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[Assistant] Now, there's gonna be the, woah, the hit to the heart conversation that goes along with it. Yea, we know that's a possibility. Yea, right. And so there's just, there's a lot of things that muddle this whole situation and, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, today, like right, just a little while ago was the first time I felt like I was kinda coming out of like, mourning a little bit and going, okay, I think it's time to push forward, and I think


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[Assistant] You know, we're gonna continue to talk and think about him, of course, and the whole situation and everybody associated, but I know I'm wired, and I think a lot of football players are wired this way too, of like,


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[Assistant] You know, hey, we're not gonna forget, but at some point, I think sitting around in a dark room, you know, consoling ourselves about it,


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[Assistant] Doesn't necessarily do as much positive as, hey, let's get out there, get going again. Let's pay tribute to this guy with, you know, going out there and playing football this weekend and winning the game on a big stage. And then we'll have a big spotlight on us and then we can pay more of a tribute to him.


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[Assistant] I think that would be more the mindset you would see from football players and coaches, and I think that's where it's gonna go.


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[Assistant] I don't- how do you heal? Are you one of the- I'm a- I said this on floor the other day, I'm one of those that- I- I- I- like-


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[Assistant] I'm sad no matter what. I'd like something to take my mind off it and push forward a little bit and, and, and, you know, be able to console each other through that. Some of the camaraderie and hey, we're on the field today and good job by this and, you know, and kind of that way. At least that's how I'm wired.


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[Assistant] Gosh, I mean, I think a lot of the things that I think are quality things about my humanity, myself, were built through football. So, there is so many positives. And yea, I think it's great. We're seeing the brotherhood of the NFL.


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[Assistant] The brotherhood of football fans, the brotherhood of like, so what, you played high school football, I played NFL football, we still know what football is all about at its base level. We gotta play together, we gotta support each other, do your job.


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[Assistant] You know, work as a, that's how you work as a team, the camaraderie, all those aspects.


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[Assistant] Hey, everybody learns how to take a butt whippin' when you play football. Damn, I mean, I just got my butt whupped all day. I gotta just man up and own up to it the next day. I mean, there's so many positive things. How to get yelled at from a coach, how to work with a guy that's from a different background than you are, right? All those things are all positive, let alone to what you're saying too, I think here is,


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[Assistant] This is America's sport. You know, I know baseball was for a long time, but we know who the king in this country is for quite some time here. And it's a part of the fabric or the DNA of America right now. It's football. It's our sport. We invented it here.


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[Assistant] It's what we like to watch the most. And, uh, I think that's what adds to the sadness of this too. Is it just because it's like, it's such a dear part of our country.


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[Assistant] And what we are, and our traditions. I mean, come on. Thanksgiving, New Years, I mean, all the, they're built around football. Christmas. Christmas now, right? I mean, so, I think it just tells you that, and uhm, that's why we're all, everybody that's ever played football, watched football,


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[Assistant] It's just got bad karma, bad juju all together. Okay. I don't want to see it. And you want to talk about the mental health of players. What are we going to cancel the league and put these two teams back in the scene of the crime again? I don't think that's healthy for anything or anybody and it'll feel weird to both teams.


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[Assistant] That's fresh off of that. Nor do I want to see, wait, we play week 18 and then they have a standalone game the next week.


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[Assistant] Let's just move on. We cancel the game, we play through win percentage. It's not fair. It stinks. It's not fair to the Ravens. Of course it's not fair to the Bills and the Bengals. The Chiefs are gonna get lucky out of this situation, definitely. Right? It's not.


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[Assistant] You know, there is some talk there, if that happened in the AFC Championship game, right, you know. So, I, I, I get that, you know.


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[Assistant] And, and what do they do, okay, what do they do if the Raider, if the Chiefs lost this weekend to the Raiders, right? Do they now go, oh well the Bengals would have won the tiebreaker and we'll play that in a neutral site too if they play them in an AFC Championship game? I don't know where that ends, nor do I necessarily know if I want to see, I want to see somebody at home. And the other thing I'll just say is,


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[Assistant] You know, it's, yeaah, it's unfair. I get it. And I feel I'm not, but like life's not fair as we're learning right here, right now. That's Damar Hamlin and his family. It's not fair at times. And it's still, hey, yeaah, it's not perfect for you, but you're still going to have a chance to go play this team.


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[Assistant] And beat them, and get what you want when it's all said and done anyways. And if you're the Bills, you can go...


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[Assistant] We beat Kansas City in Kansas City two out of the last three times we played them. You're the bangles, you go.


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[Assistant] I went there in the ASC Championship game already, so what? And they got two quarterbacks that I think are the kind of guys that would just be in the locker room going, you know what? F*** this.


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[Assistant] Play them wherever we want. Let's go guys. Let's buckle it up. I'm Joe Burrow. I'm Josh Allen. Let's go kick their ass. I don't give a shit where they play. And boom. And so that's where I don't worry about the competitive advantage or disadvantage as much.


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[Assistant] There is. There is. There's no perfect solution now. It's just, and this is the way it is. So, it really stinks. It's unfortunate. And it's like I said, we're at the high point of the year. I mean, I was so excited.


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[Assistant] So excited, I was literally like my wife, like, come on, sit down. Who you picking tonight in the game? You know, who you gonna take, Burrow or Josh Allen? And, I mean, stinks.


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[Assistant] Right, well, it was a time of the year, I mean, you explained it right, you set the table. I mean, the Packers kinda controlled the game.


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[Assistant] It felt like one of those games where you watch the back and you go, ah, they probably should have won that. The mistakes killed them.


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[Assistant] You know, like you said, there's three interceptions in the end zone, right? It's some plays left on the field. Uhm, it was Aaron Rodgers that maybe,


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[Assistant] One of the, I would say one of the worst points of his career, where he had no trust in the receivers, he didn't trust his own line, he was always looking at them instead of looking downfield, he left a lot of plays and yards on the field. And, you know, the Lions themselves,


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[Assistant] They were worried about the run game more than the pass game in that game. So there's some things that change in this dynamic. First off, the Packers didn't have a great day running. They didn't have a bad day running either. I want to say this. They didn't run the ball up the middle. Kind of like we talked about with Detroit and Carolina two weeks ago.


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[Assistant] They kind of found their success on the edge. It wasn't the big people, you know, you expect, oh wait, you know, they ran for over a hundred yards. I must've done some things like that. And you go, oh wait, no, it was Roger scrambling and a few edge runs, but they didn't win. They're just overpower them upfront. So they kind of stood.


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[Assistant] I stood, er, stood Pat, or Stan Pat in the, in the, in the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, they played a lot of single safety defenses, a lot of run defenses, and it just was going back, watching it was jarring going, I mean, what teams have ever played like this against Aaron Rodgers? Where they just play, we're gonna stop the run and give you some of the best pass looks you can ever get. I gotta think this is, this time around,


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[Assistant] This is on Aaron Rodgers, this game. I don't think their run game is just gonna dominate Detroit. And I think Detroit's gonna play more of the, if they gotta put one egg into the basket over the other, they're gonna do, alright, well the year shows us the run game's a little bit more dangerous.


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[Assistant] If they go too far into that, the Dobbs-Watson combination was not a real thing in week nine.


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[Assistant] It is now, and Watson's of course a real option, and he's in the trust tree with Rodgers. There was plays in that game where he's open. There's plays, you know, throughout the game. You know, that was a game where they had Amari Rodgers and Sammy Watkins as two of their receivers that were playing a lot with Alan Lazard.


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[Assistant] You know, and, and even saying that there was still a lot of people open and plays to be had. So I came away more than anything going.


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[Assistant] Roger's throwing like 5 touchdowns for 500 yards, and if they're going to win this game, I do think it's going to be on him, and whether he can deliver some of


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[Assistant] He has, but not as much as I would like to have seen him progress. He has, at least he's, there's some aggressive mindset. And he's not turning down all the deep throws anymore. So, he has. Just most. Yea, well, just still not as many as you would like, or what we've become accustomed to see.


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[Assistant] I mean, three years ago, you could never do this to him. He would be like bombs away and just go, I'm, I'm 10 for 10 on, you know, 50 yard bombs here cause you guys keep playing the stupid defense, right? You know, so there, there's still that element, but, uh, I, I do think it's definitely better than what it was at week nine, which I said,


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[Assistant] Just, this is where I think it's different too. I'd be shocked.


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[Assistant] Your Lions defense, you know, you've seen, you're not that good at pass defense. Right.


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[Assistant] I'd be shocked if they don't come away looking at that film going, you know what, forget the two tight end sets and the running and all that. Let's spread them out.


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[Assistant] Let's spread them out and put them in a little bit of a bind. If they want to play zone, they're not that great at zone, and I'll pick them apart that way. And the RPOs and all, those will all work. And then, if they want to play man to man,


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[Assistant] Then they gave us some opportunities in the first time and I hit Alan Lazard and probably should have hit him more along with other guys that I'm telling you about. That's that. That was what I wanted to say to end it up. Sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt you for the first of


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[Assistant] Yes, and I know how good the Lions are at running the football and they like to do that.


