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[Assistant] So you've got them winning, you've got them covering. I think there's going to be more points scored here. I could see the Seahawks scoring 30 for a second straight week. I think they're starting to find a little confidence, a little rhythm. If they can put up 30 against the 49ers, they can put up 30 against the Houston Texans. And there's another little interesting


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[Assistant] And as you get closer and closer to the end of your career, things like that matter. Maybe the last time he ever plays, probably will be the last time he ever plays in Houston, and he may have a little something extra for the Texans that day, especially because the Texans have never


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[Assistant] Given him a serious look on all the times he's been available over the past several years. And I'm sure he would have liked to have played for one of the Texas teams at one point. So I like Seattle in this one, 30 to 16. And don't look now, but you know, they, they're still alive and they could still.


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[Assistant] Finish above 500 and continuous streak that goes back to 2012 of seasons, not just 8 and 8, but above 500 every single year.


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[Assistant] Las Vegas Raiders at the Kansas City Chiefs. This was a Sunday night game a few weeks back, and I think you like the Raiders in that one. I like the Chiefs. The Chiefs won somewhat handily, although it was probably closer than the score would indicate. Chiefs nine point favorites this time. At home, 48 over under. Do the Chiefs continue


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[Assistant] I said this earlier on PFT Live, Andy Reid versus Rich Versace. That's why I picked the Chiefs the last time around, and this is no disrespect intended.


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[Assistant] He's not in the same category, not in the same class as Andy Reid. Andy Reid is one of the best coaches in football.


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[Assistant] He was the guy that Mark Davis decided to hand the whistle to when John Gruden walked away after those emails came out. Basachi has never been a candidate to be a head coach and he's just not anywhere close to Andy Reid's class. That makes a difference. And it's been harder for the Raiders to win as the season's gone on because of that. And also,


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[Assistant] The Chiefs are keenly aware of that victory lap that the Busses took when the Raiders beat the Chiefs last year. They will be reminded of that this week. 34-20 is the final score.


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[Assistant] Another sign of progress for the offense as they work their way toward what maybe they hope to be. Let me point this out too. This Josh Gordon situation is odd. He started that game on Sunday night and he was on the field for 13 snaps and had zero targets. They need him.


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[Assistant] I keep waiting for it. They need something. You're right. That unlocks the offense if they can get him properly involved.


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[Assistant] Including Clyde Edwards Alaya, the running back they drafted with Jonathan Taylor. Yeaah. Still on the board. Not that Taylor would be having the kind of career in Kansas City because they don't run the ball the way that they do in Indianapolis. Alright, next up, Saints! Five losses in a row!


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[Assistant] Five and a half point favorites at the New York Jets. There are questions about Taysom Hill, although he fully participated in practice on Wednesday. Alvin Kamara fully participated in practice, which is good news. He's missed four games now with that knee injury. Uh, I'm surprised it's only five and a half. You know what that means. And I know, I know the Saints are not great right now, but these are the Jets. Over-under is 43. Who do you like?


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[Assistant] Yep, uh, exactly on the same page then. Same outcome, same score. We move on to the next Sunday game in the early window. Jacksonville Jaguars at the Tennessee Titans. We can probably handle this game.


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[Assistant] In thirty seconds or less. Titans coming off of the bye. Jaguars falling apart. Titans are not gonna fall into the same trap they did losing to a horrible division rival at home. I don't care what the weather may be on Sunday in Nashville. I got the titans, let me just go, Titans 31-7, they're gonna roll over the Jaguars.


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[Assistant] So much for a 30 second review of the game. By the way, the Titans are 9 point favorites and the over-under is 43.5. Alright, the last 1 o'clock game.


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[Assistant] How is, ehm, this, this, this feels like it should be 425. This feels like a pretty damn big game all of a sudden. Few weeks ago? No. Today? Now. It does. Cowboys?


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[Assistant] Washington. Washington's won four in a row. There are two games behind the Cowboys in the NFC East with five games to play and they play each other twice. This is round one. The Cowboys four point road favorites with an over under of 47.5.


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[Assistant] Do you like the cowboys? Or do you think someone's gonna be throwing a rock at the whiteboard?


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[Assistant] To symbolize David versus Goliath in the Washington locker room after the game.


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[Assistant] But not that result. You're going the other way. I've got 24, 21. I'm taking Washington. Look, I'm done doubting Washington. I'm done. I'm done. Because, and this gets down to coaching. Ron Rivera, greater than sign, Mike McCarthy, who was gone for 10 days. I think that counts for something. He's just returning today.


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[Assistant] From being on the COVID reserve list, I don't care that your head coach can be involved in virtual meetings. Your head coach needs to have his behind in the building. And I know it's not his fault, but he's been gone for 10 days.


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[Assistant] Ron Rivera's been there those 10 days. Ron Rivera is building something in Washington. Ron Rivera is a very fiery personality when you get him behind the scenes and he has this team rolling in the right direction. They have nothing to lose and they're bringing that team into FedEx field and hopefully some fans will actually show up, you know, now that


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[Assistant] That I think Washington will know how to exploit them, how to bait them into doing things they maybe think are going to work and won't work and you know the defense has gotten better as I think Ron Rivera's gotten involved with Jack Del Rio and I just, this is just one of those pasta and meatballs and I'm done denying the pasta and the meatballs. I did it last week.


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[Assistant] With the Steelers, I didn't have the guts to pick the Steelers. I got the guts today to pick Washington, which means Washington's probably gonna lose by 20. Alright, let's take a break. When we return, late afternoon games from the 14th Sunday of the 2021 season. It's PFTPM and Chris Sims on Button. We'll be back right after this.


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[Assistant] PFTPM Chris Sims on button presented by Under Armour late afternoon contests from the 14th Sunday of the 2021 season. Detroit Lions on a roll.


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[Assistant] One game winning streak, which is a longer winning streak than they've had in a year.


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[Assistant] At Denver, the Broncos eight and a half point favorites. I never know what to expect.


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[Assistant] From the Broncos, although I did expect them to lose soundly to the Chiefs and I was right about that, although most people were. 42 is the over under. Do the Broncos cover? I think we both agree the Broncos win. Yeaah. Do they cover that 8.5 point spread? Cause that seems like a lot Chris.


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[Assistant] And then it can be 70 the next day. If they were playing on Friday, I'd take the Broncos to cover because it's going to be 35 degrees at game time.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's move on to the next one. The Giants at the Chargers. The Chargers have several guys on the COVID-19 reserve list. Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Chris Harris Jr., but it's the Giants who are down.


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[Assistant] To Jake Fromm as the quarterback unless Mike Glennon is cleared from a concussion because Daniel Jones has a lingering neck issue. 10 point favorites are the Chargers who got the big win in Cincinnati to really thrust themselves deep into the playoff conversation. 43 is the over-under. Chris, who do you like?


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[Assistant] I think Williams and- Right. Yeah, but, but-


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[Assistant] But Williams went on yesterday. That's Wednesday. If he went on yesterday, he's not going to be back. It dates back to Monday. All right. All right. He's unvaccinated too. So I guess he could still end up being positive. But so we don't know. Does it really matter? They're playing the freaking giant. You and I can play receive.


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[Assistant] I've got 30 to 17, but yea, I mean, Jake Fromm does not inspire much confidence. Maybe he can prove us all wrong. And Jake, it's up to you. Prove us wrong. Go out and throw for 400 plus yards against the Chargers and four touchdowns and prove to everybody you can be a quarterback. Maybe you're the guy that the Giants need. I mean, I don't want to doubt the guy completely, but when you're down to your third guy, you're already screwed.


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[Assistant] You're only worried about the JFK assassination. You're not worried about other presidential assassination attempts. She tried to shoot Gerald Ford in 1975, 76-ish, and she was a member of the Charles Manson cult. Ah, gotcha. Well, he lived, so it wasn't that big of a deal.


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[Assistant] I don't think the gun went off. I think she raised the gun and like it didn't fire or something. I'd have to look it up, but she did try to shoot a president, just not JFK. Uh, which is a big, I think that's the only book you've ever read.


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[Assistant] You need to read, you need to read Playmakers when it comes out, because there's actually a chapter about you in it. I will read, I will read it. I will, I definitely, just that chapter though, that's, that's where I'll draw the line. 49ers at the Bengals, the Bengals are one point underdogs at home against the 49ers, rematch of Super Bowl XXIII and XVI. This one, again, we got two teams where,


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[Assistant] I don't know! I don't know. And I have my pick, I'm not gonna change it, I'm gonna let you go first. You tell me what you think is gonna happen.


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[Assistant] I got 2320 bangles. We're concerned about Joe Burroughs pinky.


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[Assistant] He didn't practice on Wednesday, but he's insisted he's going to play. Zach Taylor, the coach of the team says he's going to play. I think this is a redemption game for Joe Mixon, who had that ball that just kind of fell out of his hands onto the turf when it was 24-22. And the Bengals would have had what would have been one of the great comebacks in franchise history if they had managed to win that game.


