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[Assistant] He, it's like he's realized, like, wait, don't try to throw the fastball, just be smooth and rhythmic and my arm's plenty of strong. And it might only be 95% of my effort, but I throw a perfect spiral and I know where the ball's going every time I do that. And I think he's learned that and that's what's been really impressive to me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt. You know, again, I guess I'm still waiting to see the flaws. I thought maybe Cleveland could do some things to...


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[Assistant] The Cardinals offense to give them issues, you know, again, Cleveland's defense got a lot of talent. You know, you know, I have people on Cleveland who make fun of me sometimes. I'm going to go, your team's one of the five most best, five best rosters in football and you're three and three. And there's still like people get on me there. And I want to be like, call off. And I picked you to go to the Superbowl this year. So shut up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I expected Cleveland's defense to match up with them a little bit better.


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[Assistant] But, I think nonetheless, the same thing as what we saw. We saw a team from Arizona who can just go on spurts of making big plays like unlike any other team in football in my opinion.


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[Assistant] You know, even to start the game, it's just, you know, it's, it's, like, they stop, they stop Cleveland on a fourth, fourth and short, right? I think that's, I think that's how it went, or they stop them, uh, on the first drive of the game, make them punt. Yep. And they just, they just go right down the field and score in, in no time.


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[Assistant] You know, where I break a big run, all of a sudden it's, you know, it's a third and 19, Kyler Murray escapes to the left and makes an unreal throw.


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[Assistant] I guess what I was most surprised, again, and listen, there was, there was true issues with the fact that they didn't have their tackles. That was a real issue. Baker was under duress, and, you know, of course


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[Assistant] Jack Conklin is arguably one of the best run blocking right tackles in football. Jedrick Wills is a pretty good left tackle.


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[Assistant] So that would, that hurt their football team. And of course, Nick Chubb, I, I would call Nick Chubb the best running back in the game right now. It's either him or Derrick Henry. Uh, I guess Dalvin Cook right there in that conversation. But man, I, I just was impressed with the amount of plays again that Arizona makes. And like, you know, I went back and kind of watched that game a little bit this morning, just real quick. I mean, uhm,


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[Assistant] Overwhelmed the line of scrimmage, their speed at times up front just causes such cr- chaos that it's like...


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[Assistant] It's almost like they're like, wait, wait, we want to block the play this way, but this guy shot this gap and we don't know where this guy's going to be. And ultimately they started to get Cleveland to a game that they don't want to be in where they had to drop back and throw. And you're down 14, nothing. Now Baker holds the ball and scrambles, right? Fumbles.


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[Assistant] So now it goes 17-0. Good job by Cleveland's defense holding the field goal. They get the ball back. Baker throws a bad interception on the right side. They hold them to a field goal again to make it 20-0. Uhm, but I guess my ultimate point is big plays and this is where I messed up.


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[Assistant] Cleveland's defense, as talented as it is, it just still lets up too many big plays here and there to where, uh, it changes the outlook of the football game altogether.


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[Assistant] I would, I mean, I would be shocked at this point if they're not in the playoffs. I mean, I know they got a lot of work left and they still got a lot of NFC West teams on their schedule. Okay, I expect them to beat the Texans. But Packers and 49ers again?


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[Assistant] But they're still, they're still a phenomenal football team and I don't think anything's gonna make me change the fact of like, they're a legit playoff football team right now. There's no doubt about that and would be absolutely floored if it didn't come to that.


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[Assistant] You know, they, they show abilities a big play, like we talked about where they're different, like in years past, is their ability to run the ball is a little bit better.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, they made a few mistakes. They had a few people missing in the game, but, uh, overall, just a really, really impressive football game by them, and yeaah, they kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Their, their defensive front whooped the crap out of Cleveland's offensive line. I think that was the shocker of the game.


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[Assistant] Horrible defense was that. I mean, that was horrible. I don't mean, you're literally allowed to pass interfere on those plays and they didn't even touch the guy. They don't hit him right in the chest. I think that was what's unbelievable. Yeah. I mean, hey, they did, they did a good job of kind of fighting and clawing back into the football game.


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[Assistant] You know, got it to 2314, if I remember this correctly, and there was a few.


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[Assistant] You know, three and outs by each side and, you know, you're going, okay, man, can Cleveland put something together here? Uh, but then, uh, then, um, you know, it was the eight play 54 yard drive that went up, made it 30 to 14 where you were like, uh oh, they're in deep trouble. And the turnover set up that drive. That's what I want to check real quick.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. That was the Baker Mayfield fumble where he hurt his shoulder. Right? They're at the midfield.


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[Assistant] He's scrambling, making, trying to make a play happen. And Baker's a little like...


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[Assistant] He's become a little bit, when he gets out of the side of the pocket, I get nervous. Cause he seems to lose that like sight of who's around him.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, we saw that yesterday with both fumbles. It was kinda like he forgot that people were pursuing him. They did both look similar, didn't they? And kinda got him that way, no doubt.


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[Assistant] Right. I mean, they can match up with any defensive scheme. The one thing I've questioned is just do they have enough big people to stop the run? You know, but the 49ers, they did a decent job last week. Of course, yesterday against Cleveland, which I still, I know the tackles weren't there and no Nick Chubb. I still value that running game in the way that they play that way.


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[Assistant] Also, it's once they get you into some situations, Vance Joseph, he's really creative. And, you know, they'll force the issue a little bit, like that might be the new theme in football. It's like force the issue.


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[Assistant] It really is. Where it's like, oh it's a run down, we're gonna put a bunch of people at the line of scrimmage. Okay, you might have to, you might get a 15 yard completion behind us, but we're gonna play man to man, you're gonna have to throw it in there, you're gonna have to block it up the right way. You know, I thought they played some really tight coverage at times, and kind of overwhelmed the running game with just numbers, sheer numbers in the box.


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[Assistant] Here's, here's what I looked at in the game, and the biggest takeaway, and I watched this game pretty closely, of course live yesterday, I was keeping my eye on it. He's right, there was only one blown coverage, it was a little, it was a trick play.


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[Assistant] It really was not, I mean again, I'll get to the defense in a second, but you're exactly right. Hey, the key to the Kansas City Chiefs and what made them great for so long was the fact that they jump out on you early.


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[Assistant] Like, look like they were going to do yesterday. You were, you're going, oh, they're going to be up 14-0. And that's when they became dangerous. They get you down 14 or 17-0 and then you had an error on the pass game. And now Steve Spagnola knows that and he can be creative and do a lot of different things just on the pass defense.


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[Assistant] The Chiefs offense has not been able to execute good enough early on in football games to ever put teams in that position to this point. And didn't do that yesterday. But here's what changed with the Chiefs defense.


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[Assistant] I just talked about like Arizona forcing the issue, right? How they put peo- That to me was the number one thing. And I'm 100% correct with what I saw on this one. I know that for sure.


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[Assistant] When, when I, when I just watched the game back real quick this morning, it was a lot of people with a line of scrimmage. I think they kinda said, screw our four man rushes and we'll try to do creative coverages. We're gonna send five and send six and play man behind it and try to expose your pass protections that way.


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[Assistant] And that to me was the biggest difference in the game, or the biggest difference in the way they played all together. A lot of creative blitzes.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you can look that up, but I would bet that there was more blitzes from Kansas City in this game than any other game we saw all year. I'm just going by my naked eye there. I have no idea if that's going to be correct. But I would think so. And within that and the people of the line of scrimmage, it helped them contain the run game.


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[Assistant] And, you know, what sometimes blitzing and forcing the issue does, of course you don't die a slow death like we talk about, and you don't want your chief's offense to be off the field. But the other thing too is,


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[Assistant] When you blitz and pressure, and if you have a good feel for the offense...


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[Assistant] You sometimes can know what their answers are gonna be. Like, oh, when we're a blitz team, they like to throw screens to the receiver. Or, oh, when you blitz these two guys, they like to throw hot to this guy. And if you can coach it right in the background, right, and be like, hey, secondary, when we blitz this, be ready, they're gonna try to throw it hot, then they can rally and tackle. And even though you blitzed and took a chance,


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[Assistant] You might only give up a four yard gain because you kind of knew what their answer was to that. Does that make sense? Yeah, totally. Okay, and I think that's what I saw a little bit yesterday and I'll be looking to see if this is going to be the new theme for them going forward.


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[Assistant] Yes, they did. Well, you know, hey, Ligeria-Steen and Fenton were the guys last year who played really well. You know, somehow they got supplanted a little bit earlier this year, but they went back to those guys. They did look like they played good. Sorenson's been an issue with the Chiefs on defense, so that's why they started Juan Thornhill over him. Thornhill's a phenomenal athlete. He's phenomenal. I mean, he really is. He's got, like, true


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[Assistant] One of the fastest guy on the field type speed. And hey, overall, it was the first game all year that I watched and I went, Kansas City's defensive line.