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[Assistant] The Packers sold out in such a way to stop the run in the first game that I thought Detroit almost did itself a disservice by like continuing to stay with it. To where you'd go, no, no, no, you guys need to spread out too, especially on first and second down.


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[Assistant] You know, they tried to play, hey, we're going to run it on first because we're good at running the ball and they were not playing great defense at that time of the year. We should be able to run and be in second and five or second and four every time.


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[Assistant] First and second down for the most part of the game was won by the Packers offense. They stopped a lot of those plays for no gains, loss of one. Uhm, so that would be the big thing. But like, one of the things I wrote in my notes is, you know,


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[Assistant] The plan for the Packers D was obvious early. It was cover the middle three offensive linemen. You know, just pack people in there and stop the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, I felt like the Lions could pick apart their zone coverages, but like, you know, first down for Lions almost always was an eight man front.


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[Assistant] Packers were playing single safeties, you know, but the Packers D was winning, you know, on first and second down. Where the Lions are dangerous is when they get you in those second and five, second and six, second and four, second and four as you know, not only can they throw,


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[Assistant] They can run for a first, which then also ties in the play action. So you're like really screwed when you're a defense playing them because their availability and the play calling and they're creative and all that. So, uh, you know, that would be my big thing. The Packers did a good job of calculated.


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[Assistant] Aid man fronts and run blitzing on first down to not let the Lions be in the power position of second and five, second and four where they are extremely dangerous.


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[Assistant] I think they felt comfortable about putting people at the line of scrimmage because they felt like...


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[Assistant] We kinda know where they're gonna end up in some of these. And, you know, I had, again, combination zone coverages without me getting too in the weeds in here, but just as we always classify it.


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[Assistant] It's just like, you know, they had a guy going to the post and a guy running the out route and a guy underneath and they kind of had people waiting for all three of them, right, to tell me that their breakdown and their feel for the offense was very real. And they did a really good job of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's, that's gonna be the interesting thing, and that's where I could see them maybe coming out early on and going, hey, wait, wait, spread out, we're not gonna let you play these eight man fronts, we don't know who's dropping in the coverage, who's blitzing and all that.


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[Assistant] Spread them out, make the picture more clear for me a little bit, right? Now I can see, oh wait, the safety's creeping down, they might blitz, or this guy's cheating.


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[Assistant] And you also widen out those zone coverages. And Green Bay, who's been playing better defense and making plays lately, yes, for sure. You know, I still think this is tough to match up with you guys and your receivers man to man. And they do have some good plays out of their shotgun spread where they can pick a part


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[Assistant] I do have the gut feel of yeaah, it's at home, it's Aaron Rodgers, it's Green Bay, they got a lot of positive vibes going, uh, it's certainly not a slam dunk type of thing, but I do think the Packers have the advantage, yes.


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[Assistant] I'm clear about that. You know, cause they had a great feel for the zones and all that.


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[Assistant] My thing was, I think they'll be able to play off of this a little time, this time too, as far as, hear what I'm saying a little. The Packers like to play zone, they're very good at, hey, passing a guy off, right? Hey, this guy's going to the post, and, you know,


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[Assistant] I think they're gonna find ways of what I'm trying to say is kind of expose some of the things they did. I think they're gonna be able to find some ways to go...


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[Assistant] Wait, in this zone, this guy did this to us and they had one guy cover two of our guys?


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[Assistant] But if we just change the route of the one guy, right? They would have no way to cover this and they're gonna be exposed. Where I can see the Lions exposing them a few times through things that were done the first time to go, wait, we're not gonna let you do that again. You can't cover two guys with one guy here. We're gonna change the


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[Assistant] I think the Dobbs at least allows them to play closer to the way they would play if Ryan Tannehill was the quarterback, right? I mean, he's not Ryan Tannehill, we know that.


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[Assistant] But like, at least what we saw last week on the Thursday night game against the Cowboys, as compared to a game we've seen or a few games we've seen with Malik Willis, at least there's a semblance of the drop back pass game that does work with Josh Jobs. Again, Malik Willis is just, he's very raw.


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[Assistant] We talked about that a ton during the draft process. So I think that's the big thing more than anything. You're not going to be able to go.


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[Assistant] Wait, it's, it's third and eight. They're going to run the ball if Malik Willis is in there. They're just going to run it and maybe get the first, but just be okay with punting the ball. You're not going to have that or, you know, first down is not going to be quite as conservative. They might be able to go, Hey, no, we trust Josh jobs to drop back in a three step drop a game here and, and get us, you know, five yards on first down.


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[Assistant] So I think that's the biggest thing overall. But I think we know what's going to be the real thing here for the Titans. They're going to rely on Derek Henry, eating up the clock, right?


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[Assistant] Few play action passes. Probably a few screens to Derrick Henry as well. They're gonna feed the beast. And hopefully that, they're gonna hope they can eat clock and let that carry them and then their defense can make some holds and, uh, they can win the, you know, a game ugly that way.


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[Assistant] Shortfield. Tannehill has an open guy.


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[Assistant] In the slot, tries to throw it quick, the guy's not ready for it, not even looking for it, interception. They drive down the next drive, Derrick Henry fumbles along the sideline. You know, so one's backed up, gave the Jaguars titans, uh, gave the Jaguars points. The other one, they're on fringe field goal territory, you're going, oh, they got another few yards here, they can get a first down.


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[Assistant] Jaguars went down and got a field gold off of that turnover and then


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[Assistant] They drive down and they are in field goal range and they maybe have a chance to score a touchdown and Derrick Henry fumbles and the Jaguars go down and get another field goal. That was significant.


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[Assistant] The Jaguars were, offense was struggling a little early on to try to find its footing in how they wanted to attack the Titans. And those extra possessions kind of gave them a little bit better feel, finally got them in some rhythm, and I think they answered a few questions as far as how they wanted to attack, and then they exploded in the second half.


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[Assistant] The Jaguars offense is real. I mean, it's, it's, it's, uh, I don't think you can just sit back and just go, wait, we can win this game definitely 17 to 14.


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[Assistant] I think you gotta have a few trick plays, a few well-designed play action passes and things maybe to keep the pace here. You're definitely missing something in Ryan Tannehill. You know, again, the...


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[Assistant] The, the, Ryan Tannehill made a lot of big throws in this football game where, you know, throwing the ball was an issue with Ryan Tannehill. We knew that. They now have great weapons. They're not great in that department. They have nobody that scares you. Uh, so that's where it's gonna be a big question and, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] I, you know, the Jags just gotta stop the run. That's the biggest thing. And that's been their issue the whole year. And in this game, for some reason, at one point in the game,


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[Assistant] Early on in the game, they tried to play, wait, we're going to play Trayvon Walker at defensive tackle and try to win with speed up front, like four guys just to create chaos. And they just got absolutely gashed.


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[Assistant] Absolutely gashed. And then they kind of adjusted after Derrick Henry ripped a few big runs and started going, wait, we gotta change it and we gotta change our fronts and we gotta play a little more run game defense and get some size in the game. And that at least allowed them to manage some things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that, you know, one, they want to run the ball only to just keep the Titans honest. I don't think they're going to be able to run the ball successfully. I'd be shocked, but the one thing I do know they can do is they can protect against the Titans, right?


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence was not viewed as we're viewing him right now, right? There was, he was blowing some games and missing some throws and we were still in the process of like, wait, it's just getting good here with Trevor Lawrence. So I don't think he was totally allowed to like,


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[Assistant] Just tear them apart yet. I don't think they were totally in the trust tree there, right? They were starting to get-


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[Assistant] Some signs week before that, like, oh wow, he's starting to get really good. But it was the second half of this football game where I think we all started to go, uh oh, this looks like it's going to another level. And they were trying to run the ball early, high percentage, 5 and 8 yard, 10 yard passes. The Titans were, as you've heard me say,


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[Assistant] They're one of the best pass off people and do all that and they were playing all these coverages that were great for stopping 8 and 5 and 10 yard passes.


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[Assistant] I think what they started to realize is, wait, we can protect. Let's start getting guys down the field. And if they want to play these zones and try to pass people off down the field with this much area, good luck, because there's going to be some big windows. And they started to tear him apart that way. And I can certainly see that being the case once again.


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[Assistant] That's what I was trying to say, I guess, when I didn't. It was like, yea, the first half, it was like, hey, he's been kind of good lately, but we don't totally trust him to just go out and go attack Trevor Lawrence.


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[Assistant] And then, they got some of those turnovers, they got a few plays, and I think they started to realize, wait, we can protect them? And our guy is seeing the field great?


