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[Assistant] That was, that was a damn good win for the Jets. It really was. And, you know, you could sit here and go ahead of the Jaguars, the end of the game, they certainly did not handle that situation correctly at the end of the game. No. I mean...


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly right. You know, it just was all over the place, like horrible management there at the end of the football game, let alone on the, what do I want to say, on the second down and the first down, they threw the ball short.


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[Assistant] Like in front of the goal line to where it's like if the guy, they get tackled, you're going to lose seconds. On second down, it should have been a pick six by CJ Mosley. It went through both of his hands. And then, uh, somebody on the Jaguars caught the ball off the deflection to the one yard line and that led them to spike the ball. They messed that up. Um, but yeah, I mean, back to the point.


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[Assistant] Zach Wilson's, uh, Zach Wilson and Trevor Lawrence, let's not like write their history yet. They, they show a ton of physical ability and I will sit here at the end of the year of watching yesterday and watching, you know, watching both of these guys play on film, not every week, but a lot of weeks.


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[Assistant] I'm still more impressed with Zach Wilson as a quarterback than I am Trevor Lawrence. So if I had to re-rank him, I'd still make him number one.


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[Assistant] I would. Lawrence, I mean, Lawrence has a chance to be a superstar. I think Zach Wilson will be a superstar. To me, he's a better thrower, he's better in the pocket. Lawrence is not good in the pocket and that showed again yesterday. That's one of the areas of the game he's got to work on. And here's another, I'll give you a little another


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[Assistant] Chris Sims, cause people are, I'm always texting people around the NFL and stuff.


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[Assistant] I had somebody text me yesterday, neutral the situation that was on the field and pregame with Lawrence and Zach Wilson.


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[Assistant] And they basically were like, I wish you were here. You'd be pumping your fist and happy right now.


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[Assistant] And I was like, what do you mean? And they go, they, they just, they text me back. There's, there's, there's a difference. Zach Wilson is way more impressive throwing the football than Trevor Lawrence and pregame warmups. And it's somebody I trust. So yeah, that makes me feel good. Cause I've gotten little things like that all year where people see Zach Wilson in person and they go, damn, he's, he's,


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[Assistant] Awesome like, you know, up yours by, by Graham catching that touchdown pass to win the game or tie, you know, have a chance to win the game against his old team, the Seattle Seahawks. Great throw and catch by Demir Bird and Nick Boles putting in a spot to get the two-blank conversion. But like,


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[Assistant] Had a, had a, had a chance to kick a field goal at the end, they missed a field goal. They get down a field goal drop range, the next drive.


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[Assistant] And they get a penalty and Russell Wilson takes a stupid sack. I mean they had so many chances to put the game away. I didn't watch this game overly close like to where I could tell you every detail. I watched it enough of course to know that I felt like Seattle was the better team and was kind of controlling things.


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[Assistant] You know, typical Seattle fashion, they just, you know, can't, you can't put them away and they can't put other teams away. That's what they do. And when you live like that, you're going to get screwed over every now and


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[Assistant] Don't mess this up. You got a really cool t-shirt on. Don't mess this up.


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[Assistant] We won't have to hear that again. That's it. This could be it. Listen, you make me bet I'll say it is gonna be it. I don't see it happening. I think he's gonna be leaving town after this year.


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[Assistant] Go Bronx. Go Bronx. Go, go the football team. Go Dolphins. I don't know what he's gonna say. He'll have some options though, that's for sure. Go Giants. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, tell, tell, I'll explain the medium free drink thing so people understand what that was about.


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[Assistant] Well, since my dad was in the ring of honor, we got a free large one.


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[Assistant] You know, it looked good. I know I was pumping the brakes a little to some people at that point going, yeah, it's good, but it doesn't look great. And then yes, I think shortly after that, you and I just, how many conversations do we have where I just kind of was like, Ooh, I see a lot of repeat plays.


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[Assistant] I see a lot of DBs running the routes for the Carolina Panthers receivers. That always scares me. So I'm sure he is good. He's, I'm sure he's a great guy. Most guys in the NFL are great guys, but yeah, does he have to go back and.


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[Assistant] Maybe reevaluate himself and figure out a little bit more inventory to his offense if he wants to survive as an NFL office coordinator. Absolutely. Here's two things I'll say about your requiem for teams that I'd like to just hit on. I don't think Joe Judge should be fired. All right.


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[Assistant] Hey listen, I understand the frustration. I also will continue to say there's been a lot of, uh, you know, ingredients that are not that great there with the New York Giants that has hurt his ability to maybe make the team the way he wants. And I don't think the Carolina Panthers should get rid of Matt Ruhl. I don't.


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[Assistant] You know again, I think there's a lot that I like about what I've seen Matt Ruhl do there.


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[Assistant] He has not got a quarterback and the offensive coordinator thing right. I understand that.


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[Assistant] You know, I think there is a little bit of a culture that's been built there. He has totally flipped around the talent of the football team completely. They're young still.


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[Assistant] You know, I would give them another year. I'd give them another, let's see if they can get a quarterback and offensive system in there that fits them. I know those are big things, there's no doubt. It's not always easy to get a quarterback either though. He took over a job where Cam Newton was the quarterback.


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[Assistant] And he was falling apart. So they had to try to make a move to do something else. They got Teddy Bridgewater. That didn't work out. They weren't the first person that was tricked by Teddy Bridgewater. They realized that wasn't good.


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[Assistant] Then, hey, they went the same Donald route. I was, I'm one that, you know, I got to stick up for it too. I didn't think it was a bad move. I did not, you know, but Donald didn't play well. And I think you couple that with Joe Brady and the predictability of the offense. Yeah. It led to a less than performance on that side of the ball. But, uh, again, I think there's more good in Carolina with Matt rule.


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[Assistant] That outweighs the one or two bad things I look at, and I hope they keep them for another year. I do.


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[Assistant] You know me, I'm gonna stick with my pick there. Yeaah. Now Ian Book starting, I picked this game to be 13-10 with, you know, somebody other than Ian Book starting at quarterback. I think this is gonna be an ugly defensive showdown. You know, the Saints defense, like we saw last week, we know it's damn good and special.


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[Assistant] You know, but the Dolphins defense last half of the year been great.


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[Assistant] They're going to be able to match up those corners with those receivers. They'll be able to lock them down and they'll be able to stop the run and do all that. So, you know, I guess if I had to reevaluate, I said 13-10 Miami, I'd probably go like 16-7 Miami now.


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[Assistant] Or something like 16-6 Miami with Ian Bookett quarterback. That's probably how I would go. I did bet the under. All right. This is a Chris Simms special best bet of the week. I bet the under in the, the Seahawks Bears game.


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[Assistant] And the last touchdown screwed me over and I lost it with the jump ball that Jimmy Graham lost it. And I really think the snow actually led to points in that game rather than it being a little bit of a more defensive struggle. You know, so I felt like the elements actually screwed me over. I feel confident that the under will hit tonight. We'll see. Uh, but I expect a Miami ugly.


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[Assistant] Manage the football game type of win where Tua just makes a few throws and plays, you know, to got to get them over the edge. But I don't think this would be pretty. I think it's going to be hard hitting and kind of fun to watch actually.


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[Assistant] I feel good about it. We'll see though. Who knows? You know, knowing my luck, they'll have a reverse and a return of pun and somebody to throw a pick six and the game will be 24-20 in the third quarter with no offense being played, but they still got 44 points total. So hopefully not. We'll see.


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[Assistant] We'll be back together next time. Ahmed, you the man. You really are. You're welcome to do it wherever you want, anytime. Uh, your life's truly one of the nicest human beings I know. And if I don't see you, have a happy new year, alright? And as I might not see you until next week, so enjoy that with the family. Uh, tell your wife that


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[Assistant] She deserves like a, damn, okay. Okay, Mrs. Fareed for making the coolest t-shirts I've ever seen. Damn, they're cool. So she deserves that without a doubt.


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[Assistant] Hi I'm Mike Tirico and thanks for watching. Make sure to hit subscribe for the latest news and highlights from NBC Sports.


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[Assistant] I don't look at it as being mean. You're right. It's not. It's not. And of course not for this business and what we've hung, you know, whether you're playing in the NFL or doing what we're doing, it's, it's part of the job. I mean, it's competition. You're going to be evaluated on how you compete and what you do there. That's part of it.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm your dad. I mean, I'm your best buddy, but I'm also your dad. Like, no, we're not gonna have the seventh candy bar today. Sorry. Sorry, I've had enough.


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[Assistant] And that's where I get it. But do be nice. Teach your children to be nice. That's all that matters. Respecting people, doing it the right way. And again, I see too many men who are like, oh, I want my son to be tough. And I'm like, tough? What? I mean, whatever.


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[Assistant] Being a man or being a good person, that all goes together. You know, treating people the right way, respecting people the right way.


