interception. The 49ers miss a field goal.


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[Assistant] The Brown's going a big drive, five play touchdown drive.


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[Assistant] And from there on out, I mean, they pitched a shutout on the 49ers offense for the most part. I know the 49ers scored in the second half, one play, eight yard drive after the turnover, right? The Nor interception.


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[Assistant] It looked like, again, I thought that was gonna be another moment, like oh, well there they blew the opportunity, the 49ers are gonna put this away and see you later, right? But the, the, the theme of the day is that the Browns defense


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[Assistant] Just absolutely squashed the 49ers offense from about the end of the second quarter on.


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[Assistant] For a little perspective, the 49ers had 189 yards of total offense going into the half. They ended the game with 215.


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[Assistant] So they had 26 yards of offense in the second half. Kyle Shanahan and the all-star offense of the 49ers. And I don't say that to be demeaning, I'm saying that more that like the Browns should be proud of what they did. Now some of the injuries played I think in part to the 49ers offense struggles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that messes up your flow, your rhythm is a play caller, right? But I think the big thing is...


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[Assistant] And as you always know, when I wax poetically about the 49ers and their offense,


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[Assistant] All the Shanahan, I call them Shanahan specials, right? The trick plays, the screens, the reverses, the speed sweeps, the toss, the debo, Samuel, all those things. They were non-existent in this game. They basically made the game like, no Brock Party, you're gonna have to drop back and pass to beat us. We're not gonna let all these other tricks, like, kinda work on us today.


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[Assistant] A little bit of what you just heard me say, like some of those screens and boots and people are wide open.


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[Assistant] They give you the little rhythm for the day, a confidence. Anyway, we always talk about basketball players. They see the ball go through the hoop once and all of a sudden they start to go, I'm hot. I'm on fire.