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[Assistant] Okay, I trust them, let's go. And then all of a sudden it was 15 yard completion, 20 yard completion, 25 yard completion, and you were just like, oh my gosh, they're just, they're gashing the Titans defense whatever way they want, and uhm,


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[Assistant] My thing with the Jags is don't fall in the trap. Spread them out. You're not going to be able to run against them. You are going to be able to throw against them. Even if you think you're going to get and run formations and, and then try to throw it, you're still playing in, in the


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[Assistant] The wheelhouse for the Titans defense. Cause like I said, they can be creative and blitzes and drop out when everybody's close and condensing. I don't know who's coming, who's dropping out. You know, we're all close in here. The disguises get easier. All that. I would say this is another one. Nope. Trust your quarterback, spread them out. Let your


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[Assistant] Take some calculated risks. They're at a disadvantage here. They are. And, you know, it's, it's, it's gonna maybe have to be, you know, fake, fake blitz, drop out, you know.


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[Assistant] We faked the Blitz a few times, this time we are gonna Blitz. You know, but it's hard. This is the other thing that Jaguars are really good. They're good.


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[Assistant] That's Doug Peterson, you know, he's from the Andy Reed School of Coaching and all that. They know how to pick it up and sort it out the right way. Uhm, so yeaah, I think, you know, the Titans have got their hands full here, and this is gonna have to take a special game plan by them, I think, to stop the Jaguars.


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[Assistant] Now you're going into a guy that wasn't even on your team earlier in the year, and like I said,


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[Assistant] They're them with the game. They're gonna have to control the clock. Dobbs is gonna, of course, have to make some big throws. And the defense is gonna have to kind of be special. Disguises, blitzes, probably make a play or two to kind of get it done. Because if they just play at status quo or just go, wait, we're gonna play you man to man, I don't think they can match up with this crew right here.


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[Assistant] He's in the fault, he's in the fault, but he does have a broken finger.


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[Assistant] Which I would think is gonna make, yeaah, life hard. Seems like an issue. For a quarterback. I would think that's gonna be an issue. Yeaah, definitely. And, you know, I know they like Skyler Thompson. We'll see. I mean, for a full week of practice, I think he could do some positive things.


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[Assistant] You looked at the tape from week 5. Yeaah, it's uhm, you know, the first thing I would say that jumps out to you is that the Jets are one of the few teams in football where


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[Assistant] It doesn't look like the Dolphins are in fast forward compared to them on the other side of the ball, right? So the jet speed.


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[Assistant] They're not overwhelmed by the Miami Dolphins and some of that. The other thing that the Jets dabble in more than maybe a team like the 49ers is Seattle 3.


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[Assistant] And what I do think kind of comes in handy a little bit in this matchup, because it's eight men at the line of scrimmage a lot of the times, and we're talking about a team that is fast, so when it comes to screens and RPOs, that means they got a lot of fast people right there for screens down the line of scrimmage at the short pass game, right? I think that helps them there. Uhm, that, that's definitely a positive.


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[Assistant] I can't imagine the Dolphins' RPO game and all that being as dangerous without Tua as we've said. That's definitely where he brings a big positive to their football team.


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[Assistant] You know, or their pass game in general quite being as dangerous as Skyler Thompson, right? I think they're gonna have to play a little bit of a different way too. Now the other thing that jumped out to me in the game is the game went on, the Jets started to dabble in that cover four a little bit, right? And it gave the Dolphins some issues.


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[Assistant] Which also I think prepared them when they played the 49ers who played cover 4 and they said, oh, we saw your old coordinator do this to us and we got something for you. We had a feeling you might break this coverage out on us. Right? So the Jets better be careful with that now because the Dolphins have shown they have a lot of answers to just absolutely obliterate cover 4. Alright? Uhm.


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[Assistant] You know, the speed of the jets made it hard for them to get big plays of Yak, right?


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[Assistant] You didn't see Tyree Kill catch any balls over the middle and run up the field for 30 yards or, you know, waddle and any of that. Because of the speed and the scheme I'm talking about with people always kind of being at the line of scrimmage there. So those were all positives.


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[Assistant] The other, the other aspect of this is this. It's another game where we can go in and go, the Dolphins weren't patient enough running the football, right? You kind of knew that, right, as you knew I was going to say that? Yes. And, you know, you saw the stats. The stats are kind of mind-blowing. The stats are that of, as you look at them and go, wait, why didn't you run


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[Assistant] This is one of those games where, you know, I can remember watching it going, it's 19 to 17 with Skyler Thompson in the fourth quarter. How is this going on?


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[Assistant] That's where I was going. And then the Jets put together, you know, a little drive to give themselves some breathing room and then yeah, the issues and Dolphins started messing up. You think they can, I run again on them.


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[Assistant] I do. This is, this is where it's not a great running team as we talked about, but he's great at, you know, creating angles and getting teams to slow down a little bit because of the speed sweeps and all that as a McDaniel. Also, the, the, the Dovenzo line, it's not a,


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[Assistant] They're a pretty athletic group, right? Shanahan, that group, they deserve, they want kind of more athletic, more than big lumbering. And they were not overwhelmed by the speed of the front of the Jets. I think that was an encouraging thing. You know, the Jets are one of those teams, a lot of the times, you know, for most of their matchups this year.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, you might be able to overpower them, but their guys get off blocks and they squeak through a hole and they just, you can't keep up with them. They create chaos.


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[Assistant] They did a pretty good job sorting that out. They just don't fall in the trap, the Dolphins. I know I'm gonna say this for every game here, but it's because I've learned something over the first game.


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[Assistant] Don't start, don't, if they're gonna throw it 35 times or more, they're gonna lose the game. I can just tell you that. They'll lose. He'll get strip sack fumbled, or you won't see the field clearly, and he'll throw an interception. They need to live in the world of what you saw me in my notes here.


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[Assistant] Run game, reverses, speed sweeps, take advantage of the over aggressive Jets defense. You know, run game, screens, reverses, speed sweeps, play action pass, that's all they need.


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[Assistant] We know what the Jets offense is. It's not that great. We know what the Miami defense is good and can limit teams to scoring points. So there can just, this is a game where


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[Assistant] I mean, the question is again, it's just, I mean, one of the things I think we'd start off is just go, what can we, the big problem is what do we expect from the Patriots offense, right? You know, the defense, we know what to expect to a degree. But, you know, can the offense help them out?


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[Assistant] Can the offense get to 20 against Buffalo? I mean, that's the real question.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, they're fighting an uphill battle and that's out of the ball. The Bills defense smothered them the first time around. They really couldn't get in rhythm doing


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[Assistant] They don't have a ton of superstars, but they're very good. They did a lot of things right in the first matchup.


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[Assistant] You know, but, but my big thing is they ran the ball on the Patriots, which was kind of surprising.


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[Assistant] Be interested to see if they can do that again. Barrymore is back. That helps them out, you know. I don't think they really believe that the Bills would run the ball on them the first time. There'll be a little bit more focus there and pride and all that too. Uh, and I don't even know if I believe the Bills can run on them again for another time in a row. I'm not sure I'm sold on that idea either.


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[Assistant] The other thing is, they didn't have really a plan for Josh Allen scrambling. That really hurt them. Whether it was running him...


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[Assistant] Yes. Exactly. That to me is a little bit, I felt like watching the game where they used to have plans for these guys, I think they finally just went, you know what, we've tried plans against this guy and they don't f***ing work.


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[Assistant] So just go rush him and get him. Cause we've done the whole, we're going to do the contain rush and quarterback spy and he scored 41 on us and we never stopped him. And then he scored 47 and we never stopped him. So that, that, I think they gave up on that plan. The one thing I'm going to say, and I've kind of said this about the Patriots a little bit altogether.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's, they've, it's not gonna happen. Josh Allen's proven that he's plenty patient. I know he's done dumb thing here and there, but it's the Patriots, he'll be extra focused, he knows what this is about, he's had turnover issues with them too. And, and my thing is, like, even though the Patriots D playing good,


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[Assistant] You know, there's no stupid or bad. You saw what I wrote. My issue with them in general, but especially versus Allen, is normal good sound defense does not beat him. That, it's just not gonna get it done.


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[Assistant] You know, I can go to the Miami game they lost, Buffalo, and go to the second half of the Minnesota game and go, you know what these teams did? They did a lot of crazy shit. They took some calculated risks and blitzed and did some things that they weren't expecting. That's how they beat the Buffalo Bills. Right? You know, the Jets game, I'm going to just say that Allen did two dumb things.


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[Assistant] That, that would be my big thing there, is that they gotta force the issue a little bit. Just think we're just gonna disguise and play cover 3, disguise and play cover 2, disguise and play man to man, and that's just gonna get it done against Josh Allen? It's not.


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[Assistant] It's not. There's gotta be, oh, he'd never, we'd never brought this blitz, or he would never have seen this blitz on film. There's gotta be a little of that here with, with those group of quarterbacks in a


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[Assistant] He did, he got to take advantage of him when he doesn't. That's the thing too. I mean, he's going to be able to show them two, three plays and go, we could have had an interception here, right? And that's where I struggle with my comments on making, cause they're going to, there's a little bit of the Patriots going to go, wait, if we just make those plays, our defense played really good. Their defense did play really good.


