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[Assistant] Okay, let's go. We're outta here on that note. Yup, dumb blonde from New Jersey said that. Peace out everybody. Paulie, you the man. Always fun talking to you. I'll see you next week. I'll see you soon. We'll talk. Everybody be good. Enjoy Labor Day weekend. Be safe. Have fun, but don't go crazy, okay? I'm gonna have lots of fun, but I'm not gonna go crazy. Alright, peace. See ya. I'm taking the over there.


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[Assistant] Amid Belichick Fareed has a play he wants to break down, which I cannot wait. We're going to have a lot of fun there. And, uh, it's good to have you back, man, even with your nice haircut and everything. Way to go.


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[Assistant] It does. It does go well with your skin tone. I don't wear red a whole lot. It doesn't go well with me. I become like too red, actually. My face will become red. Black is good for you. Black is good for me.


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[Assistant] I have. I've seen a little bit. I've seen, I mean, I've seen a lot of football. I have. I really have. I mean, there's, there's a few games that I haven't broke down completely. Like I haven't seen a lot of Ravens, Lions. We're not going to talk about that today. As far as film wise, Panthers, Texans, I haven't, but everything else in the league.


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[Assistant] I got a pretty damn good feel. Jets Broncos? No, I don't have a whole lot to say about that one either, but I think every marquee matchup or game that we really had interest in on Sunday or whatever, I don't mean to be disrespectful there, yeaah, uh, I certainly got a little bit of a feel for it for sure.


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[Assistant] Yes, he was. He was every bit as good as he appeared that night. You know, and I think more importantly, uh, was impressed with the game plan that Matt LaFleur put forth towards the matchup. You know, I think he had a good understanding of what the 49ers were trying to do. And I think the other thing just off of that,


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think I said this a little bit on Monday, they match the physicality of the 49ers. That to me has been a thing with Green Bay. I know people are probably going, I've heard you say that before, but it is a thing.


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[Assistant] I mean, you just kind of go through the last few years. Anytime they've played a big physical team, they've either lost or barely won for some miracle. And, and, uh, that's bothered me about them. It's made me think less of them as a true Super Bowl contender.


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[Assistant] So, you know, I think like, hey, first, let's, Green Bay's offensive side of the ball. Man, they had some great game plan design plays where I think they knew like, oh, hey, if we line up in this formation, we know we're going to get, I think more importantly than anything and,


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[Assistant] You know this because we've talked about it in the past with the 49ers and it holds more true this year than maybe ever before.


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[Assistant] They're a really good defense. And especially their middle nine players. 49ers love playing quarters coverage. They love playing quarters. So Jaquiski Tartt and Jimmy Ward are involved in the run game, the middle of the field pass plays. And one of the things I said last week, if the Packers want to win, you got to throw the ball outside the numbers down the field.


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[Assistant] You can't let San Francisco get away.


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[Assistant] With playing some of these coverages where quarters really ends up being like man to man on the outside.


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[Assistant] You know, three deep where it's really, okay, it's mono-e-mono on the outside. You can't let them get away with that. And I thought they did a really good job of kind of exhausting that. And the stats don't even tell the whole truth. Like I said on, on Monday a little bit too, 261 yards passing by Rogers, but you've got to take into account


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[Assistant] The also, the 86 yards he got from past interference throwing the ball down in the field.


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[Assistant] Against some of these corners in that match up there where they were, Oh no, gosh, he's throwing the Devontae Adams. Let me hold them. Oh no, I don't know what's going to happen.


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[Assistant] I thought that was really, really impressive from that side of the ball and ran the ball.


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[Assistant] Especially with two offensive linemen out, Bakhtiari and Jenkins, just ran the ball effectively enough too. Once they scared the 49ers out of some of the quarter's coverage.


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[Assistant] You don't see the 49ers get out of that much. As we got into the third and fourth quarter, they started playing cover too, cause they're like, okay, we've seen enough.


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[Assistant] We gotta start protecting these corners a little bit. And that's when they ran the ball a little bit at the end of the third quarter. They hit them down the middle of the field for a few big passes. Uh, but hey, as usual, everything was centered around Aaron Rodgers because you know, a lot of teams don't trust their quarterbacks to just consistently make big throws outside the numbers down the field over and over again.


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[Assistant] You know, offensive coordinators want to go, wait, I came up with this play and here's a nice easy completion, 10 yards over the middle. You know, so that to me, uh, is something a lot of the great quarterbacks with a great wide receiver tandem don't take enough of an advantage of in the NFL right now. Uh, he's one of the few that does that always.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I do. I do. I think it was, you know, just the right touch of like, okay, hey, we got a match up. Let's play this guy. Our guy's better than this guy. Hey, I know we got them in this defense. Okay, wait. Oh, we got them in this defense in the formation. Great. Next year is when we come out and get in that formation. I'm going to call that play. That's going to be, you know, gash them.


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[Assistant] And, and then to me the most important thing was the attitude on both sides of the ball. I'm very critical of the Green Bay Packers defensive front. You know that. Their interior three played really well. They whooped the crap out of the 49ers inside for the most part.


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[Assistant] And that to me was another big difference in the game too. Shanahan run game couldn't get off in this one.


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[Assistant] So then it became, okay, now we got to depend on Jimmy Jean. You said he played well. He did. I'm not trying to take anything away from him, but they couldn't get any offense going on the first half until that last drive before, you know, halftime.


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[Assistant] And they got the touchdown there. You know, so, so, that's still gonna be the question about the 49ers as we go forward. If the Shanahan run game can't go crazy and all his tricks, can they win the game throwing the ball and just drop back past game? And I'm not sure they can. I'm not ready to say that yet.


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[Assistant] I don't even know if I made sense there either. Okay, so we're gonna show you a play here. It's empty set right here.


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[Assistant] Uh, basically one, you know, Dylan's on the right really is like a protection check down because they want to check Armstead here. And the big thing is, what did we just talk about? What's the coverage the 49ers like to play? Quarters coverage. They love quarters coverage because their safeties, and I'm just going to stand up now because it's time,


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[Assistant] Their job is not to go directly back safeties, okay? It's a good way to play coverage.


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[Assistant] But really, safeties are thinking downhill. They're thinking in cuts, crossers that are of like the 10 to 15 range. And then, of course, if they did run the ball, let's just say, and Dylan was here in this gap, he can be really quick to be downhill and stop that, okay? So, now, this play is cool.


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[Assistant] Because they know they're gonna get quarters. And of course, like we say, they know that's gonna happen. What they do here is they use our man Devonte Adams as a decoy.


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[Assistant] We know Rodgers wants to throw the ball to Devonte Adams. I mean, there's nobody that gets targeted more than Devonte Adams. And what he's going to do off of this play is he's going to run inside here.


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[Assistant] And curl up kinda right in front of this safety, right? And now Roger's gonna kinda stare him down to make Jimmy Ward kinda sit there and watch him, right? And uhm, then you're gonna have Valdez Scanling kinda take a little bit of an inside release and gonna post it over here to where Jimmy Ward


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[Assistant] Should be, or could be, but he has somebody in front of him, so it's his job to cover Devonte Adams here.


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[Assistant] Deep curl route, let's just say. Yeah, let's just say that. Like a 12 yard curl route. And the play is all about, yes, just trying to get Jimmy Ward to bite on Devontae Adams, and then let's get Valdez Scantling over the top. So let's just check it out here. We'll go, come on, I don't know why that thing does it. So here you go, as you can see,


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[Assistant] Like from the get go, alright, Jimmy Ward's not too bad, he gets a little depth, he knows, he knows Adams is attacking him, right? So, but he's really worried about like maybe a crosser or something like that in there. Once he sees him sits down,


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[Assistant] You know, he's, he's here. He's kinda settling down on it. He's gotta drive on that ball in case Roger throws some laser here. He's gotta come down to make that tackle.


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[Assistant] So, most people are going to look at it and go, whoa, he's the deep safety. And they threw at him.


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[Assistant] He, he should be back there to stop this. And as you can see here, I mean, we got Valdez Scanling going across, basically man to man on Jaquiski Tart, and the Green Bay Packers are going, great, this is exactly what we wanted. We want Valdez Scanling, who's like a 4-3 guy, on Jaquiski Tart, who's more of a run-stopping safety. He's athletic too, don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] He's kind of finding a soft spot there. He'd have to find a soft spot, you know, around this, uh, dropping defense alignment here, right? Uh, which, which he will if that happens, but it's Devonte Adams. I'm not going to fault, you know, Jimmy Ward here. He's, he's looking at this going, oh no, he might throw to him. So I got to be responsible for him.


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[Assistant] Jimmy Ward in this coverage is not responsible to be deep here. The problem is our right corner. Alright? Our problem is our right corner.


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[Assistant] You know, zone coverages, people just don't go, hey, oh, we're in a zone and they just let you go over here and...