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[Assistant] Calling yourself out when you're wrong, doing those things, I don't understand that, so I always am trying to say that to my kids. They can like do almost anything, you know, I let my kids swear, whatever. They know if they're caught mistreating someone or getting trouble at school for that, they will deal with the wrath of dad, and therefore...


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[Assistant] Paul's out. I don't know what's going on either way. We called Daniel.


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[Assistant] That's really what it's more about is like to inform people about like, listen, these are the issues with this team or this is something they can get better at and they got the potential to get better at that. If they want to make a run here in the playoffs or get to the Superbowl, it is what it's all about.


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[Assistant] I got, I got a good feel for it too. I didn't do as deep a dive as these three, but I've watched it through on the coach's film, can tell you just about anything you need to know about the game.


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[Assistant] They have, they have shown, yes, to me it's the last piece of the puzzle here with Kansas City to maximize the potential of their football team, at least on the offensive side of the ball. Hey listen, they did some really good things on the first half.


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[Assistant] I mean, whether Mahomes making the right reads, the right throws, he made some magic plays like we know he can do when nothing was there and they still get a first down or whatever. You know, all of that was rolling early on.


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[Assistant] Now the one thing I'll say about the matchup, it was cool. You could tell early on too, Cincinnati was not going to be overwhelmed by the speed or the talent on the Kansas City offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, the bangles, they got talent on that, on the defense. They do.


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[Assistant] You know, their, their front four can get after the passer a little bit like we saw. The secondary is certainly not overwhelmed by the Chiefs weapons in any shape, way or fashion there. Linebackers are pretty good too. It was a good matchup altogether where, you know, clearly the Chiefs won the first half of the football game.


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[Assistant] Alright, as the game went on in the second half, hey, here's some things, you know, Chiefs only had the ball three times in the second half. They only got the ball three times.


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[Assistant] Last time they touched it, it was 6.30, left in the fourth quarter, never got to touch the ball again.


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[Assistant] You know, so that speaks more to like some of the issues the Kansas City defense had in the second half. The first half, yes, the offense was rolling. No doubt about that. Had it going in both directions. I mean, passing the ball, running the ball.


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[Assistant] I guess my big takeaway more than anything in a year where


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[Assistant] Their passing offense is not as special as we've seen the previous three years. You know, they're not creating the big plays. To me, where I still look at it and go is, I, and I listen, I know they ran the ball well in this game. They could have ran it better. That's all I'm saying.


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[Assistant] They didn't take advantage of all that's there to be had, I think, in the run game, to a degree. And that's maybe my big question about them going forward. Can they, in that big playoff game, where a team is giving them issues with the pass game, and continues to play these deep passing looks, right? We're gonna take away the big play.


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[Assistant] They have an offensive line that can dominate the line of scrimmage against a lot of teams. I wish they would have a few more run plays in the mix, but they have enough, and to me it's just about the carries. And one thing I'll bring up here too, just


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[Assistant] You know, last drive of the game for the Chiefs. They go down the field, you know, to kick the field goal to go up, uh, or to make it 31-all, right? And there's 5.43 left in the clock when they kick the field goal.


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[Assistant] Good smattering of plays, but really got down there because of the run game. They rip some plays off. They get down there inside of the red zone. The Bengals play deep coverage defense. You know, at the 18, 19 yard line, somewhere in that range. And first and second down, the Chiefs try to throw it.


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[Assistant] And it's just like, man, it's coverage all the way. You've just dominated them running the ball. You're opening up big holes. Run it again.


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[Assistant] Run it again. Get to third and two. Who knows maybe the first down inside the 10. And, you know, you'll take some time off the clock and maybe you'll score a touchdown. So that's just the one thing I questioned. And to me again, I love the Chiefs. You know that I got respect for everything across the board. GM, head coach, all that.


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[Assistant] I just, hey, I think they can still maximize their offensive lines.


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[Assistant] Uh, ability in some of these games where they had a mismatch against the Bengals in the run game.


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[Assistant] And the pass game they did not. That's what happened to me in the second half, to me more than anything. You know, the Chiefs penalties and all that, but it was created by the, the, the Bangles pass rush. The Bangles pass rush won in the second half.


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[Assistant] And especially because they had a move Thoony at the left tackle, Orlando Brown got hurt in pregame, Lucas Niang got hurt, uh, early on in the football game. So the Chiefs weren't even at full strength on their offensive line.


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[Assistant] We're still doing awesome in the run game, but the pass protection was a little bit of an issue in the second half and led and put Mahomes in some tough positions and that's why they only had the ball three times.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would love to show the run games, and you know, we could have shown a few plays for sure, but like, let's hit it off. First off, I like the Chiefs when they're in these formations right here. I do.


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[Assistant] You know, again, this is to me where they're gonna get teams to get people to creep up to the line of scrimmage and then we'll get to see the Chiefs we want where he'll throw the ball deep for touchdowns. You know, his first touchdown pass of the day, Robinson down the middle, a post. It's a play action fake.


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[Assistant] You know, they've shown a little success running the ball, the bangles are down there, they hit the deep pass, that's because of that. To me, this is where they can, there's a little meat left on the bone still, and it's gonna make them be the team.


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[Assistant] We want them to be, which is high flying fun. I want to see my homes let it loose. If you're only listening.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, here we are. I mean, it's a, it's an iFormation, iFormation, Kansas City, they got the full back in, Gore's at tailback, Tyree kills in the slot to the left, and then outside of him, there's two receivers to, to Mahomes left with the tight end to the right.


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[Assistant] And I'm not sure who this is down here in the bottom. I think it's DeMarcus Robinson. But either way, you're going to have Tyree Kill go across in motion, almost like in the little speed sweep action, right?


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[Assistant] He's gonna go out there really to just kinda block the edge and Eli Apple at the corner position over there.


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[Assistant] And, within that, they're gonna pull the backside guard.


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[Assistant] And run a play that I would call, uh, in the Gruden offense, 96 power.


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[Assistant] Alright, 96 power to where, you know, you're going to see the tight end kind of try to go up to the second level. The fullback is going to kick out the end guy in the line of scrimmage. That backside guard is going to go in between the tight end and the fullback and look for work for the first body that shows in a traditional old school run play.


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[Assistant] Oh, everybody runs this, and it's still a great run play. It translates to every level. I mean, you see, it's just block down, block down, block down, you know, block down, backside guard, come through the hole, the fullback's gonna kick that end guy out of the line of scrimmage, and the guard's gonna look for whoever shows up. He's just gonna look for color. Anybody that's wearing an orange, orange uniform, he's gonna hit them.


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[Assistant] I like when they do this stuff is my point first off. And as you see here, this is the point we're trying to make.


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[Assistant] Oh, he's getting ready to say Set Hut. What are you seeing, Ahmed? Safeties, right? They're playing 2D. They're playing coverage. They don't even care. Hey, your O-line's good. We don't think Andy Reid and Bienneme will really run the ball. And we're still too shit scared of your passing game. So we're going to drop the back. And because of that,


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[Assistant] Boom. You see how the fullback hits the end guy at the line of scrimmage. Look at the guard up to the next level.


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[Assistant] On the linebacker, right, you see him 73. Boom, he hits him. The tight end who combo blocked a little bit with the right tackle. He gets up to the other linebacker and there you got Gore who I like at running back. They got a little good combination between him and Williams at tailback.


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[Assistant] And this is what they're capable of. They really are. They're capable of this. And the talent on their line...


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[Assistant] Read smart enough, be enemy smart enough to draw up some good run plays. I wish they had a few more different versions of pulling guard plays. You know, they can get sometimes stuck in the inside outside zone world where it's just, okay, here's inside zone, here's inside zone, which is okay. I get that, but you got to have a little diversity in your running attack too. And to me, you know, again,


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[Assistant] It's just, if defenders are going to play like this and play always to stop the big pass down the field, this is the next move in the chess match. And if you want to be the team you want, you expect to be, to get to the Super Bowl and maximize everything your roster has to offer this year, this is to me just where the Chiefs are, you know, leaving a little like meat on the bone like I've told you.


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[Assistant] I think they can do it against a lot of teams. I do. I think this is, you know, and I think they've kind of gotten in a little bit of an attitude here as they've gotten forward. Like they, they know they're going to have to run the ball a little, but they're, they're too talented.


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[Assistant] So yeah, I don't look at any defensive line other than maybe the Kansas, I mean the Tennessee Titans where I go, okay, because I don't know if anybody can run against the Tennessee Titans. I mean the Tennessee Titans have a front four that's just, that's legit. They got size and big guys on the edge and they can, they can be real, but it wouldn't be a mismatch.


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[Assistant] Again, you got $100 million on this offensive line. I mean, some big time assets that


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[Assistant] You know, you use to get this team, whether it's through money and Tooney and Orlando Brown or the second round pick with the center.