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[Assistant] I've seen you play that kind of approach against this guy and Burrow before, and they have their way.


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[Assistant] You know, and there's no saying that Josh Allen's gonna, you know, do some of those risky things in this big of a matchup in week 18. So, that's my big thing here. Uhm, the Patriots defense has been making plays lately. Seven touchdowns this year. That's right. So maybe they can make a few plays to help their offense out and give them a short field a few times. I think it's gonna take that.


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[Assistant] Was that even this season? Another year ago. I mean, it really is. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. That's where it's at. And you know, it's like the Ravens offense, we know what to expect with them anyways. I don't know if there's any like magic thing I'm gonna tell you here.


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[Assistant] Short to intermediate throws with Tyler Hunley, right? They're gonna rely on the run and hope their defense can keep the game manageable to where, again, this is like we talk about them, the Steelers, they're just trying to win 17-13 games right now. There's not a lot of wiggle room. I know it's boring to say, uhm, but they're not gonna be able to take the same approach on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] And, you know, even offensively for the Ravens, I'll just say, life's going to be harder. The Bengals defense is playing better now than it was then. DJ Reader wasn't playing. He had just gotten hurt in that first matchup.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he got hurt, so he's gonna be back. That's, as you've heard me say a number of times here just over the few weeks, he changes them. Uhm, so I'm excited to see that. Baltimore.


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[Assistant] So they lose that and with DJ Reader, I don't see teams run the ball when DJ Reader is playing. So that's just the biggest thing and I'll be definitely tuned into that. The other side of the ball is where to me it gets intriguing just because that was the time of the year


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[Assistant] You know, we kinda talked about it a little bit before the show, right? The Bangos Offensive Line, we were doing podcasts and I was going, they're worse than last year. How is that possible? Right? That's what we were saying then.


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[Assistant] They can't, they're protecting him worse than they did last year, and he was like the least protected quarterback of all, and at least last year they could run the ball and they can't run the ball this year. That's what we were saying in this one. Along with me going, they're too stagnant and simple, and they don't do anything, right? They're getting crushed from all angles. They're getting crushed, especially by me, yes.


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[Assistant] They're better in every area, let alone he's figured out how they want to play. And in that game, as a totality, you know, let's just say like, let's see, Cincinnati ran 59 offensive plays in this game.


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[Assistant] I bet you 55 of them were zone coverage by the Ravens. You can't do that anymore, just as we discussed, right? People have been doing that to them all year.


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[Assistant] You know, he got so used to the, the offensive line not protecting, he's gotten so good at, wait, find them just to end it as small as little as flaw in a zone and let me get it out and do that. Let alone now they're protecting to where, if you do play zone, they're,


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[Assistant] They've gotten a little more creative on the offensive side of the ball because teams have played them so much this way too. They have more inventory and plays to go to. So if they think they're just gonna disguise and play Tampa too, disguise and play, you know, normal cover too, disguise and play cover three, it's just not gonna get it done. He's gonna tear them apart.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that would be the biggest thing. Let alone they have a little bit of a run game now that you have to defend. So, that's where I'm interested to see what the Ravens can do. The Ravens run four.


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[Assistant] I don't think can get there anymore against the way the Bengals online is playing. And that's going to cause some issues. And if they play zone, just like a little, we saw with the bills the other night against the Bengals and those two drives.


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[Assistant] I don't know about you, but I had the sense of like, uh oh, the Bills are in trouble. They are gonna pick apart their zone all night long, which has looked like it was on the way to happening. And I could see that happening in this one, unless Baltimore does something outside of the realm of what they do. And they do play a little bit more man to man now. They have been doing more of that.


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[Assistant] But as you know, playing man to man against these guys is scary and you better be, you better pick your poison or just, you know, be ready. If you're going to take that chance, you know, you, you better hope you get away with it cause they'll make you pay.


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[Assistant] Like, physically, literally, whatever you want to talk about. They're mentally tough, uh, so yeaah, there's a lot to be said there. And they have fixed some of their areas, and like we've talked about, their run game has gotten going. They need Lamar, if they want to be serious about a playoff run. Uhm, but yeaah, I, I would think it's going to have to be something


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[Assistant] Outlandish, spectacular for them to win the game this weekend against Cincinnati. Or maybe they can catch Cincinnati kind of in the dull drums of, you know, what happened on Monday night and they're not focused and I'm still thinking about that. Uh, but the Bengals are just, you know,


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[Assistant] I mean, I think the biggest thing is the run game.


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[Assistant] I mean, Cleveland's one of those teams that has shown the ability to really just kind of be able to run the ball against anybody. It doesn't matter. And that's what would scare me. You know, just that they can kind of control the game that way and eat up the clock.


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[Assistant] You know, run game, run game, oh wait, now it's...


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[Assistant] Eight or nine guys hovering at the line of scrimmage and damn it's Amari Cooper one on one outside now. And oh gosh, we blocked it up and Deshaun Watkins is sitting back there and he's running some post corner or corner post for a big play. But I think it's the run game of the Cleveland Browns to where I look at.


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[Assistant] You know, that could take things off rails, especially, you know, again, especially with it becomes, oh, it's a six minute drive and they ran the ball and you know, oh wait, now the Steelers went three and out. Oh gosh, they even got the ball. Oh, it was another six minute drive and they went down and got another field goal or touch. They could put Pittsburgh in a game they don't want to be in.


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[Assistant] And that, that's I think the one area I look at more than anything else.


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[Assistant] I think that's a very real possibility with the way you said it. I do. I mean, I do think the Steelers are gonna have to do a little bit like we saw last week on Sunday Night Football. You know, one of the things I said in the pregame show


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[Assistant] When we were breaking down the Ravens run game against the Steelers the first time around, I said to Tony Dungy after he broke it down to play, I just go, I gotta think the Steelers are gonna have to play something different. They can't, there's just no way they're gonna be able to go, hey, do this and you guys will just somehow beat them this time, right?


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[Assistant] And I think that they're gonna have to bring out, last week, if you remember, and Collinsworth and Torrico were talking about this, early on in the game, they had six guys at the line of scrimmage. They had five D linemen in, six D linemen. I think they might have to sell out like that. And again, just take your chances of going,


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[Assistant] Hey, we're gonna be one on one with Cooper or we're gonna shade the safety over there and we'll take our chances, but we're not gonna let Nick Chubb and company just, you know, gash


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[Assistant] They have moments of being so awesome and then all of a sudden they take two or three drives off. That's always a possibility with them, but I think realistically it's a little bit of what we saw in the first matchup. You know, one...


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[Assistant] I would think they think we can move the ball on the Chief's defense. And we can...


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[Assistant] Not only run the ball, but we're gonna be able to push the ball down the field with Darren Waller and Hunter Renfro healthy and all of that right now. And Jared Stidham. And Jared Stidham. Now where the Chiefs are different is the Chiefs are starting to expand their playbook on the defensive side of the ball, as I told you last week a little bit. And they are starting to have their moments of


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[Assistant] We'll take a calculated risk or we're gonna double this guy. We don't give a shit. You're gonna have to beat, beat us with somebody else. They're starting to do more and more of that. Uhm, but that to me would be the thing I would look at. I think this is a Raiders offense that has a lot of confidence with Jared Sodom. Again, I don't think they made that move without feeling the team and players.


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[Assistant] You know, and I'm not saying it was fair to Derek Carr, because it does seem a little unfair to him in a lot of ways, but, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't think they would have made that move unless they thought this guy could be dangerous and do some of the things we saw him do to the 49ers last week. And that's where I could see this becoming, you know, interesting.


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[Assistant] Josh Jacobs runs the ball well. Big play action passes to Waller and Renfro and all of a sudden we're sitting there going, it's 27 all. You know, with the five minutes left in the game. And that's where it could be dicey.


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[Assistant] I guess it's the one by. I can't remember it ever, where it's this much, right? I mean, this is, uh, yeaah, it seems crazy. It's definitely different.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, I know you want to play and all that, but at the same time, I don't know, do you want to play to such an extent that you could wear out your football team and you can be maybe banged up and injured for the wild card round? I think that's always a valid discussion here. Uhm, uh, the only way I really feel like, you know,


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[Assistant] It'd be Eagles mistakes. I feel like more than anything.


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[Assistant] You know, it's the Giants, again, they're not great at stopping the run, and we're talking about a team that runs it on anybody they want. And then, oh, the Giants like to play man to man and have to load the box to help stop the run, and nobody wants to play man to man against these guys. So, that's where they're really screwed.


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[Assistant] Can their run game go off to what we just talked about there, you know, a few minutes ago? Can they control the clock and do almost what Washington did to a degree?


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[Assistant] Washington, when they beat Philadelphia, long drives, converting a ton of third and threes, right, and third and twos.


