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[Assistant] Yeah, Malcolm Brown looked good, 18 carries, 79 yards, couple touchdowns, his longest rush was 12 yards, so that was a lot of good chunk plays there for Malcolm Brown. I do think it was interesting with the running backs because there is a new stat out there that they're trying to look at and who knows if it's going to work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because some of these stats are wonky, the next Jan, the tracking stats, but they have this rushes, uhm, rushing gains more than expected. So they kind of look at where the players are, and they say, how many would a normal running back get against a normal defense, and how many did you get?


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[Assistant] Alright, so who are you about to hit on here? What running back? Zeke and Cam Akers, both. Okay, okay.


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[Assistant] So Zeke. Zeke looked like he had a good night to me. It was good. Yeah. He had 59% of Russia's gaining more than expected. Third best in the NFL. Yeah. Week one. So that passes the eye test. Definitely. That one checks out.


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[Assistant] Cam Akers on the other hand, just 7% of his 14 rushes were over-expected. That was worst in the NFL. That's something to watch there. But for Zeke especially, it looked like he


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[Assistant] We'll keep it in the uh, NFC East conversation here where the Cowboys going 0-1-1.


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[Assistant] All right, uh, Eagles, I'm sure you weren't impressed with them either because they lost to Washington 27-17.


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[Assistant] Washington was plus two thousand to win the NFC East last week.


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[Assistant] They're already up to plus 700. A lot of money coming in on the football team right now. Wow. To win the, uh, or at least the chances are getting better. Our damn okay for Washington goes to Ryan Kerrigan in that defensive line. What? Eight sacks, most in a game since 2014. Carson Wentz got sacked eight times. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Even up 17, nothing. You figure you'd lean on the running game a little bit more. I never did. Nine carries was the most for anyone. It was Boston Scott and you had 35 yards.


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[Assistant] It's time for us to do some victory. Victory lap time! Oh baby! The part of the show where, you know, you wouldn't have brought this up on your own, but I'm here as a good friend. Hey, thanks Fred. To give you a victory lap. Thanks Fred. And I'll give you a victory lap on for your years of support of Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] He looked really good. Now, the Jets defense...


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[Assistant] You know, maybe I could look good, you know, on a good day, not every day, but maybe I could look good against them every once in a while. 312 passing yards, two touchdowns, 57 rush yards, one rushing TV.


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[Assistant] Uh, Bill's Vigilante says, I wanna see a lot of Josh Allen coverage tomorrow. Take your victory lap! So maybe we stole the idea for victory lap from uh, Bill's Vigilante, but-


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[Assistant] He was doing it with his legs, with his- and as a pastor, that's always the question, right? Can he be an accurate-


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[Assistant] They, uh, go 0-1, Josh Allen, huge one, another Josh. Let's take a victory lap. With Josh Jacobs, 25 rushes, 93 yards, 3 touchdowns. Yeaah. Then he had, uh, 4 catches for 46 yards. And so he was, he was a lot of the offense for the Vegas Raiders. Uhm, and then this is what you said, Chris.


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[Assistant] Back in August, this is August 10th, quote, I saw John Gruden at the combine, and he said, quote, this is the year Jacobs will be ready for the pass game. Yeah. And so you knew it was coming.


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[Assistant] You know what Gruden said? He compared him to. Did you hear that? No, what person? He goes, that was a little bit like Walter Payton used to play. He goes, it was hot as hell. He got beat up early. He insisted coming back and he insisted on getting the ball as a runner and receiver. He's special.


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[Assistant] It's time for Give Me the Headlines, presented by Hyundai. Oh, look at this. So Hyundai wants us to give some headlines for a couple of games here. We will oblige, of course, gladly. First one, we got Baltimore defeating Cleveland 38-6. 38-6 was the final score. Chris, do you have a headline for this game?


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[Assistant] And also I feel like Lamar will get more time. One, because he can scramble back there. Two, because they have a good offensive line. Right. And three, because the defense, you don't want to over-pursue, too. And so you're gonna get more time.


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[Assistant] Can I just look real quick? Yeaah, it's not that, it won't be that satisfying. No? Cause it was some garbage time. Oh, it was, it was Matt Ryan again? No. No? Kurt Cousins. Kurt Cousins. Yeah. He had a couple, you know, late, Adam Thielen. Yeah, that's cool.


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[Assistant] It shouldn't be compared. I'm mad you brought it up. I'm mad at you for bringing that up. Uhm, but the Browns, see here was my headline for the game. Let me hear it. Uh, Browns make 20-20 normal again. So it was like, okay, that's all we wanted.