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, no, everything's kind of a match zone this day and age in the NFL. It's no longer just like, oh, it's quarters, Madden, we all go this way. It's John Madden, you know, video game. And if a guy comes here, I don't stop and try to stop him. I just keep going because I'm the, the, the playbook said I had a line going backwards.


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[Assistant] So, that's the point. Exactly right. There's no one in the area in the right corner. His job is to replace the safety now, because the safety has basically got a guy in his area. He has to match that guy, right? So now, this right corner, as soon as he really, listen, as soon as he saw, and I'll rewind it just a little bit.


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[Assistant] As soon as he saw Devonte Adams kinda get to this point, or just even a hair before, let's just say right here, he's gotta already start thinking, wait, I gotta get back and get depth. Just in case there's some deep crosser or post coming from the other side, he's gonna be responsible, right?


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[Assistant] Exactly right. It's, you know, 2-3 zone in basketball. Anybody's played some zone in basketball, right? Growing up, it's like, okay, yeaah, I'm, I'm the top there of the 2-3 zone. You know, once the guy goes down to that corner, I don't need to be there anymore. That's why we got that third guy on the wing there, right? So I mean, it's the same, same concepts. It's just the football way.


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[Assistant] But now as we go, we'll let it go. You can see. Look.


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[Assistant] You know, Jimmy flat-footed on Devonte Adams, you can't be mad at him that. He's still worried about, the right corner's still worried about Devonte Adams as you can see here. And...


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[Assistant] It just leaves a huge gap down the, it's an easy throw. I mean, Mosley has to get back in that area. Once he sees Devontae at him cross and get like maybe past the inside edge of the numbers, he's got to start thinking back. And you know, you don't see a reaction from him here or anything like that, but that, that, that was the problem with that play.


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[Assistant] All he's doing is making sure that Jimmy Ward stayed flat footed a little bit.


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[Assistant] And he probably, as he was getting ready to throw, let's see, let's watch one more time. Let me watch his eyes just a hair closer. He probably, as he's getting ready to throw,


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[Assistant] I think you see it maybe right. Let's see if I can slow it down. He's looking down the middle. He's probably just trying to see. Okay, he's flat-footed. Yep. I don't know if he makes a little peek or not. Maybe he didn't.


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[Assistant] He needs a peek over here just to make sure that that guy doesn't get back to steal the ball. Right. You know, I don't know. Rogers might have been looking at it. He can't tell. I mean, guys like him, Brady or whatever, they could have their head one way and kind of be looking into the corner of their eye to not give it away or make sure he kind of stays flat footed.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's bring it up, Kristen. Let's show the next play. Same game. This is really cool.


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[Assistant] On a deep post route just like this against this coverage.


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[Assistant] And here we go, Shanahan with pre-snap movement, right? He's trying to fake the speed sweep, look at the pulling guard, everything there, right? Okay? He's got a lot of things going. Safety's reacting, right? But here, here's the point we're gonna, we're gonna show, alright?


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[Assistant] Here we go. Same thing here. Now there's Kittle. Look, we got quarters coverage. It's just like we just saw. Right? Boom, boom, boom, boom.


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[Assistant] Very, very similar. Little different way to do it, but very similar. And you can see here, again, you know, with these kind of looks and everything that you got as far as quarters, you know, the, the safeties are, they're worried about the run game. You can see Savage, when he goes here,


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[Assistant] He's, he's more worried about, oh wait, the speed sweep. What a, you know, he might, there's a pulling guard. His first responsibility is kind of come down field. Now.


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[Assistant] The thing we're going to show here is again, who I think this is Ayuk over here, he's going to kind of run over here into Savage's area. So the same thing Devontae Adams was doing on the previous play.


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[Assistant] Jair Alexander's over here. Alright, a little different player here. One of the best corners in football, man to man, and has instincts to go along with it. And then you can see Kittle here, he's gonna run the post over the top, right? Because again, the safety's flat-footed.


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[Assistant] Because his first responsibility is downhill run game. And there was a lot of crap going on down there. So he's going, oh shit, I gotta be ready. It's Shanahan, it's the 49ers, they run the ball good. I'm worried about stopping that, maybe having to get in this gap. Did I see this correctly, right? So, as we continue to go here, look what happens.


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[Assistant] First off, like, look at the technique by Alexander. You can see once he went inside, look at him, his hips are already turned. Like he's going, wait, my rule here is once my guy goes and leaves my area, I gotta get back over the top and start running the deep cross or the deep post again.


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[Assistant] He's reading it really well. It's like a true veteran superstar corner here, right here.


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[Assistant] And Jimmy G is going, well, I, I, I don't think that guy will be here because we kind of ran a, we kind of ran a route, like a bastard route to run in between both of these guys. So they'll both be sure like, wait, do I pass him off or do you got him? Do I got him? I want, I want to both stay here.


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[Assistant] Like, Kittle can really run, he's bending this guy out a little bit, as you can see right here, to make him back off, right? And he's also saying like, yea, this guy, the safety here, I believe it's Adrian Amos here, is at the same level as Kittle, and he hasn't really turned to run yet, his eyes are back at me.


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[Assistant] So yes, as a quarterback, once you see that, you go, oh, I got them over the top.


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[Assistant] Now, he kind of took for granted that the design of the Shanahan play and everything would have gotten this double over here with Brandon Ayub. We showed a play like this similar, I think in week one, as far as


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[Assistant] How the Rams did this to the Bears and got the guys to double and they didn't get back.


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[Assistant] But Jai Alexander's too smart and they've seen these type of plays from Shanahan to where Joe Brary and company said, Hey, if we get in quarters, everybody's got to be on their game. You got to be ready to place. If there's somebody that sits down, trust me, somebody's coming over the top. So there you go at Kittle and then let's just watch Jai Alexander.


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[Assistant] Get on his horse and get back their tremendous ball skills and make the play.


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[Assistant] Awesome play. I mean, it's a perfectly thrown football. It's perfect. It really is.


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[Assistant] Jimmy G, you know, no listen, Jimmy G threw this ball bullseye. It's bullseye. The coaching point would have been 42 to 45 yards from the line of scrimmage on that hash. He drops it right on the hash. It's gonna fall right into George Kittle's hands. It's a perfect throw.


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[Assistant] I'm blaming Jimmy G, but I also don't want to blame him too much because, hey, I'm sure Shanahan All, we kind of told them like, hey, we're going to do this and they're going to double these guys. They won't get back and we'll be able to hit the post. Yes, you'd like him to go, wait, I played football and let me see over there just to make sure Alexander doesn't get back. But this is what's cool. It's like kind of your point. Watch as now he's gearing up.


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[Assistant] Booster up my butt and go get this. Okay. I couldn't figure that out. Yes. JR Alexander. You see that? I mean, he sees it like you can tell like


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[Assistant] As soon as he goes inside Ayuk, watch his eyes go across the field and go, oh, oh no, he's coming deep. Let me go. And he turns it on.


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[Assistant] And just basically takes it right out of George Kittle's hands, which is really cool. And if this damn guy just ran this way from the start on this play, he would have scored a touchdown. He dances around here too long. If he just took off to the left, it would have been a pick six, but okay, that was fair.


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[Assistant] West Coast guys, right? West Coast base route of their offense. If you play too much quarters, they have always a lot of ways to...


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[Assistant] Abuse that coverage. Montana back in the day with the 49ers used to abuse quarters. They used to put like, you know, uh, what is it, with the Brett Jones, you know, like, hey, you run down 12 yards, that safety's gonna come down on you, and then we're gonna have Jerry Rice run in the post over the top, and you'll be screwed.


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[Assistant] Coaching staff all together. Joe Barry, for the most part, never let Shanahan get into a real rhythm, too, as far as like, oh, they're playing this defense every time we get in this formation, or every down in distance they're playing this. He mixed it up really well, they were on their P's and Q's, and on both sides of the ball.


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[Assistant] Controlled this game more than the final score would say.


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[Assistant] I just, I gotta think there's just, Tray's not trusted yet to do everything the right way, especially in the drop back pass game, which we talked about during the preseason. I gotta think more, it's more that. Now, Jimmy G, who hasn't played great in any of the games to this point, in my opinion, played good there.


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[Assistant] But if, if he does falter, I don't know. Maybe we do see Tray Lance. You know, Tray Lance certainly can bring somebody to the run game. Maybe Shanahan doesn't feel like his offense is quite where it needs to be either. And he just doesn't want to put Tray Lance out there for her failure. But I would think it's more of what I said.


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[Assistant] It's that he's not quite ready. He's raw. He doesn't trust them yet. And to me, I feel like in the last 10 days, the 49ers kind of went into Jimmy G's our guy for now until really proven, proven, proven otherwise.


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[Assistant] And they're going to try to, I think, continue to try to build him up. Hopefully that the weir works out, he plays good so they can get.


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[Assistant] More trade value for him after the year. I really think if you made me read the situation, that's what I think.


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[Assistant] Well again, I think this is part game plan and then of course part I'm the greatest throw in the history of football. It's a little double whammy here, right?