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[Assistant] Won the battle, like even when they didn't blitz and over, I went, they pushed Washington back. They won some of those battles where I've been saying like, I don't know who's going to do anything up there. They keep getting their ass kicked. So it was a big win and other.


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[Assistant] I mean, Kansas City's offense looked really good yesterday, in a lot of ways. It's just, again.


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[Assistant] You know, drop pass in your hands, interception on the 5 yard line. Yeah. McColl-Hardman reverse for 18 yards, fumble.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes fumbling the snap down in, you know, the red zone and then trying to throw, I don't know what he was trying to throw. There was nobody down field. It was only Kelsey down there. It was a run play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I do. He did run around okay in this game. He did. He ran okay. He's run okay in every game. He's run okay in every game. All I'm trying to say is there's been a gear missing. And you know what? Yesterday, I'm not gonna lie, he did look a little bit better to me. Yeah. But, you know, also to our listener,


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[Assistant] The numbers will also tell you, and again, I'm not about the numbers, but I'm about the numbers when a guy was overwhelmingly the best quarterback in football outside the pocket for the last three years. Like it was like, don't let him outside the pocket or you're going to lose. To now it's, he's one of the worst in football outside the pocket. One of the worst.


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[Assistant] He is not 100% down there. They're not gonna let it be known. That's not gonna be like a report from, you know, insiders. They're trying to keep that stuff quiet. But either way, he was phenomenal. He threw the ball absolutely amazing yesterday. He looked really good.


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[Assistant] Well, I used to argue this with Rogers a little bit. When you gotta sometimes carry the team to such an extent,


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[Assistant] It, it makes bad habits too. Okay? And that's to me where it's all gone wrong a little for him this year. Not that it's been bad. Again, we're talking about Patrick Mahomes and he's throwing what? Aiden interceptions. And I don't give a shit.


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[Assistant] He's still one of the best players in football, if not the best still. I don't care. I'm not like over judging the stats and he's still an MVP contender for me because I think they're going to rip off some wins here at some point and get back in the mix of things.


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[Assistant] I used to argue this with Rogers a little bit in his heyday with Green Bay because it was all so much on him at times that it caused other bad habits.


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[Assistant] I mean, not all. You know, go back and watch the, the Dolphins game, the Saints game. It is pressure the whole game.


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[Assistant] And he got him into the habit of always moving in the pocket and always floating backwards. And that led him to some bad stuff this year, I think, to where he was missing the first read. And you've heard me talk about staying in the pocket and being true to the progressions. Yeah. He wasn't playing the position true to form that way. And I think he's gotten back on track here the last two or three weeks.


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[Assistant] Hold on, okay, so that's a good one. So, okay, so we're saying...


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[Assistant] This century. It's within the last ten years.


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[Assistant] It's within the last 10 years. Hold on, I'm just going to look at teams here. I just want to look at some teams. So, 30 plus points.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So is that right? So you started? I don't even remember us.


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[Assistant] Wow. Holy cow. I mean, I completely forgot that. Who were the three losses to early in that year? Oh. Cardinals at home. Yeah. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I mean, I, I think they're gonna get the defense right to a point, hopefully, to where at least it's just, you know, slightly below average, and I, I just have too much faith in the offense and Patrick Mahomes to think that they'll play the right way. I don't know if that's gonna lead to a Super Bowl, but, uh, either way, like you said, it's, it's extremely explosive on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] And listen, they're good, but they're not as good as the guys that they have that are hurt. I'll just say that right off the bat. I mean, watch out if they had some of those guys, you know. But uhm, I think that's where, I'm mad at myself for that, the pick of that game in general.


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[Assistant] I don't know why, you know, I, you know, really I got into a little bit like Baltimore hasn't run the ball that well that lately.


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[Assistant] And maybe, maybe the Chargers with the speed of their front can create some chaos, kinda like the Colts did in the first game of the year.


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[Assistant] But that wasn't the case. I mean, listen, there's no other way to say it. It was a complete ass-whooping up front. I mean, that's what it was. They did whatever they wanted the first few drives of the game. I mean, it just was like, seven yards here, eight yards here, six yards off tackle, five yards right up the middle.


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[Assistant] You know, 8 yards on the edge. It was almost unstoppable that way. And what I am excited to see is just what they did on the defensive side of the ball. I am. You know, again, it looked like they, they basically put the pressure on their front


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[Assistant] You know, early on and just said, Hey, we're going to play some two deeps and maybe being a five man pressure, but we're going to play two deep behind it. And, and they trusted their front to stop the run.


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[Assistant] I getcha. I know. There's been, I mean, again, you know, I argued last week's game against the Colts was a halfway miracle to winning that football game. There's been a few of those this year, but that was by far their most dominant game of the year.


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[Assistant] You know, and of course then, then they got into some of the fourth downs and


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[Assistant] Hey, the Bravens did a good job. They made sure they matched up Marlon Humphries with like the single receiver to the left side. And that's going to be a tough matchup. You know, again, you're used to winning that man. Oh, that's Mike Williams over there. It's fourth and six. No problem. Our quarterback's great and he's great, but that changes when it's a guy like Marlon Humphry. He's just as great as your corner.


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[Assistant] And I know he made two great stops, I thought, just in some man-to-man coverage where they put a lot of pressure on him, but that was a pretty awesome win by the Baltimore Ravens.


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[Assistant] He is, he is definitely more accurate. One of the things I've talked about on the past pods is just, to me it's not necessarily the motion itself up


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[Assistant] It's the fact that he has his legs in the right spot. And if you watch, I mean,


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[Assistant] You know, again, his, his legs are always underneath his shoulders. He used to get a little bit of that habit where his feet would get together and then he would have like a little bit of a long stride to hit, to throw the football.


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[Assistant] Well, when you add more moving parts, things are gonna move and you're not necessarily gonna slot the ball perfectly all at the same time. You talk to any really good quarterbacks, Rodgers, Brady, Drew Brees.


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[Assistant] They're gonna tell you that if your feet are in a good spot and always underneath you and got the power underneath you,


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[Assistant] It's going to lead to a smooth delivery up top as well. And I think that's the biggest thing I noticed.


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[Assistant] Now he's always here no matter where he goes and that to me is the biggest difference in his throwing this year as compared to years past.


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[Assistant] No, they had to force the issue. That's exactly right. And I think, you know, to that point, too, this is where Staley, I think, is a little, like, he's looking at two going, wait, okay, it was, it was 24 to 6, right? You said at that point? They were down 18 at the time. Yeah, so he's going, okay, we're gonna go for it, cause we're in trouble here, and we're not playing good.


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[Assistant] Let me see if we can, you know, get a few first downs, maybe rest my defense a little bit, get in a rhythm as an offense and start doing something. But at the very least, he's going, okay, if we don't make it, hopefully we can hold him a field goal. And what's really changed? We're still three scores down.


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[Assistant] And that's what happened. So he ends up being, okay, we're 18 down, now we're 21 down. Whoop-de-doo. And so there's a calculated, like, you know, aspect to it that makes sense. And that's where he's, you know, been very good all year long. It's just, they ran into a buzzsaw yesterday with the Ravens.


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[Assistant] There does seem to be that aspect. You know, there's no doubt. It's just, you know, it's a hard thing there for a coach. I would have done what Matt Rule did, I think. I do. I would have just, I would have played that percentage there. You know, again,


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[Assistant] Outplayed, like what they did to the Eagles last week, and they know they still lost that game, they severely outplayed the Eagles and lost. They severely outplayed, were outplayed by the Vikings, had no business even being in overtime at that football game.


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[Assistant] Listen, the Carolina Panthers did not do shit the whole freaking game.


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[Assistant] Other than the last two drives of the game, basically. More than half their yards of the game came on the last two drives. They, they just were incapable. Sam Darnold wasn't good. He made bad decisions. Yeah, they dropped some passes for sure. I'll go back to what I said on my Wednesday, what the f*** happened podcast. I see.


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[Assistant] I see defenses getting a really good feel for Joe Brady and his offense. I do. I see plays where I go, I've seen this play 12 times already this year. I've seen this play three times this game already.


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[Assistant] Zimmer was all over their stuff. You know, there was a play, there were even some of the plays where I showed, they show the drops of the receivers or Chubba Hubbard. I want to go, yeah, he's going to catch it. He's going to get his head knocked off. Like, okay, he should have caught it, but.


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[Assistant] They were all over it. So there's a little bit of everything going on there. Sam Darnall not playing well, missing Christian McCaffrey, sure the drops and defense is getting a, a good feel for how Joe Brady is attacking here in year two. And that's what I'm going to be watching going forward, let alone I think the shock of the day to me was that the Vikings ran the ball the way they did on that Carolina Panthers front.


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[Assistant] I didn't expect that. And once they start doing that, like, good night, it's over. Because once they start doing that, Kirk Cousins, his aggressive frame of mind off those play action passes into Thielen and Jefferson, uh, it's unbelievable the way he throws the ball that way. Into tight windows, aggressively down the field, it was impressive, and yea, they should have won that game, uh, before overtime, that's for sure.