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[Assistant] Man, I had a hard time with this headline. We got the Chargers beating the Bengals 16 to 13. You want me to give you my headline first? Yea, you go first this time. Uh, I went with...


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[Assistant] I don't think he, Burrow, like, it wasn't like he was like this all-time great quarterback in game number one, but he made enough big plays down the stretch, also had that interception on the shovel pass to Ingram. Uhm, what's your headline then?


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[Assistant] That's the way they want to play, right here. They lost Drew Tranquil in the game. They already lost Derwin James before the season began.


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[Assistant] And I watched Tyrod Taylor too, and you know me, I covered him in high school, and I'm a big Tyrod Taylor fan. I get it. And I want him to be able to take that next step on


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[Assistant] Being able to make the big plays. There were a couple that used his legs and were like, wow, this is what Tyrod can do. I just don't know if there's going to be enough of them. You're right. Most of these games might be close for the Chargers relying on their defense.


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[Assistant] Give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. Well done, Chris. Thank you, thank you. We'll save my, my, uh, way too early.


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[Assistant] Uh, top pick power rankings for Wednesday. Okay, cool.


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[Assistant] We'll do that Wednesday, but yeah, cause we got through all the games. We did it, right? We got through all the games and it'll be like a nugget. You know what that is? That's a tease. Ooh, and you know, I love when you tease me.


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[Assistant] Now the thing is, with a tease, the dangerous part is you have to remember to do it then. Like sometimes that happens where we tease something and then we forget to do it. I go, oh yea, that's right, I have to do that.


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[Assistant] I'll go Steelers and I'll go Broncos. You're gonna go Broncos? I think Broncos get the win. Okay, cool. They're at home. Yeah, they are at home. What'd you think, home and away, that stuff? It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean anything.


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[Assistant] So we're kind of getting here. I'm here though, Chris, because, uh, uh, I live in Connecticut, not too far from you. And, uh, it's a, it's a disaster. We have no power. I have no hopes of getting power, honestly, for like a week here. Uh, we, we're on well, so we, we have like no water either.


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[Assistant] And so I had to bring myself back into NBC and then I had to wear my wet mask when I did it. And so it's just like, what is going on with this year? This is the weirdest thing that I've ever had to deal with.


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[Assistant] So he'll join us in about 15 minutes from now. We will talk some football. We've got a lot of things that your dad wanted to talk about that I think are good. They're like big topics. Some of them are current events, but some of them are over overarching from the past couple of weeks here. We've got some reaction to the top five talented rosters that we came out with.


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[Assistant] You did not get a whole lot of hate from uh, the homies. I saw that. There were a lot of times where people thought I was smoking something or did not follow football at all. And so those were the, that was the major hate towards me.


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[Assistant] Well, that's what I kept doing. I kept going to the position groups and I'm like, well, there's the Chargers in the, in the top half, you know, top 10 and they're like, oh, you're there in the top 10 again. And if you do that enough times, you know, like not every team is in the, in the top 10 of all those position groups. And so thank you for defending me. If you want to go back on Twitter and just write a couple of those people and tell them your thoughts, I wouldn't mind that.


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[Assistant] Uh, either. So, so, I was, uh, so wait, but you have them kind of overall, I think you and Mike, I was seeing today, in the 20s, right, for the Chargers? That's not me! Let's don't, don't put me in them.


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[Assistant] Wonder about quarterback. That's the only thing perhaps holding them back. It's why a lot of people thought that they, you know, they got a roster complete to make that run like you said. And so you need that star quarterback, maybe a Cam Newton.


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[Assistant] Didn't go that direction, although I do like Tyrod Taylor a lot from covering him in his high school days as well. Uh, another quarterback out there. Let's just go through some of the more reactions to the, to the top five talented rosters here. Another quarterback that we're looking for a big year from your, your high on is Josh Allen. This one comes from, uh, Dias Summers.


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[Assistant] So that says, where would the bills rank on your lists? No honorable mention on either list, so interested to know. So how about just from a talent standpoint, the Buffalo Bills?


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[Assistant] I usually just try to read these without like prepping it all for the name and that sometimes that's what happens when I do that.


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[Assistant] The Wust, the Wust says that Green Bay has top players at following positions. Quarterback, running back, wide receiver, left tackle, left guard, defensive tackle, edge, times two, and cornerback. And he goes maybe center.


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[Assistant] They do need a wide receiver. A lot of people thought they were going to get it in the draft. You threw something out there on, uh, on Twitter a couple days ago, Chris. You threw a poll out there. Was this unprompted? What made you do this? Why did you want to throw this Antonio Brown poll out there?


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[Assistant] So this, uh, the question that you threw out there was if your favorite team's top wide receiver went down for the season, would you want to sign Antonio Brown? And I'll be honest with you, the, uh, the answers did surprise me a little bit because it was 58% no.