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[Assistant] You know, Lucas Niang, who got hurt last week, second round pick from TCU a few years ago. And that, that's all I'm saying. Because listen, I, Mahomes is playing better. The past game hasn't been better. It's not what it was two, three years ago, but still really good, still really dangerous as we know. And to me, this will help out with some of these like,


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[Assistant] Stale points, we see the chiefs offense go through every week, right? Where you go, oh my gosh, they're unstoppable, three drives in a row, and then four drives in a row, you go,


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[Assistant] They've gotten two first downs the last four weeks. What the hell happened? And to me this is where I want more as a fan of the Chiefs and Mahomes and Andy Ridge.


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[Assistant] To me, the big thing, again, I don't think they changed much of their approach as far as like secondary play, what they did. It wasn't a much different game plan than the first half. I didn't look at it and go, oh, the first half they did this, the second half they did this, that's what happened. No, it was still pretty much the same, same thing.


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[Assistant] Except the fact that, yes, the defense align, specifically Hendrickson.


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[Assistant] Really gave Tooney some issues. Who's not a natural left tackle and had to play in an unnatural position for him in this game. And he gave issues. And then it caused Mahomes to scramble and then guys held because you know, when the quarterback gets outside the box, they're like, wait, where are you going? Why are you running? They hold. And that put them in some tough positions. But I do think that would probably be the number one thing I saw in the second half.


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[Assistant] That I would say, yeaah, changed the game a little bit from the first half, is that, that, that Bangles pass rush did get there. Hendrickson's a guy.


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[Assistant] He's, he's a guy. He definitely, he's definitely a, you know, no matter what game I turn on, he has a package of plays where he pops. He's a difference maker that way. Uh, so yea, he's a really good football player. Better than I gave him credit for last year with him in the New Orleans Saints. He really is. You know, last year I was,


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[Assistant] I guess I wasn't totally sold on his high end talent. I think he's a little bit more, he's a little bigger and physical than I realized and he's got the ability to bend around the edge like a top tier pass rusher which I don't know if I gave him the credit for it the way I should have.


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[Assistant] The Chiefs defense is real good. It is. I don't know if I'm ever, I'm going to call it great. I do think even through the stretch they went in with winning and being dominant, they got fortunate to play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, the Giants, you know, they played the Raiders who they match up really well with, you know, that too. They got to play the Broncos team that we know has had offensive issues too, right? But then all of a sudden, and we know they played the Steelers two weeks ago in Dominator, but we saw the Chargers game.


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[Assistant] The Chargers who can throw the football. You play too much man to man. Herbert and company are going to beat you. That, I mean, the Chargers controlled the football game. They really screwed it up to let the Chiefs come back and win the football game ultimately.


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[Assistant] Yes, the Chief's defense is good. I'm not sitting here ready to tell you guys that I go, Oh, it's, it's one of the best in football or it's the best in football. It's certainly is hot. It has some.


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[Assistant] And to me going into the matchup was can the Bengals protect Burrow when he wants to throw the football. And I think that's the thing I came away with here more than anything. We'll get into this. I wanna explain the rest of my points as we go here either way. But what was different for the Chiefs in this football game is that


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[Assistant] Uhm, they're an aggressive defense. The Bengals offense has every, I love the Bengals offense. They do everything. They have everything.


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[Assistant] So you, there's a lot to defend, let alone the weapons. And then you have a quarterback who's aggressive and understands defenses and how to read coverages and all that. And they do something that I also love too, Ahmed, where this is again, a tough matchup for the Chiefs. They want to be aggressive and play man to man.


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[Assistant] Burrow and them, or they're the type of guys that go, fine, our man is better. And the guy throwing the ball is really good. So, we'll just, we'll throw it outside the numbers.


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[Assistant] That was one of the interesting things to me about early on in the football game, and I wrote this I think in the notes to Pete, and I don't know if he passed them along to you, because I kind of give Pete the Cliff Note versions instead of sending him my whole page here, and it's just like,


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[Assistant] Early in the game, I got the sense the Chiefs were more scared of T. Higgins than Jamar Chase. Like, if you, if you, I think if we broke down the first half of plays, you'd go, oh, they clouded the T. Higgins side more than they did the Jamar Chases. Now, they had to change that after they saw Chase burdened by him a few times. Coach, you sure about this?


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[Assistant] But your point is real. Your point is real. And here would be one of my broad points of the football game. And I'm gonna show them here in a minute.


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[Assistant] I know Chase made some unreal plays. They got burned two times in cover two in this football game. The both long touchdowns by Jamar Chase were covered too.


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[Assistant] And I think that affected a little bit or spooked Spagnolo, Spagnolo from like calling zone defenses at times because that was like still in his brain a little bit. Like, oh man. And to me, yes, I know they had those two plays, but as the game went on and even early on in the football game,


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[Assistant] When Burrow had a play against Coverage, and they didn't blitz and leave guys on islands, and he had to pat the ball one time because maybe someone's not open right away, the pass rush got there, and it caused issues.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. And, and that's one of the weak spots of the Bengals. And of course the Chiefs can rush the passer. Frank Clark and Chris Jones are as good as it gets right now in the game. So that is where one thing I looked at from, you know, the Chiefs aspect on the defensive side of the ball to where I know you got burned.


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[Assistant] I know that, but you also, hey, one play was a freak play by Jamar Chase, the first one where he caught the little out route and then split everybody and ran up. That's, I mean, that's just a superstar making a play. It's gonna happen. The next time, the first play or the second play of the second half, when he catches the long ball down the left sidelines, which we'll show in a minute.


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[Assistant] That was just execution of the Chief's defense, and them being a little too cute. You know, but when they played a little bit more vanilla,


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[Assistant] And like I said, made Burrow just, oh wait, I gotta read this and pat the ball an extra second. Man, I mean, if he got the ball off, it was like, oh, he just got it off. He was about to get crushed or he got sacked. And to me, that's a little bit where Kansas City let the bangles off the hook because, oh, now we're going to all out blitz.


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[Assistant] And now Burrow just goes, well, like you just said, I got three guys.


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[Assistant] Can you match up with all three of these guys? I don't think so. I'm going to find one and I'm going to make a play. And that's kind of what happened. And that of course was the big story of the football.


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[Assistant] You got beat on zone two times. Change it up. You gotta figure it out. You're right. Listen, keep me, you're right. That's what sucks about being a football coach or player is sometimes you can't be right. And I try to be fair here with that. But yeah, those two plays, I understand how they could scare you, but I'm going to show you some other plays where I go,


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[Assistant] See, when they do this, man, it's, it's, it's just, it's a roll of the dice for the Bengals to make sure it's not a, a crappy play. Right. And, uh, that was one of the things that jumped out about. Alright, let's start with Joe Burrow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think this is a cool moment right here. Now this is like right at the end of the first half, right? So they're going down. It's 28-14, which is another kind of unspoken little turn of events here that happened in this game. The Chiefs had the ball, Mahomes threw a bomb to Tyree Kill, and he dropped it.


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[Assistant] At the bangles 10 yard line or 15 yard line. They had a punt a player two later, so they had a chance to extend their lead.


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[Assistant] And instead had a punt, and now, they get the Belichick 10 point swing here, because they're gonna get a field goal before the half, they get the ball to start the second half, and they score again. But here's a play that, I love this kind of shit. Alright? And, this is uhm, like I said, nothing special here.


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[Assistant] But we're going to show why it makes sense here in a second. It's, it's, it's the Chiefs kind of trying to disguise. You're not seeing all the pre-snap stuff here. You know, Sorensen was down here. They're getting ready to say set hut. And now he's going to back up and they're going to play too deep. All right.


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[Assistant] And what you're gonna see here is a clear go route by Diggins on the outside. And then Uzoma is gonna run a little out route, right?


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[Assistant] And right now, probably a pre snap, Burl probably thought it was man to man, or maybe even two man. He's probably thinking, either way, I don't think this is like cover two zone type of look.


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[Assistant] And you're going to see here as he gets the ball in the shotgun, he looks to his right. He's looking right at Azuma. See, I think right now he sees this guy in trail technique and he's going, wait, it's a man. He'll continue to carry this guy up the field. He's got inside leverage on the tight end. So he's probably thinking it's, I'm thinking a two man, I'm guessing that, but as you're going to see here, as the play goes, the corner is going to fall off.


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[Assistant] And play a true cover too. And then within that, the safety's gotta get high and wide because he's gotta cover the corner's ass with the guy running the vertical. Alright, so here you go.


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[Assistant] He was fooled, right? Throws the ball, Azuma almost gets decapitated and loses his head, and it becomes an incompletion. Could have been an interception, either way.


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[Assistant] What I guarantee he saw was this right here. Where he went, wait.


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[Assistant] This, there's a hole here for me to drive this ball in. He's not wide enough or over here enough to make the play on this ball. And so there we have that play in completion, okay? Right before the half. Right before the half, they kick a field goal, two plays later, alright?