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[Assistant] I think we, we do, yeaah. I mean, they're gonna be in this conversation, I think. That's, that's what we gotta get used to.


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[Assistant] Not to say I'm gonna go, oh, they're gonna make the playoffs, but with the way they run the football, as explosive as they are with Thielen and Jefferson in the pass game, and then, you know, the defense


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[Assistant] It's solid. Like, where's, let me just see, like, where's Minnesota's defense? Middle of football. There you go. They're the 16th in football. That's what I would have expected. Yeaah, they're gonna be dangerous. They're gonna be one of these teams all year long that we're gonna be talking about and they're gonna be a 6 or 7 seed in the playoffs and it's gonna see how it just shakes out in December.


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[Assistant] No, disappointing, and you know, uhm, just sloppy play, really. I mean, not, not a sloppy play, but Sam Darnold, you know, like I tried to say last week, Sam Darnold was not as good as everybody thought when they were 3-0, and,


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[Assistant] Last week and this week were bad. The Dallas game was not bad.


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[Assistant] It was okay, yeaah, he made a few mistakes, you know, the team made some mistakes to go along with it, but the last two weeks have me a little concerned about the offense, uh, for sure. Just the way it looked, the way it looked on replays with where defenders were, it just seems to me like not only is he not playing good, but teams have a good feel for the attack on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, and to me, this has always been an issue with Donald. Donald in the pocket is his biggest issue. He's a little bit, always wants to get out and make it USC versus Penn State and the Rose Bowl, and I want to scramble all the time.


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[Assistant] And that to me was one of the things I did not like about him coming out in the draft was the fact that it was that all the time. My, anybody go back and watch my big question about Sam Darnold was always, can he make throws and plays in the pocket consistently? And I, you know, I've been a defender of him, as you know, but I think that question is still fair as we sit here, you know, going into week seven now.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. I mean, they just showed up at right at the right times, right? I mean, yeah, the big sack, of course. And of course the strip sack at an overtime. Phenomenal. Hey, he's.


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[Assistant] He's being paid that money for a reason. I mean, he's that guy that makes those type of plays really almost weekly. And if he doesn't make it weekly, it's like you go back and watch the film and go, oh, he was so close two or three times to making


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[Assistant] It happened weekly. I mean, that's really what it is. A lot of things to talk about at this game. I mean, really. I mean, a lot of stuff to talk about.


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[Assistant] You know, first off, hey, we saw Pittsburgh's defense, how dominant was in the first half. I do think the Seahawks were a little bit.


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[Assistant] Overly conservative. There's no doubt about that. I think the Seahawks took the approach of, hey, offense, we're not going to screw the game up. We think our defense can maybe cause Big Ben to create, you know, a few turnovers and do that. They took that approach I think early on.


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[Assistant] The, the Steelers defense just overwhelmed the Seahawks in the first half. Uh, then you talk about the offense in the first half. I thought Big Ben in the first half might have been one of his best halves of football the whole year. And what I mean by that, just clean. Like, he knew where he was going with the ball, he made the right decisions. Seattle played a lot of


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[Assistant] Handle some pressure and throw the ball the right way and I thought Pittsburgh's attack off of that for what the defense was telling them to do because again Seattle will bring some crazy blitzes and the one thing we know about Big Ben right now is when he holds the ball and there's blitzes and he starts to think he's Big Ben from 10 years ago and I tried to say this on football night in America last night


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[Assistant] That's when it's strip sack fumble. Just like you saw on the fumble at the end of the game. When he starts pump baking and shit.


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[Assistant] It's almost like 9 out of 10 times things are going to go bad right now. And so they were smart and I think just calling like, Hey, let's get the ball out of his hands. Let's not let Big Ben hold the ball and maybe do something crazy that way. And I thought the first half was really, really well played. Second half was like flip of the coin. Total different story. Seattle started to play. Wait.


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[Assistant] We don't think you can run the ball on us when we play pass defense. So they started to play more like base pass coverages.


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[Assistant] And Pittsburgh didn't show the ability to really able to run the ball and move around just a normal front seven or four and front six look, right? So that was one thing. And then of course what Seattle did run the ball in the second half. I mean, the first drive of the game. I mean, the first drive of the second half, let me just.


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[Assistant] I mean, what was it? Six plays, 60 yards, and I think five of them were runs, if I'm right. And five of them, like, it's just, like, right up the middle. Like, just, here, we're going this way, and you're not gonna be able to stop us. And I was shocked by that.


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[Assistant] I think they might give them some more guts to, to play a little bit of a different style, yeaah. You know, I think that they're, you know, early on they're trying to crowd the line of scrimmage, they like to, okay, we might brilliance, or we might drop out either way, but we're gonna scare you out of the numbers game and the run game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I think there probably would be a little bit of a different approach. And you know, what we saw in the second half is what scares me a little bit about Pittsburgh is not a lot of depth on their defense. And I think they got worn down a little bit.


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[Assistant] So now, you run the ball on them, and I just want to get this right for context for everybody, okay? So I'm gonna just look at this little play-by-play thing here, where they get the ball. I mean, it's, it's-


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[Assistant] Five yards up the middle, up the right guard. Alex Collins, right tackle. Seven yards. Then it's seven more yards off the right guard. And then it's right up the middle for five yards with a penalty and unnecessary roughness. And then it's Alex Collins off the right guard for no gain. And then it was Alex Collins up the middle for a two yard touchdown.


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[Assistant] It was. I don't know where I got six plays from. It was ten plays and nine of them were runs. Wow. Yes. So that just says it. Pittsburgh goes, you know, I think six and out basically, or no, Pittsburgh went down and got the field goal. I'm wrong about that. Sorry. And then the next drive was Pittsburgh over committing to stopping the run and they hit


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[Assistant] Three play action passes basically off of that and got them in kind of a rhythm and that game became a ball game from that point on.


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[Assistant] It hasn't a whole lot, it just, to me where I'll say with Pittsburgh, and I just think like the point itself is just like, if the offense doesn't screw it up, and they just kinda play clean, they don't need to be pretty, it's gonna be tough to beat them, I don't care who you are.


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[Assistant] You know, and yeaah, Seattle had their way with them a little bit in the second half, certainly. But no Tyson Alualu, no Stefan Tuit, you know, he wasn't in the, in the lineup. So those are two big difference makers there for them on the defensive side of the ball where I don't think if they're at full strength, you're going to run the ball down their throat a whole lot.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. There's still questions in Pittsburgh. There are. Defense is dominant. I do question the depth up front. Like we saw last night. Offense...


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[Assistant] Yeah, we just want them to run the ball and they want to run the ball and get, Big Ben wants to get a one on one with Deontay and Claypool and just go like that. That's what they want to do. And if he can just play clean and take care of the football, they're going to be tough to stop though. They'll be tough to beat I should say.


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[Assistant] He's up there. You're not quite ready yet. I'd have to think about it a little bit. I'd have to think. Right off the top of my head, I don't want to go top 5, but I want to say


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[Assistant] Oh yea, I think so. I think he is. Yea, so when I watch him, I don't sit there and go for, like, oh, this was some schemed up, he got in a pressure because it was a great bullets and they found him. No, he's beating people with his pure physical ability. In the run game, he's a handful to go along with that.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, listen, they're a well coached defense and he's playing a position where


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[Assistant] It's a perfect scheme for him. They don't make him think about a whole lot. They go get out wide and just meet the quarterback seven yards in the backfield, take that angle, go there like a bat out of hell. And then of course he tries to read the run off of that. But, uh, yes, definitely one of the better defense alignment in all football. That's, I got no problem with saying that.


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[Assistant] No, I can't say that I saw a whole lot of difference there. I still think I saw Gruden's imprint in his offense. Olsen's offense is Gruden's offense. You know, what I did wonder was just, hey, would they miss a little bit of a creative element? Because Gruden is creative. He's the mad scientist. He'll come up with some stuff where you go, wow, that's a cool play. I like what they did.


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[Assistant] There was no slippage with the offense from the get-go, really. I mean, that was one of the first things I wrote down as I was sitting there watching the game. I went,


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[Assistant] Raiders offense doing really well, not missing Gruden. I mean, uh, you know, so there was that. I think that was impressive.


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[Assistant] Listen, they had answers and they always do for everything Denver threw at them all day. You know, Denver got impatient.


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[Assistant] And now they start to blitz. Okay, we got lots of answers to beat the blitz. And then, you know, the Henry rugs post over the top. I think both were against blitz looks from the, from the Denver defense, but really big win for them and, and, and, you know, in a diversity filled week.


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[Assistant] And, uh, was happy for Rich Passaccia and the rest of the crew there, definitely. And Josh Jacobs looked like, he looked like he's close to 100%. So, Raiders aren't out of this thing yet.


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[Assistant] The beautiful pastors. Yea, right. The beautiful pastor Kenyon Drake to make it 17-7. Ryan Edwards.