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[Assistant] I think the Bengals snap out of this funk more quickly than they snapped out of the last one which saw them lose two in a row. They know what the stakes are. They have an opportunity to catch the Ravens and they'll know by kickoff whether or not


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[Assistant] They all went away from tying the Ravens at the top of the AFC North because the Ravens played the Browns earlier in the day. So I like the Bengals in this one. And with Debo Samuel, I'm gonna go ahead and guess he's either not gonna play or he's not gonna be the same guy. Maybe even come back and aggravate it. I could see this being the kind of injury where they push him back a little early.


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[Assistant] And, and who knows what happens once he plays. He did not practice on Wednesday, and the reports have been, and the comments straight from Kyle Shanahan, the head coach, have been, it may be another week before he comes back. Alright.


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[Assistant] One of the reasons we won't see Cowboys Washington in the 425 PM Eastern slot on Sunday is we've got Bills at Buccaneers, a game that back in September looked like a potential Super Bowl preview. In fact, that's my preseason Super Bowl pick. The Buccaneers have continued to play well.


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[Assistant] They got a short week, pick it up, fly to Tampa, play a Bucs team that is very good at home. The Bucs are only three and a half point favorites in this one. Only surprises me. Over under the week doesn't surprise me. It's the highest, 53 and a half. Uh, who you got Chris?


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[Assistant] I got 3120, and everything you say, copy paste snarky comment, and the bills I believe


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[Assistant] I just think they're reeling from what happened and there's extra pressure on Brian Dayball. The comment that Sean McDermott made when he was asked a very simple question, Brian Dayball putting this team in a position to be successful, the offense in a position to be successful. When you don't say yes, the answer is no. And, uh, I just, I feel like this is a bad matchup all the way around for the Buffalo Bills and the Bucks cruising at home. Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] Checking the box on another young upstart who thinks he can be like Tommy, and he knows the Bills. He said on his podcast this week, when I look at the roster,


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[Assistant] I know this guy, I know this guy, I know this guy, and they don't have Tridavious White. Yeaah. It all lines up in favor of Tom Brady. Let's take a break. We'll return to the Primetime Games. Justin Fields vs. Aaron Rodgers and Matthew Stafford vs. Kyler Murray. We'll talk about those next on this joint edition of PFTPM and Chris Simzun.


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[Assistant] PFTPM, Chris Sims Unbuttoned, presented by Under Armour, and before we get to the primetime games, if you watch this every week, first of all, thank you very much, second of all, if you watch this every week, I-


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[Assistant] Alright, uh, well done. Let's get to the primetime games. Sunday Night Football. The Bears at the Packers. I know the folks in Chicago are dreading


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[Assistant] This game, because they don't see a way around Green Bay, and the odds makers agree, 12 point favorites are the Packers, 43 over-under, it's the biggest spread of the week, Chris.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna pick against your guy. Oh, Aaron Rodgers, do you pick him to cover against the team he owns? Oh, y-yes, I-


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[Assistant] Yeah, look, I hope that the Bears give them a good game. I hope that they unleash Justin Fields in maybe some new and creative ways to give the Packers fits. I've got 31-17 though, Green Bay.


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[Assistant] Can sense that one seed and they need that one seed. They are striving for something that will help propel them to the Super Bowl. I know it didn't get them there last year.


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[Assistant] If they get any team other than the Buccaneers at Lambeau Field, it's a lock.


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[Assistant] I think they're gonna eventually go to 20.


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[Assistant] When the NFL grows to 40, I hope to be alive for that. We'll explain that another day. How you go from 20 down to the final two. But I think that's where it's eventually gonna be. But that's gonna be years from now. Alright!


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[Assistant] Did I give a score? I did. I got 31-17, you got 31-16. Monday Night Football, Cardinals 2.5 point home favorites against the Rams. Remember, the Rams had owned the Cardinals. They had destroyed the Cardinals every time they played. And then the Cardinals beat them at SoFi Stadium earlier this year.


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[Assistant] Cardinals 30 to 21 and look, I think the Cardinals want people to pick the Rams. The Cardinals want to continue to be overlooked and it's going to be very interesting when the playoffs roll around with all that youth and inexperience.


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[Assistant] Are they going to be able to win in the postseason against teams that have players who have been there and done that? That's going to be the real challenge. Let's go ahead and take a break. Best bets and our weekly Folsom Prison Blues pick when PFTPM and Chris Sims on button continue right after this.


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[Assistant] Alright, we disagree on two games straight up and two against the spread as we wrap up PFTPM and Chris Sims Unbuttoned with our best bets, the three plays that we like the most against the spread or an over-under. Chris, you're up first.


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[Assistant] I got titans as well as my first when I got them 31-7, but they're just better and they're rested and it feels like the jaguars are falling apart even more than they were. Next up.


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[Assistant] Yep, I got the bucks too. I think this one could get very ugly for the Bills. I mean this, you know, we rarely pick like ridiculous lopsided scores because if you're wrong about that then you never hear the end of it. But I could see this one get out of hand for the Buffalo Bills. I could see it happening. Alright, your third best bet.


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[Assistant] Are you going where I'm going? I'm going to, I went Tampa on the second one, just so we're clear, so we're the same on the first two. Let's see what you do with the third one, go. You want me to go with the third one? You want me to go first? Yea, go ahead, let me hear it. I'll go first. Saints minus five and a half at the Jets. Oh, okay good, we're not total slot machines. Time for the Saints.


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[Assistant] Time for the Saints to win, time for the Saints to win, and what better team to win against than an overmatched Jets team that has even more injuries than the Saints do.


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[Assistant] I'm surprised that you would even touch anything as it relates to Sunday night given your record so far this year on Sunday night. Thank you.


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[Assistant] And I thought about that one, I just think 12's too much, cause I could see Garbage Time, Justin Fields,


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[Assistant] So come through for us, don't make us look like even bigger idiots than we are. Thanks for always, some for bad, whatever, we're done, we're out of time, goodbye, thank you.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, there we are. The great dreams of Paul Burmeister. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Me just dominating 10 year olds. Don't mess with me.


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[Assistant] You can't force those kind of things. You can't force it. It might end up taking a weird turn too. And maybe we won't want to hear it. Alright, so let's be careful on that one, even though actually I welcome it. Let's not be careful.


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[Assistant] Send in questions, always, always welcomed in that department, no doubt about it. Paulie Burmeister's here to drive the car, as always. What's up, everything good?


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[Assistant] Well I, because I don't have those pressures at home. Zero. No, no, that's, that's, that's, I just provide the cash, big guy, and then, uh, the wife has to provide the other stuff. Even in December. Even in December. Yes. Now, I mean, I, I worry a little bit about her gift, but nothing like to


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[Assistant] She does a good job of taking care of herself. She will say things of like, don't buy me anything crazy, I've bought myself lots of gifts already. What about the kids? The kids, like, I'm a little involved, she'll show me, cause they make a Christmas list still, even though they know there's no Santa and all that.


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[Assistant] Go through it and she'll, you know, as she kind of dwindles it down, should I get this or this? I'll be sitting on the couch at night watching TV, whatever, and she'll show me on the phone and that's about as involved as I get.


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[Assistant] You know, they're going to smoke here tonight. Sometimes they say no or whatever else. Next time they come over, they're like, I will take some of that. That's okay. That's great. What is this? And I tell them all about it. So that's what we do. I am pitiful.


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[Assistant] No, my wife, she's a soldier that way. She handles it. That is awesome. She is. She's great. She really is. And the other thing too is,


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[Assistant] My kids are at an age now too where they're older, they sleep in on Christmas morning. It's no longer like 6.30 in the morning like, get up, we want to open the presents. It won't happen until like 9.30 or 10 in our house. So, uh, yeah, she's, she's, she's good to me. She knows my flaws in life and that's one of them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. I mean, she'll probably tell you some great stories about me. Some things I don't remember or habits that I have that she's like, this is the worst thing about Christopher.


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[Assistant] Sure, I don't know how she'll feel about that, but she understands that like I tell everything anyways, so I don't think she would be bashful to say anything on here for sure. Should we talk some NFL?


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[Assistant] No doubt about it, these are two of the teams that I look at as far as the 49ers and Bangos that I think have a legit chance to make a run if they do get in the playoffs. Agreed. Yeah, I don't look at them as maybe I view some other teams where I go, yeah, they'll probably get in, but I don't know if they can really do damage. I think these two teams can. Like, I would throw both of these teams in the,


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[Assistant] Yeah, bangles I do too. I do. I have, again, I think what's different a little bit about the bangles of the 49ers is just not the experience, not the battle test, right? And we've seen that. The last two weeks have resulted in two losses. I think because again, they're still a young, kind of immature team.


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[Assistant] I thought, like I told you last week, I thought they went toe to toe with the Chargers if they played 10 times. My thought was that the Bengals would win more than none. You know, and this game right here,


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[Assistant] The game was as even as can be. They're both talented.


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[Assistant] The way the first half shut out, I mean, shook out, I write in my notes, like, just little thoughts and go, you know, if you didn't tell me the score, I'd go, this game's tied. Except there was the two muff punts. And the two muff punts were a huge part of this football game and gave the 49ers a great advantage, you know, heading into the fourth and of course winning in overtime.