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[Assistant] And, and I mean, you're so right about the running quarterback thing. You know, again, it's what I, I talk about with Jalen hurts a little bit at times. Yeah, it was cool six yard run, but he should have stayed in the pocket to hit the 25 yard post down the middle. It was open.


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[Assistant] And I know everyone wants to, oh look, this is what he can do, he can run. Great. But again, the game like you're talking about is gonna be won.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you might be Josh Allen or Aaron Rodgers in his prime or somebody, or you know, Russell Wilson or Mahomes, those guys. Alright, so here, well, well, this is really cool. You see, uh, 49ers kinda showing a blitz look here, right? For the listeners, you got the two backers right in the A-gap. They're gonna drop out.


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[Assistant] So they're gonna drop out. They're playing cover 3 here. All the way. Cover 3.


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[Assistant] Cover three, curl flats, curl flats. He's kind of shading over to this three receiver side right now, right? You'll see him there. And really, on the front side here, and I might get this wrong a little bit.


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[Assistant] Right, right, and this is all that matters. Three receivers is going to be in by the middle of the three.


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[Assistant] And then the inside of three Valdez Scanling is gonna run a deep corner, deep out route, whatever you want to call it, right? Yeah, flag route, right, for all those. That's exactly what it is. Now, it's zone coverage. It's not man.


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[Assistant] Right? It's zone. Don't follow your guy. Right? They're trying to make it look like it's a man. Like you're thinking like, oh, they're gonna bring a six man pressure and play man or something of that nature.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. If it is man, yeaah, you're, you're exactly right. But Rogers has watched film here, and he's going, wait, this is not man, cause there's no guy on this guy right here, they're gonna drop out. They're gonna drop, somebody's gonna drop out. Maybe then one comes, but somebody will drop out. So, as, oh, there we go again. Okay, so, as you see here,


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[Assistant] Backers dropped out, you know, nickel backs over here in his area, right? Everybody, people under here, boom. This corner on the bottom, he's dropped black to play his third. They got the rookie, uh, 38. Uhm, I'm gonna blank on his name, Pete, you just gotta look him up for me while we're doing this. You know, he...


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[Assistant] Okay, not a horrible play by him, but I gotta think they ran it at him knowing he might hesitate a little bit here. Alright, and just watch him at the top of the screen.


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[Assistant] So his guide starts to go in, and what I want to just show is just a little bit, let's just see if we can just watch it in like real time a little bit here.


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[Assistant] Like just a little bit of a, see how he just took a little stutter step in at first when the, when Tanyan, Tanyan ran inside? Just a little bit. Like it's just a little. Look, he just, he took like one or two steps and then stopped and just kind of sat there and looked at Rogers for a second. So he's over that outside receiver. Right.


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[Assistant] But it's not man to man. It's not man to man. Look at all the people he's got. They're going to pass these off just like we talk about. Look, you know, this guy here now knows this guy's going, he's going to let him go because he knows there's a guy inside there. So they got it played perfectly.


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[Assistant] We got people for the crossers. Right. So you gotta, you gotta be really disciplined here and before the snap go, you know, you gotta be able to tell yourself, like if my guy goes inside, don't stop or hesitate or anything. I gotta get back to my deep third, but it's just enough hesitation. And Rogers is staring.


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[Assistant] Exactly. He is. At him. I mean, you can see he's looking him down. Cause that's all, that's the play. He's just going, wait, I, I, I hope I can get him to just pause for one second.


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[Assistant] Now he's getting back, but he took a step inside. He's not as wide as he should be, nor as deep as he should be. And Rogers knows, man, if I throw this ball perfectly, I'm going to kind of outflank him and he's going to have to turn like he does. Again, it's not horrible defense.


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[Assistant] He's standing there, but it's not him. No, it's not him. He's there, you know, just to favor this, he's here just to favor this side of the ball, just in case something comes down the middle, anything like that. But ultimately, once that guy breaks out, that's not his responsibility anymore. And as you see, that's what happens, and chalk it up for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. I mean it really is. First off, like, good formation, empty set.


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[Assistant] They got Aaron Jones on the right, right next to the tackle, Tanyan on the left next to the tackle, so they can kind of like chip and help the tackles, right, with, with, you know, Dee Ford and Nick Bosa, who are phenomenal football players, I mean, especially Nick Bosa, he's insane. You're gonna have Cobb run like a deep corner route.


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[Assistant] I believe Lazard runs a go route or something of that on the, on the outside to the left side of Rogers, right? And then you're going to have Devonte Adams kind of inside release and run a really


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[Assistant] Well, it's not that it's like totally rare, you know, and I know Rogers talked about it as something they tinkered with, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, it's something that he saw. I mean, usually, listen, usually like, alright, let's just talk about what we're seeing to the right. Randall Cobb is gonna run a deep corner route.


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[Assistant] Usually when you have this type of route in this part of the game,


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[Assistant] What teams do is they run him on an out route, right? They're trying to save some clock time. So they make the corner, make a decision where it's like, do you want to give us Adams on the 10 or 12 yard out route? Or do you want to get really deep and make sure Randall Cobb doesn't gash us on the deep flag route like you talked about before for a huge play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're thinking they got, what do they have at this point? One timeout, right? No timeouts. No timeouts. Sorry. So they're, they're worried about that. Yeah, I'm wrong. So they're more worried about the sideline type stuff. Yeah. And that's probably where Roger's probably realized like, hey, wait, what if we did this?


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[Assistant] Right, and you could see, you know, I think ultimately what they wanted to do was kind of attack this void here.


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[Assistant] But he didn't have the time to quite do that because it's the 49ers and they have a bunch of freaks rushing to the passer. But I would think that's what he changed. Off of that route combination, that's usually what's run.


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[Assistant] So to me, that's usually to the outside. It's usually Adams running the 10 yard out, deep corner over the top. But he probably noticed through years of just running the two minute drill and practice and against this coverage where he's just like, Hey, what if we change it up and did something a little different? Now, the interesting thing is this, all right.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna play it a little bit more, but like, I'm really not sure he couldn't have hit Cobb, like out here, for a huge game. That's what the crazy thing is.


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[Assistant] He is, he is. It's, uh, and I believe that's D forward, or no, that might be FQ Bomb, uh, who's running over the left guard a little bit. Right? So.


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[Assistant] You get that, yeaah, so he's moving, and, I mean, there's not much to say, other than that maybe he could have thrown the ball deep, like I said. Yes. But more importantly, I mean, where he had, like, oh darn it, darn it, darn it, sorry.


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[Assistant] Well, like, where, when he has to release this, look at where he's, right now.


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[Assistant] He's throwing the ball. Adams is 20 yards down the field. He's 10 yards to the right of Fred Warner still.


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[Assistant] Rogers is, the ball just left his hands.


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[Assistant] Ball, I mean, comparable to what we just saw in the other touchdown where you just go, that's insanity. That's insanity. Fred Warner is the most athletic linebacker in football.


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[Assistant] The Packers showed me something for sure. The point is he's amazing, they had the right plan of attack, they were physical, and that's why they won the game.


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[Assistant] Listen, they don't, he doesn't think they're gonna get use check wide open over the middle for a 12 yard touchdown. So they're not gonna waste time at that point. They're worried about we need to run plays. We have to score a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. So people are wrong. Stop like second guessing everything that way. And in Shanahan and clock management, everybody loves to talk about that.


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[Assistant] Well, it's just all because of Super Bowl 51 with the Falcons, where they want to blame the offense coordinator, not the head coach for the horrible job managing the football game, which is ridiculous to me still. But that's where, you know, no, you just, you don't know you're going to score at that point. He's calling plays to score a touchdown, you know? Uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] So then you have one more play to score a touchdown? Like that, you know, that's what I mean. What was the harm? The harm is now you have one more play. And he's going, their defense has played us pretty good all night. There's no guarantee I'm going to get on that one play.


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[Assistant] Okay, well he took it easy. You know, he ran a route that like typically you would think is going to get five, six yards over the middle. And you're going to go, okay, now we're going to have second and this is going to be good. But it was the perfect play versus that coverage. The Packers kind of messed it up. And so no, it's not clock management. Like get out of here with that.


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[Assistant] And you still have one of the best defenses in football. Totally. And you're not going, oh no, they're going to go down the field with no timeouts in 37 seconds and do that to us.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, the Rams are, I mean, stating the obvious, are really good in just about every area of their football team.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that's the first thing. And if you play man or quarters coverage like we've seen, or they got ways to attack you and take, take shots down the field. It's just such a more aggressive offense than we've seen from them the last few years. And I think that's what's awesome. And honestly, I know I've said this the last few times, uh, maybe on the podcast is just,


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[Assistant] They're a different animal up front too on the offensive side of the ball. Just speaking offensively right now.