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[Assistant] 41% yes. Uhm, so a lot of, a lot of fans out there are over the headache, and maybe they just don't feel like it would, it would work out, which I, I feel like is a reasonable assessment at this point.


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[Assistant] Sean likes bacon, said ordinarily yes, but if I have to rely on AB not going out and accidentally getting COVID, no way. Which is honestly, I mean, that's honestly a great point. I mean, you need you guys to be buttoned up in 2020. That's a good point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's like these teams, it's like, where are you in the pecking order? Where are you in the power rankings right now? If you're a team in the twenties to thirties, what do you have to lose? Right? The risk is like, if it doesn't work out, you cut them.


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[Assistant] He could, he could get us into the playoffs, maybe this year. Uhm, so that's what you got. But, but then you have a team like the 49ers and this question comes from, uh, Junior Chow 13.


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[Assistant] You said, do you think the 49ers receivers are good enough? Or do you think that AB wouldn't fit well in the locker room there? So that's a team that's all-star talent. You put them as the number two most talented roster in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Wide receiver is not necessarily the position that the 49ers are most talented in. No. A team like that wouldn't, you wouldn't think want the headache, but they maybe do have some need at the wide receiver position.


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[Assistant] You almost wonder if would he be open to a team like that, a rebuilding team, a team outside of that. But at this point, he might not have any leverage at all. He might need to take, if he really truly wants to get back in the NFL, he might need to take any, any job he can get. And that job maybe,


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[Assistant] With the Detroit Lions, you never know. This one, uh, is from Eleven. Jordan Cole says,


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[Assistant] We don't win anything as of now, so I see it's all as possible upside. It's all possible upside.


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[Assistant] I'd like to hear your answer on this. Mikearch22 said, Chris, where would AB have fallen in your top 10 wide receiver list? Oh, we haven't seen him in a while here. But you did put Cam Newton in your top 10 and we hadn't seen Cam Newton in a while. So yeah, what do you think?


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[Assistant] I don't know if we're gonna see him ever again in the NFL. If it was ever gonna work. It seemed like last year he had millions and millions of reasons for it to work out and he just couldn't pull it together last year.


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[Assistant] His name is Mr. Phil Sims and he has joined us behind the cloak of darkness here today. Hello, Phil, can you hear me? I hear you.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you, yeaah, well, I'll tell you what, for the first time in the history of my life, and I've been alive for now like 40 years, uh, at night time in the winter time, we turned it down to 61 degrees. It was actually my wife's idea. I don't know why she came up with it. We went down to 61 degrees.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and if there's any other coach out there that was maybe thinking about it last year, uhm, the way that


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[Assistant] He was able just to dominate the conversation around the Raiders when he was there with that team. I mean, it was almost like they had no control. I don't think he made John Gruden, Mike Mayock look very good at all in that situation.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and speaking of the Raiders and, and John Gruden, I mean, we were talking about, uh, our most talented rosters and you look at the Raiders, no, they're not in the top five, they're not in the top 10, but they've got some players and they've got a quarterback in Derek Carr who's been in the league for a while and needs to take one more step.


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[Assistant] What do you think when you look at the Raiders in Gruden and that overall team and the direction they're going right now, Phil?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it seems like we're having a referendum on the talents of Derek Carr Weekly here this offseason. Oh, it's brutal.


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[Assistant] Of the starting quarterback in Dallas with Dak Prescott, which I feel like, you know, opposite of the Raiders, the Cowboys have been very complimentary throughout the whole process here, Phil. And they're saying, we do believe he is the future of our, of our franchise. We're just trying to figure out the exact price and how much that should cost us and how much he should be willing.


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[Assistant] What do you, what do you make of the situation then, then in Dallas with Dak Prescott, him playing on the franchise tag for a year?


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[Assistant] Place to meet in the middle here still with, with both player and franchise in the future. They just kick the, uh, kick the can down the road for basically 12 months.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and they haven't really been, uh, hit. You say he's got a good team around him. They've got talent. Chris put him as the, uh, the fifth most talented roster in the NFL. They've had three opt outs up to this point. Uh, Kennedy, their cornerback was one of those three that, that opted out. So pretty much staying together as of.


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[Assistant] As of right now, and Phil, I'm curious your thoughts as we're seeing.


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[Assistant] These opt-outs rolled in. We're gonna hit the deadline here, uh, here pretty soon, but it seems like we're getting five, five or six a day.