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[Assistant] Yeah, dominant. I mean it really was. It was the first, first game all year where you went.


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[Assistant] Detroit's got no chance. You know, every other game we've kind of been like, oh, they're hanging with them. You know, ball bounces here, they make a play here, they might be able to win this football game. That was not going to happen in this one. You know, again, it's, uhm,


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[Assistant] Cincinnati's a big play offense, really, for the most part. They rely on the big plays, as we saw again yesterday. I mean, the same thing the week before. There was no drives against the Packers. It was like three big plays that gave them three touchdowns to give them 21 points.


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[Assistant] And now he's running down the sidelines. Like, Cincinnati's not going anywhere, anybody. Stop, stop, this is, I said this on Peacock last night with our, like, get used to this. They're not, like, gonna fall off and we're gonna be sitting here going, they're four and ten, they've lost eight in a row. No. You know, offensive line is solid enough.


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[Assistant] And then with the weapons and the way Burrow plays the game, and the defensive line's got two big D tackles in the middle, like you're talking about with Hendrickson, he's always got a few plays every game where he's around the quarterback harassing the quarterback.


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[Assistant] I'm not trying to ask anybody of like, don't do anything you're not capable of. But see, this is, when you're making $34 million a year, the team expects you to make a play every now and then. You gotta get us out of a bad moment.


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[Assistant] It's third down, make a play, make a great throw. It's just never that. It's like, I used to call it silver platter throws with McVeigh. Oh Jared Goff's really good and I want to be like.


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[Assistant] The guy was opened by 50 yards and like my 10 year old could have thrown that ball in there. Like, so there's, being a great quarterback in football is like,


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[Assistant] What we saw from Joe Burrow or other quarterbacks yesterday. Oh, it's a tight coverage or it's a deep pass. It's one on one. Boom. It's on the money. You only get so many of those opportunities and golf just doesn't come through with those nearly enough. It's always system related for the most part. And that's what's frustrating. I think that's what Dan Campbell is talking about. Like, are you ever going to make a play that sparks us?


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[Assistant] You know, gets us going. Hey, we're, we're down 10 nothing or 17 nothing. It's time for somebody to do something off schedule, make a play. And that's where he doesn't deliver that way. And that's where I, you know, I'm sure they're frustrated by that.


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[Assistant] I mean, first off, he's a phenomenal football player. He's bigger and faster than people realize. If you saw him in person, you'd go, damn, Cooper Cup's kind of big and rocked up. I didn't realize that. And then, yeaah, he can do everything.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, he can be the system guy that can like read the coverage and you can depend on him to be on the same page as the quarterback, but if it's just man to man coverage, he can beat his guy, plain and simple.


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[Assistant] You know, they got him matched on Jibril Peppers a few times early in the game where it's just like he's, there's no way. Jibril Peppers can't cover him. That's not gonna happen. Uhm.


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[Assistant] They're, they're the most under the radar 5-1 football team as we were talking about before. I mean, it's two quarters of not playing good against the Arizona Cardinals and the rest of the year, they've outplayed everybody they've been against. Period. And almost every quarter of the game. And that's not like a bunch of like crappy teams either. It's been some solid competition.


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[Assistant] And once they get it going on the offensive side of the ball, uh, yeaah. They just got too many weapons, they're too creative on the offensive side of the ball. And like you've always heard me say, McVeigh will stay patient with the run game too to not let you off the hook that way.


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[Assistant] I don't know. That's one where I love the way, like, Joe Judge, he's, to me, a pretty good game manager. But you're up 3-0, you're on your own 41.


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[Assistant] You're not exactly the greatest show on turf on the offensive side of the football. That would be one where I'd go, I don't know about that. Let's just punt the ball and put the Rams back in their own territory.


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[Assistant] Well, maybe he did, and it worked out there. They ended up punting the ball away.


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[Assistant] I didn't even think they would be this good this early. I did not. I am surprised with how well the offense has just taken off. And yeaah, I'm flustered because I messed up my little flow of the game there either way.


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[Assistant] I don't care. I am fallible. I can't keep track of every game and every aspect of the game always. But, so, but you get 7-0 and where they're crazy too is, you know, then


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[Assistant] And you just can't do that against the Rams. I mean, you're down in the red area there. I mean, what, what do they get? A four-play 12-yard, or four, four-play 12-yard drive for a touchdown and then a...


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[Assistant] For play 14 yard drive for a touchdown, you're up 21 to 3. That's like, that's night-night against that team. Because now they know you gotta throw the ball, and that's the way they wanna play. Oh, Floyd and Donald get the pass rush and go crazy that way.


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[Assistant] And there's just no pressure on the offense, and they can let it loose, and they took advantage of all after that. So blowout there, Rams beat the Giants, a blowout by... Worst play of the Giants by, I mean worst game of the year by the Giants for sure. That was bad, that was bad. Offense was horrible, everything was bad.


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[Assistant] We're getting close to that. I mean, they're, they're, I will say this with the Colts, like they're clearly a two and four football team, the best two and four football team in the league. That's what I'll tell you for sure. Um, and you know, should be three and three, blew that damn game last week against, uh, the Baltimore Ravens where they outplayed them.


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[Assistant] They did, but credit to the Ravens, uh, for pulling it out. I mean, the, the big thing is, hey, the way they are running the football, Jonathan Taylor is special. I mean, he really is, as you see, I mean, he can break some huge plays. He can run with some pretty good power, you know, in between the box too. But that was like the theme of the day was just big plays in general. The game started off by.


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[Assistant] Not Jonathan Taylor running the ball all that well. It started off by, let's give the guy some credit, Carson Wentz.


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[Assistant] I mean, the big little post, he threw a big post corner for a 51 yard touchdown pass against Paris Campbell. He had another big pass down the middle to T.Y. Hilton early on. I mean, that was the thing to me that jumped out more than anything. A beautiful touchdown pass on a corner route to Mo Ali Cox.


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[Assistant] To give them a 17-3 lead off of a, I believe it was a Texans turnover, Davis Mills interception at that point. So.


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[Assistant] Yes, the culture of a team like you would go, of all the teams who are below 500.


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[Assistant] Who are you looking at to say the most dangerous?


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[Assistant] Alright, offense, not even fully healthy on the offensive line, I'd say watch out. And if they can keep Paris Hilton or T.Y. Hilton healthy, Paris Campbell, Paris Hilton. If they can keep either one of those guys.


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[Assistant] Yes, if they could do that, they, uhm, it changes their football team. Because they are a deep threat that can kind of stretch out a defense to a degree.


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[Assistant] I'm disappointed in my, I just don't like how I articulated it. And yes, I lost my, see I got notes here from the game and I don't know why I didn't follow them because I have written down that they didn't score after that.


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[Assistant] I'm taking them over them right now. Over Seattle. Yea definitely. Over Atlanta.


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[Assistant] And they match up well with them too. I mean, that's going to be an interesting matchup. That's going to be a huge game for both teams.


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[Assistant] I mean, listen, to me, the story of the game is really the first half of the football game where the Dolphins absolutely dominated the Jacksonville Jaguars. I mean, dominated. And they went in 13 to 10. 13 to 10. I mean, they just, they blew so many opportunities, you know, to


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[Assistant] You know, score points, kind of put Jacksonville away, put them in a bad spot, and they let them hang around. As we know in the NFL, we see this all the time, like you just let a team hang around,


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[Assistant] You know, it gets dicey after that. It does. Uh, Tua I thought played well for the most part on that side of the ball. I mean, he really did. I know he had a really bad interception, definitely, but I thought he energized their offense, and as good as their offense has looked in the last few weeks,


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[Assistant] They have to. They have no run game to speak of. They don't. They needed it at the end of the game. Well, that's where I was a little surprised they even did it. Just the fact that, like, you've not really done anything all day running the football. Uhm, but, but, I, you know, again, desperate teams do desperate things, I guess.


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[Assistant] But Miami's offense is the downfall of their football team. You know, again, now you've heard me say, I think a few times this year already, the defense is not all that bad. It's just, they're putting a lot of tough positions all the time, but Jacksonville had nothing going early on in the football game and finally figures out again, it's NFL football.


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[Assistant] You know, as the game goes along and they realize how they're getting attacked, they start to realize what they want to do to, to answer to that attack. And they kind of found their rhythm and made a few plays and pulled off a football game that really they were outplayed, but won the football game.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's saved Urban Meyer. It's great that they got the win and, and I think that's like, from what I hear from people in the NFL, I still think it's 50-50. I, I do. I think he's... Like does he finish the year with them? I, I, I still think he, I don't know if he's going to finish the week from anybody you listen to in the know. It's, it's not a hundred percent that way. You know, I think there was some real, you know,


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[Assistant] Discomfort by ownership and the fact that how that went down after that Thursday night game against Cincinnati. And the other, the only, the biggest thing you'll hear is that he lied to ownership.