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[Assistant] He looks at the tablet and he's going to, man, I bet you listen, if we call this play again and I see this, I'm, I'm going to look at that same out route guy and they're going to bite on it and I'm going to hit the guy in the hole. How long did he have to wait? Two plays in the second half and let's go to that one when we can here. Um, because this is, this is cool. So again, we're not seeing the, the total.


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[Assistant] Pre-snap picture, because before this started, again, Sorensen was down here.


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[Assistant] And now he's literally just got back here in this still shot that you're seeing. Kind of the same thing he was doing last time, right? It's the same exact thing. It's all the same except this time it's to the slot receiver side, the two receiver side. And you got chase on the outside and boyd on the inside.


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[Assistant] And there's two things here. It's cover two, again. You know, cover two, the rules for the corner. Force the guy outside. Which Charvarius Warder's gonna do. That might not be Charvarius. That might be, uh,


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[Assistant] Like, he might be playing a single safety defense. I don't know if he's trying to mess with Joe Burrow to give him kind of a bastard look.


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[Assistant] Or if he's just messing up. But either way, like I told you in the last step, cover two, you gotta get high and wide.


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[Assistant] I mean, I played for Tampa in the heyday of Tampa too. The first two steps for the safety, no matter what, even if you think it'd run, they would always say you got to take three backpedal steps, three backpedal steps on like that 45 degree angle to the, the sideline. Well, I'm going to play this and you're going to see. All right. So he's hopping up a little bit. Now look where he is right now.


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[Assistant] He's playing like vertical up the field. And you can see this here. Look, I mean this is great. We got the vision, all of that.


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[Assistant] As we go through this, look at, alright, you're seeing how this is playing out. Look at his body position. This is not ideal for somebody running vertical here because he's gonna have to flip his hips and get over there. Right now he's playing like he's worried about an in-middle post or whatever. Whatever it is, he can't do that.


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[Assistant] Alright, and now we're gonna see within this, he's gonna run the out route and corner's gonna come off.


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[Assistant] But he doesn't recognize it quick enough to get high and wide. Now again, I don't know if this was a true cover two call before the snap, or if they call quarters, and then because the slot receiver goes out, it goes to a cover two correction. That is a real thing, uh, in the football world that that happens.


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[Assistant] Even if it, even if it was quarters, yes, straight quarters, but they're playing a defense either where it's called cover two or it's on him to read the number two slot receiver and if he goes out, now it becomes cover two. Alright, if that makes sense, should I explain that the right way? So now, you see here, Sorensen with his body positioning,


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[Assistant] But he knows, man, look at all this area I have, plus...


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[Assistant] This guy right here with his hips this way has got to spin around and try to get there to...


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[Assistant] I mean, arguably one of the five fastest guys in football. I mean, Jamar Chase is, it's that fast. It really is. And here you go. Look, so now he's flipped his, he flips his hips, and the other mistake Sorensen does, flips his hips and gets no depth. Comes right down the line, right? To the sideline.


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[Assistant] And you know, so he goes right horizontal to the sideline instead of getting depth and look at him. As soon as the ball goes, oh jeez, oh god. And he's gone.


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[Assistant] And that's all about the positioning, uh, the way you're lined up pre-snap and of course,


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[Assistant] You know, having your, having your body in the right position to make the play that you need to make there. And that came back to bite him in the ass, and of course, boom, it's a game changer. I mean of course it's a game changer, I know, I made it 28-24, but...


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[Assistant] You know, to get the ball that quickly, score like that. So I feel like that scared Spags a little. Between that play, and then...


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[Assistant] The first long touchdown, alright, and I'm just gonna do this without even, the first long touchdown was somewhat similar to this, alright.


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[Assistant] And this was Chase and he caught the little outrider. It was a true cover too. And now they just all had a rally to tackle him and he just ran by everybody. And let me just say for Jamar Chase to run by the Chiefs defense for a 67 yard touchdown when he came from a dead stop, the Chiefs have some dudes that can fly.


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[Assistant] People don't do that to the, you don't see the Chiefs give up 80 yard touchdowns. Cause they have guys that can run you down by the time you get to the 6, 7 yard line. That was one of like, he ran away from Ligeria Sneed and Juan Thornhill. I mean they catch everybody. You know I watch the Chiefs every week.


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[Assistant] People break out in the open and they run them down every game. And they couldn't run him down. That's where Chase is special.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. It's a special group of receivers that can do that. You know, that's again where...


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[Assistant] Just, man, guys like that who can flip the field in such a hurry. Him, Deebo Samuel, AJ Brown, Terry McCorran, DJ Moore.


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[Assistant] You know, where it's just routine plays, where you go, this is routine. But they make it look like it's exotic and awesome because, you know, they have three Rockets up their ass. Tyree Kill. Right. You know, that kind of guy. But not, uh, Devontae Adams. Well, Devontae Adams needs a precision passing game and all that. That's what he does. He's awesome. Again, I know. He's awesome. But we get it. We get it. He's awesome.


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[Assistant] Yes, I do. And again, here, we're in a first and 20 situation. Here we are at the end of the football game, right? Yup. Alright, they're on the, the Bengals are on the 34 yard line, you know, and man, I do like these Bengals uniforms with the orange and the, um, orange socks.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that'll help. Yeaah, right, right. But they did change them, we do like it. Alright. Yeaah, that's right. You know, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the owner of the Brown family who always would say, like, we're not changing the helmets. I told you that story at the combine. Don't change them. These are good uniforms.


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[Assistant] Where was this, you know, a little earlier in the game? Look, they're kind of doubling this guy, right? He's man to man, which is a little scary there. He's man too. They're going to double the tight end here a little bit, but it's a four man rush and it's coverage. All right. And you're going to see here.


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[Assistant] Their pass rush got home. And as you can see, it's getting home in two different spots here. Frank Clark and Melvin Ingram are whooping ass. You know, so Joe Burrow has no chance. So, oh, okay. Now it's, you know, second and 27. Boom, you got that, right? The play after this, alright? Uh, and you can go on to the next play, Pete.


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[Assistant] The play after this is also coverage. Alright? So you're gonna see here. We're gonna watch it again. It's coverage.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's a similar type of coverage where they're playing some brackets, but look, again, the pass rush is getting there. It's, it's like, oh, you better make it, get to the top of your drop, make a decision, throw it, because we're gonna, we're gonna get there.


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[Assistant] Alright, and he's gonna throw the ball. It's gonna be incomplete down the left sideline there. Good job by Fenton on Higgins. Alright, but yes, that to me was one of the where areas where I want to go. Where were some of these defenses? Why didn't we play some of this coverage, you know, a little bit throughout the game? And I do feel like


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[Assistant] This is one area where they might have dropped the ball because now you like, we talked about earlier, they played in the hands of the bangles of like, wait, we can't block that good, but now you're making it to where you're blitzing us and I gotta throw it quick. I know that before I even drop back, I'm not even reading anything anymore.


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[Assistant] And now I'm playing one on one matchup outside and my three guys are better than your three guys. Even though I like these Chiefs corners, they're not, they're not, they can't match up with these guys all game long.


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[Assistant] This is where, you know, again, the chiefs, they go for the jugular, which is cool.


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[Assistant] But at times, it comes back to bite them in the ass. And this is one where I'd go, I just, I don't understand the thought process of going through the jugular here. And let's pull that next play up, Kristen or Pete, when you get a chance. Because, first off, it's 3rd and 27. There's 319 on the clock. Right? You got three timeouts.


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[Assistant] Like, so what? Like, they're getting greedy here, and they're trying to keep them out of field goal position. Exactly right. That's what they're doing. They're getting greedy. They're trying to get another sack to where they gotta punt the ball. And what I want to go is just like, let them throw the ball right here.


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[Assistant] Make the tackle and make them make a 52 yard field goal. And if they make it, you're down by three with 255 left and three timeouts. And you got the coolest quarterback we've ever seen on the sidelines over there. I mean, literally, it's like, it's a win for your team. That's a win.


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[Assistant] If I told you the bangles were up by three with 250 left and Mahomes got the ball, like what would be your reaction? Yea. Right? Ball game. Ball game. Most people would just go, well the Chiefs are going to win. I mean at the very worst they'll tie it. If you're going to bet your money you're going to bet on the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] He might be, he might trust spags, but to me this goes, I always thought like WWBD, what would Belichick do? And Belichick would go, wait, wait, the only thing that's hurt us all game is like this guy beating us man to man here in the second half and all that.


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[Assistant] You know, I know we showed the other plays, but like, that's scary. I'm not gonna take a chance right now.


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[Assistant] And play a defense where yes, we might knock them out of field goal range, but yes, they might make a big play. And now we're really in a bad spot to where, oh crap, we might've just been down three, but now we might actually fucking lose the game and not get the ball back with any time.


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[Assistant] And here we go, alright. And again, here's the other point too. Hey, they've already been burnt in this defense a bunch throughout the game.