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[Assistant] Running for four or five yards in first down, so they were always in second and manageable. Uh, maybe that's it, but this is not a favorable matchup for the Giants. And Jalen Hurts, what's the latest with him? I don't think we know for sure.


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[Assistant] You know, I think he is practicing. You know, today's the day I think we'll get a better gauge here in a little while to know how much he practices and all that.


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[Assistant] So good on offense right now. That's really not my concern or where I see the problem is. To me would be the only issue here is this Dallas getting too overly aggressive on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] To where they just give Heinecke too many one-on-one opportunities from McLaurin or Curtis Samo to where it's just like, well, yeaah, they run 4-3. What did you think was gonna happen when you just get in their face, play after play after play? Right? That would be the one where...


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[Assistant] That would be the spot I'd go, ooh wait, let me be careful here a little bit. Let me not give them too many chances for one of their freaky receivers and speed burners to burn us that way. That would be the only way I could


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[Assistant] It seems weird right now, you're right, it's over, it's just the last, you know, the wins to Heineken, now back to Heineken, and you know, people making a bigger deal of Ron Rivera not knowing they were eliminated and all that, yeaah, I hear what you're saying. They're just like, get me out of this season. Yeaah, get me out of here.


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[Assistant] It's just early on in that game. Too much of a beating. Took too many shots in that game. Just too much. I would say that he would be the reason you'd go, okay, maybe they can make it happen. But I don't see any other way.


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[Assistant] Again, unless their offensive line and their running game can just absolutely ruin the game and dominate, which I know is good, but it's not as good without Justin Fields and his ability to run in that thread either, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, I, like, I know I was supposed to give one thing that could take the favorite down, but that one thing is gone because Justin Fields is hurt, and he's not playing, and I don't think there's anything in this one for my liking.


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[Assistant] Man, you kind of just said what I think. Do exactly what they did the first time, except you have Baker Mayfield and I would expect you're going to have some more plays in the pass game this time around.


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[Assistant] I do. You've heard my concern. Seattle can't stop the run. It's when they become, when you come past happy that Seattle likes to go, ooh, I like this. This is awesome. And I, the Rams...


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[Assistant] Run the ball. They'll be patient with it. McVeigh usually is. And then Baker's a good play action passing quarterback.


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[Assistant] And their defense, as we've talked about, they still got talent over there. And there's, I think, a schematical understanding with, yeaah, the guy that's Shane Waldron, he came from the Rams. So they get how he works and operates there.


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[Assistant] Who do you match up with the best? I know. There's something about me that wants to say you don't want to play the Seahawks. I don't know why. It's just a divisional rival that's, you know, they've shown a little bit of propensity to have a feel for Shanahan's offense.


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[Assistant] It is the Seahawks or the Lions. Packers would still scare me. Yea. Packers, they're running the ball.


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[Assistant] I think I'm gonna go with the Seahawks. Oooh. I am. Over my Detroit Lions. Detroit would still scare me, and the fact that...


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[Assistant] I think their run defense is better than people think up front. I think those D-lines, you've heard me say the last few weeks, it's not their D-line when they get pushed around a whole lot. And that offense would scare me. It just would. It's balanced.


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[Assistant] You know, eh, they're an offense that I think can maybe replicate a little bit what we saw the Raiders do to the 49ers last week and put them in some tough spots. Not only creative good concepts, we got good play-action-pass, and we can run it well, and so you can't ever just, you know, angle yourself to play one particular area more than the other. We're, you know,


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[Assistant] Yea, Seattle, I feel like they're gonna go, wait, wait, they can't really run the ball on us. And they can't really stop the run. So that's just advantageous all the way. So yea, after a lot of hemming and hawing there, I'm going Seattle.


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[Assistant] Well so that, that's, see this is to me where the media and people want it both ways, right? They want to tell you they should replace him with Matt Stafford and that he's actually better. But then they're also going to admit he wasn't very good last year. He was so bad actually, we're going to give him the comeback player of the year for just being bad. He wasn't even hurt.


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[Assistant] Or an injury, right? So that's where I don't understand the talk sometimes.


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[Assistant] That's Gino or Saquon. Man, Saquon, the year he's had, it's been special. They've had a ride him and Daniel Jones running the ball, right?


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[Assistant] Get back to what he was, right? Right. Now, now we're going, whoa, they might have to give him a top tier contract, you know, for running back, right? I mean, that's where it's gone to. I think Gino's the guy I favor though. I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] If this was another name of a quarterback that was a little bit more famous, it wouldn't even be a conversation. Come on. If this was, if this was like,


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[Assistant] Alan Mahomes, Burrow, any of the top tier quarterbacks who were missed all last year because of a knee injury. And they came back and were 5th in quarterback rating with 29 touchdowns and 9 interceptions.


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[Assistant] We'd all go, but it's not even a contest. I think you're right. Right? But it's Gino, so now he's fourth in the betting. Even a guy like Baker Mayfield. Right, exactly. There you go.


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[Assistant] So say you bet $100 on Saquon Barkley to win Comeback Player of the Year. If you win, you'll get $225. And Morgan will be very happy. She's fist pumping over there. But if you lose, you still get $100 worth of free bets.


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[Assistant] You know, a few weeks ago, I was like, who is this guy? Like, who is this small dude that flies around the edge? Right? I mean, he's got a little, like, this Elvis Doomerville, right? That kind of guy? Or uhm...


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[Assistant] You know, uh, gosh, the outside linebacker for the, the Steelers in one defensive MVP, the linebacker, 92, Harris, uh, uh, Harris, no.


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[Assistant] Uh, Harrison. Yeah, what the hell's his first name? I'm black and I used to do the weight lifting videos. Yep. Yep. I mean, uh, James Harrison. James Harrison. Holy crap.


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[Assistant] That's just, that's too many football players. I can't remember a legend like that, holy cow. Yeah, he's got kind of that build and weigh about him. It's rare to see somebody like compact like that be that great of a pass rusher, but his explosion is real.


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[Assistant] And to your other guy, I mean as we discussed on Monday a little bit, the guy is just a football player. He's a baller. He really is. He does everything awesome.


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[Assistant] Uhm, shows up in every aspect of the game. You know, so, yeaah, good. Good for Aiden Hutchinson.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, uh, it's one of those where, you know, you know, watching back that Buffalo game, you were going, oh yeah, damn, yeah, I forgot they didn't have Christian Barrymore.


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[Assistant] Christian Barrymore is a really good player and like we talked about a lot last year, a lot of the year last year I was going, I'm not so sure he's not their best pass rusher, right? His ability to kind of push the pocket and win against the bigger, slower footed interior old lineman was a great advantage for them.


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[Assistant] You know, so, and, and that's where you talk about the future for your lion, this is where the Patriots can be scary in the future. You're gonna block that guy, Judan and Uche, Uche on the edges, like,


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[Assistant] Those guys, two of those guys are gonna have one-on-one matchups. There's gonna be an issue there. Uhm, so the future's bright as far as that's concerned, but yeah, Barrymore's gonna have to have another big one this week. He's gonna have to. And maybe that's the way they can win it, like we talked about.


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[Assistant] Creative, take a few chances, he pushes the pocket, Uche and Judan hopefully can kind of contain him, sack him as he tries to get out of the pocket, and maybe they can get it done with that group there.


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[Assistant] I know, right, well yeaah, they're not in the running, but we're going playoff, big bucks. We are going to do playoffs, yes. I mean, those are the extra special butts in the league. Yeaah. Right?


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a very, very firm right butt ox there. It's shapeless. Maybe we should do that for now on. They're all butt photos? Well they gotta be butt photos. Like you're a big butt award. In fact maybe we shouldn't even, we have to, that's what we should do for now on. Go, now you have to guess who this butt is, as you tend to say as stats, and I'll figure it out. That might be something good for the future.


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[Assistant] Then we can really say we're experts and go like, I actually know what his butt looked like, like I studied it.


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[Assistant] Wow, so they're gonna see what he's got and, you know, see maybe if they want to dabble in Sam Howell maybe is the answer for next year. Could he be, you think? I doubt it. I don't know really what you're gonna, in one game in this scenario, I think it's always hard to just go, oh, we're gonna get a true picture of what this guy can do here in this situation, right? I liked him at North Carolina. I saw the tape.


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[Assistant] It could be. And like we said, if Dallas plays over aggressive, which they tend to do at times, maybe he'll have a chance to throw some balls down the field.


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[Assistant] I don't, as I stand right now, am I, am I, I guess I'm, what I'm missing, the Jacksonville is gonna be. I had Tennessee, of course, in there.


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[Assistant] Could have been a hero. He had bangles and dolphins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I had the Ravensway in the division, Bengals, so yes. Yep. I had the Dolphins in. I'm not out of that there yet. Not gonna be terrible. Not out of it there. Titans could still get in, and then Dolphins could still be in. I could still have my seven teams in the AFC. I like that. NFC, yeah, there was a few curveballs there for sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then again, continue to send in the questions. We'll see. We don't know where this NFL week's going, totally. As it stands right now, I think we're having a normal week 18, and they're gonna scrap that Buffalo.