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[Assistant] He lied to them. That's the biggest thing, right? And that's where his story didn't match up with the events and everything. And they, I don't know, somehow, someway know that he didn't tell the truth there. And that's never gonna go over well when you lie to your bosses, as we know.


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[Assistant] I thought that was weird too. I'm with you. I didn't even see Urban Meyer anywhere at all there. You know, and, you know, like,


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[Assistant] Go up 20 to 13. What are you doing? That to me made no sense at that moment of the football game. And then guess what happened?


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[Assistant] The Dolphins drove down for a 91 yard touchdown and we're up by three. You know? That's not knowing who you are. And I don't understand, listen, I guess I'm old school still. I'm not always like, let's go for the jugular right now.


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[Assistant] There's a little too much of that that goes on in the NFL. I understand, and I'm sure the numbers say that to a degree, but I don't know, the numbers for Jacksonville gotta be different than some of the better teams in football.


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[Assistant] And if I'm him in that moment, uh, yeaah, I certainly play that a different way, but either way it worked out and thank God it did because of our kicker Matthew Wright and Trevor Lawrence's awesome play call.


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[Assistant] At the end of the football game, instead of throwing the Hail Mary with six seconds left, they throw that quick inside slant and still have one second left, get six, seven yards there and get to kick a field goal. To me, that was like maybe the play of the day in the NFL. The, the fact that at how that shook out.


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[Assistant] I would not be shocked if they abort mission here on this season at some point just to interrupt your thing. Sure. And now, now you have nothing to lose by making the trade for Deshaun Watson or doing something of that nature. Yes. And we know they want them. Uh, I just wonder now that they're one and five, they might look at it and go, you know what, doesn't look like we're gonna make the playoffs, let's start thinking about the future.


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[Assistant] Right, but they have the 49ers pick, and then they have, they have the 49ers pick, and then they have, I think two first round picks and next year's draft, so.


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[Assistant] Well, they would love to get the Tibideaux from Oregon. That would be perfect for their defense.


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[Assistant] They're competitive and they're playing tough. And then you lose your will to compete. Exactly right. And I think that's what might happen. I'm with you there. You know, Rams and Eagles next few weeks. Listen.


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[Assistant] They can maybe beat the Eagles. They can. It's gonna be ugly, but as you saw from the Eagles, they're offensively challenged in a lot of ways. They are. So that's gonna be interesting to see. They got the Bears.


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[Assistant] I think it's going to have to be that way. Eagles, bears, they look like that. Falcons maybe.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe they can catch them, uh, but yes, it's, I'm a little worried about your Detroit Lions.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean, convincingly, I know that. And not that my picks were 100% this week. But yeaah, I worry about the Titans defense. I went Bills 34-24. That was my pick.


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[Assistant] The Titans, of course, it's, it's, we know it's a run first offense. It's more run game centric than it has been in years past. They're not as good in the past game. And I know AJ Brown and Julio have not been a hundred percent. So I just, I don't know what to expect from that aspect of their offense yet, especially with Bill's defenses plan and the Titans just,


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[Assistant] They give up too many big plays on the defensive side of the ball. And I think, you know, of course, Buffalo's dangerous with Josh Allen. And that's where I just think it's going to be a little scary tonight for the Tennessee Titans. I do expect the Buffalo Bills to win this football game.


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[Assistant] Uh, would love to do that, of course. That's what we're gonna do for the What the F*** Happen Wednesday podcast. Are you here Wednesday, or is that a Pauly B special? Pauly B, alright. Pauly B. I'll miss you nonetheless. Okay. Fellow 300 soldier. 300! You the man. We are Sparta! Check us out on Wednesday. Thank you Under Armour for sponsoring the podcast.


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[Assistant] Peace out, we'll see you Wednesday. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] Forget about it, it's Pauly B, as we used to call him in New Jersey, okay? What's up everybody? Chris Sims on Button, Paul Burmeister here. He is not wearing a Button up shirt, he is wearing a hoodie.


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[Assistant] Cool as always, the coolest 50 year old guy I know, just to let you know.


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[Assistant] That's a compliment. That's a compliment. That's a compliment. It is a compliment. No doubt about it. You know, I was saying with Omid the other day, like Omid doesn't swear, right? Really? Ever? No, no, ever. Doesn't watch movies. Have we had you really swear on this podcast yet either? I have dropped a few f-bombs. Oh, you have? Yeah. Okay, good, good. I just wanted to make sure. Alright, good, good. I know. I cut it, I, I like.


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[Assistant] Alright good, that's whatever you feel, but I just, I appreciate the one or two every now and then. I love that, definitely. I will do it more now to make you feel more at home. Right, so this is the what the ha- what the- What the fuck?


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[Assistant] We got one in today, bam! That's what we're doing today. That's right. It's also the 300, did you hear that? Ooh, I did not know that. 300! Wooo! Look at that! Look at us, man! Look! Oh my gosh, look at you. You look good. I don't know, you got better pecs than me. I don't know. I mean, look at Big Phil. Big Phil's...


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[Assistant] 3,000 I think is the real, uh, but I don't, I don't, I never feel overwhelmed with this show. I don't. I feel a little overwhelmed sometimes today with my current schedule because I do that peacock show late Sunday night and I feel like Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday morning I'm just


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[Assistant] It's not the show itself. When we get, like, lights, camera, action as you and me, like, I have fun. That's the easy part. It's the easy part. No doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Oh, I definitely do. I got to. I mean, they're taking care of us, alright? We are supported by Under Armour, as you know, Paul. Just like me, Under Armour wants to give you an edge. They are focused on performing better and taking their game to the next level.


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[Assistant] That's what me and Pauly do. We're always looking for the next level. Everything from running shoes that propel you forward to hoop shoes that give you insane grip.


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[Assistant] They even make hoodies that reflect energy, which is amazing. Wow. Yes. Okay. Could use it on Monday morning. I could definitely use that on Monday morning. And we're not just about the end result at Under Armour.


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[Assistant] It's not about the end result, winning or gory. Under Armour is about the hard work, the dedication, the cycle of training, competing, recovering. We give you advantages, but not shortcuts. The only way is through. Yeah. Yes. Thank you very much. And this show is sponsored by Under Armour. Chris Sims on button sponsored by Under Armour.


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[Assistant] It's just not as buttoned up as we've seen in years past. Now Spagnola's always been great and creative and, and I've always admired him about that.


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[Assistant] But within that, okay, yeaah, there might have been a detail messed every now and then, which is gonna happen when you're playing tons of disguises, and okay, like, I-I get it.


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[Assistant] You know, you're, you're not the most talented defense. You're trying to do it with schemes and tricks and every now and then you're going to mess up a detail here and there. But right now details are being messed up all the time.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter what it is, you know, so there's those issues, you know, whether it's wrong run fits, wrong adjustments in the run game in general, uh,


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[Assistant] Not communicating properly as the ball is getting ready to be snapped. You still see guys talking and trying to figure things out as we've discussed I think before.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, we'll break down a play in a minute here just to show, you know, slot receivers just getting to run up the field. Nobody even disrupt them. Just, hey, you're really fast. We'll just let you go and, you know, our safety. We'll put them in a horrible position.


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[Assistant] You know, there's just all of that, and then I think you couple that with what I would say right now, you got some young guys who are playing, new to their system, right? Some new corners, some new linebackers that are young.


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[Assistant] You know, and then added to the fact that just the talent level is not overwhelmingly good right now.


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[Assistant] It's either, it's, it's a little bit, I'm going to say the talent level right now. I am. To me they only have one.


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[Assistant] You know, he's not the same player at defense end. He's still really good, but he was the second best defensive tackle in all of football, all behind Aaron Donald. And I understand the thought and I'm not second guessing that I was in favor of it. I really was. So I'm certainly not trying to play, but I've seen enough now to go, okay, it's, I like it the other way. So that would be the first thing I would say.


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[Assistant] You know, yeah, you know, the younger linebackers we've hit on that, you know, I'm not sure they're always getting people in the right way or doing exactly what they're supposed to do. You know, the corners.


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[Assistant] Hey, the man-to-man zone, whatever, they blow things on a weekly basis.


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[Assistant] But, but, and then, and then Honeybadger, he's not the same either. Listen, I, I, I think they saw this. This is why they did not re-up him or re-sign him to a new big contract, because he has lost the gear.


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[Assistant] So when I come back to it, like, yeah, I go, okay, yeah, there's some details missing and they're definitely messing some things up and that goes to coaching and the players together. But the talent itself too, I think is concerning as well. And Chris Jones is really


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[Assistant] I don't think there was. I just think some of the defensive moves haven't come through. Jaron Reed, you know, expected that to work. And then signing him, you know, from Seattle when they wanted to restructure his contract. Hasn't played all that well.


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[Assistant] You know, Mike Hughes, they trade for him from Minnesota. He's been good, but not great. You know, DeAndre Baker, I thought, oh, maybe that'll, you know, help them out a little bit. That's not been good. Some of the guys that have played good the last few years just aren't playing good right now.