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[Assistant] But defensively, there's talent all over the field. You've heard me talk about it. I think there are a hair too predictable on defense. We'll see some of that here too. Uh, but after that, I mean, yes, I think the talent on both teams is like legit.


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[Assistant] You know, we can make a run in the playoffs and maybe even on a team's bad day that might be a little bit better than us, we upset them and all of a sudden we're somewhere we shouldn't be. Uh, I don't think that's crazy thought for either one of these teams.


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[Assistant] Or Debo Samuel gets involved in certain leagues. I think they probably took a little off of Debo's plate because they knew he was coming back from the groin injury. He wasn't as a bigger part of the game plan. It's a point though, I think that's legitimately worth bringing up is that to me again, you said Devontae Adams, Le Fleur, Shanahan.


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[Assistant] Was with Lefleur. He knows how to get Kittle the ball. Oh, McVeigh was with Shanahan too. They throw the Cooper Cup every other play. You know, they have a great belief and an ability to, to,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think they took away the bread and butter of Kittle. And in fact, I would say they didn't do anything at all in some certain situations that, you know, of course ended up burning their butts a little bit.


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[Assistant] I know Zach Taylor made a comment after the game where he said, I promise you, we tried like hell to take him away and he just finds a way to make those plays.


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[Assistant] Were they aware of where he was lining up? Certainly. Were they taking him away? Absolutely not. I can't say that. No. Taking somebody away is going out of your way or, you know, outside the box of your normal game plan to go, this isn't happening, right? And that's where I think we'll break down this first play here to kind of show that.


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[Assistant] You know, here, I mean again, this fits a lot of my themes altogether a little bit, just with, yes, you know they're gonna be looking for Kittle in a big situation, that was already apparent during this game. So to me that's like, when you got to this point,


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[Assistant] Or late in over, late in regulation he has the catch that put them in a position to kick the game when they feel good. They missed it ultimately, but I want to go.


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[Assistant] Von Bell one on one with George Kittle is not trying to take George Kittle away. That's a matchup the 49ers go, oh, we'll throw to him every time then. It's a safety on George Kittle? Sure, we'll take it.


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[Assistant] Nothing, nothing to him at all. I write, exactly. So this is where I want to fight back a little bit about, you know, again with Zach Taylor said, I'm not trying to call him a liar, but I would go, I just want to see more to take him away. That's what I want to see. And you know, already to your point,


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[Assistant] We talk about the catch at the end of regulation. You know, they had a gotta have it moment at the end of the first half after the muff punt, a touchdown to Kittle where he scores a touchdown with 18, 20 seconds left where I go.


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[Assistant] They're going to him. We know they're going to him here now. So we gotta do something. And again, here, we'll play this out. And this is pretty easy to see here, you know. And again, that's not my drawing, you'll see.


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[Assistant] So that was Adam Archuleta, who I do like listening to. But here you go. You got a little bit of like a quarter's blitz, but to your point, again, nothing. I mean, again, this is pretty standard. No offense or no quarterbacks gonna look at this and go, oh wow, this is too complicated. I'm confused. Let me hold the ball a little bit here.


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[Assistant] 100%. And this is the extent right here of what we're talking about, getting a hand on like the best tight end in football. As he's running by. As he's running by. And they got good linebackers, certainly. Uhm, I believe that's, uh, uh, the kid from North Carolina State, maybe Pratt, that's trying to get his hands on there, but I'm not faulting him. This is a coaching thing more than anything.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I think what you say here is pretty real. First off, extremely easy release, up the field, nothing hindering him, so he gets to go full speed, gets a hand put on him, and then, as you see right here, we get to the top of the route, and, I mean, come on, that's, I mean, here, look at this. Nobody in your face, seven on seven,


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[Assistant] And this is, this is less than 7 on it. This is a walk-through throw in the NFL. Like, well, there's nobody there against our best player. So, yeaah. That I think sums up the game a little bit for Cincinnati. We talked about some mistakes they made, certainly.


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[Assistant] On the defensive side of the ball, they did some good things. They stopped the run.


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[Assistant] You know? They, they did not let the 49ers run game gash them. It was Jimmy G in the pass game that won. It was Kittle specifically. I know he had the one-debo Samuel touchdown run for the most part. Uhm, but it was Kittle followed by Ayuk in the pass game and, you know, Kittle specifically the, the Bengals did not have answers for.


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[Assistant] 49ers are good, we know that. There was some success moving the football.


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[Assistant] You know, the Bengals missed a field goal at one point when they were down 20-6. That could have made it 20-9. It was a chip shot field goal. But, I think my assessment, again, this 49ers defense is good.


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[Assistant] You heard me say last week that it's really good. I think the Bengals posed some interesting problems for them because of what we talked about. 49ers corners are not good. They got some no names on the outside. Alright, and the numbers backed it up, let alone what I said with my eye last week.


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow and the Bengals will throw the ball outside and go, wait, our guys better, our quarterback will throw a strike and we'll just make it that. Period. Now where I think a little bit where the game was different


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[Assistant] The 49ers front did not let them run the ball even when they were in cover 2. Right. So that's disappointing if you're a Bangal fan.


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[Assistant] No, that's not getting much out of it, especially when they were playing pass defense a lot. So that's even worse than what the numbers will really say. Good point. That, that bothers me a little. Uhm, so, but the 49ers front is real. Like listen, I just want to give like, Bosa's back.


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[Assistant] I mean, Armstead of course is a hell of a player inside, and then they rotate the other defensive end. Ebukam is the one guy that starts and probably in there more than any other. But yeaah, it's a good front. Fred Warner was playing. We know how special he is. But I think this is where not being able to run the ball on the cover two looks and


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[Assistant] I think they were a little late in the pass game to adjust to go, oh wait, this is going to be a cover two day. Like, they're going to play cover two on us. You know, they called a lot of plays where the 49ers like to play a lot of quarters, which ends up being like man to man on the outside. It's hard to throw over the middle because the safeties are down a little bit in quarter coverage, but uhm, they don't play a lot of


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[Assistant] True cover 2. And for those out there going, what's the difference? True cover 2 is like the safety goes over the top of the corner.


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[Assistant] To really protect him and a lot of the times the corner has a responsibility of playing the short passing game where the safety then is protecting the deeper pass play down the field and the corner tries to reroute that receiver to kind of mess things up.


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[Assistant] 49ers played, I think, I would think more cover 2 in this game than they played all year long. And the Bengals did not adjust quite quick enough, in my opinion, to go, oh wait, this is the day it's gonna be here.


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[Assistant] Burro magic here, and really what you get here is like, again, this is not my drawing, this is Adam Archuleta's special. Uh, but this is, it's quarters, quarters, okay? And then it's half, okay? Here's half, right here, alright?


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[Assistant] Now this guy can kind of stay with the receiver as he goes up field if he's got no responsibility or anything in the flat.


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[Assistant] You know, a play like this to where, could really expose like a cover too, where this guy's doing this, and this guy's here jamming it in the flat, you get the back out in the flat, right?


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[Assistant] And now he sits on this and then you get a Jamar Chase who comes down and basically now is one on one with safety and runs an outrout or something similar like that. That's how you kill a cover too, right? That's really what you do. They do something similar to this on this play as we play it out, right? You see there's the back out of the backfield.


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[Assistant] He was checking protection so he doesn't get there real fast to make that corner sit.


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[Assistant] Right, so now the corner can kind of play halfsies and there's the backer there as well to kind of


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[Assistant] Watch this. Again, like what I said, if he got out here fast, he would probably be down here, but I understand. They're trying to help out on protection here. This play, cover two. Again, because of this, the corner over here gets some depth.


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[Assistant] And they'd run, what do you call it, you know, just a little corner route with Chase, and he's not open. So I'm certainly not, you know, faulted by Joe Burrow or anybody for missing reads here at this point. It's fourth and five. This is more about, I just want to show the magic.


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[Assistant] The connection that Chase and Burrow have. Because it's kind of special. And I just want to like warn everybody if it's going to happen. Burrow is going to end up looping out and coming out here. When he throws the football.


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[Assistant] Jamar Chase, who will be on the back end line, okay, is gonna still be running across the back end line as the ball is thrown. And Burrow puts the ball in a spot where he goes, he'll know


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[Assistant] He's gotta come back and get this. And Chase puts the brakes on and comes back.


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[Assistant] Realizing, and Joe Baroba just puts the right touch, the ball perfectly in the right spot to where, even though Chase was running this way,


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[Assistant] He just had a great feel, I'm sure he saw the release of Burrow and put the brakes on in a hurry and that's what I want everybody to peep here. Chase is gonna come back up and then come back out and the throw and the timing of all of it and hopefully I can pause this right where Burrow is throwing it.


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[Assistant] Okay, just to show you. So here we go. Alright, let me just slowly go back just a little. Alright, here we go. Let me see if I can get the slow-mo. Alright, so you see Chase here at the top of the screen. Alright, he's still running, he's still running this way. Here's go. Burrow's still got the ball in his hand.