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[Assistant] Alright, you've already seen one on one, like haven't you seen enough at this point?


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[Assistant] He caught a jump ball for a touchdown the drive before, or you know, at the end of the first half.


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[Assistant] It's four on four football. This safety right here is playing man on this guy.


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[Assistant] Right? On the back. Yeah, on the back, in the backfield. He's really not back here to do anything coverage-wise. If the back got on the backfield, he's gotta go get him. This is an all-out, cover-zero look. We call it cover-zero because there's zero safeties in the middle of the field, ultimately. See where the safety, his eyes are on the back coming out of the backfield. You see it? Yep. You know?


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[Assistant] That's, that's where we're at. Now somebody has the tight end here. If the tight end came out, I don't know if Ingram would take him or maybe, uh, 56 would come out to take him. There's somebody responsible for him within this seven for Uzoma too.


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[Assistant] But either way, you got Chase who's on fire here.


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[Assistant] Going down the right sideline, against Trevarius Ward, and...


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[Assistant] This is where Chase is just special and so is Burrow. I mean, Chase plays bigger than his size and he has unbelievable strength and body control.


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[Assistant] And that was a huge part of the football game. That really was, and uh, just one where, you know, again.


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[Assistant] The Bengals are good. I'm not taking any credit away from them, but I don't, I don't understand the, I guess some of the, the defensive, the defensive call there. I don't.


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[Assistant] No, not to that extent. Listen, so what happened in this game, hey, you make mistakes or whatever, I didn't look at it and go,


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[Assistant] Early on in the year, he might have been making those mistakes, but there was also like 12 or 15 other mistakes to go along with it. So you're like, man, this is not polished and all over the place right now. This game was pretty clean.


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[Assistant] Except hey, they put a lot on him, and they expect him to make throws, and of course he thinks he's the magic man too, to where, hey, there's gonna be some plays like that for sure.


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[Assistant] There was some calls that went against the Chiefs down the end, whether it was that pass interference that I did not like, uh, and that was the beginning of the fourth quarter. Is that what it was? Yeah. I want to say it was the same drive too, where there was a


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[Assistant] Oh, they thought it was the, was that where they thought it was the horse collar? They thought he, they thought he like threw him to the ground. And I'm gonna be like, it wasn't, I don't, it wasn't the horse collar one. It was not that one. No, it was one where I think, I think it was Ligerius Need, it might have been Charvarius Ward, where, yeah, I, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was the, the third drive of the second half. They got a questionable BPI call that jump started the drive and then hit a one on one ball to Higgins. All right.


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[Assistant] Uh, that was, that was, it was that same drive, and then yes, there was the unnecessary roughness call, which was a bad call.


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[Assistant] You know, again, it didn't, he didn't WWF suplex the guy. He, it's a big guy, he was trying to bring him to the ground, he kinda whirled him around just to bring him to the ground, and they threw the penalty, and that's where, you know, there's, there's not enough common sense by the referees right now.


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[Assistant] I hope the bangles don't play anybody.


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[Assistant] And Bangalore's offense is executing at a much higher level now, too. And you've heard my concerns with the Browns. It's just too much of the same defense. They don't ever treat anybody with any special effects. They just let everybody go off against them. Devontae Adams, oh, who is he? Oh, he's just running down the middle of your team, just 100 yards in the first half.


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[Assistant] You know, like you've heard me say in the past, early in the year with Tyree Kill, ah, just let him fly down. Who's he? I've never heard of Tyree Kill. They don't treat anybody with any, you know, special attention. And I would think they could pick apart Cleveland, and it's over for Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Um, so yes, but I do want them to be careful about Joe Burrow. Protect here. Protect. Yeah, you did hobble off the field.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'd like to see that. I would. You know, again, I don't expect Tennessee to lose to the Houston Texans. But you never know. It is the NFL. Uh, you know, I know you and I had this conversation a little bit before the pod.


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[Assistant] There's no great team in football this year. Not in my opinion. And it is a year about matchups. And I just wonder if any of these teams are kind of trying to look at who they could get matched up with for week one wild card weekend. Cause I would think there's some teams where I would want to avoid certain teams. Like I mean,


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[Assistant] You know, again, I know Kansas City can still get the one seed, but yeaah, look at them at, at number two right now, and they're gonna have the Chargers.


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[Assistant] On the first wild card game, as it stands right now, and I know things could change, but like, that's not a good matchup for them. It's not.


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[Assistant] It's, it's one of the teams they match up with worst out of all these teams in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I mean they should have lost in LA. They lost to them earlier this year in Kansas City. That's not a good one. Because, again, why that's not a good match up for them is just to go like, well, the Chargers can protect.


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[Assistant] Right? So they can protect, so that pass rush that we just saw, it might not get there. Right. And then the Chiefs are gonna play one on one, and Herbert's got some weapons and a receiver and a system, and you go, that's Dicey.


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[Assistant] And then Brandon Staley, his bread and butter is past defense.


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[Assistant] And we know Mahomes and company want to throw the ball and they're not always patient enough with the run game. So I look at that and go, damn, if I'm the chiefs, I just would go off. I don't want to see them the first round. You know, it'd be kind of cool.


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[Assistant] Gotcha. And then Buffalo would just get the remaining team. That might be kind of interesting, right? It would be interesting. It would, yes. You know, but yeaah, I mean it's not gonna happen. What do you mean it's not gonna happen? Why? Because that's just not gonna, they're not gonna let teams draft who they want to play. Not right now. Maybe in the future. You could start that.


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[Assistant] Look at that, look at you, look at you. But I do think that's an interesting element, nonetheless. Just to see.


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[Assistant] The Raiders are, it's great. I mean, they all dominate the Raiders. Again, we get to the game and this guy's all of a sudden out. He's in protocols. Or that could happen too. You can't even anticipate it. Yeah, the Raiders, you know, they're a team that's, it's the same defense every play. The Chiefs have figured out how to attack it.


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[Assistant] You know, they'll be able to block the Raiders pass rush, which is one of their strengths, so they can block that. You know, the Raiders don't have a scary speed guy big time downfield passing game, so you can play aggressive coverages and do that, right? So that's where it's like, that's a good matchup, but it's just one of the intriguing factors of the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Alright, so DAC is still a little off. It's not, again, not to the ability we saw earlier in the year.


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[Assistant] To me, it's become official. Where I kept giving like, you know, a silver lining like, Dallas will get things corrected. There's a little too much talent on the team. I think I'm past that point.


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[Assistant] And not to say that, like, listen, I still think their offense is dangerous, of course it is. It's got weapons, and Dak Prescott's still good, and Omari Cooper, and, you know, Cedric Wilson, and, and C.D. Lamb, I mean, that's a damn good group. You know, they're gonna get Blake Jarwin back, it sounds like a tight end.


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[Assistant] Here, if you wanna give me, you know, if you want me to give you, you know, the quick overview of the Cowboys, here would be my broad statement. First off,


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[Assistant] The running game's not gonna get better. It's not. I've given up on it. It's not gonna happen. Their offensive line's overrated. Alright? That's the first thing I would tell you. Just right off the bat. It's a good offensive line. It's nowhere near the conversation of dominant. It's just good. It's middle of the road and I felt good. Alright? I mean, you know, Tyrone Smith is good. He's not great anymore. Zach Martin's still great.


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[Assistant] Lyle Collins is good, not great. The center and left guard are below average.


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[Assistant] So they have real issues there. They're below average. They're, they're the weak link. Uh, so the run game doesn't happen. And you, I think you've heard me say this before.


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[Assistant] You know, the pass game's too simple. And we're going to show that here in a minute. It's basic. Now it works when you can run the ball and affect the game that way because then you get some one-on-one matchups and their guys are going to win a lot of these one-on-one matchups.


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[Assistant] You can, I can tell, and I've been saying this for maybe four or five weeks now, and I know you're not always here on Wednesdays, where I go, there's just, teams are all over their pass game. They know what they're going to get in certain formations and down in distances, and it's just way too simple.


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[Assistant] Third and nine. Alright. He's playing well. There's nine to twelve for eighty-four yards right now. Alright. Cardinals gonna play a little like...


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[Assistant] You know, man, man, uh, man coverage here. It's like robber, man robber. It's not a blitz up here and, you know, you'll see it looks like Hicks is blitzing, right? He's just blitzing the back so he can't run out and run a route. So that's all he's doing. If Pollard did


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[Assistant] It's third and nine. And, and this is gonna, again, you're gonna see. This, this, this is the Cowboys offense.


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[Assistant] You know, it's too much of this. I see this every game. They're what I would call a sticks team. It's third and nine. They run a bunch of routes to 10 yards to get the first down.


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[Assistant] Like the defense hasn't seen that on film and doesn't know it. Like, oh, that's a, I bet you the first thing they said on third down meeting that week. Hey, Cowboys are a six team. If it's third and five, they're going to run six yard routes. If it's third and 12, they're going to run a 13 yard route.