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[Assistant] So I think there was, I, I don't want to call it lazy on there. I do think like your thought is correct. Like they thought like, hey, our defense, we don't need to be a top 10 defense if we're around the middle of football and we just.


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[Assistant] You know, iron out this offensive line issue, we're still going to be one of the best teams in football. So we'll see where it goes. The defense I'm extremely concerned about, the offense, I'm not


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[Assistant] You don't see that in the NFL. No, you don't. And I think that speaks to the defense not being on the same page. And then really, as we're going to show here in a few minutes, just some really bad mess ups as the game goes along too. So it's a little bit of everything.


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[Assistant] You know, and, and what I would be worried about is you've, you've awakened the beast. And what I mean by that is like you've awakened the beast of Josh Allen in that offense now where, you know, they've been good the first few weeks, but not great. Not like they were last year. Now you give them a little confidence after that game. And I would say, watch out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, those numbers, like you're talking about, those, they are concerning. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's start. I think we got our first play here is just, uh, let's see, which one is this?


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[Assistant] I think this is, uh, Josh Allen check down to Zach Moss. Yeah, okay, so here's little details that we're talking about. I mean, yeah, this is, I'm gonna stand up, I forgot to hold my clicker.


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[Assistant] I don't even need to stand up for this one, really. Like, we can sit here and watch this, where, okay, yes, it's, there it is, nice little play, fake the, you know, inside zone to the left, fake the reverse, just another way to run some play action pass, okay?


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[Assistant] Here's the thing I, I, this is amazing to me. Now, again, it's just lack of like,


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[Assistant] Knowing the formation, where people are on the field, and I'm gonna stand up now because, here, you gotta, you can see here on this side,


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[Assistant] It's, you know, on this, we got a deep cross by Dawson Knox, right? His first read is to Emmanuel Sanders over here.


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[Assistant] Alright, and really, you know, as you see here, like, he might have been able to throw to Emmanuel Sanders here, just throw it up to the high corner and do that, but I understand here he's being conservative and they have the lead at this point.


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[Assistant] But this is like just a little bit of like what I'm talking about of not the details being off or, or what the


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[Assistant] And going, wait, there's no more receivers over this area. There's nothing there. I don't really need to be even looking there. You would think he would have some feel for the tight end just went by him. That he would think that he was going in that direction to some capacity.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, again, this is not like, oh man, Anthony Hitchens, this is, this is, yeaah, him, I don't know if this is coaching, but it can't be that easy.


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[Assistant] It can't be that easy, where you just throw a check down, okay, off of a play action pass. A play action pass, again, to Paulie, that


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[Assistant] Everybody in football runs this play. This is, this is like standard football. To be that unaware and then he, Josh Allen gets to throw a five yard pass that ultimately ends up going for what? I don't know. 24 yards. 24 yards. That's insane.


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[Assistant] Yes, right, right. So that, that, that, you know, again, just another example of like the lack of details, lack of awareness. I don't really know who to blame there. I don't know. I mean, obviously hitches to a degree and, and probably the coaching to go along with that.


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[Assistant] It is. It is. And again, this is not like, oh wow, what great play design. It's good play design. It's just knowing, hey I got really good guys and they're not covering people that well. And added to that, as I stand up here, is just


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[Assistant] I mean, the time he has in the pocket, there's just, there's nobody. And that was a theme all night. It was. They can't, they can't, so they're really compromised because nobody can get pressure other than Chris Jones.


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[Assistant] And then they're not covering that well on the back end, so they don't want to blitz and compromise these guys right now. So they're really, Steve Spagnola's in a tough spot. He is. And you can see here, I mean, here's, here's Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I mean we can count this out a little bit. He gets the snap, or here's the ball snap. It's thousand one, thousand two, thousand three.


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[Assistant] 1004. And let me just tell you, in case you're just listening, when I get to 1004, he's getting ready to cock the ball. There's still nobody around him. He's not even worried about, I'm gonna take a hit here. Look at his eyes, first off.


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[Assistant] He starts off going left to right to move in the pocket, which he didn't even really need to do, back to the left and then freaking laser beam. Right? And I'm not going to necessarily blame the coverage all that much on this play. I'm not. You know, Ligeria Sneed


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[Assistant] Uhm, is not in the best position here in the world, but this throw is insanity. So this is a little bit of just showing you again, lack of playmaking ability on the Kansas City defense. And then that Josh Allen is a freak of nature and arguably the best player in football are in that discussion. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] I said the same thing on PFT with Floria the other day, where I, that's where I said, now it's an out and up Emmanuel Sanders runs. He runs a little out and then up. Sneed's not in a horrible spot, but I think your point is real, and I'll try to pause it right here at the right spot. When he does this right here, he's going, wait, he looks like he's throwing this pretty hard.


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[Assistant] There's no way I'm gonna undercut it. Yeaah. He thinks he's gonna, but, but that's the crazy thing about guys like Josh Allen and Mahomes and Rodgers. Yeaah. The ball gets to the highest point and you think it's gonna start to come down here and it just continues to drive through the target.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, you're not expecting, wait, is he really gonna throw a ball 45 yards, 8 feet off the ground, the whole way there? Right. And that's where it's special. And to me, that's him, Rodgers, Mahomes, Justin Herbert.


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[Assistant] You know, that's, I really, I think, I don't think I'm missing anybody else. Maybe Matt Stafford. Maybe Stafford. Right. It's those five who can make that type of throw right there. And I think that's what Legerius need is doing right now. I think he probably thought, I'm going to get a pick.


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[Assistant] And now right now where we see it and the ball's right here, he's going, he's probably going, oh, I'm in trouble cause this ball's higher and going at a faster pace than I anticipated.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they were, that's where I would, we're gonna get to that. I, there's, let's go to the next play.


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[Assistant] Okay, so this one is not exactly going to explain that, but we're going to get to the next one that you're going to go remember who we're playing against, okay? Even with this, I want to go, I mean, I just, I'm shocked by this. You know, the first thing is,


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[Assistant] You know, eh, is, okay, you see Stefan Diggs, right here, in the slot, we got three, it's empty set for all the listeners out there. Sanders and Moss are to the right, you know, Dawson Knox, Stefan Diggs, Gabriel Davis, alright, there we go. Now my point here, and the coverage they're playing, which is like a quarter's coverage, right,


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[Assistant] It's a quarters coverage, and it's a little bit like, you could call it Tampa four, uh, it's some sort of quarters, okay? But, within this, this is to me where we get to the details a little bit.


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[Assistant] He needs to be, this is where the disguising comes back to screw them a little bit. He needs to be head up on Stefan Diggs, if not, or a shade on the outside.


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[Assistant] And what I would say, when you play Quarters coverage, I mean the safeties are not gonna necessarily be always deep. You see Sorensen here is trying to act like there's a blitz, so he's definitely not gonna be as deep as you normally are. But Quarters does not, like, get really deep coverage anyways for safeties.


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[Assistant] So there has to be some disruption of the slot receiver, especially when it's Stefan Diggs, who's one of the best receivers in football.


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[Assistant] So you would like, in the perfect world, anything I ever learned in Tampa, from Monty Kiffin, Gus Bradley, Raheem Morris, Mike Tomlin, and a bunch of the other awesome freaking coaches we had, was in quarters, yeaah, get your hands on them, and you want to push them inside a little bit.


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[Assistant] Because his responsibility is to go to the flat. So, give a little, you know.


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[Assistant] I'm on the outside edge, give a little chuck, and then you kind of look to see in your responsibility out in the flat. Well, we're going to see here there's no chuck because of course they're trying to disguise.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, again, let's just look at Stefan Diggs. I mean, he's, he's got nothing to break his stride here. He just gets to go, wait, I can turn it on and then I'm gonna get on the toes of a safety who's not necessarily that fast.


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[Assistant] And Sorensen's been a good player through his career. But this is not his bread and butter. This is not the position you want to leave him in. And you know who else has it easy?


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[Assistant] Look at Josh Allen. Nobody around him. That was another reason we picked the play. It's exactly right. Like nobody around him. And, within quarter's coverage, like, look at this too. Look at Dawson Knox down here. Nobody's even covering him.


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[Assistant] Like wh-wh-wh-where, where is the quarter's presence there that we just talked about?


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[Assistant] So, now Honey Badger, who's in the middle of the field, okay, he's, he's looking for anything over the middle, okay. This corner, now people are gonna have to take my word for it just a little bit here. Hold on a second, let me just get this right with my damn clicker. Okay, I wanna pause this at the right time.


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[Assistant] Okay, honey badgers looking up for anything in the middle. And I believe this is him right here. Yes. Here is the outside corner that we were, that we haven't really talked about. He was looking for anything coming out. Stefan Diggs running a corner route. And then the leverage in which Sorensen played with, he in quarters


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[Assistant] And he catches the ball. And look, he thought, you know, this is, I mean, next time I see him, I'm going to get on Stefan Diggs. Like he thought he was all by himself. He thought he was going to walk in and score a touchdown here. I don't think he even realized he was right there until the last second. But again, that just goes back to some of the issues that Kansas City Chiefs are having on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Just continues and this is where it goes back to what you said. Remember who you're playing.