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[Assistant] Cincinnati game from Monday night. But again, let's everybody keep Damar Hamlin, his family, the Buffalo Bills in our prayers.


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[Assistant] You know, everybody out there, stay safe. I think it's a great lesson for us to appreciate our loved ones. Don't be afraid to go out there and, you know, tell a brother, an uncle, whoever, you love them. And life is delicate for sure. Uh, but I appreciate everybody tuning into the podcast today. Be good. Ahmed, you are the freaking man for riding.


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[Assistant] Or not riding, but driving the ship. That's what you were doing. And you were riding in it too.


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[Assistant] Right along with you. And damn you look good in your gold pants today. Alright everybody, peace out. Have a good rest of your week. Check out me and Florrie tomorrow on our PIX Podcast. Clap it out. Clap it out.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching, homies. Hit subscribe to see all my Unbuttoned videos. You get to see me, Ahmed Fareed, all the big player breakdowns, game breakdowns, player interviews, and my film analysis. So please subscribe. Chris Sims, Unbuttoned. Peace out.


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[Assistant] Yo, yo, yo, what's up? It's back to Chris Sims New Jersey voice. That's right, I'm here, the Northeasterner accent.


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[Assistant] The mall call. I'm from New Jersey. That's how we talk up here. Okay. But, uh, just having a little fun. It's the Chris Sims on button podcast. My man, Ahmed Farid's here. Let me hear your Texas twang. Do you have a Texas twang? You don't swear, but let me hear your Texas twang.


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[Assistant] It's like the movement around the country definitely neutralize it. It's one of the things I get from people a lot when they meet me and I saw I'm from New Jersey, they go, huh, you don't have an accent.


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[Assistant] And I go, yeah, I guess between being Texas, Nashville, Colorado, Tampa, all those places, it's kind of like negated it a little bit. Uh huh. Uh, every now and then I hear it pop out.


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[Assistant] But I know, I know I don't speak like that because when I hear my family talk and I'm on the phone or something like that, I hear it from them and I'm like, oh, I don't sound like that anymore. It's no longer me.


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[Assistant] Pretty much. Or if you get to the northeast, everybody just calls it all coke. They call it all coke. No matter what it is. They're like, you want a coke? And you mean like, ginger ale? Sure, I'll take it. Like in the south.


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[Assistant] There's a lie. Well, I feel like the bottom one, the air yards completed pass is true.


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[Assistant] Correct. And I feel like the top one is true, that he's second in an NFL passing. I mean, because they can't, they don't run the ball that well. So I'm going to say that he's not second in passer rating. Right.


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[Assistant] No question. They've taken advantage of what they, what's there to be had and they've played good football. But yea, it's, it's, you know, compared to those three guys you just mentioned at the top of the passer rating,


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[Assistant] Herbert's climbing a much steeper hill as far as weekly challenges and things he has to overcome, let alone his own injury, let alone one of the least protected quarterbacks in football, the injuries at receiver, one of the least like separation from coverage.


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[Assistant] His receivers in all of football, if he's not, if it wasn't the worst, I believe it was like second or third worse than football. So it's, it's all those things are speaking to, yeah, things are not that easy.


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[Assistant] But he gets it done and that's because he is an incredible talent. And as I said, when we did the quarterback rankings, for me, when you just talk about pure in the pocket passing, he's the best pure in the pocket passer in football.


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[Assistant] When he can stand there and has a little room and somebody's opened by just a little, it's bullseye every time.


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[Assistant] You know, he's not as good at like the sidearm stuff or maybe extending plays and doing some of that stuff like Mahomes and Allen and Burrow. Uh, but man, just pure passer in the pocket. It's bullseye almost every time he throws the damn ball.


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[Assistant] Well, the thing that blew me away going back and watching on film that I wish I would have hit harder on the post game show on Sunday Night Football and again, you know, you're watching so much stuff. It's live game and you know, sometimes you're trying to figure out everything else to where I just, I could watch the game and here we are, three, four series in and I'm going,


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[Assistant] He's making somebody miss every time he drops back to pass, then throws the ball. Oh, gets pressure.


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[Assistant] Dips it out of the pocket, makes somebody miss, throws the ball. Oh, somebody's around him, moved in the pocket, throws a strike.


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[Assistant] Oh, he's got people hanging around all over him. And most quarterbacks would get antsy and go, Oh no, I gotta run or get out of here. He just stands there, stays strong, rawr, throws the ball down the middle.


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[Assistant] So that is like, I guess I didn't really give him the credit for the pressure he was under that night and how well he moved to avoid some of it at times. And then we just go, oh, good play, good play. But you know, it's, it's one of those where you sit there in peace and quiet and you go, no, that's not a good play. That was phenomenal right there that he did that. And he did that throughout the night.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. He's got great movement ability. It's probably the one thing I would say I wish he would do more, right? You've heard me say that a little bit. Because he's such a great pocket passer, at times I think, oh, you know, I think he just stands there too long to where you're like, man, you can really run. Like, he can run.


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[Assistant] Justin Herbert is a guy that ran 4-5 at the combine, 4-5-9. And he's, it's just, he doesn't choose to, but when he opens up and does it at times, you go, woo, man, he can go. And he just doesn't do it enough for my, for my liking there. But yeah, he torched them and he put the Dolphins, his talents alone.


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[Assistant] And some of the answers of the offense put the Dolphins in a little bit of a tough spot.


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[Assistant] You know, the dolphins we know, like the blitz, right, and send pressure, and people at the line of scrimmage, and-


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[Assistant] You know, bring more blitzers than you have with blockers. I think there's two things. They didn't do it as much in this game, and I think there's two reasons why. One, they realize, uh-oh, like early on in the first two drives when they did it, the Chargers had a few cool little plays where I think they went, uh-oh, those are kind of cool and creative. What else have they got for us tonight? We better be careful doing that. And then I think the other thing is too, he is a great pressure thrower.


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[Assistant] And I think he's a great man to man thrower, as we just described with everything you just said. I mean, it's people not open, he still hits it.


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[Assistant] And they had a size advantage at the receivers compared to the Dolphins corners. The Dolphins corners are small other than Xavier and Howard right now. And I think that between all of those things right there, he scared them out of their,


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[Assistant] Normal approach a little bit as far as being as aggressive as they usually are because I think they said woo the offense has answers he doesn't care when he's under pressure and


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[Assistant] We can cover guys downfield in these blitz looks, but he's gonna throw an on the dime money back shoulder or fade and we're gonna be like, well, we did everything right, except we just can't stop that perfect throw. And I think that alone got the Dolphins a little bit out of their


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[Assistant] Normal attack on the defensive side of the football.


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[Assistant] And then they played a little zone off of that, and of course, as we've talked about, he's very smart and reads coverages the right way, and he can pick you apart in zone as well. Yea, what'd you think about how the Dolphins played this? Because you mentioned before, they're a little blitz happy at times. Yea, exactly. Exactly. You saw that in my notes a little bit, where it just... It wasn't the first time you've said this about this defense. No, no, I know it wasn't. And this one is a game where it made even less sense to me. Unless I know you're going to do what you do, right? Okay, hey, you're an aggressive team, that's fine.


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[Assistant] But at some points you gotta tweak things a little bit. The thing that kinda jumped out to me, especially like early on in the football game, in the first half, I talked about it.


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[Assistant] A lot of like, five-man fronts. A lot of barefront. And I'm going, you're playing the Chargers.


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[Assistant] Can't block anybody. Why are we worried about the bare front and being overpowered? And then, why are we rushing five against one of the worst protecting offensive lines in the game right now?


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[Assistant] And that to me was something that I thought they dropped the ball on that a little bit early and that's what the Chargers moved the ball I thought on a lot of those looks. One thing that I found kinda common early on in the game is when the Dolphins rushed four, they won the play.


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[Assistant] When they rushed five and six, they lost, you know, and it wasn't every play. I know there's, I'm not speaking in totality, but for the most part and my feels usually right with those situations. Oh, those guys, Christian Wilkins, they couldn't block him. They didn't need to have a five man front. Jalen Phillips, they could not block him. They did not need to have a five man front.


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[Assistant] And that to me was something where I just go, hey, I know you're gonna do what you do, but, you know, according to your opponent every now and then, you gotta tweak it and adjust it and go, wait, we don't need to go all in this hard in this game. And I thought that was a little bit of a mistake by them.


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[Assistant] Not to where his money, his draft status, the biggest trades, you know, of the season, like not to that point, no. Is he a good player? Sure.


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[Assistant] Does he even remotely pop as much as Christian Wilkins or the other edge rusher, Jalen Phillips? No way.


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[Assistant] You know, that's to me where I'm going to be interested to see where this goes. Seems like a problem, doesn't it? You just traded for him, you paid him a lot of money. Paid him a lot of money, I know. I know he's dealt with some injuries and maybe he's not 100% and he is getting used to a new defense and okay, we'll give him a little leeway there.