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[Assistant] Burrow's gonna throw the ball back over here. Chase isn't gonna realize it's there until about right here and he's gonna come back and get it. Just an absolutely unbelievable play. Really by both guys. Really. It really is. I mean, Chase's ability to stay in bounds after redirecting and having a guy, you know, kind of in his way. So he's trying to avoid that.


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[Assistant] It really is. I don't, yeaah. This is like scramble drill. Chase has got great instincts. You know, he had a drop or two in this game and that's come up here as of late again. Uhm, but damn, he's, he's really good. He's a superstar. He really, his talent is that of a top five, top ten quarterback. That was a cool play that certainly, you know, gave them a chance here at the end.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was a really cool play. And like I said, it took them a little while to get


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[Assistant] You know, you might have a, you have Fred Warner flying down the middle of the field because it's a true Tampa 2 here. Safeties are this way, safeties are this way. And for Higgins, what they did a lot of the times throughout the day is put the tight end here.


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[Assistant] They let like Boyd run through the middle, right? So now it continues to clear this middle linebacker out and Higgins would come through and then be in that spot that was voided by the defense. They killed it with that play. That's why that was probably one of their bread and butter plays of the day. This is not that. This is a cool play, but I wanted to say again, cover two.


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[Assistant] Bangle's getting a little late into recognizing it was a cover two game. They had the right plays. It took them a little while to get to it. This is a cool one right here, Paul. I really like this. Now,


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[Assistant] Now again, we got, uh, let me just make sure I get this right. Alright, so Higgins on the outside, it's covered too. He's gonna run the go route.


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[Assistant] Tight end flat, corners right here, safety back here is backing up cause there's a receiver going at em.


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[Assistant] And Boyd kinda runs a little bit at the corner. Okay, he's gonna run at the corner and then up.


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[Assistant] But the corner's worried about his responsibility, which he's been coached to do, which is stop the flat, alright? So that's kind of what happens here. I thought this was a cool play. This is a play I've been seeing around the league more and more this year.


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[Assistant] As far as, uh, how to beat Tampa 2, Cover 2. And I just wanted to show everybody a little here. You know, you see here, there's Uzoma, he's coming off, he's gonna get out here in the flat.


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[Assistant] Josh Norman's gonna kinda hang right here at some point. You see here, Higgins is gonna continue up and...


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[Assistant] My man Boyd's gonna kinda sneak up right behind him and then wheel it up the field and Burrow puts a ball that's on the money as we see here. Steps up in the pocket, gets hit. You know, again, it's the one thing that scares me about the Bengals. The offensive line can be spotty at times. And Burrow still gets hit a little too much. But, like,


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[Assistant] This is pretty awesome. I mean, it really is. On the money.


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[Assistant] They got the people, they exposed the scheme. They cracked the code a little bit there, I think is what we want to say. And to your point, how you talking about they're a fun watch, that's why they're a fun watch. You know, they got talent.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, I, I respect Atlanta, but these are the kind of games that I, I, they don't win, right? It's just when you, they play, you know, bucks.


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[Assistant] Teams with overpowering defensive lines. I think they're going to have a hard time on that side of the ball creating a lot of plays. And the, and the Falcons defense, you know, it just doesn't have a whole lot of great players on it. I can't see them slowing down the 49ers.


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[Assistant] Teddy's playing pretty well. I hope he's aggressive this week. Again, that's the big thing. That's the big thing with Denver. Just too many plays and yards left on the field all the time.


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[Assistant] But yeah, you know, that will be an interesting matchup and I wouldn't be shocked that this is a week that Teddy's aggressive. Why? Because like you heard me say like a lot over the last two weeks. The bangles are a little bit predictable and


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[Assistant] You can kind of draw up some shots against them if you got some talent at receiver. Uh, but I do think Cincinnati is the better, more complete football team. It's at Denver. We'll see. This is a true gotta have it game for the Bengals right here. We're kind of, we're going to see what they're made of here.


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[Assistant] Well, their offense, again, I mean, it's, it's, you know, spoiled with riches. I mean, it really is.


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[Assistant] Big offensive line. Phenomenal at pass protecting. You got weapons that are mismatches across the board.


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[Assistant] You know, you got a good running back, and then you got a playbook that has everything. I mean everything. You know, again, this is...


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[Assistant] But I would certainly put the Bucs offense in one of the five best offenses just on, you know, paper, scheme, plays, whatever. It's one of the best in football. They have an answer for everything. And with Bruce Arians and Lefwich, what I love about them too,


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[Assistant] You know, their answers aren't usually, let's find a four yard completion. Their answers are, let's find a 40 yard completion and really screw you. And that's what I like watching about them. And yeah, their offense certainly gave Buffalo some big issues on the defensive side of the ball early on.


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[Assistant] You know, and that's what put Buffalo in a bind. It's why, you know again, it's why I picked Tampa.


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[Assistant] Just because it's, it's a big unit that it's hard to, you know, overpower that offense. Buffalo's a smaller defense. They play one gap type of defense. We're gonna shoot this gap.


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[Assistant] And that doesn't always match up well against these type of teams like we've seen with, you know, New England beating Buffalo the week before or the Colts game earlier this year or the Titans game. They have issues when they got to play these big powering offensive lines.


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[Assistant] It's a double puller here. That's what we got. The right guard.


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[Assistant] And the, the left guard gonna come around and pull. I mean, they probably saw this, this is not a play that Tampa runs often, often. Okay? They don't do this. I guarantee they saw New England do this to Buffalo and said,


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[Assistant] We gotta do this this week. This just doesn't make sense. And I think what also happens here, cause Buffalo's a numbers team, they're gonna play the numbers of what they think you might do in certain formations.


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[Assistant] Trying to do a late disguise of safeties. Poir was down here. Now the snap is going back. Here you got Micahide coming down.


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[Assistant] I do believe Tyron Johnson was going to blitz off the edge here, but it happened so quickly as far as seeing the run that, you know, he doesn't really get the chance to blitz. And ultimately what I want to show you here is they're going to get out on the edge.


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[Assistant] They can't defend it with this defensive call. There's no way. And I'm just gonna let it, let it show you here first off, just a quick little still shot, hopefully I can get it just right. Alright. And, whoops, not that one, hold on a second here. So four net gets it, alright. And, here's the problem, alright.


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[Assistant] Is, Milano's setting the edge, so he's responsible out here. But now because of the backside pulling guard, and the way they slanted the front and everything, there's an extra gap on the front side.


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[Assistant] And Charmaine Edmonds has a gap to his right and a gap to his left. He almost can't be right.


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[Assistant] And that's really the big problem with the play here as you go forward. And of course it ends up in a touchdown. And you see that Lenny is still legit. Yeaah. I mean again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean again, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna get at all the people who told me, oh, what are you talking about, Leonard Fernet's done last year, cause people were killing me when I was saying this is a great move. Uh, but now I don't hear them anymore. They've gone somewhere.


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[Assistant] Yes. Right, so here, this is a better view, again.


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[Assistant] I think probably their number one run. Again, he sees a shade nose right here on the edge of the center. There's nobody on this guard. One of their big runs is just do this right here. Let this guy boom the nose tackle and get up to the second level and have him cut off.


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[Assistant] You know, this guy right here, or he comes out and blocks this guy, excuse me, that's the defense end, the nickel guys out there. That's one of their go-tos. But, as you'll see here again, they're going, he's got here. He's got here. Right?


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[Assistant] He's got here, he's got here, and Tremaine Edmonds is responsible for this gap right here. Alright? So I think I got that right. Alright? Oh no, I'm wrong. I gotta write, I gotta write. And as they pull, boom.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm wrong with that one too. Sorry, the double puller, it's gonna lead that extra gap along the edge that you'll see here. So let me see if I got this right here. Let's see. Alright, so, you see there?


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[Assistant] Oops. Our, our thing's a little slow here. Alright, now.


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[Assistant] Like right there, you can see he's got the inside gap, he's got that gap, he's there, he's playing slow play because he has to the right of the center, but also knows at this point, wait, gaps are disappearing, right? And what happens again is because of the double pullers, you're gonna see as we go here that


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[Assistant] There becomes an extra gap with the puller. Right? You got double pullers. So am I making sense there? Are you following along with me?


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[Assistant] Talking too much gibberish here, right? I gotcha. Yeaah. Yeaah. He's responsible for the edge.


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[Assistant] Rosseau was responsible for the next gap inside, but they blocked down, they pulled two guards around the edge.


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[Assistant] And now, there's an extra gap to the strong side. And I don't know how you can defend it with the way they shifted the defensive line down. I think Teron Johnson


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[Assistant] Was supposed to be blitzing off the edge, or something, but basically when this happens, they're asking Hughes or Tyron Johnson to get over there and make the tackle. And what I want to show you is this guy right here has no chance. What does he do in that situation? You can see.


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[Assistant] And that to me, you know, is some of the compromises Buffalo gets in because they're not big up front and they have to disguise and do some things to take away things in the run game. But as you know, when you disguise and sometimes get a little creative in the run game, they call the right run play and it's, we're hitting your head on the goal post touchdown time.