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[Assistant] There's a little more diversity in their run game. They're better at pass protecting. And to me, that's because of Kevin Carberry, their new offensive line coach. It's something that's jumped out to me right away from week one going, uh, they're a little more detailed and understand how to block different fronts than what I've seen in years past. All right. So, you know, the big thing is,


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[Assistant] Hard to stop the Rams, what they do. They stay patient with the run. That's why I always give them respect, you know, just to keep you honest. They're never just gonna abandon it completely.


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[Assistant] And they protected well. The, the Bucks front four couldn't really get there. Like, you know, they're used to dominating. The Bucks front four has not been kicking butt as far as in the pass game and the pass rush here, you know, uh, early in the season.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay. Let me see. So, let's get to the play, right?


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[Assistant] They seem to stretch it every week right now. Pretty much. And you know, he missed Deshaun Jackson two times in this game. Where he had him.


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[Assistant] And he had pressure once and early in the first drive of the game, he just didn't throw it out there far enough. It would have been another 70 yard touchdown.


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[Assistant] Another time he had him up the left sideline. I want to say maybe it was the second quarter and Stafford got hit as he was thrown. I mean, let's walk in touchdown.


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[Assistant] It's why, and that's why the Bucks are signing Richard Sherman a little bit too, because they're going, damn, we need some corner help. That's certainly a thing. Uhm, so, alright, well this play specifically, you got three receivers to the left, right? Tie down to the left.


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[Assistant] Alright, just with these type of formations, I'm gonna stand up here now. Like typically with these type of formations here, you get like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Hey, there's certain route combinations, you know. Okay, you get this guy going that way, this guy runs an out route, and this guy runs a short out route.


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[Assistant] And that usually means this guy runs an in-cut, right? So Stafford could go deep to out route to in-cut to, okay, here's a check down, right? So it's like, okay, one, two, there's the second read and there's a third read, right? So that is like,


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[Assistant] Definitely something a lot of NFL offenses run. Where it's like, hey, if Stafford starts looking to the left, usually it means that single receiver on the right is going to come into the picture and come that way as well.


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[Assistant] Once they do some certain combination over here where this single receiver does come inside. I guarantee the numbers probably said that. Alright, so either way, what you're gonna have here


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[Assistant] And I can't even remember, I had to go back to the all, we'll show the all 22 in a second. But really, Deshaun Jackson's gonna run a fake and cut and go. Alright? That's what he's gonna do. He shouldn't really get it against his coverage. He really shouldn't. The Bucks kinda messed it up. Here, there's no doubt about that. So, alright, let's watch, here we go. You see?


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[Assistant] Stafford kinda looking to his left, right? As you can tell here.


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[Assistant] You see Deshaun Jackson up here in the top of the screen. He goes out, right? Boom. Stafford has pretty good pass protection. Touchdown right off the bat.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, so uhm, we, and we have an all 22 here, so I wanna go to that next now. So cool, there's the Shawn Jackson, but this is what I wanna show. So, again, see what I mean here? This is what I wanna show here more than anything.


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[Assistant] This guy's gonna run the deep corner route over the top. You got the tight end to the left gonna chip and then go out. It's a three level throw, you know, and basically what he would look at is this curl route for number one, and if he notices the corner getting real, you know, peeking on it, or peeking on it, then maybe you throw the whole shot over the top, right?


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[Assistant] I think this play was to make you think we're gonna throw it over there.


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[Assistant] If they got a certain coverage, they were gonna throw it over here. But if they got any too deep coverage, I guarantee he was told during the week, hey, look to your left.


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[Assistant] But this is when we want to take our chance on the back side. We got something special for him. And you'll see as he comes up, he's gonna run to Sean Jackson on the right side. You're gonna run a little stutter and boom, go up the sideline. Now, the issue here for the Bucks and where they screw it up, it's two man. It's two man. And what I mean by two man is it's too deep.


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[Assistant] Man on him, man on him, Ross Cockerill who's new to this, he blows it and doesn't know what he's doing. He ends up over here playing zone, but it doesn't matter for the sake of this, alright? He's the only guy here that's not playing the coverage right, unless they're playing some combination coverage that I've never seen before in the history of football.


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[Assistant] He's got, they're basically, he's almost doubled right here. As you can see right here. I mean, look at the top of the screen here. I mean, he is doubled.


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[Assistant] And, when you have two man, his job is to stay underneath Carlton Davis, for, you stay underneath for an in-cut. Or if he runs the out-route, right? You don't have to worry about getting deep. We have a guy back there, right?


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[Assistant] Or do you? And that's where it gets really cool because look it. Look at Mike Edwards right here.


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[Assistant] Mike Edwards right here as Stafford comes back and looks and he sees a little bit of the move inside.


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[Assistant] He can't help himself. And what you really wanna say is, dude, that's not your job. Carlton Davis is gonna be underneath him and let him cover that route there.


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[Assistant] Third and ten, he's going, wait, I've seen this play on film, they do this a lot.


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[Assistant] But you see here, look, Carlton Davis doesn't do the greatest job at the top of the route, but he's waiting for some sort of breaking in or out, right, to play underneath it. And Edwards just can't help himself and takes a step and then stumbles and falls.


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[Assistant] That's usually, that usually is 100%. I mean, look at first off the way Stafford sells it. Like look at this right here. First off, as he's dropping back and I'll just like Stafford, just everybody keep your eye on him.


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[Assistant] He does a great job, oops, let me get that off the screen. Just as he gets it, he's looking to his left, like, looking to his left, right? But look right here, just like right here, he looks back to the middle of the field, I think just to make sure, wait, did I get the too deep look that we talked about all week in meeting? Oh, I did? And then he goes back to the left, let me look to the left to sell it a little bit more, and then boom, touchdown.


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[Assistant] Definitely. Little shoulder, like, he dropped back.


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[Assistant] He went, he got the ball, he dropped back, he was like, okay, wait, he's, he is going where I thought he was. Let me stare down over here, so everybody thinks we're gonna go over here, and now that safety will also think, oh, here, here comes the Sean Jackson on the crosser.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, he gives it a split second, okay, wait, V2V is coming, I gotta get back over there, hurry up and take advantage of this. And then of course, yea, when he was probably mid-motion, was like, oh my gosh, he's wide open, this is gonna be a touchdown.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, I mean, they're, to me, they're still, you know, neck and neck. I'm not gonna, it's week three, it's the, you know, home opener for the, or no, it's not the home opener, but of course a big game at home.


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[Assistant] The Rams are playing the best football right now. Let me just say that. The Bucs are really good and I wouldn't be shocked. And I picked this as my NSC championship game right here. You know, I did not think the Rams were going to be rolling to this extent this quickly.


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[Assistant] Well, it's just the Kyler Murray effect is the real issue when you gotta play the Cardinals. Just because now, yeah, for the Rams defense, you're going, okay, wait, we played Brady, we know where he's gonna stand in the pocket. Now we gotta worry about Kyler Murray and all the movement he does. But the Rams are built for this.


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[Assistant] They're built for it. It's the fastest defense in football. Their front four is legit. They do a great job of, they can play five man fronts, right? Where you go, man, it's a five man front. I don't really want to run the ball in this look. And because they have freaks on the edge and Leonard Floyd and Terrell Lewis or Hollins who just got hurt.


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[Assistant] You know, they can go, okay, here's five guys, but one of these freaky linebackers might drop out.


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[Assistant] And he can really cover and cover zone and really be a nuisance that way. Like they're extremely athletic.


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[Assistant] So, and of course they're, they're fast. So they were built almost in a way to stop Russell Wilson in a lot of ways with, I think in mind. And now they got a guy who's faster than Russell Wilson, but it's still the same mantra. Keep them in the pocket. We got speed to chase them down. Um, Rams defense for, for my money is.


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[Assistant] I don't even know where they're ranked, but I would say this is the best defense in football. I would. I mean, let me just look to see where they are right now. I mean, because it's just the 20th in football right now, so it's nothing special. You've got two of the top playmakers in the game on the defensive side. They gotta have moments. They make it happen. Right. They make it happen.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, I think a lot of the Rams, and of course a lot of yards compiled by Brady here late in the game when they were really down. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the first off, they find a lot of creative ways to pressure the quarterback with only rushing four and maybe sometimes three and the occasional five man rush where they just get five one on ones and they can get after you. So they're very calculated risk type blitzing football team, calculated risk coverage team.


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[Assistant] They barely ever, ever just go all out blitz and we're just going to give you four one on ones and do that. No, but they might go, it looks like all out blitz, but we're going to drop a bunch of people and on third and five, we know you might try to throw the ball over the middle for six yards and it's going to be confusing and we're going to take away what you want.


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[Assistant] You know, they might take a chance and let you have something over the top.


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[Assistant] But it's such controlled chaos at times too. It's hard for the quarterback to quite figure it out before it hits him or Aaron Donald's on his ass and you know, about to hit him and he's going, oh man, that was a coverage where I could have gone deep and I couldn't do it. So they have a great blend of, yeah, I guess calculated aggressiveness at times, being sound, talent.