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[Assistant] It's just the, the, you know me, it's the look of the player. I don't even care about stats and all that.


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[Assistant] Jalen Phillips, I don't care what his stats look like, he was in the backfield all game long. I know, I think he ended up with one sack.


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[Assistant] And, you know, that, that, that's always a little disappointing and now you're right. It's going to pose some problems here for them. That's a big money they put to him and you're going to have to pay Wilkins big money.


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[Assistant] And Jalen Phillips, I know it's only year two, but it's looking like two years from now, you're going to be paying him a lot of money too.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's, he's a superstar. He can beat anybody. So, uh, I did not understand that approach, but you know, Herbert, back to your point, you know, he'd put them, his skillset alone put the Dolphins in some tough spots too. You know, even to compound the spot, the point I made about the four man rush, you know, there was a point there too, where,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're getting there, but he's getting out of the pocket too, right? So I think then they got frustrated with that and were like, well, let's send five. So he doesn't have as many lanes to get through. And again, to me, again, that's why he's one of the five best quarterbacks in the game because.


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[Assistant] Things don't have to be good, and we still sit there and go, it looks good! And that's when you're special, and he's that kind of special.


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[Assistant] I think it was less on him, you know, there's still some plays where certainly you look at and you go, come on, first play of the game.


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[Assistant] Tyree kills man to man with a low, he's gone. It's a 70 yard touchdown, he under throws it. You know, had the post down the middle, right, to Tyree kill. And he's gone. And for some reason, he threw it really early.


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[Assistant] And the ball landed at like the 34 yard mark. Post ruts aren't completed at 34 yards. So Tyree Kill was like just coming out of his break and just hitting that top speed of like, oh, okay, now I'm pulling away. And he turned around and the ball was hitting the ground.


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[Assistant] So I don't, he definitely left some, some yards and some plays on the field. There's no question about that.


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[Assistant] You know, not as much as the week before. Yeah. You know, this week, some of the incompletions and things were, well, that's pretty good coverage. You go, I'd like him to give the guy a little bit more of a chance, right? We saw some of those balls like on the sideline and stuff that like went out of bounds and he gave the guy no chance. You know, I didn't love that, but it wasn't like, oh, he's open and that should be hit. You know, that's what we saw last week.


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[Assistant] This week was a little bit more of like, no, this was a good defensive game plan, and they really took away and posed some problems for the offense where


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[Assistant] And what the Chargers did. It's exactly what you did yesterday. What'd you see?


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[Assistant] A little bit more man to man than I think teams have played them for. And I think especially in first and second down.


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[Assistant] So early on in the game, it was kind of just regular man to man. And, you know, what did it do? It took away all the...


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[Assistant] Hey, the quick screens, the RPOs, none of that was there. So he was very flustered. The offense was flustered in general by that because he's going, wait, I'm doing the run fake or I'm supposed to give the ball off and you know, there's an extra guy in the box or that backside linebacker is being aggressive, which my rules are now to pull the ball and throw over to that vacated area.


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[Assistant] But when he would pull the ball, they were like, huh, no, no, we're not playing zone today. We're going to be right here on them. And so now that quick slam over the middle off that RPO. Oh, that's not there. Oh, the quick out route. Oh damn. No, that's not there. That's too dicey. It's too risky to throw that.


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[Assistant] The quick guy in the flat. Oh, boom. That's so they took away the first and second down easy completions through man to man. But the cool thing was as the game went along, it became a little bit more of like a combination coverage type of thing and where they would play.


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[Assistant] Hover two to one side and it might be true two zone or two man, right? So, okay, we got a bunch of guys over there to kind of stop the passing strength with all the receivers in the tight end are. And then the backside, they would just go, you're playing man to man.


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[Assistant] Bump and run, play inside so they can't throw the backside slant, and you play man to man, and then that backside safety, he basically like, played like,


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[Assistant] If one of those guys from that cover two side cross and run a deep cross, I'm here to stop that. So.


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[Assistant] That was a cool little twist they had. And you know, cover two sometimes and then two man with this backside man.


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[Assistant] And then the backside safety looking for people to cross that way, that gave them some issues and it's going to give their RPO and their play action pass game an issue. And what it did too is it goes, no, no, you're going to have to throw routes into tight coverage on the backside.


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[Assistant] You know, you're gonna have to make plays that way. We're not just gonna let you, like, your offensive coordinator spread our zones and do all that, and then you just find a nice big hole. Last touch, the touchdown he threw to Tyree Kill, the go route.


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[Assistant] Same type of thing. They didn't play two man on the front side that time. That was a time where they rushed five, which you know I don't always love, but rushed five, played cover three, zoned the front side.


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[Assistant] Right? And had it all covered up, but they left the backside guy man to man.


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[Assistant] Tua made a great throw on a go route. Boom, touchdown. It's a risk you take, but I think it's like.


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[Assistant] The risk is worth the reward a little bit. You gotta take some risks against them. Like we talked about, it's too good of an offense to just think, we're gonna sit back and do what we do. You gotta take calculated risks. That was the one they took throughout the night, and it paid off big time. Teams have just been too scared to go man to man with Hill. I think a little bit. Two of the fastest receivers in football. Exactly right, exactly right. I think it's a little scary.


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[Assistant] But I think, you know, what too, you can become a little comfortable as you start to go, wait.


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[Assistant] When they have three receivers, the right and the hill are wild on the backside.


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[Assistant] It's a limited route tree. It's a slant route. It's a go route, right? It's kind of like that to where I think they started to say, Hey, play a little inside. Don't let them run the slant. And yeah, you might have a fade or a back shoulder coming. So, you know, be ready to run and go that way. And they just took their chances there. But I do think it's something you're going to see, you know, or you see a guy


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[Assistant] And the Patriots in game one have a little bit better of a plan of RPOs than the rest. We'll see if this continues to build now that teams continue to get some evidence on how to defend it and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] The pass game and everything's been working all year, right Amin? Like it's just like, it's been killing it. But I think this was a game where you go,


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[Assistant] Yeah, we ran for nine on first down and then on second and third we throw it, right? Or you run for five and then they run for eight and then they throw it three plays in a row. And you just go, no, no, you were, you gotta stay with it here. Or, you know, take the RPO check off a few times. There was definitely a few plays and I see this in every game.


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[Assistant] Uh, just a few RPO plays where I go, he pulled it and I wanna go, oh, if he gave the ball, the guy's gonna run for 20 yards here.


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[Assistant] You know, so yeaah, I think it's something that they can, is gonna help them out if they would just run the ball a little bit more, especially in some of these tough AFC East weather condition type of games as well. And it'll stop people from cheating to, oh, I'm not gonna,


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[Assistant] I, you know, had that backside backer. I'm, I'm gonna stay here to stop the RPO because I don't think he's really gonna hand the ball off and all that. It'll give it, you know, a little bit more leverage or merit that way.


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[Assistant] He's gotta play better, you know, and he's gotta take advantage of the opportunities that are there. And that's the big thing. You know, you're playing teams now where...


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[Assistant] It's, yeah, there's not a lot of wiggle room. So you miss two or three bombs that were like supposed to be 50 yard passes or a touchdown.


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[Assistant] And all of a sudden you go, the game's different. Well, yeah, you've, you've missed some opportunities. And I think that's the thing we've seen the last few weeks where, you know, it's just they, we've,


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[Assistant] He kind of got spoiled all year long of, wait, great play design, got them easy plays, and then when they did have the opportunities down the field, he's been great all year, taking advantage of that. But the last two weeks has not been the case. And he has been off. And it's not necessarily, you know, as I said on Monday, I just don't even like the look of some of the throws, as I said.


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[Assistant] And I can tell he's not feeling it right now. The ball's fluttering in the air a little bit. There's not as much pop as there was a few weeks ago. And I think there's a little indecisiveness because he's getting played a little bit of a different way the last few weeks and things aren't as easy.


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[Assistant] To where that's hurt him. It's, it's, he's thrown to the most open receivers in football, it's not even close. He missed, what, three games, two games? And he's got like, 20 more attempts to, 20 more attempts, 20 more completions to wide, five yards more separation, right? So he's by far that. The other weird thing with him is, like,


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[Assistant] The more protection he has, or the longer he has to throw the ball, the worse he is. Which tells you, again, when the RPOs and boom, the quick throws aren't there, oh, he has to stand in the pocket and make throws, this is not his cup of tea.


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[Assistant] So, yeaah, I'm gonna have my eyes on Tua on Saturday night for sure. In the wind, in Buffalo, arms looked weak, he's been off as of late, and now you're gonna play a defense that usually is creative and knows how to take away your tricks? You know, it's certainly something


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[Assistant] When they, exactly right, when they got into the game of, wait, we have to drop back now because we're behind and, and,


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[Assistant] Now we can't fake the speed sweeps and do all that stuff a little bit because it's third and whatever, or it's an obvious passing situation and no one's worried about us running the ball. Yeah. Now that doesn't allow the offense to protect to it. And they're not a great pass protecting offense. They've been great this year protecting because of what we're talking about.