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[Assistant] Not even touch, exactly right. So perfect call. I bet you they had a good feel of what the defense might do. Buffalo's trying to play a defense to take away something Tampa might do. Right. And Lefwich and Arians won on that one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, clean pockets, right. And Buffalo, who likes to do creative blitzes and do certain things, hey this guy blitzes, this guy drops out, you know, they can't blitz against Tampa because they're not going to be able to match up with everybody across the board. And there's no Tridavious White, so that hurts that even more.


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[Assistant] And then also we've talked about Tampa's a phenomenal screen football team. So when you like, when you put everybody down here and, and do crazy stuff like this.


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[Assistant] Tampa will throw the ball out here to this guy. Right. And then send a bunch of blockers out and now you got everybody in here all screwed up and they'll run a screen and he'll have blockers and nobody around him for 10 or 15 yards. They have answers for everything.


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[Assistant] Alright, on this play, this is simple, okay? It's a cool defense by Buffalo. They're trying to take away certain things. You're gonna get Mike Evans, ultimately.


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[Assistant] The sideline on that side and this side you're gonna see basically, you know, these three


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[Assistant] You guys, and really four ultimately, are gonna try to cover these three, as you see. Alright?


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[Assistant] Cause Buffalo will take calculated chances. He's gonna play inside here.


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[Assistant] And, and let Gronk go this way. He's gonna cut him off from inside because he knows the safety's gonna go help this guy out. And I'm sure they had the, the numbers to back it up that Gronk doesn't lot, run a lot of maybe inside posts down here or whatever. And you'll see this as this goes by here. Alright. You can see here.


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[Assistant] Let's see if I can time it out. Again, you see Evans, look, they're trying to pass some of this stuff off with these guys, right?


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[Assistant] He's breaking down on this guy coming underneath. There's a guy out here too. I mean it's, here's Godwin here too who they made contact with. He's looking for anybody coming across. But what did that do? It left Micah Hyde one on one inside leverage on Evans downfield. And to your point, here's the point.


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[Assistant] I mean, Brady moves here, I don't know why. I mean, he doesn't need to go anywhere. He could have sat there, took a kneel, you know, tied his shoes, and then still throwing the ball here for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but this is one of the themes of certainly the first half. That they couldn't even get close to Brady. I mean, they couldn't get close to Brady. I'm not even joking. This might be the most he got hit.


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[Assistant] The whole first half. That little touch right there. He's got grass on his pants because he's run twice and slid for a first down. Alright. Beautiful throw. Great catch. As you see right there. Right. But they had Buffalo in a tough spot. Buffalo played a cool defense. They did.


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[Assistant] You know, they played a cool defense where these two and these two, they watched him. He kind of ran into him, right? Teron Johnson tries to get back to stop the corner route, but when you can't get around the quarterback and you got some talent, it just doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It just, cool defense, great. You see how they played it, right?


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[Assistant] But like ultimately, what they did is they cracked the code here. Cause he has to be responsible for this guy if he runs out.


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[Assistant] So he's kind of stuck in no man's land. He realizes now with eyes like uh oh I need to try to get back and help my safety who was in the middle of the field covering a route that's going out. That's not easy or even


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[Assistant] You know, realistic to think he's gonna stop that route against that coverage, right? And Tyron Johnson does his best job to get there, but it doesn't matter at that point when Brady has a clean pocket, can step into it and throw it like that.


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[Assistant] So it's the big question I got, what made Buffalo come back? And I thought, oh, maybe Tampa took, you know, their foot off the gas. Again, you know, I'm getting ready for a show, I'm watching a bunch of other games, I'm just getting general feels of the game. Right. But I'm thinking,


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[Assistant] You know, did Buffalo blitz more? They must have done something different. They really didn't change. They did not change as far as they played more vanilla in this game probably than any game the whole year. And you know, to your point, yea, as I started to go through it, I went, wait, okay, there's nothing here. It's really like, Brady was off.


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[Assistant] Like all the time, right? I mean, it's greater than 9 times out of 10 probably, right? It's like 99 out of 100. You're right. Where you just go, I can't believe he missed this. Right. And that to me came back as, hey, we know Josh Allen was phenomenal and he was unreal on that side of the ball in the second half. It was a magic man. It was a magic show. It really was.


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[Assistant] You know, at the same time, there was three consecutive drives where the Bucs really could have put the game away. And Brady missing throws certainly cost them the ability to do that. They had the ball twice at 24 to 3.


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[Assistant] Right here at this point of the field and came away with no points. Then it went to 24 to 10 and, you know, I'm not going to say he left points on the field, but I think you've seen the play. He had Chris Godman wide open down the middle of the field on a first or second down, or no, it was a third down on this case around midfield, right?


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[Assistant] It's a, it's gonna be, it's, it's just what we saw with uhm, you know, George Kittle a few minutes ago. It's the same type of play. Gronk is gonna run right up here. He's got a two safety look and he's gonna kinda bend it in right here. And there's a huge place to throw him the football. So, okay, what happens? You know, they get it.


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[Assistant] Boom. They're kinda going to a cover three. It's a real loose cover three right here. Alright. You see the safety back here is three. Alright. And now you got curl flat. He's kinda in the middle. He's gotta worry about curl flat. And Gronk's gonna sneak into a little hole here that's...


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[Assistant] Wide open. I mean, wide open. And again, it's second and eight. And this is about as easy as it gets for Tom Brady. And he misses the throw. And I do think we have another angle of this because this will really show it here as far as how badly he missed the throw. Again, I know he's


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[Assistant] Perfect in the world, Tom Brady, but damn, he's pretty close to perfect with everything. And there was some moments here where, yeaah, I mean, there's nothing you can do there. He's not gonna be able to catch that, even as awesome as Gronk is. He can't get on the ball there. Yeaah, so that was really, this, not that,


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[Assistant] Hey Tampa's defense didn't change in the second half. They never, I thought, oh, we're going to see that they went into prevent. When I turned the film on there, they must have played prevent and you know, let, no, they were doing the same crazy blitz as they were doing in the first half. Buffalo adjusted.


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[Assistant] They threw the ball quicker, they ran the ball with Josh Allen and the running back a little bit more, and then Josh Allen just made some magical plays that you just go, I don't know what defense can stop that, that's unreal.


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[Assistant] That to me was, you know, again, the Bucks were the bigger, more physical team. That's the issue with Buffalo.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, I came away clearly still thinking the Bucs are the better football team, and that Brady won't miss those types of throws if they play again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's exactly. It's slam dunk throws for Tom Brady. I'm sure he's pissed off. Now listen, Florio said something to me this morning too. You know, he said, he thinks that Brady got a little banged up in this football game when he slid on one of the quarterback sneaks and this might have led to some of the errant throws. Maybe it did. Certainly. I don't know. You're not going to get the story here either way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean you're gonna have Godwin on this play here going, okay, you're gonna be going right down the middle of the field here.


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[Assistant] And it has 2410, right? Camera braid underneath, alright? And Godwin's gonna come behind it. And it's as open as open gets.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, you go, maybe Godwin should have made a great catch here, and, and Godwin's probably pissed at himself to go, wait, I'm making 17 million a year, I'd like to catch this too. The ball came out funny. The ball came out low. A lot of balls came out low.


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[Assistant] No doubt, no doubt about it. You know, even as I sit here and looked at him with some of these throws, as we go, like, he even leaning forward more than he usually does throwing the ball, like in that position there. Usually he's a little bit more on his back foot.


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[Assistant] Then what we see there is kind of a lean forward, which is going to lean, lead to the ball going downwards a little bit. Um, but yeah, clearly a missed throw there. Big opportunity again, third and seventh.


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[Assistant] Not only to extend the drive, take more time off the clock, but, you know, once you get that completion, you're on the team's other 48 yard line, you're one more completion away from almost being in field goal range here. So that was, you know, to me, again, Allen being amazing in the second half,


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[Assistant] Brady missing some opportunities to really, like, put their foot on the throat of the Buffalo Bills and be like, eh, hey, cool, you guys are scoring some points, but the game's over, we've won. They missed those opportunities, but, uh, it doesn't change my opinion of the game or the teams. And again, the Bucks are, in my opinion, another class. They really are.


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[Assistant] I would. I would. Yes. You know, again, I respect Green Bay.


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[Assistant] You know, I said to Drew Brees the other day, and I know I've said it on the radio, I just, I have the feel that the Bucks are kinda, I think I said it to you even last week, kinda just coastin'.


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[Assistant] Totally get the feeling that they've got the foot on the gas. They know how good they are. And if they need to hit it, they can't. They'll hit it when they gotta hit it. And when the playoffs come around, they'll be ready to another level. That's just the way I feel about it. Maybe I'm gonna be wrong. But, you know, I've seen this through my years of being obsessed with football where


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[Assistant] You know, the great team can get a little complacent. We won the Super Bowl the year before. Oh, it's December. We'll start to put our foot on the gas pedal here. And of course, they did a lot of great things in the first half. Uh, just missed some opportunities in the second half and had a great player do insane things. Insane. I mean, again, Josh Allen throwing the ball, running the ball, insane.