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[Assistant] I was worried about the Rams kinda being pushed around by the Bucks. The one thing I didn't take into account for is the Bucks are kinda big and lumbering up front and they had problem blocking the Rams in space. Now this play here is like, this is just a good job of


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[Assistant] Right? With a, with a, uh, with Tayvon Young coming in, uh, not Tay, is it Tayvon Young? That's not Tayv, is it Tayvon Young? Kenny Young, excuse me, I got my, my Youngs mixed up. Yeaah, they're doing that, let me just see, there's six fours, you got a deep safety back there, right? And,


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[Assistant] You know, the beauty of this play is just the fact that yeaah, okay, they're gonna give you a different, weird look. Alright, I'm gonna stand up here.


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[Assistant] So where, you're not sure what backers blitzing out of these two in the middle.


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[Assistant] And that's where they're good at playing games. I mean, they can send this guy and this guy and then these two. Here's Tyrell Lewis, who I'm talking about, and Floyd, they drop out. So you're never sure what four or five or three are gonna come. That's where they keep you guessing.


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[Assistant] No, and because they're expecting like, hey, one, two, three, four come.


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[Assistant] Right? Which now leaves Young for the back. And I think Brady, as this is playing out, is probably going, wait, this must be some sort of man coverage the way this looks. And I think this guy has Giovanni Bernard in pass protection. I don't think he's actually gonna blitz. Well, you can see Taylor Rapp right here.


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[Assistant] Didn't go with the motion with the tight end across the formation.


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[Assistant] See that? He kinda acted like he was in a go. Watch how he kinda does it. And this is where they're very good at disguising. Look, and then he just kinda stops and stays. Right? Cause he's like, I don't need to go over there, we're playing zone. You know, they do give you a lot of bastard looks where you go,


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[Assistant] Wait, everything they did pre-snap told me it was man to man, and oh no it's not. It's a zone. They're very good at that.


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[Assistant] There you see, it's drop, it's total zone coverage. They're playing for something over the middle with Floyd and Rapp, right? They're playing for something over here at second and six. They don't want, you know, maybe a grunk or O.J. Howard or somebody in here coming in here in this situation.


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[Assistant] The right guard, yeaah, he's kinda in between here with 91, like helping out. But yeaah, ultimately, when you have 5 Lyman, and you only have 4


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[Assistant] Pass rushers, you'd like your five linemen to take the four pass rushers and let our back be free, get out on the route or whatever.


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[Assistant] But, you know, they kind of fooled Brady through good game planning, and listen, a lot of quarterbacks really gotta fool. I'm not blaming, blaming Brady here. And this will be always an issue with Giovanni Bernard in the game.


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[Assistant] Similar feeling. Yes. And like, hey, they're fast and chaotic up here.


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[Assistant] Crossing route, and I think somebody else comes inside here.


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[Assistant] And you could tell, look at, I mean the Rams, all their eyes in the quarterback, they're reading Brady. And they're getting pressure. And they're getting pressure. So it's like they have it covered. Jalen Ramsey's here. They're all watching. And of course, I think they're the fastest defense in football and you know, good game planning.


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[Assistant] Good game planning by Raheem Morris with really good talent. Uhm, that, that means you're the Rams and you're undefeated.


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[Assistant] They're going to be all jacked up. They will find ways to confuse Brady. I'm sure. I mean, nobody breaks down offenses better than that, man. It's not going to be just about Brady. They're going to understand how to break down Leftwich and Bruce Arian's offense. That's what it'll be about. And they are another team that's, you know, brilliant and finding ways a lot of time.


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[Assistant] To get pressure with four guys or just five guys and not have to compromise everything in the backend. So yeah, I'm really excited to see what Belichick and Belichick got.


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[Assistant] It's a little all of it. It's a little everything. Like, you know, I said Monday, hey yea, you'd like to see Mac maybe make a little, a few more like, unreal throws. Listen, Mac's done a good job.


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[Assistant] Like, does his look impress me as compared to Zach Wilson or Trevor Lawrence? No, it does not. I like the way they look more. I do. Now he's got a better team around him than both of those guys, alright?


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[Assistant] Like the Patriots are not playing necessarily Patriot football yet. I tried to say this to, they got a lot of people that haven't been Patriots before that are now Patriots and they're, it's a hard offense to learn. There's a lot of rules, as you've heard me say. And I think the big thing is, yeah, certainly he could play better. But man, when I go back and watch.


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[Assistant] It's just, I think the first thing is, they haven't been as dominant in the run game as I would have expected. The offensive line, the run game have not killed people like I would have thought they would have. Pass protection wise,


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[Assistant] Man, they called a few plays last week where he's gonna have some people open.


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[Assistant] And they just didn't protect or pass off a stunt or it was a one man pressure and it was a four or five man pressure, right? And they didn't do it the right way. And then add on to the fact that it's a rookie who makes a rookie mistake every now and then, and they don't really have a game breaker like, oh wait,


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[Assistant] They're playing man to man. It's one on one. They're not going to be able to run with this guy. They don't have that guy. And I think all of that is that they want to get big plays right now with the way they're built with sledgehammer up the middle, sledgehammer up the middle.


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[Assistant] Sledgehammer up the middle. And now, oh, it's a play action pass and we got a post on a deep crosser going down the field. There's some sort of combination like that. And they don't have that working enough right now. And I'm, trust me, they don't want to be throwing 51 times a game with their rookie quarterback.


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[Assistant] He's definitely one of the top quarterbacks in football, so we can end that speculation. I mean, he is that. He's in that conversation for what do you want to call him, top 5, top 6, top 7, whatever. He's around that area, alright?


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[Assistant] He's playing the game by the book right now. That's the biggest thing. Playing the game by the book and then, okay, every now and then they're reading the book and he's going, yeah, he's kind of covered, but I'll throw a laser in there and you know, we'll still get a completion. Or I'll put the ball in the perfect spot, defense one, and that's where he's special.


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[Assistant] The better team on the field to me was still the Kansas City Chiefs when I watched that game back. Definitely. Definitely, definitely, definitely.


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[Assistant] Right? They do. I mean, they were kind of steamrolling them early. The chiefs are made to come out and jump out on you.


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[Assistant] And it's my homes and the weapons and oh my gosh and we're in Kansas City and we're down 10 nothing and we're down 17 nothing and now Spagnolo and the Chief's defense doesn't have to worry about the run as much and he can get into all those crazy coverages and blitches and disguises and now you're


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[Assistant] Cause now you're playing a game you don't want to play because the Chiefs offense put the pressure on you. The Chiefs offense has not put the pressure on the Ravens in the last quarter and a half where they were up by 11 and you could have won the game and have been over. And then of course this game, they start out the first three series, they go right down the field. They're going right down the field.


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[Assistant] Stupid no-look interception. Tyreke Hill fumble over the middle. Clyde-Edwards Hilaire fumble the next drive as they're driving. So, listen, I don't give a shit who you are. You do that kind of crap, you're gonna lose a football game. So, to me, and I know I'm talking a lot here, but there's a few points I want to make about the Chiefs right now. That's the whole point of this podcast.


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[Assistant] To me, the point with the Chiefs right now is this, until they prove that they can be like Tom Brady with the Patriots, or Drew Brees with the Saints, right? Where they can go, oh, you're gonna play all these umbrella, safe defenses, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, great. Until they prove they can go like, oh we're a machine and we can go 10 plays, 80 yards every time if you want to play this and we're going to score touchdowns and you go ahead, keep playing that bend, don't break. Right now teams are going, let's not give up the big play. And I think they'll get impatient and do something stupid and mess it up.


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[Assistant] Right. Well, I mean, first off, the no-look interception on the first drive. Listen, I love Patrick Mahomes. He's the man.


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[Assistant] But, like, just look at him and throw the ball. He's gonna walk in for a touchdown or he's gonna get down to the one foot line.


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[Assistant] No, like there's a time to do that and a time not to, but right now coming off a tough loss, it's the first series of the game.


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[Assistant] You're not in your groove totally yet. Like, no. Negative Ghost Rider, I know you're the man, right?


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[Assistant] And here's the other thing, just a broad topic about before we break this play down. I do think he's predetermining some plays every now and then, not really going through the read completely going like, oh they're gonna play this coverage, this won't be here, let me just look at this guy. There's a little bit of that going on, you gotta stay true to your reads no matter what, just like we've seen in some of these other plays.


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[Assistant] Gotta say, you don't know. The defense could mess up. They could have changed the coverage as you're coming off a play action pass. They could have a different rule that week for cover three where, you know, this safety goes down and cuts across her and you might have a post. You can't just make up your mind and go, I won't have a, this, this, this play against this coverage. You can't do that.


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[Assistant] That's where you get yourself into like bad habits, and then you start missing plays. Other thing is, I want to explain about the Chiefs, and you tell me if I explain this the right way.


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[Assistant] Everybody's talking about, well, if you play deep coverages and just keep them in front of you and don't let up the big plays. Yeah, okay, I, we get that.