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[Assistant] That's what they are, right? Yeah, a little bit like Pete said in my ear, like the Steelers last year. Yes, a little bit. And as you're going to see here, it's going to be curl route for 10 yards. Curl route for 10 yards. Curl route for 10 yards. Alright, so whoa, my imagination's blown by that great creativity. Alright?


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[Assistant] You know, not, you know, again, not that, not that this is a horrible idea, but when you start to do it too much, it's an issue. Any pattern. Right.


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly right. That's the way to say it. Any pattern is recognizable. But here's a play, just a, again, a simple clip of simple coverage. It was still open though. It was open. It was open, no doubt. Because they got man to man. And like we were just talking about with the Chiefs of the Bengals, I mean you play too much man to man. They got guys that are gonna, they're gonna win the battle.


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[Assistant] And Amari Cooper won the battle, but the throw is off the radar. I mean off the radar, like not even close. Amari Cooper wide open can't get a hand on a football on a 10 yard curl route.


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[Assistant] So that speaks to Dak being off, and he's still off. He's still not the machine he was that we saw, you know, early on in the year.


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[Assistant] Yes, and see where it's scary in a game like this is sometimes offensive coordinators go, well they're complicated and do a lot of stuff on defense, so I want to be simple, right?


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[Assistant] And just mess with you. You think Vance Joseph is good at stuff like that? I do. I think Vance Joseph is one of the most creative defensive coordinators in football. I love watching Vance Joseph's defense. I mean, watch this. This just says it all.


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[Assistant] But again, I think here they are at a point now where it's the start of the second quarter. Okay, we got used to the speed of the game and you know, maybe what they're gonna do to attack us and we haven't seen anything new that we're scared about schematically.


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[Assistant] And here's a like, oh, it looks like it's gonna be all out Blitz, right? It looks like everybody's coming. Let's watch what they do. They're gonna rush him, him.


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[Assistant] The two outside guys on each side are going to rush and you're going to have the four inside guys all drop back in coverage. All right. Yes, it's great. It exposes the pass protection.


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[Assistant] Yes, all that, you know, and again, what I don't even love about this is I would think there's some numbers that tell you who comes in these situations and who drops.


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[Assistant] Again, some of the good offices I was a part of, whether it be Gruden or even working with McDaniels in New England, is they would still find a way to wait, like we're gonna, we're gonna, we're not gonna have to use seven guys to block four, is basically what I'm saying, without me getting two in the weeds here. They got seven guys to block four. Alright? That's not good.


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[Assistant] Right, so now they're wasting people that could stress the coverage down the field, cause they don't have a creative way to kind of pick this up, alright. Cause you got that, what is it, a tight end and pollard. Yeah, exactly. So you got them off the edge. So now you got, you have five linemen blocking


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[Assistant] Right, it's not ideal to throw the ball. Now there's this crazy coverage and they're playing like, it's like almost like a, uh, uh, uh, uh, like a two-invert. He's basically coming to be a cover two corner. He's kind of playing like the deep safety over here, even though he's in a different position, right? Yeah, they got seven guys.


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[Assistant] Most likely, right? It's gonna be Buddha Baker, who's there, who's a phenomenal blitzer. It causes issues, and because of that, we have like,


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[Assistant] We have a route concept of, let me just make sure I make this point too.


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[Assistant] Run straight, run straight, and come down here and sit in the hole right at the sticks, right?


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[Assistant] Elementary stuff for a defensive player in week 17 to think about and go, I saw this a hundred thousand times in training camp, let alone the rest of the regular season, and we're so coached up on this crap, there's no way.


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[Assistant] And, you know, there's nowhere, there's nowhere for Dak to throw it. He's going, what do you want me to do? You really want me to try to squeeze this ball in here so this guy can hit his hand on it and tip it in the air and be an interception? And there they go, a four man rush against seven blockers and they get there.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, there's ways to pick that stuff up to where you're not exposed or don't have the mismatches that way. And here's the back end of it. And now just to explain it a little more. Look, I mean, it's Tampa too. That's all it is.


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[Assistant] You know, and it's as simple as can get. It's verticals. So it's four, it's three verticals. And they can't make the block here or figure out who's gonna come or anything like that. And...


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[Assistant] As you see, you know, there's different ways you can do this.


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[Assistant] Totally screws it up. And again, you know, this is where breakdowns come into play. You know, who blitzes the most out of these situations and you can find ways to have rules for your offensive line to go. You know, when they get in these sets, we're going to make sure we block.


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[Assistant] These four guys or whoever it is. And then you can figure ways to get guys out in the route. You know, and again, I mean, just think if they, if they could have figured out a way to maybe block


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[Assistant] The two edge blitzers, right, without having to use the tight end in the back. I mean, this would be a play where, okay, now he sits in the pocket and let's just say, okay, we figured out a way to send like,


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[Assistant] You are responsible for him, but if he drops out, then you can run your route underneath, right? Does that make sense? That's what I'm trying to explain by people is going, there's different ways to do this, alright?


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[Assistant] And then within that, okay, let's just say that happened, right? Like I talked about.


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[Assistant] He blocked him, he kicked out to him, you know, the center is over here for the other third guy who's dropping out over here. And if Pollard was responsible for Simmons in the middle, now if he can get out and check down over the ball, right? He might have got the first down. Look at the guys are running away with their backs turned. They're not even looking.


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[Assistant] Like you pause it right here and go, if Pollard was right here and Dak like, Oh, I don't like what I see. He throws the ball. He's probably going to run and get the first down.


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[Assistant] No doubt, they do. They're, they're one of the few teams in football that can really do this type of stuff. I mean, you know, another angle I just want to show too is like,


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[Assistant] This is where you can throw wide receiver screens, running back screens, you know.


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[Assistant] Shifts and motions and movements will scare this away.


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[Assistant] Right? But they don't do any of that in Dallas either. They're very simple. So again, you know, what would have happened if they lined up in this and now it's, oh wait, you shift over here and oh no, then come back over here and now we got three receivers to this side. Like they would have had to change some of the rules and it would have dictated who's blitzing and who's not. But because they're so simple and stationary,


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[Assistant] He is such a weapon and so versatile, it gives him an advantage where...


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[Assistant] You know, they play, they can play 3-4 base defense, and the Cowboys have 3 receivers in, 1 tight end, 1 back, right, 11 personnel, which is, you know, more of a passing personnel set, but,


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[Assistant] Isaiah Simmons is such a freak show, they go, you go cover the slot. You, you go play nickel.


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[Assistant] 240 lb linebacker. So now you're thinking, well, we'll get them in a nickel and now we'll run the ball on them. No you're not. They've still got big people on the field because they've got three linebackers who can really fly around the field and do that. Isaiah Simmons being like the ultimate mismatch nightmare.


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[Assistant] I don't think, I don't think so. You know, one thing I've complained about with the Cardinals a little bit is that they, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, I've said in the past, they don't have enough big people. They do have enough big people. They might not have enough difference making big people. But I would think...


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[Assistant] The Hawks are gonna fall into the, a little bit of the category of what we see here. Too simple with the pass game. It's gonna allow them to crowd the line of scrimmage and do some stuff that way.


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[Assistant] Penny is, Penny's good. I mean, he's shown to be pretty special. Uhm, but I wouldn't expect him to go off like the way we've seen him go off the last two weeks, not against this D.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's do that. You wanna do that? Yeah, let's show it real quick. I'll be fast so the podcast isn't seven and a half hours long here. Alright, but, you know, again, it's a second and ten. Here we go. It's a five man rush here. Alright, alright, it's nothing special.


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[Assistant] Again, what are we looking at here? It's second and ten. It's, look, look, look. It's that hook, it's the four hooks. Right? Here we go. I mean, how many times can I watch a game and go, we're gonna run four curl routes. I mean, he ran an outroute kind of curl. It's curl, it's curl, it's curl. I mean.


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[Assistant] Wow, alright. And then the other thing I don't like about this is, yes, the simplicity, but, I mean,


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[Assistant] Here's, here's my other thing with Dak being off. Look at Dak in the pocket here. Wok, first off, this is not a great position to be in to throw the ball. Look how locked out his front knee is, right?


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[Assistant] And you're going to see, like, you know, cut to me, Peter, Kristen, just for real quick. When your knee is locked out, you have no choice but to do this as a thrower, which is going to throw worm burners, balls into the ground at people's feet. And that's what happens for him here.


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[Assistant] I mean, look at that. He has kind of CD lamb. He just got to drive the ball.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't think that's pass interference. I'm sorry. You know, the Cowboys are complaining about the referees a lot. I saw more plays go against the Cardinals than I did against the Cowboys. But that was just a little bit of the simplicity again.