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[Assistant] Tampa has a stigma a little right now, like we, we can't block their D line. We're not going to be able to really run and teams are turning on film and going, but you can throw on them. So they're going a little bit like, why waste our time really trying to run? And I think Buffalo fell into that trap a little and let alone they know they're not good at running the ball.


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[Assistant] I'm with you. Again, right play, right situation, whatever. It doesn't even matter about what you get. It's like we talk about all the time. Attempts are an important thing. Attempts just make a Devin White or a Levante David


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[Assistant] Exactly right. It leads to other big plays. You gotta make that sacrifice again to bring up the second level of defenses to where they can't always be thinking pass, drop back, take away the middle of the field. And as we've discussed before, there's no greater way of creating big plays than the play action pass. And that's really the biggest reason you do that.


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[Assistant] Early, well I mean, they're overwhelmed early in the game. Big time. I mean overwhelmed. I mean yeaah, you watched the game back, you watched it live, I mean it was a free for all. It was a free for all. I mean it was every play. I mean Jim Nance is announcing the game and when he finally threw a throw from a clean pocket like


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[Assistant] Past halfway said the second court, he's, whoa, Alan, he actually had a chance to step in and throw that one. That's the first time he's had a chance today. I mean that's where it was at. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] This play here, you know, they're gonna blitz the Tampa Bay Buccaneer. They're bringing this guy off the edge. So you got that, that, right? You know, here. Alright, let me see if I get them all right. Either way.


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[Assistant] With the line here. Alright. He makes the correct call. Let me just make sure I got this right because again I got 9 million plays going through my head and I just want to make sure I got the specifics right. Alright. So he makes the correct call. He probably knew that this guy might blitz. Right. And that means this guy will drop out. So it's these four down linemen.


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[Assistant] And then the one pass rusher. So what does he do? He has a call where this left tackle stays on the left defense end. That's, that's Tryon, Joe Tryon. And then the rest of these guys are all gonna kick out to the next guy. All right. They're all gonna kick out. And the problem here is number 79 who really struggled.


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[Assistant] Uh, Esther Brown? Spencer. Spencer, sorry. Spencer Brown, he struggled in the first half. And not only physically, but this is, this is struggling mentally a little bit. Right? So you see.


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[Assistant] I mean, there you go. They're blitzing off the edge, alright, and with them blitzing off the edge, they're all going a gap this way, right?


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[Assistant] So, that guy blocks that guy, this guy blocks that guy, this guy blocks that guy, and this guy should come out and take the guy off the edge.


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[Assistant] And that doesn't happen. And you'll see here as Josh Allen drops back, he thinks he's protected. So that's why he's not looking. He's going, wait, I called the perfect protection. I'm getting exactly what I wanted, right? I'm one on one with Diggs on the left side and he's probably going to hit Diggs who runs a curl ride. He's going to probably throw it and get a completion.


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[Assistant] But instead he gets killed and you'll see Brown, Spencer Brown, he realizes he's messed up here just as I'm gonna press play here to realize, oh no, I didn't get out there and why am I helping my friend who's blocking this guy perfectly fine anyways? Right? And there you go, off the edge, sacked.


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[Assistant] And, you know, again, you could see I have a hard time thinking this ball isn't going to go to digs right here.


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[Assistant] You know, who's open downfield on a pretty easy, just curl route. Uh, but that's what Josh Allen was dealing with in the, dealing with in the first half.


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[Assistant] I really, I expect it again to watch the film and go, well, maybe they changed stuff up, like Buffalo's defense. I thought maybe they, it didn't change. It's just, hey, Brady missed some throws and missed that opportunity. The second half I thought, well, we're going to see the Bucks really back off here. They're not going to do blitzes and plays like that.


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[Assistant] No, it didn't. It's just the magic show got greater, cause he just went.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna put the pedal to the metal and just make every play in the world. They ran the ball a little bit.


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[Assistant] His quarterback design runs were effective. And then they called more of a game that I think was conscious of getting the ball out of his hand a little quicker in the second half too. To where, okay, we don't know where he's going to come, but we're going to release guys free and just get it out of his hand. Okay, we got five yards. Here we go. Next play. And I think that was really the thing I took away more than anything.


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[Assistant] I mean, we are supported by Under Armour, just like Steph Curry is, and I want to pay Steph Curry some love. Came here to New York, MSG, all time record breaker, three point field goals, amazing, and like, oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] Like obliteration of this record when it's all said and done. He's 32.


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[Assistant] This is a record that's going to be unattainable, I think, by anybody in the NBA for a long, long time. It's just so ahead of its time in the game. It really is. It's like, I don't even know what great players to say.


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[Assistant] You know, whether it's a Michael Jordan or a Babe Ruth or a Jim Brown where it's like, they're game changers. They're like 10 or 15 years ahead of the game as far as what they do to it.


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[Assistant] They are focused on performing better and taking their game to the next level. Everything from running shoes that propel you forward to hoop shoes that give you insane grip. Yeaah, like these cool ones I got on my feet right now. They even make hoodies that reflect energy. We're not just about the end result, winning or glory. Under Armour is about the hard work, the dedication.


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[Assistant] The cycle of training, competing and recovering. We give you advantages, but not shortcuts. The only way is through. There you go.


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[Assistant] Did you get one of those hoodies yet? I think there is one back here. I think I got it, I think it came in today. I haven't checked out the package yet, but I believe that's what I got there, so I'm gonna sport it.


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[Assistant] That was the main part of your game. That's what I was. No doubt about it. Yes. I mean, uh. 30%? 40%? Uh, you know, that's a good question. I was one of the state leaders in three-pointers. Holy shit. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And then we had a point guard who was a division one safety, uh, running back for Boston College. So yeah, for a bunch of white boys, we could play ball. We could play ball a little bit. We couldn't mess with like the same, you know, uh, the, um,


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[Assistant] You know, the great teams in New Jersey, right? Uhm, I'm blanking on Bobby Hurley's St. Anne's, like, we couldn't mess with them. But for public schools, yeaah, we were pretty damn good. Dozen threes, damn.


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[Assistant] Respect. It was a good day. It was a good day. I think I had 39. It was like 12 threes and maybe... Did you hit like 3 free throws? Yea, a few free throws. Something I got. Yea, that was about it. But it was just spotted up and...


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[Assistant] The Raiders are that team that's just, it's too basic. It's just too basic. It's, it's, this is what we do, we're not gonna mess it up. Okay, well.


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[Assistant] Protecting better, so guys like Crosby and Ngocwe couldn't even get close to, to, uh, Patrick Mahomes.


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[Assistant] My homes wasn't like, oh wow, an amazing game, but it still was good. It was efficient. Exactly right. It was efficient. It really was from that standpoint. And again, what I'll say about the Chiefs is I would like them to continue to run the ball and run the ball more. You know, you got too much


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[Assistant] Invested in that old line. They're too good. Teams are still relying on playing past events against you. Let's use the


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[Assistant] The full capacity of those assets that you've used on your offensive line. I'd like to see them do that more.


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[Assistant] It is better, and it's been at least a little bit more efficient on that side of the ball. Big time.


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[Assistant] You know, for the most part, starting to limit the dumb mistakes on offense, but every time I say that, then the next week they come out and dumb mistakes show up again. Defense is the story of the show. That's the real deal. But the offense did some real good


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[Assistant] And maybe they sprinkled in two or three snaps of quarters coverage. But for the most part,


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[Assistant] It's Seattle Cover 3. Gus Bradley invented it. That's what he does. And again, I don't have problems with Seattle Cover 3, but you gotta have like legit talent to do that now. The league has gotten used to this scheme. They know it. They know the rules. They know how to expose it. So his curve ball...


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[Assistant] Is this right here. Which is man to man. Alright. It's man to man. And of course it's not special. It's not. I mean you see. You got man. You got man. You got man. You got man there on Kelsey. And then Littleton is playing the back. Man to man. Now first off as you can see here.


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[Assistant] Littleton's on the right side of the center here right now. Alright, so that's an issue.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm sure they've seen this on film and my homes knows, oh man, if I send this guy out anywhere over here, how are they going to get him over there? So what do they do? They call a little play. That's like pick plays and Littleton can't get over there. And now Darrell Williams is running up the sidelines and it's, he's wide open. He's going to score a touchdown. You know, to me,


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[Assistant] Again, man-to-man's fine, but you can't play man-to-man in this alignment. Not with the stacked splits too, with like receiver in a tight split, Kelsey in a tight split.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that screams they might pick us here. I mean it screams it. Right, right. So either Littleton's gotta get out here and be like head up so he can get through the traffic and then just be there till when they throw him the ball or they don't throw him the ball cause you're there. Or there has to be some sort of call made where you go like, you know,


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[Assistant] I know defenses have these calls. Ray Lewis, he looks at Ed Reed, cause he knows they're in a formation with it, and they make some call to go like, hey, if this happens, you know,


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[Assistant] Hey, you know, 25, I can't remember who 25 is. 25, you take Darrell Williams, and now I'll take your responsibility of Kelsey, right? You make some kind of call to switch it off there. Cause you go, you're in a compromising position. Alright?