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[Assistant] But like, people play the Bucks and the Rams and the Cowboys in deep safe coverages too, and they still get deep plays. They still do it.


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[Assistant] So, there's something there they're missing on the offensive side of the ball. To where...


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[Assistant] They either gotta end the game, realize, wait, when we get in these formations, they're playing us like this, and we expected that, and I drew up a few screw you plays this week to stop that.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. So to me, like again, I know everyone's trying to say, well, you just keep them in front of you. There's a lot of awesome offenses in football where defenses are playing them and going, we got to keep, like, you think like the Bucks didn't know that about the Rams last week? It still didn't f***ing matter. Cause he was like, wait, I know they're going to play this coverage when they go play safe.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna dial it up something here to still screw that. And the chiefs have a little bit of like,


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[Assistant] No, this is what we do, we're just going to run this and he'll execute it the right way. And okay, that's great, but everyone's taking away the shots because they know this is what you do. And now it's a check down to Kelsey for 7. That's all good, but then you better execute and be


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[Assistant] A surgical, like we were talking about, to then bring the defenses up and go, we're not gonna die a slow death anymore.


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[Assistant] Well, good thing our boss bought the bleep button in the back control room to do that. Alright?


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, Kristen is. Alright, so, let's get to this play, alright? You're gonna see here, it's two tight ends set.


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[Assistant] Second play of the drive. Second play of the drive. They just went down to my homes through the interception. They made the Chargers go three and out. And they got the ball back in great field position. They're, as I was trying to tell you, they're controlling the game early. Alright? And here you go with a play like, you see, we got Tyree killing a tight split.


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[Assistant] I think this is uh, uhm, to Marcus Robinson, you got tight end, tight end for protection, they're gonna run a little play action fake to the left, Mahomes is gonna fake it, turn his back for a second, set up.


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[Assistant] So really, it's really like, it's a two man route with the tight ends just running some check down in case like nothing's open downfield. Alright?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm just gonna go and, alright, so here's, let me just show you the play first.


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[Assistant] You gotta trust me. And I'll give you the info and enough evidence to go, oh yes, we can't trust him. You're part of the trust tree. So here you go, Tyree Kill, right? He's gonna run a post route.


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[Assistant] Against, quarters coverage. They're playing quarters over here.


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[Assistant] Okay, this side is gonna be cover two corner, cover two safety. It's what we would call quarter, quarter,


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[Assistant] Tyreke down here, right. Tyreke here, I think this is Conley up top here. And like I said, here's Tyreke, and he's gonna run here, and it's basically gonna end up man to man on him and Davis, and he's gonna bend him out, and then go. Just like we saw George Kittle run.


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[Assistant] You know, against the Green Bay Packers team, this is another quarters beater. West Coast guy, Andy Reid, John Gruden McVeigh, Shanahan, like I told you, right?


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[Assistant] And here, this, this shows you, look, here's quarters, here's quarters, right? This is not your too deep look. And you can see this safety is deep and, and here's the corner up here right now. He's, you know, worried about something in the flat and the D gap run responsibility in case he's got to do that. But as I've told you with quarters,


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[Assistant] You know, his job is not necessarily just go back. That's not what they're there to do, right? So, as we play it...


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[Assistant] He's kinda doing an in. And you can see he's kinda flat-footed, right? This, and I'm gonna show it, this flat, uh, adderley, is kinda flat-footed, cause he's playing quarters for, maybe he's gonna run an in-cut, some sort of crossing route, like this, right? That's where he's kinda looking, something in his area, to where he's gonna have to drive up and get it. Alright?


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[Assistant] Now, you can see right here, there goes Tyreek, now he's leaning back out, right?


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[Assistant] And his job now over here. He's not passing him off to the safety. He's not passing him off. Cause now the safety is looking for crossers in other directions. And he knows as this, he's starting to see that right there. And he knows he's got somebody coming to his side because this, this safety is way out here. And then you see the cover two corner here, right?


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[Assistant] So, and uh, Pete just said, I think this is McCole Hardman, I was wrong, I think I said it was Demarcus Robinson. Alright, so. Now. You see?


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[Assistant] But here's my, my point is this. Let's watch Mahomes in the pocket the whole time, okay? He never, look at where Mahomes eyes are right now.


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[Assistant] They're on the, they're on the 39 yard line. If he just throws the ball 5 yards deep at the end zone, it's gonna have an easy touchdown. You know, again, this is where you're gonna have to trust me. Somebody can go look it up on, you know, uh, film or whatever. He bends him out and goes and has Davis 4 yards behind him. It's a touchdown. It's a touchdown.


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[Assistant] I don't know what Mahomes is doing here. I really don't. But I can tell you, and you can see right here, right? You can see Mahomes, look at his eyes everybody as we watch this. He never looks at Tyree Kill. No point does he look at him.


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[Assistant] He's almost looking like at the crosser. I don't know actually what he's looking at. I really don't.


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[Assistant] I, I, I really don't, because that, but here's the last thing I want to show. Here's that safety we talked about. Tyree kill's gone, so this is just part of the evidence of why you can trust me, alright everybody? I promise you, it was quarters over there. But, just, just an example of


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[Assistant] Him predetermining. Him being too much of a showman right now. And I think they just gotta get back to basics a little bit. I'm not panicked about the cheese.


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[Assistant] Now, you know, yeaah. Dallas gives you a different look as far as they can run the ball, and that's gonna scare teams. Chiefs ran the ball a little bit last week, so hopefully they can find that just a little bit of balance to keep teams respecting, but I think the point still holds true. That it's on the offense, that's where their money, their assets are.


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[Assistant] They've dropped the ball, and the offense has let these other teams off the hook, in my opinion right now, and Mahomes is not playing his best football.


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[Assistant] It's 1917 right now. Okay, they're up two. Yep, they're up two. They were up 19 to 10. The, the, the start of the second half, the Cardinals went right down the field and scored to make it 1917. Yep. But they're still in the lead and kind of been controlling the game up to this point.


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[Assistant] He's gotta protect, he's gotta protect the inside against JJ Watt there. I don't really know why he's spinning out like that. I don't. I'm still confused by it.


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[Assistant] And keep his left arm on JJ Watt as a presence. I'm really not sure what he's doing. I don't know if he thought there was a blitzer out there that he was responsible of, but either way that is horrible technique and it is the ruin, the, the bad part of the play. It ruins it.


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[Assistant] And then a rookie compounds a mistake and makes two mistakes. I'm gonna stand up with you.


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[Assistant] You, you pick. You are the man. Like, so everybody knows, like, Ahmed, like, we got a little rundown last night, just things we're gonna talk about. And like, here's the plays we're gonna, here's the plays we're gonna break down, and Ahmed's like, can I pick a play? Can I pick a play? That's at least what I picture you saying through text. That's how I'm reading it. I got a play I wanna show, and that's why you are awesome.


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[Assistant] I mean, you said it right, you explained it right. And, you know, all week I bet you he was taught as far as he, Trevor Lawrence, right, is like, hey, if you get pressure, or if the deep shot's not open, we just want you to throw right here to the tight end, he'll be open, and you just check it down to him.


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[Assistant] Okay, yes. Again, in practice, that's nice. In the meeting room, that's nice. You gotta see throws, and especially when you got somebody in your face and you're gonna throw the ball off your back foot and not be able to get real power behind it, right?


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[Assistant] And that's where he gets screwed. And that's where, like, this dude right here, number seven, Byron Murphy, you know, Buddha Baker, they got some guys in their secondary who just have tremendous feel for football. They're just football players. And yeah, he's burned.


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[Assistant] And he's getting back, but he starts to realize that there is a guy coming up the sideline, and you see him start to make that break, and he's got incredible, incredible ball skills. And that's just one, like, look at everybody. Look at Trevor Lawrence. You can't throw a ball like that.


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[Assistant] You know, 10 yards or from where he is, 22 yards down field, off your back foot with JJ Watt pushing you.


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[Assistant] You know, Mac Jones, to a lesser extent, doesn't try to make those kind of plays just because he's not as physically gifted as them. I mean, you probably can't do that in college either. No, no, for the most part, no, exactly right. And, uh, that was the end of the game for them. Where they really kind of controlled the game, and they got dominated from


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[Assistant] No, you're right. Joe Burrow really well-schooled coming into the NFL.


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[Assistant] Was playing in the Joe Brady, offensive coordinator of the Carolina Panthers offense, Sean Payton offense, to where he was ready for NFL football like a Mac Jones right away. And then like you said it,


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[Assistant] He had some weapons and the offense was basically very similar to the one he ran in college. So he was allowed to hit the ground running, you know, and you're right. He did a lot of good things. The game, their, their, their offense was meant to get the ball out of his hands and throw it five and 10 yards and he'll make great decisions and perfect, accurate throws and tear you up that way.


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[Assistant] So, it was made for him that way. And Joe Burrow's special that way. He's, he's just, he's...