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[Assistant] The play actions, the RPOs, all the movement, as we've said a million times, right, makes everybody go, wait, oh, here comes the speed sweep. Oh, wait, no, he held, he kept the ball. Now let me pass rush. And that's allowed him to throw from a lot of clean pockets. But, uh, yeah, I would think that


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[Assistant] With Buffalo, New England on the horizon, he's gonna see some things that are gonna, you know, stress that, that system a little bit.


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[Assistant] It is. You know, the, the, the, the titans, yeaah. I mean, I'm surprised by it. They blew the game last week. I just kinda watched that game back real quick. I know we're not gonna hit it on it today.


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[Assistant] You know, they turn the ball over three times in the first half. Really we're controlling the football game.


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[Assistant] Blew it that way, and then they're, they're, for the second year in a row, and especially, they're ravaged by injuries once again. And the secondary, the defensive line, the linebackers, and that's, yeaah, a little concerning, uhm, and yeaah, they're gonna have their hands full against, uh, this crew, that's for sure.


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[Assistant] I think it's, it's fair to say, you know, maybe it was, is this as awesome as we've all tried to make it out in the media and all, hey, the story's awesome. His play was really damn good. Did things fall the right way a little bit? Sure. Did he get a little lucky, you know, with, you know, through an interception and got lucky that,


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[Assistant] They called pass interference, even though the receiver just fell down and they saw it out of the corner of their eyes. So they thought, oh, he must have had pass interfered. And you go, no, no, he didn't. The guy fell. He just saw a little bit of that, right? First play of the game. This is a free safety blitz. You know, Ken O'Neal has, you know, been around the league too often, like,


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[Assistant] But after that, I mean, yeaah. Everything was damn good. Damn good when you talk about a guy making his first start against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You know, one, the athleticism for sure.


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[Assistant] Not making any major mistakes, and the big thing is, like we talk about with any quarterback, like taking advantage of all that's there to be had, right? And they're not giving him a ton of opportunities, but when he does get the opportunities, he's doing the right thing with the ball, and he's being aggressive.


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[Assistant] And making it happen. I think that's the positive thing. The biggest thing I would say in this football game, more than anything,


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[Assistant] It's just, the 49ers are rollin'. And Shanahan's rollin'.


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[Assistant] And as I said to you before the podcast, if you told me Shanahan was next to bowls, like going like, wait, what are you calling here? Okay. Hey guys, he's calling this. So we're going to go with that. I'd be like, it looks like that. He, he had such feel.


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[Assistant] For the Buccaneers defense and their attack.


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[Assistant] It almost just says it all right there. I mean one guy is nine times the whole year. The other guy is seven times in a game and a half. His movement is definitely...


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[Assistant] A play, uh, I think it was before the half. They run a bootleg, right? That's another element of the, they're running more bootlegs with him because he's so good at attacking the edge and he is good, uh, Papa Stew 80 to your point at throwing on the run and then he's good at


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[Assistant] Like, he had a play where he had the bootleg, he came off, Cheyenne Triangle was there, he didn't fool him.


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[Assistant] He makes a miss in space, resets his feet, and throws like a, uh, like a 20 yard outroute, I believe it was to Debo Samuel before he got hurt there, and you go, damn, that was like high level, high level shit there.


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[Assistant] You know, so, he definitely brings that element, and within that element, it's gonna help their run game.


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[Assistant] The bootleg thing with him is going to help the traditional run game because now teams are going to be a little more worried about that. The backside DN's going, I got to kind of stay home because they run boots a lot and he can run around the edge. I think it's only a matter of time before we probably see a read option involved in the things too.


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[Assistant] Right? Because he's, he's, he's going to be able to keep the ball off of, oh, I faked it to McCaffrey, the DN crash, and he's going to be able to run for 15, 20 yards. He's that type of athlete.


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[Assistant] You know, the big thing is that Shanahan just was not going to let them be right. That was the big thing. One, hey yeaah, they're better. And then, like, when Vita Vea got hurt on the first drive, and I don't know when the injury was. Earliest. Yeaah, it was, I think.


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[Assistant] It was right? I was gonna say, it was like, because as soon as he came out of the game, they threw the ball early on, and as soon as he came out of the game, they were like, he's out, let's run the ball. And they started gashing him there. But, you know, one,


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[Assistant] But when you play five man fronts, what happens? The middle of the field is open and so Shanahan had some good ways to throw the ball there and expose that. So then they'd get to the four man front cause they're like, oh man, Shanahan's finding ways to find the hole in our zone when we rush five and do that.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna get a six man front, and we're gonna have enough people to stop the run, and if they drop back to pass, we're just gonna pressure him, and he's gonna have to make a quick decision. And then Chenan's like, well okay, sure, get all in there, sure, come on down!


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[Assistant] And then what's he do? He puts Ayuk on the edge or a Kittle on the edge a little way from the line of scrimmage and they block everybody down and he tosses it out. And now you go, well we got six down linemen in there and a linebacker in the middle so we got seven guys inside the tackle box.


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[Assistant] And he just smushed us all in there, and now there's McCaffrey or Debo Samuel on the edge with us, with limited guys, right? So, Shanahan really was all over it from that standpoint, and then all over


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[Assistant] The double mo- the touchdown passes. IU can Christian McCaffrey.


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[Assistant] He just, he just had great feel. The first one to McCaffrey, alright? He throws a little slant and go for the touchdown up the left sideline. And this is another problem they pose for you.


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[Assistant] He knew it was coming, Shanahan. He just, through his studies or whatever, and Todd Bowles has a history of being aggressive as we talked about before. He got in this situation.


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[Assistant] They go, ah, it's third down, we're kind of fringe field goal territory. He must have had feel of like, he's gonna blitz us. So, he keeps George Kittle in at the running back position in shotgun to have a real blocker instead of a running back, right? And he puts McCaffrey out. Now they bring the all out blitz.


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[Assistant] So, the corner's going, wait, it's a running back, it's all out blitz, they're gonna throw it quick, right?


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[Assistant] Shanahan knows they kind of are going to think that. And McCaffrey runs, oh, fake the quick throw, boom, up the sideline, touchdown. Right? So that's like knowing your opponent and then knowing the psychology of the DB. And then the second deep touchdown to Ayuk, double move.


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[Assistant] He's already thrown two curl routes to Ayuk on the drive. So the corner has seen run to 12, turn around, come back to the ball, catch the ball. Okay, it's a simple play. It's a rookie quarterback. Of course they're running curl routes. So he calls a play that looks exactly the same again.


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[Assistant] And what does the corner do? He's already gone. Well, he ran the curl on me twice this drive. I'm not going to do it again. Boom, hits the brakes, restarts, boom, touchdown. So, Shanahan's feel for the defense, the moments, the psychology of the defensive coordinators was on full display, let alone the creativity is there.


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[Assistant] My bad, Sean Danner, I didn't mean to. You're right, I didn't. So I did not mean to do that. But I want to get to this one, uh. And I do want to hit one thing on there. Of what Papa Stoosted, real quick. Okay, you want me to read the question there?


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[Assistant] Alright, for the second time, even though I gave you credit the first time, you didn't deserve it, should have gone to at Sean Danner 6, but he is spot on.


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[Assistant] One, it's a west coast offense, so there's always play to the backfield coming out and like there are true, not even check downs. They look like they're check downs, but at all of it's just bullshit window dressing to get the guy underneath and the coverage they want.


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[Assistant] So, it's a real part of the offense that's gonna help out. And here's where this leads me to the point I wanted to make too. Is...


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[Assistant] They're, they're, and you've heard me say this about them before, but it's, it's a different level now with the, with McCaffrey in the group. They're 21 personnel and 12 personnel.


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[Assistant] Is really gonna put teams in a bind. It really is. Because when you can run the ball the way they run, and 21 and 12, you know, again, two backs, one tight end, or one back, two tight ends, well those are usually run the ball, traditional, when we were growing up, offensive sets, right? You know, and the teams don't do it as much anymore.


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[Assistant] So you're in there, and you're getting gashed by the run, and it's a great run team, and the other line's starting to come along. So now, what do you do if you're Todd Balls? Well damn, I gotta get 5D Lyman in there. I gotta play a 5 man front, I gotta play a 6 man front. And as soon as you start to bring that personnel in, what does Shanahan do? He goes, okay.


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[Assistant] Get to empty shotgun, and now you're, you know, in a formation where you go, well they should be in a running set.


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[Assistant] But now they're split out and Kittle's awesome split out and McCaffrey's awesome split out and use check is awesome split out. And then you got Ayuk and Debo Samuel. So now you go, Oh shit, we brought in the extra D Lyman Carl Nassib to stop the run. And now they're going to throw it for sure.