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[Assistant] And as we go here, you'll see, I mean, come on. Does this get, does it get any easier? No. I mean, look at that. Man, there's Littleton. He's responsible for Williams.


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[Assistant] He's going, oh my gosh, this is going to be one of the easiest touchdown passes of my career. Accidentally picked. Accidentally picked, right. Kelsey does a good job of acting like he's breaking down to run some sort of route. And, of course, there you go.


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[Assistant] Trayvon Morag, sorry about that. 25 is Trayvon Morag. But, but, you see what I'm saying here. Again, you just can't align up like this and think you're gonna be able to stop this play. It's unrealistic.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's unrealistic for Corey Littleton. He's in a bad spot. He's on every highlight show in America because their coaches put him in a bad spot. Right. And now it's just, it's easy pickings, easy live ins, but either he's got to be in a different spot.


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[Assistant] Or there has to be that call made that I talked about with Trayvon Moriag to go, alright, wait, let's switch it off. I got Kelsey. If they come inside, I'll take Kelsey. You get outside and take my responsibility over there. And that's just where the Raiders are too predictable.


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[Assistant] You weren't going to say that. I was not going to say that. You know, we saw mid October.


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[Assistant] Washington football team in Washington. I know we broke that down on the Wednesday and we show, I said, look, they, they changed this week. They went to in your face.


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[Assistant] And they made Heinecke throw some balls away and he got sacked and whatever else. You know, the Tennessee game the week after, they stopped Eric Henry. It was 29 rushes for like 80-something yards. You know, Mahomes and the offense were horrible. It's been good since about mid-October. And the first thing is, right now...


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[Assistant] I was at Tennessee. Isn't that crazy? That's the last time they lost. And it's not because of their offense. It's because of their defense right now. Offenses, we know can be dangerous, but their defense is dangerous. It's legit dangerous. They're healthy on the D-line.


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[Assistant] Melvin Ingram has helped out, Chris Jones going back to defensive tackle, and number 55 Frank Clark, after having some issues early in the season and off season.


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[Assistant] Just watch this guy right here. This is Melvin Ingram on the edge or, okay, on the edge of the line of scrimmage. I mean,


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[Assistant] It's just going to be Chris Jones dominating Alex Leatherwood first round pick out of Alabama and just absolutely getting all over Derek Carr. Melvin Ingram is going to come right behind him and join in on the fun because he's like, wait, let me hit this guy too. This is fun. And this is going to be this easy. All right.


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[Assistant] And as you see here, there goes Chris Jones, who unfortunately is not playing this week. And I will tell you, I would argue


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[Assistant] He's the best player on both teams right now. That's how good Chris Jones is. I know Mahomes and Herbert are in this game, but Chris Jones is as good as anybody else on the field. He really is. He's as dominant on the defensive side of the ball as anybody in the game right now. He really is that way. You know, Aaron Donald's the only defensive tackle you can


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[Assistant] You know, put up next to him as far as just dominating people, messin' plays up. But you see here, Derek Carr gets to the top, I mean, he gets to the top of his drop and it's like, well, what do you want me to do?


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[Assistant] Well, what am I supposed to do? He wants to step up in the pocket, but then there goes Melvin Ingram, who came underneath Chris Jones, as you see. And it's just over, right there. Boom. And it's a lot like we talked about with


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[Assistant] Josh Allen and the Bills, I mean, they just absolutely dominated the Raiders offensive line. Overwhelmed them with their physicality, their scheme, everything, and it was a total, total ass whooping.


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[Assistant] Yeah, another ass whooping, right? And what I want to show here too is just like,


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[Assistant] How cool they are with what they do. Now again, you're gonna see a pretty good pass rush, okay?


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[Assistant] That, that's, that's the star of the show right now is their pass rush. Alright, and I just wanna get back just so we can see everything here. Alright, and yeaah, you're gonna see everybody's gonna kinda get up here and get in their face. There's gonna be four rushers. But this is where, this is where, uhm, Kansas City's really cool. Alright.


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[Assistant] And this is where, when they are, got a lead, and they get you in these positions, this is old Kansas City.


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[Assistant] Oh, now I can do crazy stuff. We got a little lead. And the lead, of course, is gonna get greater to where they don't have to worry about the run game as much and everything. But watch what they're gonna do here, Paul. This, this is Tampa 2.


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[Assistant] They're going to play Tampa 2 out of this look right here. Doesn't look like it. Yeaah, doesn't look like it.


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[Assistant] There's a corner back here who's going to act as the safety. You can see his shadow. 15 yards off by the way. 15 yards off, right. Here's the other corner, Hughes, who's playing safety in this play. Here's your Tampa 2, Fenton down the middle, dropping middle linebacker, okay? And then, they're going to go, uhm, Sorensen out in the flat to be the cover two corner. Thornhill down in the flat.


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[Assistant] To be the other cover two corner and then you're gonna have these two guys in the middle of the field as your Will and Sam linebacker because Fenton's the Mike linebacker and the Tampa two going down the middle, right? So watch this on play.


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[Assistant] It's pretty cool. And again, we talk about being deceptive on defense. You want to dominate them up front. We don't know who's blitzing and who's coming and who's dropping, right? They're doing everything we talk about every week on the podcast to go, you want to confuse a quarterback and make life miserable? This is the shit you do.


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[Assistant] And you're gonna see here, there you go. You see them dropping out.


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[Assistant] And that's what it is. I haven't seen that. I know. They do it. Have you? They do, they do this. They will. That's a different way in which they've done it. I will say that.


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[Assistant] But they are very creative in getting to their Tampa 2's. And really, hey, Tampa 2, at the end of the day, you know, cause you could go, well maybe this is cover 3 or something. Tampa 2 is 3 deep, 4 under.


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[Assistant] That's what it is. It's three deep, four under. You know? Cover three is still three deep, four under. Except you have a safety in the middle instead of the dropping middle linebacker. A lot of the rules can be the same way here.


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[Assistant] They also know it's a 17 yard third and 17. They're not worried about putting the corners down here and stopping a flat route for two yards. They're gonna get a little depth and then they're gonna get the pressure.


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[Assistant] On car, make him get the ball out of his hand short, and they're gonna rally and make the tackle. It's third and 17, they'll give you the six or seven yard completion. They don't care. Right. Exactly right.


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[Assistant] They're kicking butt. They're kicking butt. They really are. They're fun to watch on the defense side of the ball.


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[Assistant] It's in LA. Listen, I think this is a coin flip game. I do. You know, I look at it like this way too. Again, the Chiefs are going to have to run the ball in this one, in my opinion. You know, the passing game is not hitting in all cylinders, even though my homers is better. I'm not sold that it's going to just dissect and be surgical.


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[Assistant] Chargers can play some pass defense. They can. And they're creative too. And like we saw, you know, Brandon Staley's got


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[Assistant] Vic Fangio background, which we've seen Denver be able to defend Kansas City and limit Tyree Kill.


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[Assistant] And he's got a little Wade Phillips too, so he's gonna have some outside the box creative things he does on the, on the defensive side of the ball. Again, they got a lot of pass rushers, they don't got great run stoppers. Can Kansas City run the ball? I don't know. That's gonna be one of the big questions of the football game. Chargers beat the Chiefs in Kansas City.


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[Assistant] It's worth watching. You might be able to get, you know, a few tells here and there, but it's one of those where you watch and go, okay, like I remember some of the rules we had that game, but this is a different defense now. Like I'm not going to put too many eggs into that matchup. They're doing things a little different. The personnel is a little different. They're playing at a much higher level.


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[Assistant] Now Kansas City, they'll have to be careful about doing some of that disguised stuff and all that against this group. They'll have answers and of course we know as of late, you know, the Chargers and Herbert are pushing the ball down the football field a little bit.


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[Assistant] I really was leaning Kansas City all the way here, but with no Chris Jones, I think it really does become a coin football game. I probably gotta pick my games tomorrow on the podcast.


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[Assistant] I'm probably still gonna pick Kansas City. I think I probably will. I had you the other way. I know. I think I will. I think I'm gonna chicken out just because it's Kansas City and the Chargers aren't necessarily battle tested yet. I gotta see them maybe win one of these gotta have it type games against the kings of the AFC first.


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[Assistant] I know, I know. That's a little scary to me. That's a high number. That is a high number. It is a big number. With teams that know what the other teams do, that's where it's going to be tricky with divisional matchups. You go, yeah, both offenses can do special things, but both defenses are pretty creative in the defense side of the ball. We'll understand some of the rules of that offense to where if you, we got away and you told me this game was


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[Assistant] 2320. Yeaah. I would go, yeaah, okay, I can see that. Yeaah. 32 is a little high for me.


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[Assistant] Nah, I don't see that. I'm gonna go Chiefs and the Under. Okay. Alright, so that's- We're both on the Under. We're both on that. If I win, you owe me $10 next week on the podcast. Fair enough.


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[Assistant] Well, I would say first off, has he been lesser? Yes. Is he a little off? Okay, yeaah. He's not quite as sharp as he was early in the year. I also think he set a bar that was insane early in the year. Yeaah. I mean insane. He was playing out of his mind, their offense was rolling.