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[Assistant] He's just like the guy you play and practice every day. The play's never over and his arm is limitless. So you can't just go, oh we got outside the pocket, let me turn around and just forget what the hell I'm doing. Alright, so it's man coverage. It's man coverage across the board. You can see here, right? They got, it's four cross, there's the back on the backer, so you have that there.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, a little bit of a pressure, a little pressure here, but it's nothing bad. I mean, it's not like, oh my gosh, they've collapsed the puck. They got a guy going around the edge. Alright, whoop-de-doo. And, of course, this is an easy escape for him. But my point here is, more than anything, is...


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[Assistant] Is again, you're gonna have to take my word a little bit because we don't have film for all these, but here's Sorenson.


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[Assistant] Okay, Dawson Knox basically was over here like this, he was running with him, he turned back, he saw Josh Allen broke the pocket, and he took a few steps up like he was gonna go make the tackle.


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[Assistant] And what I want to say is first off, and I know this is going to be hard to see because it's a little blurry here, uh, let's see if I can get it.


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[Assistant] You know, there's guys here. There's two guys underneath. Like he has no business even like worrying about that. Let alone, look at 51 right here. Do your job. Don't try to do four other people's jobs.


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[Assistant] And there's just a little of everything like this going on in every game with them. And come on, that's the easiest throw and touchdown Josh, Josh Allen's gonna have all year. That goes back to your 20 yards completion? Well, ridiculous. When you don't cover a guy 40 yards down the field, that's what happens.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I'm very concerned about the defense. It's hard not to be. It's like we said, there's not an area where I can look at right now and go,


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[Assistant] Oh, that's a strength or wait, they're doing this so good, they're close. There's, there's none of that. That's why I worry about them.


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[Assistant] The personnel is kind of the personnel at this point. Exactly right. So I don't know where they go. Uh, and that's, I'm going to be interested to see what the new approach is or if they make any changes here going forward.


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[Assistant] Noticeable drop, plus like, compounding it with impatience, stupid mistakes, a little bit like we talk about with the defense, where you just go, hey, you guys aren't good enough, and the offense is going to have to carry the team, and you can't make those mistakes.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that's one of the things, ehm, certainly, you know, I mean again, first drive of the game, it's 3rd and 10, he hits Tyreek Hill right in the face on the four yard line. Yeah. Ball bounces off his face. Okay, they kick a field goal.


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[Assistant] I mean, you put Mahomes inside the five yard line, he's gonna score a touchdown. So you leave those points. You know, he'll run the shallow cross, hits him in the breadbasket, ball popped in the air, picks six.


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[Assistant] Right there, that's 11 points where I can just go, the offense is over, uh, and didn't execute, and they have no room for error right now just because of the way the defense is playing.


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[Assistant] Well, I, like, last year was a different animal. This year I thought, and this is why I picked the Chiefs to win a close game, I thought,


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[Assistant] If they play that way, this old lion's been too good so far, they'll protect it and he'll pick them apart slowly but surely. And then if they do get a little pressure, it won't be that bad to where he'll buy time and still pick them apart. That's where I, I just, I had to see it to believe it with Buffalo's defense and I believe it now. Because they played like you said, it's,


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[Assistant] Quarters, it's, it's two deep shells the whole game. Quarters across the board. You know, Tampa two. Two man.


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[Assistant] Their change up of the game was robber, right? Where the two safeties, like, one goes deep, one looks for a guy in the middle of the field. That's what happened on the interception pick six. That's what happened when the Chiefs went for it on the fourth down. I mean, basic stuff.


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[Assistant] Basic stuff. So within that, the other reason I picked the Chiefs to win the game, I thought, well, this whole line's different this year. They've been blowing people off the ball in every game. If Andy stays patient, they should be able to do the same thing in this one. Well, that wasn't the case either.


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[Assistant] You know, not that it was bad and maybe you could sit here and like, you know, and Pete said yesterday, he goes, well, do you think they could have stayed more patient? I was like, yeah, maybe they could have stayed more patient. But I don't think they liked the way it looked early on. And that's why they got, got off of it right away.


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[Assistant] No, not necessarily. Uhm, well yeah, I mean, yes, they do.


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[Assistant] The safeties are off. Everybody's doing this to the chiefs. This is, this is a weekly thing. Nobody...


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[Assistant] But they haven't done that. So, again, they took the approach of, we don't think you'll be patient enough, you'll make a mistake and screw up at some point, and I don't really think you'll run games all that quite yet, so we're not gonna buy into like, we have to put people there to stop that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a little bad. I understand that. It is, but I think early on, and again, you know, yeaah, you're gonna see 5, 5 carries for 27 yards, 5.4 yards, but Clyde Edwards Hilaire, that, I mean, we're gonna show you a 4 yard run here in a minute. I'm gonna show you a 4 yard run.


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[Assistant] And he's got 13 on the night, so that means he had 6 carries for 9 yards the rest of the night.


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[Assistant] Of course. I mean, yes. And I think that was a surprise to me. So like, let's, let's get to that play. Uh, I think we have a, uh, an early run play, right?


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[Assistant] Edwards will air for four yards, but I think it was this that, it's, it's the first play of the game, right? First play of the game. Hey, Shocker, look what we got. Uh, it's too deep, right? I mean, it's, they're, they're gonna play too deep. They don't care. Now, where Buffalo's different is they have nine people that can play on their defensive line.


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[Assistant] They're always fresh. They cycle them in and out. Ed Oliver's a different player this year.


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[Assistant] Russo has changed their team because he's just such a big physical presence. I mean, you want to talk about self-scout thyself. I was wrong about him coming out in the draft. He's a beast, alright?


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[Assistant] Star Lotolele, being back from COVID-19 and didn't play last year. Ass kicker, alright? And, like, again, my point here is, cause I'm not gonna show you every run or do that, but I just want you to watch. I mean, right guard and right tackle.


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[Assistant] Niang and, and the, uh, the rookie from, uhm, Tennessee, uhm, is it Smith, I believe, right? Uhm, yeaah. Trey Smith, right? So, the, the point here is just watch them. I mean, watch, watch, watch what they do.


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[Assistant] I mean, Rousseau throws the right tackle on the ground. Okay? Lotulele throws the center and the guard off track. I mean, so the center can't open up the hole and get over there. But really, okay, so let me explain how this play is supposed to work. This is a weak side bubble.


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[Assistant] They've been killing everybody with this play. You wanna play this and play this coverage, we're gonna blow you off the ball and run right between this defense end and the defense tackle. Well, Lota Lele, he...


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[Assistant] Doesn't allow Creed Humphrey to make the reach block.


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[Assistant] Because Trey Smith can't get enough of them to knock him to let Creed Humphrey get the edge of him to where he can't stop right there. Okay, so that was my point. And I think this is why there was a little impatience in the run, because yeaah, it's a four yard run, but your two guys on the right, two out of your three guys on the right side got their ass kicked.


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[Assistant] So they were probably like, whoa, we don't like the look of that. Right? I mean, you know, again, so I think that was a little bit of why there was impatience. Does Andy Reed, could he have stayed a little bit more patient? Sure. But the bottom line is they didn't move the front four when they wanted to run the ball for the most part either. And that's where Buffalo's become special.


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[Assistant] They understand the offense and how he's used.


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[Assistant] So they're always looking them up or have people dropping in the right, the right areas. I think that's the biggest thing I would say more than anything. The Bills have two phenomenal safeties who, you know, really understand and they're extremely well coached from Leslie Frazier and Sean McDermott, just like the Chargers are with Brandon Staley to where they have.


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[Assistant] When it gets to Sunday, they have a great understanding of how they're gonna be attacked.


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[Assistant] Certain formations. If you see this receiver do this, the other two are going to do that.


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[Assistant] That's to me, you know, the coaching, but it wasn't like great man-to-man coverage or anything like that. No, it was a combination of like, we know where you're going to attack. We know where your guys want to run on these certain formations. And then we're going to get pretty good pressure to where Mahomes isn't just going to be able to sit there all day and make magic happen and pick us apart that way.


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[Assistant] It is. That's where the Chiefs have to expand the offense a little bit. They have to come up with some more plays to attack some of these shells defenses like we've talked about. The other thing I would say too is like you're getting quarters coverage and that means you're basically a lot of the times getting outside one on ones. You know, that's where I think they signed Josh Corden because they want to go,


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[Assistant] If you're gonna use all your guys in the secondary and push them over to our three receiver side on the right and, and always be there for our deep crossers and double crossers and double posts and all of that and you're gonna push everybody that way,


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[Assistant] Now, I'm hoping with Josh Gordon, they're going to go, wait, we got a guy over here that can win just the one-on-one matchup. We're going to throw it outside and we can do that. So you can't always like push your coverage to the formation side, if that makes sense.