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[Assistant] Of the offense, Dak being off, like you're saying, run games, it's just not gonna happen. Unless they just play, they get the lucky to play some team who just can absolutely not stop the run. But I've given up on thinking like, it's gonna revive itself.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's been better. You know, what I like more, sure. What I like with them the best is just when, you know,


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[Assistant] I don't like when they're in four wides Texas Tech offense. I feel like the NFL's caught on to that. They know everything.


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[Assistant] To me, when they show, you know, first off, they're one of the best screen teams in football. That would be the first thing I would say. They got a million screens. You know, they got a few cool little quarterback runs. Right? And they do that.


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[Assistant] To kind of help out their basic meat and potatoes offense, which is, it's not the greatest, like you've heard me say.


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[Assistant] They're underneath the center. They run the ball a little bit. You know, they shift and move and do things like that. You know, then they have enough weapons to where...


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[Assistant] You know, even if it's a simple play, it's a little scary, but there's a few plays in this game where I went, wow, this is really cool, I like it, and I wish they would play this style of football a little bit more.


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[Assistant] You know, the offenses, I don't, I don't love it, love it, but I like it, and they do enough, and it makes sense for the way their offense is formulated as far as their talent is concerned, that it works for them and they can move the ball that way. It's like,


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[Assistant] You know, they can do three yards in a cloud of dust, but it'll be through screens. Like it'll just go, well we'll screen it for four, we'll screen it for five, we'll run it up the middle for three.


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[Assistant] Kyler will keep it around the edge for seven. We'll throw another screen, we'll throw another screen. Oh wait, now you're playing man to man because you're getting scared. Oh, zoom, see ya, there goes Christian Kirk for a long pass. Zoom, there goes AJ Green down the field. That's kind of how they play if, if I kind of sum it up.


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[Assistant] So where, he's gonna make a name for himself and make some money for himself after this year's over. But, yeaah, this is what I love. You know, Chase Edmonds changes their offense, that's the first thing I wanna say. Alright, and this is like,


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[Assistant] Make sure I got this right. So, on this play, to start, cause we didn't see the full thing here. They started with Chase out here at receiver.


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[Assistant] You know when he's out there that you got man to man. And now when you bring this guy back in,


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[Assistant] You hope that you have a man to man play called, or you should have a package of like, wait, we're going to the man play.


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[Assistant] Or, oh wait, it wasn't Michael Parsons, it was the corner when Chaseman had this come out. Alright, let me pick the zone play now. Right, those are the things. But I like when they do that, and of course they have the weapons that can scare you that way. And then, they run the ball enough that the play action fake


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[Assistant] Is a real aspect of their game here, alright?


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[Assistant] And you're gonna see. Again, when they get man-to-man, they're tough to match up. Like we talked about with the Bengals. I mean, it's AJ Green, it's Christian Kirk, and here's Zach Ertz running the shallow cross. They're gonna basically make this look like it was gonna be like double post. Apply they run quite a bit. Alright? But instead, they're throwing the curve ball.


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[Assistant] Double pose, stop, run the high corner route.


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[Assistant] Double pose, stop, run the shorter corner route.


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[Assistant] And they're gonna get the man to man coverage that they wanted. It's a little play action.


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[Assistant] The pockets, the pockets good. One because of the play action. Look, look at the pass rush. What are they doing? Wait, is he handing it off? Look at them all coming off the ball here. Look at Doran's Armstrong. Look at these other guys. They're not really rushing. They're like, wait, is he handing? Oh wait, now he is. Let me try to rush. Now the pockets clean for a smaller quarterback. That's important. And boom.


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[Assistant] You know, and there's Christian Kirk, 40 yards down the field, or whoever it was. So, that's, uh,


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[Assistant] That's special. And that's when they are at their best, uh, and I really like when they do that, do that stuff.


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[Assistant] You know, he's, he's their most talented runner. And I, I love James Corner. But most talented as far as being explosive and making big plays.


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[Assistant] He's really a double threat out of the backfield as far as, he's almost like a receiver too. They can line him up at receiver like they were in that pre-stamp because they'll do that at times because they'll go, he can beat a guy and run around like a real receiver. So that's where he's a difference maker for them. And yeah, he can be a mismatch to a degree.


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[Assistant] He might be back. I think there's some hope that if like they get to the championship game, he could be back. I think that's kind of how they're looking at it. Probably, I bet you, probably you bet you a week earlier is that they're hoping, like maybe he can be back for the divisional. But, you know, listen, Steve Keim,


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[Assistant] He came from Pittsburgh, right? Am I brain farting there? There's a, there's a, there's a lot of Pittsburgh turnover there in, uh, Arizona. But I, I don't know. I mean, again, I don't even forget that point. I'm just, I don't know if I would upset the cart. Yeah. I don't know if they necessarily need him. You know, I don't.


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[Assistant] But I do look at the Chiefs, Packers, and Rams and go, they could use them. Like, they could actually have a use for them. I don't think the Cardinals really do, especially when Rondell Moore's back. I don't. I certainly think the Chiefs could use them, and I do think the Packers could use them, and that's why you're gonna see the Bucks, you know, they're gonna hold on to them here, uh, this whole time. Do we got another player we're gonna show here?


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[Assistant] It's, uh, it's amazing. They can go on a drive where you go, didn't really run like


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[Assistant] What we would call a traditional play, the whole drive. It's like I said, it's screen, it's screen, it's, you know, run up the middle, quarterback design run, back to the screen, the screen, the screen, the screen. And you go, damn, they went down the whole field that way. And it's like their version of three yards in a cloud of dust, which, which is cool.


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[Assistant] I, I think that, and I think that the, you know, maybe they know their passing offense is a little simple, so this invites some of the coverages they want to get their simple pass offense off. This is, this is their, like, hey, you know, you gotta defend this, so you can't just keep playing deep zones, or we'll keep throwing screens and doing all that to you all game long.


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[Assistant] Yes, I would. I think there is some legit value there because I think that the 49ers are a tough matchup for the Rams. You know, so I expect Arizona to beat Seattle.


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[Assistant] The Rams 49ers matchup is the one that's interesting to me. You know, the 49ers are a tough matchup for the Rams. And not to say, you know, not to say the Rams can't win. Uh, certainly, you know, they can win the football game. They just screwed it up a lot the first time. But, you know, again, like we talk about, it's a matchup sport. You can be better than a team in totality.


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[Assistant] And last thing I want to say about the game, to go back to the points. I'll set you up for the great points.


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[Assistant] Alright, last thing I wanted to say though is with the cardinals, you know, that would be one of the things I would say just a little bit if you're defending them. Don't play too much man versus cardinals. See if their system can beat you. You know, the system of the drop back passes and all that. You know, really good playoff defenses should be able to


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[Assistant] Play some of those zones, rally and make tackles on the, on the screen plays that I tell you about that can stress you out. Right. They, they should be able to do that.


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[Assistant] You know, but you play man to man too much. Again, it's like Cincinnati. There's gonna be a mismatch there, and they're gonna take advantage of it, and you're letting them off the hook, in my opinion. Now...


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[Assistant] Back to points bet, alright? Because you set me up so awesome, alright? And I would take the cardinals for a value bet if you got some extra change around, alright? But points bet has a new sign up offer for unbuttoned listeners. To get in on, let me read that again because that was like a run on sentence or something.


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[Assistant] Not every time, but just, you know, if it happens once. Any pass, any pass TD counts. Could be the running back. Doesn't matter if it's from the quarterback, the wide receiver, the punter. Doesn't matter. Any TD pass. Don't just bet this football season. Live.


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[Assistant] Your bet life. With points bad. I feel like we've got the Under Armour one down. That was horrible. That first sentence gets me almost every time I read it.


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[Assistant] Good call. I like that. You know, they're probably looking at it going, you know, is it really realistic? Will Tennessee really lose to Houston? Right. You know, uh, is Kansas City really gonna lose? They're probably, they're, they're playing their percentages. Good call. And they're gonna do that. I think it's the right call too. Good call. I do, I like it too. He's too good, he's been beat up.


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[Assistant] He was too hit last week. He's had too many games or he's hit too much. Save him. Be it your best at home playoff game on wild card Saturday or Sunday.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I, I, I mean, Wentz has had a good year, like you explained. There's still some moments of the shakiness where I go, ah, man, I mean, he's just, at moments, I don't know if I trust him.


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[Assistant] You know, we can go back to the New England game where they had total control of that football game. I mean, he was just dying to throw the ball to the Patriots. In fact, you know, of course he did.


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[Assistant] Maybe to a little bit of a different extent, but yeaah, I do worry about Carson once a little bit and whether you can trust him in certain situations.


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[Assistant] I'm not that type of guy that goes like, oh, quarterback. But when I evaluate a team like the Rams and I go, man, everything's good except Stafford and crazy decisions. And I look at the Colts and I go, everything's good except


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[Assistant] Yeah, Wentz misses some throws or makes, you know, a decision every now and then that, yeah, maybe the interception's dropped or whatever, but I just go, what? Like, how do you do that? You know, that, that's what scares me. It does. And, you know, in this game, 17-13, right?