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[Assistant] He was playing amazing on a weekly basis, so we just thought, oh, he'll continue to play amazing. He's not playing bad right now. I don't sit here and watch film, you know, the last two weeks and go, oh.


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[Assistant] Man, he's missing plays and throws everywhere. You know, what I would say a little bit too to add to that is...


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[Assistant] You know, early in the year when he was amazing and rolling, their run game was amazing and rolling too. So they were getting a lot of basic passing looks and things that would go, hey, we can strike in the passing game here. Now people are not as afraid of their run game and their passing game is not overly complicated.


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[Assistant] It's got all your good basic plays. But you get to this time of the year, teams have seen these plays a lot and they know how to defend them.


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[Assistant] Dallas' defense whooped ass. I mean, that must be a theme of the day, I guess, for this, because between them, Kansas City, the Bucks...


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[Assistant] His mechanics. This is something that rears its ugly head every now and then with Dak Prescott. And just stay on me here for a second, Kristen or Pete, because I've had this conversation with Dak Prescott. He can fall into the


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[Assistant] He's in the throwing position and he locks his front knee out as he's gonna throw the ball. Like that. Nobody does that. Nobody locks their front knee. You watch a Brady or a Rodgers. Again, it's gonna be the side of the foot kinda going towards the target.


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[Assistant] And it's gonna be rotate on it, and your leg always has a little bend to it. Right. He will get to a position where it's like this. And I know they got a table in front of me, but that front leg will lock out.


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[Assistant] And then what happens is, anybody who's watched the podcast, again,


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[Assistant] You know, you want the throwing motion to be thinking coming around more than up to down, right?


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[Assistant] Again, you watch Rodgers warm up, he does this. You watch Brady warm up, he does this. Because again, you want to throw a ball hard that way, the body's got to go that way, not this way. That's not going to make the ball go. So he's got that double whammy going on.


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[Assistant] Lock the front leg out, and then that's making his motion become really vertical over the top. And you'll see here on this throw, his arm is followed through, ends up at the opposite pocket, which is not ideal.


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[Assistant] The ball goes up high, or at times you're gonna throw the dirt ball at somebody's foot. If you don't quite have the release the right way. You might be aiming like, hit the guy in the belly button.


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[Assistant] But now because I've locked my knee out and I'm coming over the top that way, it goes lower than expected. So let's watch number four. He's gonna throw a ball down the, down the, uh, left seam here. Crossing route. That's gonna get intercepted to Collins in the back end. Collins playing safety here. And I think he's gonna throw this ball to Seedy Lamb.


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[Assistant] Right, going across the middle. Yup, so here you go. You see Seedy, right? Seedy's coming across. He's attempting a very difficult throw.


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[Assistant] You know, again, it's hard. You gotta throw this ball over this guy, and then he wants to put enough pace to get it underneath that guy.


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[Assistant] You know, if anything I'd go, hey, just wait a second, let him get like over here and then throw it and you got a window over here, let him clear it.


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[Assistant] What we really wanna show here is I want you to see if you can really tell with Dax. Now I got another clip in a minute that I'm gonna show you that shows it a little bit more clearly here.


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[Assistant] Here, just everybody watch this in real time. You know, again, his front foot that you're supposed to be going towards the target and stepping to goes backwards on release. Okay? That's what I, I mean, watch this foot.


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[Assistant] It's gonna go slide backwards, alright? And then you hear me talk about the release, right? You see the release here, alright? Watch how it's so over the top and his arm comes down.


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[Assistant] To his belt buckle or, you know, his zipper. I mean, that's not ideal for throwing the ball, you know, accurately or with power.


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[Assistant] That to me is the weird thing. This foot, watch this foot right here.


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[Assistant] It literally slides back as he throws the ball. And that to me, I don't know anybody in football that does that. And then you see the ball come out of his hand wobbly. You see it? It took off high and then pay attention. The quality of the football will tell you a lot of things sometimes too. You can see it's wobbly. It's not a real tight spiral. Easy interception. This is kind of, I've seen this the last few weeks.


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[Assistant] Really, ever since the Denver game, again, I don't want to say it's bad, but he's missed throws where I go, man, Doc never misses that. And he missed this.


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[Assistant] That's crazy to me. And I'm gonna show the one more clip here, because there's another one I think that'll even show it even more. You know, he's gonna, uhm...


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[Assistant] And just how over the top of it is again. Again, Pete, show me your Kristen, show me on the screen again. You know, there he is first off. And this, he's gonna throw the ball and this foot's gonna go like that.


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[Assistant] I don't know anybody that does that. Or how you can make that successful. And it's gonna be hard to be accurate that way too. Let alone, he never really gets his body to the target. He stays like right down the field the whole time.


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[Assistant] So, that's not easy either. I mean, you're never getting yourself over to, on this plane, to where you want to throw the ball. You know, again, he's on the clock, he's going to throw to 2 o'clock or 1.30, but he steps to 12 o'clock. That's not going to lead to great accuracy either, but the big thing is, and I'm going to be slow motion,


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[Assistant] Watch this front leg go backwards as he throws it, alright? So here we go, slow motion, here goes the pass rush, look at this, doesn't really step into it and it goes backwards on release.


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[Assistant] I mean, that to me is weird. I think anybody, anybody would say that.


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[Assistant] I mean, not really a step into the throw either. Not really. Just kinda having like your feet there, planted, and your motion with your lower leg is to go backwards. Why do you think he's doing that? I don't know. It's always been a little bit of a bad habit of his. He's discussed this with me, even on my podcast.


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[Assistant] And then kind of fight back that way because he's got his weight on the backside so that he gets through it and then kind of because he just doesn't get all the way to this position, yeaah, he fades back a little bit. And Rodgers, he's so gifted, he errs on staying on the back foot all the time and just doing that or doing that. But, you know, it's something, yeaah, Dak.


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[Assistant] You know, this, right? That's what you do in pregame. Oh, that's not that. No, that is not that.


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[Assistant] And to me that's, you know, hopefully somebody can point that out. I'm sure he realizes it and, uh, I bet you he fixes it before the playoffs get here.


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[Assistant] You know, I said on Football Night in America, it's...


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[Assistant] Reminds me of Lawrence Taylor as far as the skill set. I'm not saying he's Lawrence Taylor yet. I mean, I think the world of Lawrence Taylor, uh, the whole Sims family does of course. And Lawrence Taylor's like the freakiest of the freaks. Kinda goes back to like the Steph Curry conversation. Lawrence Taylor's a guy that was like 20 years ahead of his time.


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[Assistant] Playing against the guys in the mid 80's going like, I'm the 2006 linebacker.


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[Assistant] But I'm playing you guys now. They sent me back from the future to whoop all your asses. I mean that's literally what Lawrence Taylor was. Alright, well this is the beauty of what like the Cowboys do. First off, they're healthy on the defensive line like we talk about. They got ass kickers, they got depth, they got everything. You got, you know...


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[Assistant] You got five, this is the beauty of what Dan Quinn did here and this is really smart because this guy against a tailback in pass protection is gonna be an issue. Now how do you ensure he gets on a tailback? Well, what they do is they have five defense alignment in the game. It's Gregory


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[Assistant] You know, it's, I believe this is Devil Gallimore.


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[Assistant] Uh, there's DeMarcus Lawrence. Here's another defensive tackle. And that's Terrell Basham. So, within that, you have five pass rushers, Paul. And what does Washington want to do? They want to make sure they get their 5-0 lineman on the five defensive lineman. Right? That's common rule within the NFL.


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[Assistant] But the problem is, the best pass rusher on the team is the stand up middle linebacker. So now he's gonna be one on one with Gibson. So it's really smart as far as how they game plan that all together, right? And that's where it's beautiful that way, and you're gonna see him now come across, Parsons gonna come right up the gap, which leads Gibson


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[Assistant] Okay, one on one with him. And then, Randy Gregory's gonna drop out. Terrell Basham's gonna drop out.


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[Assistant] And now it becomes really a one, a two, a three, and a four man rush, like we talk about all the time, we love to see that stuff, but because of the five Lyman in the game,


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[Assistant] That's why they, by defense alignment I should say, why and how they got him matched up on a back. And that's where I say he's gonna be a game changer. Because teams are gonna have to rethink about how they're gonna pass for tech. Because as long as any back,


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[Assistant] Is going against Michael Parsons. He's going to run them over or because they're worried about getting run over, alright, they're going to


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[Assistant] Then, plant their feet in the ground, he's gonna use his quickness like he does here to kinda get on the edge of you. Right? Because again, he's 248 pounds, Gibson's going, oh no, I gotta get ready for a car crash. And, Michael Parsons can see him kinda settling down and getting a wide base and he goes, well, his feet have stopped now, so I'm gonna make a move and go around him.


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[Assistant] And I think this is a defensive front we're going to continue to see from Dallas. You know, one, because of the Michael Parsons mismatch. But two, with guys like Basham and Demarcus Lawrence and Randy Gregory, like they can rush or drop back or do everything.