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[Assistant] But yes, you know, that's where they don't have. And McCole Hardman, he's not that kind of guy to work on the outside and catch back shoulders and, you know, fade balls or anything of that nature. So, uh, I think that's why they signed Josh Gordon and hopefully they can kind of find that element within their offense.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think it'll be a really close football game. I wouldn't be surprised. Now, Washington's defense hasn't been very good, so I would think they're gonna have their way a little bit more with Washington than they did with the Chargers or Buffalo.


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[Assistant] Again, I'm not panicked about Kansas City's offense. There's just no room for error. There's no room for error with the defense, with the way it's playing, and that's what they gotta really fix.


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[Assistant] Quarters coverage again. Quarters coverage is the new thing in the NFL because everybody's worried about stopping like deep crossers. Like everybody wants to run the play action pass and run the guy, somebody going across the field. What's special about quarters that's supposed to stop it? Because the two safeties are not worried about necessarily behind them. So when something comes into their area,


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[Assistant] They're going to be there basically eye level with a deep crosser. You can look it up that way. It cheats them to a little bit to get down on the run game, you know, and be an extra guy in the box. Like, okay, yeah, wait, I don't have my first in quarters, the safety rules. They're not their first two steps don't have to go back.


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[Assistant] Horners are gonna have some of that, yeaah, and they're gonna kinda read it on the fly according to combinations. So, you know, you can't do everything, but what burns them, and the Browns, a little bit like the Chiefs, they're way more talented.


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[Assistant] They're young in some areas, they got a lot of new pieces, they got a new defense coordinator, and they mess up things on a weekly basis too.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, their defense is highly ranked, I believe. I don't know where it is right now, but they feasted on the poor. I don't know if it's exactly, like, they're the number four defense in football. They're not the number four defense in football for me. Number one rush defense, too, I think. Yeah, right. And, and, and, and again,


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[Assistant] You know, there's been some good, but you know, they got to play the Houston Texans, the Chicago Bears who came with the dumbest game plan in the history of football, uh, and there's another game I'm missing to where I go. You know, they benefited from three games here in between the Chiefs in this last game to where it was less, their talent could just overwhelm the other teams.


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[Assistant] This is, this is, this just goes into bad execution, not understanding the rules of your defense. Alright, so let's cover three defense, right? Cover three.


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[Assistant] Alright, and as we like talk about with our three match, right, this is Seattle's scheme, alright, and you can see here, here we go, I mean, he's supposed to go back that way, alright, he's going that way.


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[Assistant] He's, let me see if I got this right. Let me just make sure I got my guys right here. Okay.


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[Assistant] You can see number four, right? So okay, I got it right. I was right. Here we go. You can see these two guys over here. You got like flat, curl flat guy over here. Okay.


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[Assistant] And the, really the problem here is, and with this, with


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[Assistant] With Seattle's scheme, okay, this is what I want to get to. I'm sorry, I'm bumbling over my words. They're going to run a deep crosser because in the Seattle scheme, this is, this is, gives them issues. And they expect their linebackers to kind of read that and carry the crossers, which this linebacker here does do that. He's fine. There's no problem there.


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[Assistant] The problem is there's miscommunication with 33 Harrison here to where he doesn't know what he's doing. And so now you can see, right?


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[Assistant] You got a bunch of dropping zone linebackers, alright? You can see walkers dropping, takitakis dropping, uhm, 51 is looking for the crosser and gonna carry him, okay? You see that, Paulie? Yep. And, Rodney Harrison, I mean not Rodney Harrison, uh, Ronnie Harrison,


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[Assistant] Is doing the same thing. And he shouldn't be. He doesn't need to worry. First off, this guy's here for this guy. And 51's gonna take the crosser. Somebody's gotta be down here in the curl flat area. In the flat area. And you're just gonna see it's, there's nobody there.


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[Assistant] There's nobody. So Justin Herbert throws a ball one yard past the line of scrimmage, and he gets, uh, what was it, a 25 yard touchdown pass?


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[Assistant] 22? Right. So, it's stuff like this that I've seen, you know, of course in this game, uh, saw it in the Kansas City game, saw it a few times in other games too, but it didn't matter because they were just better and overwhelming the team.


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[Assistant] I mean, come on, that's simple stuff, but it is a new scheme for them and they got some younger players and it's a learning process, uh, but that's just like way too easy for an offense like this.


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[Assistant] No, they couldn't stop it. You know, he had another touchdown later on in the game was a quarter, another quarter's coverage where they messed it up on the back end. This one's different. And this one, I'm not gonna be able to give you concrete answers. I'm not exactly sure what they're trying to do. This is quarters, but a different version of quarters.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this DB here is gonna be looking, that's Harrison, he's gonna be looking for like the first person inside to match up with. So it's basically like three man to man matchups here that they got, right?


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[Assistant] Now, the problem is that look at this, and this happens a lot in Cleveland. You can see DB's turn around talking. He's looking. He's talking. They're not on the same page. Alright? And as we go through this,


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[Assistant] Grant Delpit's looking at here on the front side. I don't know exactly, I don't know if they're


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[Assistant] I mean, he can't come down here and play inside leverage on Mike Williams, uh, number 38, uh, AJ Green, okay?


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[Assistant] I mean, if he's gonna go play inside leverage on 3rd and 10, I mean, Mike Williams is gonna run out, he can just run a straight go, you know, a comeback, whatever, he's gonna be at a disadvantage. So because of the formation alignment, he's gotta play a little bit on the outside shoulder here, alright, and


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[Assistant] I don't know if they were trying to bracket Mike Williams or if they were trying to bracket this slot receiver.


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[Assistant] Now, the one thing I would say, if they were gonna bracket the slot receiver, yeaah, then why didn't he get a little wider out here to get on the outside leverage of this guy? Because this guy should be on the inside, right? I mean, that's, that's how a bracket works, or the opposite to where this guy is on the outside of this guy, and then he's on the inside.


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[Assistant] They don't always, but it's a little different with the match personnel underneath, because there's people just, like, if he runs this right here, he's got a man underneath him. So they don't need to worry about it. So, in this type of quarters, and this is where football can be complicated,


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[Assistant] You know, he has a little more freedom to go back and be that guy. And I would say with this alignment, again, now, if 22 is going to be looking at this guy, and now because of the alignment, AJ Green's on the outside, how is he supposed to ever stop that? I don't, you know, Deon Sanders will stop it, sure. Darrell Rivas.


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[Assistant] It's like stealing right now. It's stealing, and that's where, like, at first, I don't know what he was, I don't know if he was looking there, or if he was looking there, I'm not sure. All I can tell you is, Cleveland didn't run this defense again, alright? So there was obviously something they didn't like, or they went, wait, this formation screws up our rules with what we're trying to do here, and come on.


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[Assistant] I mean, Justin Herbert, what? You know, and to me, I think there had to be something with the alignment, the call, again, Grant Delpit, a young guy, right? I mean, listen, let's just break this down. First year guy, rookie, uhm, first year in the system.


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[Assistant] Basically a rookie because he didn't get to play last year because he tore his ACL, right? First year in the system right here, right? So you got all these guys in the back end. I just circled five guys that are, they're still learning things. And I gotta think something was messed up between these three and how they were supposed to defend this because


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[Assistant] This is just way too easy like you said and we never saw it again but I think the, I think the Chargers had a feeling this coverage might have been coming and they were ready, they were ready for it.


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[Assistant] He's had injuries that have kind of set him back here and there every time he's about to kind of like, you're going, whoa, he's had three or four games where he's dominated.


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[Assistant] I believe last year he missed a few games, you know, the year before. He's one of those guys you turn on the film every week and you go, he could be one of the best receivers in football. And he's, I think, proving that right now.


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[Assistant] Odell's the fastest, most explosive receiver in this game. Okay. So he looks fine to me.


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[Assistant] I said this two weeks ago when they played the Bears. I said, man, Odell could have had seven for 200 something yards. I don't understand. It was like Baker didn't look at them.


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[Assistant] He missed the throw here and there. I just, I didn't understand it. Now it was his first game back, so I was like, okay, uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But then in Minnesota, there was a few examples again last week in a 14-7 game where I went, man, I mean. And only two catches there too. Only two catches there too. And you said here he's got two for 20. Right. And I understand it.


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[Assistant] But there's something, and it's not the system, they put him in position, he's beating guys, he's open.


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[Assistant] It's like he's not on Baker's radar. That's where I, it's weird to me. And like as a, as a fan, like how is that possible? I don't know. I don't know. And it's like to a point where I want to go like, man, if I'm Cleveland, I might be trying to trade Odell Beckham Jr. right now. Why not?


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[Assistant] You know, they got other good receivers. Baker seems more comfortable throwing the Donovan people Jones or Schwartz or of course Jarvis Landry when he's healthy. So I just, I'm shocked by it.