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[Assistant] He's a natural at the position, maybe not the most godly gifted arm in football, but a natural at the position. Herbert's a freak of nature, as I tried to tell people and.


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[Assistant] He got into a situation again where it was a borderline playoff caliber football team that he got to take over. So it was a big benefit. It's like Mahomes who got to take over Kansas City. You know, everybody's got to just remember the context of these situations. The roster was good.


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[Assistant] Was that in the 2019 season? Yeaah. The 2019 season ago, we could again 14-2 this year, or we could have been 3-13.


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[Assistant] And you know, whatever. And they were that. They were 4-12 or whatever. But they were in so many games and found Chargers ways to blow it up. The year before that, they were 12-4 and like a wild card team. So uhm, tied for the best record actually in the AFC with the Chiefs that year.


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[Assistant] Definitely not. And Trey Lance is the most raw of all the quarterbacks that came out, so he's not ready yet. I mean, the Jets and Zach Wilson, come on. We know they're not ready yet in Jacksonville. So again, the physical ability for me and the way they look is all there.


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[Assistant] Just let's, let's not be too critical of guys that are in some crappy situations who are making some rookie mistakes and really getting put in situations where yeah, they're losing and now they got to force the issue and they want to win and they do some other dumb stuff off of that. And that's where, you know, let's just pump the brakes and see how it goes.


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[Assistant] Always fun. Ahmed Fareed, Chris Sims, Chris Sims Unbuttoned Podcast, presented by Under Armour. The only way is through. We appreciate you, Under Armour. Hey, tomorrow, Thursday, PFTPM, Chris Sims Unbuttoned picks collaboration, alright?


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[Assistant] I'm just letting you know, Johnny the Shark's on a heater, and I'm gonna get to continue this heater. I've gone 6-0 on my best bets the last three weeks. I'm 7-2 on the year. Alright, I'm starting to take this shit a little serious, alright? Points Bet's a sponsor around here, and I want to impress them so they spend more money on me. Okay? So that's what I'm trying to do.


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[Assistant] Check that out tomorrow. Hopefully I'm dominating Florio in all areas. Ahmed, you the man. Everybody good. Peace out. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] How about number 20 on your list? Found a new team last year and is back this year.


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[Assistant] I'm rooting for him. He's one of those quarterbacks where people are starting to give up on him. I want him to prove people wrong. And I think the same can be said for number 18 on your list of your top 40 NFL quarterbacks going into next year.


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[Assistant] Wild fluctuations. I know. With this guy and his rookie year. You had him 26 to start. He was up to 9th in November when you did a re-rank. And now he is at 17.


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[Assistant] So with number 16, without further ado, and this could be a little controversial.


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[Assistant] There's a next guy on your list. There was some question whether Atlanta would start to move on from number 15 on your top 40 quarterback countdown.


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[Assistant] Cause I feel like your next one is a lot like Kirk Cousins. A lot of people just take him for granted. Yeaah. Doesn't get the love that perhaps he deserves but has been an above average quarterback for a while.


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[Assistant] Number 13 on the Chris Sims top 40 quarterbacks right now in the NFL is...


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[Assistant] All right, if you really want to leap into the future though, you can jump on the back of our next quarterback. Number 11 on your list who moved up from 37th last year. This is the biggest leap of any quarterback in the Chris Sims top 40 this year. That player is Justin Herbert.


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[Assistant] Number nine is a guy we saw only briefly last year, unfortunately because he was off to an unbelievable start.


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[Assistant] And let's begin with, uh, the top four. With a number four controversial character here. Got off season issues, obviously. We'll talk about that in a second, but here is Dashaun Watt.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is secondary, but this is the top 40 quarterback list and what he did last year was very impressive.


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[Assistant] Uh, so here's the last three years for Aaron Rodgers, one of his best, uhm, just last year.


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[Assistant] To get back into that top spot. Is there anything that could happen in 2021 where you say, you know what? I would take Aaron Rodgers over everyone after what I just saw.


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[Assistant] This is the official unveiling of the Woodford Reserve Bourbon top quarterback in the Chris Sims 2021 rankings. That man is.


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[Assistant] The stock of, of Andy for us is gonna be something for us is, is seeing what he does during the season. You know, that, that's how we got, we gotta be able to see what, what can Andy do during the season with this team and with, with these guys. Uhm, that has been our plan this whole entire time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, uh, at the same point in time, we also need to evaluate and see where Justin's at and what he can do. And again, he's doing everything that we're asking him to do. He's, he's doing great. So uhm, I think it's a good situation for us and I understand, I truly understand the,


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[Assistant] I don't know what the word would be, but the want to, for people to want to see more of Justin and all that, I get that. But we also understand where we're at and how, what the true plan is and all we can do is ask Justin to keep playing and he's doing it and Andy to keep playing and Nick to keep playing.


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[Assistant] That's right, baby. What's up? It's episode 301 of Chris Sims Unbuttoned, presented by Under Armour. We got a Monday podcast. Ahmed Farid is here. And, I mean, I know your body's good. It's alright. Don't worry. I mean, we, you know, you weren't quite up to par with the rest of us, so we didn't want to show, you know, your pecs and abs compared to us.


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[Assistant] It's not a long movie. It's very action packed. It's like an old fable about how 300 Sparta soldiers, warriors, right? You know, stop this king from...


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[Assistant] Wow, yep, that's what'll get you into the hall of fame at high school.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know. I mean, I figured the way they had me signed up, I was like, nah, I think they got no choice. It's going to have to last for a while, but it is amazing how quickly it's all gone. And I still feel like it was yesterday where I was like butching your name and so nervous to say it. It was crazy. I was like, I can't say this right. And it was all in my head, but here we are. And now we're talking ball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, woe stories of the NFL season for sure. I mean, especially when you just look at it now five and one and you go, holy cow, they had a chance to upset the Bucs and beat them in that game in week one. Yeah, definitely. You know, and again, we didn't know what to expect from them at that point, but, uh, yeah, thoroughly impressed, you know, um,


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[Assistant] Complimentary football, but when it goes back into it, I think the biggest thing you just look at and the takeaway from the game yesterday is of course just their eliteness on the offensive side of the ball. And this is a conversation I've had a lot over the years. It's just when you're elite at something, it forces a team to play a way they don't want to play.


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[Assistant] And, you know, when you hear comments from Bill Belichick during the game going, like, if we don't win on first down, they're gonna score 45 points on us.


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[Assistant] Like if we, if they're in second and four and second and five, which Kellan Moore and Dak Prescott are amazing at,


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[Assistant] As far as getting their offense always in the right play, the right position. They're extremely patient with the run.


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[Assistant] That's where they're really, to me, a dangerous football team. They start off every game going no, no.


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[Assistant] We're good up front, you're gonna have to come down here and see if you can take on our run game. And then when we see you have some success doing that, then we'll start throwing the football and trying to dice you up that way. I mean, Dallas is just special that way. And really, you know, the game 35-29, overtime, everything like that.


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, the Patriots made some plays early on, but that was one of those games where you looked up and you went, wait.


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[Assistant] New England's winning 14-7, New England's winning 14-10, because of course it was Dallas, I looked at it more as Dallas mistakes, uh, and, and leaving, letting New England hang in the game, especially early on.


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[Assistant] No, he's a really, he's a really good play caller. I don't sit there and watch their games and go, oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] These are unbelievable concepts and ideas, but I sit there and go.


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[Assistant] Like, okay, they got everything. I'm not always amazed with the creativity, but everything they do makes sense and they tie it together. They have a lot of different ways to run the ball and off of that, they have play action passes that look similar to that. And then their drop back pass game has everything you want too.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not going to sit here and go, oh, I think it's one of the five most creative drop back pass games in football.


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[Assistant] No, but it's up there, it's in that conversation, and then I think with the ability to run and the talent as to the question, that makes it that much more dangerous. Dak gets them in the right play every time, so they execute, they got talent,


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[Assistant] They got physical brutality upfront to where they can really expose you that way. And I think that's, that's what makes them so dangerous. You know, I said last week, Hey yeah, Kellen Moore, great. We know the weapons are great. To me with Joe Philbin's doing with the offensive line too. That's the thing that jumps out to me on a weekly basis. I watched them and go, man, that was cool how they blocked that run.


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[Assistant] Ooh, look at that. They pulled the backside guard and the backside tackle. Oh, they pulled both guards on this play. And then of course they can do inside outside zone. So with that, they keep you tons of pressure on it on the offensive side of the ball. Cause you're always, Oh my gosh, what are we going to defend?


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[Assistant] It's runs, it's screens, it's tight end. You gotta worry about the tight end, the receivers, all that. And then on the defensive side of the ball, they force the issue too.


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[Assistant] They do. They don't sit back and go, we'll die a slow death.