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[Assistant] Here's the Raiders, who basically play the same two defenses all game long. I mean, they play Seattle Cover 3 the whole game.


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[Assistant] And their change up is, let's make it look like Seattle Cover 3 and play man to man. That's really all their change up is here. And yeaah, this was an important part of the game because 17-3, there's only, they're offensive passing game struggling, alright. The other thing I'd want to say too is just, you know,


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[Assistant] I still wish they'd be more dedicated to the run game and just go all in on being an ugly running football team. I feel like they could have overpowered this Raiders defense. They let him off the hook by I think throwing the ball too much and spreading the field and trying to run the ball that way. But here we have like true man coverage. It's going to be, I don't think we're going to see the other. Oh, here he is. Okay.


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[Assistant] Here we go. You know, they made it look like Blitz, they're backing out, right? It's man. It's man. Alright, that's what it is. It's flat out man. They're playing a little off coverage. And within that, you're gonna see the outside receiver go, right?


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[Assistant] And Hilton's gonna delay and come off his butt and go up the sideline.


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[Assistant] And these two are going to get confused, right? What ultimately is going to happen is I feel like 33 is going to go, he thinks it's, he maybe got confused and thought it was the cover three zone. He's trying to match up with the guy that comes into his area and that wasn't the proper call here. They're trying to actually play true man to man.


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[Assistant] Where the outside receiver is covered by the outside corner, the inside receiver inside corner. He...


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[Assistant] At the very least you're going to get to midfield, you know, and if you don't get a first down there, you're going to, you're going to punt the ball and the Raiders are going to be backed up in their own area. But just a huge part of the game where you go, eh.


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[Assistant] Colts kind of being outplayed, but man they're up 17-13 and now here's their chance to kind of control the football game and put the Raiders in a tough spot.


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[Assistant] And he makes us throw. And what also I don't understand is like, why the, why by whence


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[Assistant] Is there no gather or hitch step? That, that was the other thing too. I just came away with like, why are we just planting the foot in the ground and throwing it?


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[Assistant] Do what you always do. Drop back, take a hitch step, throw the ball right at him in these scenarios. You know, that's the one thing like,


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[Assistant] I heard Brady talk about before, and I've heard other, like, in scenarios like that where the guy's-


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[Assistant] Like, just throw a laser right at him. Don't try to be perfect and lead him down the field to where he doesn't break stride at all. Like, sometimes when they're that wide open-


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[Assistant] Just throw back shoulder at him. Just throw a laser at his head and he'll, he'll, he'll, he'll turn around and catch it and spin and keep running. Or okay, maybe he stops and does this and now, oh wait, the defenders come in and boom, he makes a miss and now he gets another few yards. Right? But why are you trying to throw the absolute perfect pass to a guy that's just wide open here?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well this is like, this is one where, again, it's a blown coverage. And I don't understand where his eyes are in this one. You know, as we sit back here and you drop, just I want everybody to watch Carson Wentz's eyes as we get off the play action fake.


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[Assistant] You know, he, he is going to just, he's looking down the middle of the field as you see here, right? It's, it's right down the middle of the field. Am I wrong? Do you see what I'm seeing? I mean, again, if I'm, if I'm wrong, please tell me.


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[Assistant] To me, it's play, action, fake, and the eyes go right down the middle of the field. Well, within this play, it's a little bit similar to what we just saw. You know, T.Y. Hilton is going to run a deep corner route.


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[Assistant] But he's not gonna do that, alright? He's not gonna end up doing that. Who, Hilton's out wide, he's gonna kinda follow him up, and then he's gonna run an outroute.


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[Assistant] You should be at least looking there to give it a chance. And that's where I don't understand. Now, I don't know. You know, is there a rule that if it's a single safety defense and they blitz, do they look, you know, a lot of the times when it's something like that and they blitz, these guys really spread out, right? And the middle of the field can be open.


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[Assistant] You know, there, there is that. Maybe is that what he's doing? I don't know. I'm trying to come up with an excuse for him. But all I know is he never looks at what


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[Assistant] I've been, I've had this play in every offense I've ever been in. You always start here. You always look at those guys. It's almost like he looks to the left.


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[Assistant] It almost goes exactly, exactly there, right? And he's got, it's, it's, he's looking for Pittman to run the end cut.


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[Assistant] He's looking for Pitman who's running across the middle, but, you know, as you can see here,


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[Assistant] Uhm, KJ Wright's gonna be in the middle, so there's not gonna be anything here for Pittman. And then Wentz, who's now holding the ball, the eye's in the wrong spot, does that, breaks the tackle, and does a great job of escaping and giving Mo Ali Cox a chance here.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's what I don't understand there, is why exactly that happened. One other thing I wanted to talk about, just why we're here and he's on the screen, this guy right here, Divine Diablo, he's changed the Raiders defense.


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[Assistant] I think he's a rookie. I think he's a rookie. Third round pick out of Virginia Tech. Yeah, I saw him in person two years ago at Notre Dame. He's big. He was in safety in college.


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[Assistant] Right, which is what this defensive scheme likes to do. They might like to make big safeties into linebackers.


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[Assistant] Last thing on the Colts offense. This is a game I looked at to just go, if they played two and three tight end sets and just said, we're going to smash it down your face and run it 28 times, 30 times with our running backs, 35 times where Jonathan Taylor gets 25 of those.


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[Assistant] They would have slowly beat down this Raiders football team. I really do believe that. And that wouldn't have been pretty. Probably not the way Frank Reich really wants to play. But I think it would have helped them win the football game. And I feel like they let, you know, the Raiders with a smaller front seven off the hook there a little bit.


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[Assistant] Definitely. The Raiders got their run game going, at least here, the last few weeks. And, you know, they got some guys that can move people. You know, Simpson does a good job.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the, the right guard and the first round pick, um, out of, uh,


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[Assistant] Out of Alabama, uhm, gosh, damn, 70. What the hell is his name? I'm banking on the first rounder. There was a controversial pick, a tackle. Leatherwood. Leatherwood, thank you. You the man, Ahman. Yep, crushed it. He does a great job at running the football. So, they can move people out of the way and then you couple that with


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[Assistant] Nobody has more ways to throw the ball short and pick you apart in the passing game.


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[Assistant] And I think that's what really compromised the Colts. The Colts play man, but they want to play more zone. I think they realized the Raiders got more zone plays than anybody in the NFL. They're gonna give a slow death with Derek Carr being precision and just surgical and doing that.


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[Assistant] Definitely. Gruden's got millions of plays like that, and Greg Olson's extension from Gruden, who's the new offensive coordinator, and yes, but then that, of course, what did it do?


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[Assistant] It made the, the Colts have to play man to man in some, in some situations where I bet you they didn't want to.


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[Assistant] And that's where he hit Zay Jones down the field for a big play. Or hit Hunter Renfro on the deep crosser that kind of end the football game.


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[Assistant] And, you know, because of that, that gives them a chance in a lot of football games. I mean, this was a game, again, they turned the ball over twice and still won. They controlled the flow of this football game throughout. That's one thing that was apparent to me. I think I said it to you on Monday and the firm, the film confirmed that as well.


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[Assistant] Come on. Really? The Giants? We're gonna, we're gonna dictate, we're gonna go on that?


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[Assistant] Alright, so that's crazy. They suck, the Giants. They absolutely suck at running the football or on the offensive line. You know, the Chiefs...


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[Assistant] Okay, they can run the ball a little, but we know they don't want to. That's not what they're looking to do, as we just talked about.


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[Assistant] You know, yes, I want them to do it more because it'll maximize it, but they're, they're not. I mean, that's just not what they do. So let's see their big boy when we have a real running team that comes to town. All right. Because it hasn't looked that great against the teams that can really run the football. You know, the Houston Texans last time I checked.


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[Assistant] Also suck at running the football. In fact, I think they're dead last, alright?


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[Assistant] Yes, the Broncos game this week, the Broncos are, they're dead in the water. And it wasn't like it was a bad day, you know, as far as running the football. So.


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[Assistant] Yes, I've still got questions about the Chargers run defense, and I'm not gonna cool it until I see them stop a really quality run game offense. This week, maybe that'll go to that. Because I would think


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[Assistant] The Raiders gotta be able to run the ball to beat the Chargers. They're not gonna be able to win the game with their passing and doing that because of what you heard me say before. Brandon Staley's amazing in the pass defense. And then there's not great weapons in the Raiders pass game.


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[Assistant] So, that's where I look at it this time around and go, they gotta run the football if they wanna win this football game against the Chargers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I appreciate you bringing the heat. I do. I got no problem with that at all. You know, again, he's going to look at the Pittsburgh game and go, oh, that was good. Pittsburgh sucks at running the ball too. They're one of the three worst in football. And it's easy to stop Pittsburgh's offense with that shitty passing offense that they have.