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[Assistant] You know, they've taken that approach of like, we're gonna get our offense back on the field and we're not gonna give you anything. Yeah, we might make a mistake here and there, but nothing's gonna be given to you. And I think that's what I respect about the Dallas Cowboys.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's there. It's a tough play to defend with the position he's put in. They ask him a lot of them. My point about him last weekend was not about to try to like downplay him to the listeners out there.


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[Assistant] Exactly, he's not Daryl Rivas, Deon Sanders, Akib Tlaib, where you just go, oh, you put him on an island against anybody and it's shutdown time. No, he's not there yet. But still, phenomenal. I mean, what he's doing is


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[Assistant] Oh, if it back under throws it, he's gotta pick. And if the safety takes the right angle.


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[Assistant] Again, I think if we put that into one of the better ball-hawking safeties in football, I'd go, 8 out of 10 are going to be interceptions right there. I mean, it was just a bad angle altogether. And I think where, where the double move happened, and it wasn't like it was way outside the numbers, right? It was kind of up the seam a little bit to where,


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[Assistant] You know, of course he protected the boundary, the double move happened, and he's trailing, like you said, he's ready to undercut, and he's also thinking, wait, the ball's kinda towards the middle of the field, my safety should be there, uh, but yeaah, that kinda sums him up a little bit. Pick six, let up a big play, but that's the way the Cowboys play, and I think it's the right approach that they do that on the defensive side of the ball, Ahmed.


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[Assistant] Yo, they're ultimately not getting it done. You know, the one thing that I think is encouraging a little bit, we saw, did see some bigger plays from their team yesterday. They made some explosive plays where it wasn't, you know, every drive was


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[Assistant] You know, like we've talked about, 12 plays, 75 yards, 16 plays, 68 yards. Like, so that was refreshing. I mean, you know, after, you know, they had the, the first drive of the game, or uh, am I got this right? Let's see. Or was it, the first drive of the game was after the fourth and one stop, right? And,


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[Assistant] That was two big runs right up the middle, ripped him off right away, and you went, oh, okay, well, watch out, Patriots O-line seems like they gotta go in a little bit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, it's still too few and far between as far as just, you know, consistency. You know, we see guys running free at times, pass protection being blown. Of course, Mac Jones is not perfect at this point of his career. The blocked punt at one point. Randy Gregory gets a strip sack fumble. So, that's where again, the Patriots are just not the same animal in the fact of,


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[Assistant] And those games they used to win it because you'd go, they are not really outplaying the team but they didn't make a mistake and the other team did. But they made their share of mistakes too and that leads them to lose in a close football game.


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[Assistant] You know, I think he also looks at it and goes, yeah, our defense is good, but this is a special offense we're playing. Like if we give them the ball here.


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[Assistant] It's like one first down or two first downs and the game's over, we're gonna lose. So I, I had no problem with him punting the ball away there. I did not. We're, we're, I'm just trying to go back here. They were at the 46 yard line, right? Their own 46 yard line, they had a fourth and three. Yeah, I, you know, again, I think that's the right approach, especially when your offense is, you know, again, through the day,


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[Assistant] A little bit all over the place. Yeah, we had a three play, 34 yard drive after the fourth and one miss by the Cowboys. Okay, great. Then, you know.


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[Assistant] But then there was nothing until the fourth quarter. I mean, nothing. They didn't really have any consistent drives at all or anything of that nature, you know, for a long time until a fourth quarter drive where they went on a 13 play, 75 yard drive. So, uh, you know, I think that's where that comes into play a little bit, him just knowing his team a little bit. And I'm certainly not going to second guess that decision.


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[Assistant] You know, I, look, listen, like, if they get the Super Bowl, NFC, they're not gonna win games like 20 to 17, I don't think so, not with this defense.


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[Assistant] I think you're gonna see a game like, like, similar to the score we saw yesterday. It's gonna be more of like...


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[Assistant] Hey, the old adage of like, defense wins championship, that shit's gone. It's 2021. Get the f*** out of here with that crap. It doesn't matter anymore.


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[Assistant] If your defense is just middle of the road, that's fine. You can win championships with the way the rules are set up and how good these guys are on the offensive side of the ball. So, yes, with the way, and the, you know, the other thing you have to take into account is, even if their defense is overmatched, they have the ability to be like,


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[Assistant] Well, let's slow it down and run the ball if it ever came to that. I don't think they're ever going to play that way, but hey, Dallas, the Bucs.


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[Assistant] The Cardinals and the Rams who didn't play good football for two quarters and everybody's forgotten about them as like the best team in football just because they lost to Arizona. I mean, all four of them are phenomenal football teams. And in the conversation I think with Buffalo for, you know, five best teams in football. What were the four you said? Uh, Rams, Bucks, Cowboys.


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[Assistant] Cardinals. And of course the Bills. I'm gonna put the Bills as the number one team in football right now, but it's not by much over those guys right there.


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[Assistant] Oh, the Green Bay Packers are right up there with it too. No doubt about it. Thank you for keeping me straight there.


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[Assistant] Kristen, if we do that, like, it'll be one of those things where we'll get the green light from NBC, where you don't have to bleep the, uh, F-words and all that.


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[Assistant] It is, no, it is, he does do that with you, but it's also from the movie The Gigolo.


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[Assistant] They don't. It's usually kind of one or the other. You're exactly right. I think the number one is still the guys in Cleveland, but I think you're right that this is probably... You think this is two? No, it's three. I'm still gonna give Zeke and Pollard the edge there. But, uh, it's three, I think, as I sit here and just look at it. I think it's clearly number three. I'm just trying to make sure I don't miss anybody.


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[Assistant] That's where they're dangerous. Again, they don't force the issue with a whole lot. Green Bay is totally into...


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, wait, it's like, it's like, uh, it's, you know, somebody who's playing a strategic board game. It's like, hey, I just, I'm doing what the game or the board tells me. I'm not trying to like, you know, make up my own way here.


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[Assistant] Chicago. You're gonna play too deep and put the pressure on your front to stop the front seven? Alright, I'm not gonna be a stubborn asshole when trying to throw 20 yard and 30 yard lasers into that.


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[Assistant] We got a good ol' line, we're gonna run the football. And they're gonna play it basic that way. And that's where I get, I, you know, every week I think I say with Green Bay, that's what I mean by their execution. They just never waste any plays or moments. Nor, they have a great feel and where, like in this game especially, hey, again,


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[Assistant] This is part of quarterbacking. I think you understood the big picture of the game. Their offense is not that great over there. Our defense is pretty good. I don't need to force the issue here early on in the game and let the Bears defense win the game.


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[Assistant] And put us in some hole because I just got a little impatient because we went three and out the first two drives of the game. And then you go, Oh, I throw a stupid interception. And now you're, you're going, damn, now we're down 14, nothing to a good defense. And they know we're going to have to pass a little more. So I think he played the game the right way and was extremely patient that way.


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[Assistant] And then they find their groove and how they want to attack you and their, their list of plays of, oh wait, they're playing cover two and they're cover four. Alright, so let's go to this list of plays and that's where they're special that way. Let alone, as I'll say, and I say it again, like to your point with the running backs,


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[Assistant] They have a grit and toughness to me about them this year that I don't think they had the last two years. To me they have a little bit of like, a little bit of like, more of the, just,


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[Assistant] Oh, oh, you know, you don't think we're going to be able to run it. We're going to run it still here. We can, we can still do it. We're not going to just let you like totally dictate to us at all times or we got to stop the run here in a big moment on the defensive side of the ball. They can do it that way too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, it wasn't sexy, but when your defense plays that way, and the Bears only had two drives the whole game, it was the first drive of the game, and then they had the drive in the fourth quarter, and that was it.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I think he played it the right way against a very good Bears defense.


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[Assistant] No doubt. I mean, you know, he saw his ability to run a few times. He can buy some time. He got a little screwed over on one of the interceptions where might have been an offsides on Green Bay.


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[Assistant] Then he buys time, he throws that deep post down the middle of the field and Darnell Savage intercepts it.


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[Assistant] And Alan Robinson kind of stopped on him. I don't think he knew like, does he want me to pull up? Does he want me to keep going? Can he throw it that far? And of course he can.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I, I had no problem. Again, not that I broke that game down on film yet, but from what I saw on TV there yesterday, I didn't see like, oh man, egregiously missed throws or bad decisions for the most part. Strong arm seems like already one of the better running quarterbacks in the NFL. I'm already feeling as far as all the quarterbacks in my rankings, that I'm the most wrong about him.


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[Assistant] I am, you know, I know I made him five and six to begin with and that's the one I'm looking at.


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[Assistant] To me, he's, he's, he's light years ahead of Trey Lance right now. He's just not as raw. He knows how to play the position a little bit more rather than just being a great athlete who plays the position. And yeah, you see that. And that's, that's what I like from him. And of course he knows how to handle himself and do everything else the right way too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I mean, yeah, again, you know, it's, it's, it's not, you know, apples to apples going from the NFL to college either. Sometimes, hey, sometimes when you're on, in college and you're on a poor team,