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[Assistant] It's a total mess, a total mess. Uhm, so, how would, and our producer Pete, Pete Demilimilitis brought this up is that you were part of a crazy offseason obviously in 1987 with the strike year and the replacement players coming in. This is another crazy offseason for a lot of, a lot of different reasons.


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[Assistant] Maybe take us back to some maybe similarities that some coaches and GMs and players are feeling about this year. Obviously there are two completely different situations, but just as far as the uncertainty going into a year like we're seeing in 2020 here.


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[Assistant] Do you remember, Phil, who the starting quarterback was that Monday night football game against San Francisco? Who took your job? Do you remember his name?


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[Assistant] From Connecticut, from Waterbury, went to Penn, played football at Penn.


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[Assistant] For a 40% completion percentage, 89 yards, but he did throw a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the loss. I think it was like a 20 point loss to the 49ers. So, and he got pulled in the second half too. So, his, his, uh, his reign with the Giants, he was, and, and I was reading a story on it too, he was cut the next day. So not surprising that you couldn't remember his name.


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[Assistant] Oh, wait, one more. Wait, hold on. Do you want, do you want to, uh, you, you had a talk with Mike today about, uh, arm strength, quarterbacks with arm strength. Don't you want to talk about that?


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[Assistant] I was, what I was looking up was, uh, well we have a new entrant, perhaps, in, uh, Justin Herbert. Well, what did he do? Didn't he do something crazy, like from his knees through at 70 yards? I don't know if he's trying to get his head in this.


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[Assistant] Is there anyone close to those two though, in the conversation, or who could enter themselves into the conversation as far as arm strength, miles per hour, or distance?


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you're a quarterback for the Lions, you shouldn't have, you shouldn't be judged on the same, you know, same wins and playoff wins. It just, it shouldn't apply. You know, it's just like, just look at his game, look at his game, you know, and don't worry about the wins and that shouldn't apply to a Lions quarterback.


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[Assistant] All right, Phil. Well, we'll let you go. Appreciate the insights as always.


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[Assistant] See, if we, if we would have had the camera on him, if we would have had the camera on him, we could have seen if he was having some issues with the pet stains. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And I think that was just some interference that was going on with, uh, your dad's phone. I don't know what was going on with it, but you were right. It did sound like tic tacs were in his pocket. And then when he tried to just calm us down by saying it was only him in a dark room all by himself, that did not make me feel any more comfortable. I was like, wait a second, let's go. I hear it right.


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[Assistant] Well this is, this is crappy. I've only got one more thing here and I'll try to keep it away from my, uh, from my shirt so that doesn't happen. I do want to give a shout out to another podcast that's out there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, uh, the Rotoworld Podcast, Josh Norris and crew. Man, they have been doing so many videos. You can see them on our YouTube channel. It seems like they do one a day on all different topics. And we're getting into draft season here, Chris. And so if your friends are not gonna call you, and if they're gonna get proper information, all they gotta do is listen to the Rotoworld Podcast with our friend Josh. Please do it.


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[Assistant] They have a 20 round live draft in their latest pod. So, uh, so check that out. Josh Norris, the Roto world football podcast. One more thing before we go here, Chris, and I'm holding my microphone just so I don't do that. I can't believe that was me this whole time.


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[Assistant] They got a new helmet they just revealed. I'm looking at it right now.


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[Assistant] It has, and it's something that we talked about Chris when we were talking about helmets and a team should embrace putting numbers on their helmets. We didn't think necessarily as the main part of the helmet logo.


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[Assistant] But that's exactly what the Washington football team has done. The one that they put out there on Twitter has a big ol' number 20 on the side of it. And I'll tell you what, I like Washington's colors.


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[Assistant] Overall, I think that's a great color scheme. And so anything they do with a helmet, throwing numbers on it, I do think that's a pretty cool looking helmet. What do you think?


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[Assistant] I agree with you. I agree with you. It kinda, it's like the FC. It's like the soccer clubs, right? That's what I mean.


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[Assistant] I kinda like that. I kinda like that too. And their old helmet, when we did the top 5 helmets, it was a bit controversial, but I did put...


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[Assistant] Their old helmet as number four in my top five. So I like their


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[Assistant] Old helmet. And I do think there's, you know, there's an interesting discussion to be had about


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[Assistant] And I was reading some story, Chris, and I kind of found this interesting. Uhm, that, that logo was designed by a Native American, Walter Wetzel.


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[Assistant] Right, depicted a member of the Blackfeet tribe. It was John Two Guns White Calf, was a Blackfeet chief, uh, back in the day. Some people say his likeness is always the one, also the one on the buffalo nickel.


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[Assistant] But basically the person who designed it, Wetzel, his son,


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[Assistant] Was quoted as saying, everyone understood the name change and we were all on board with that.


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[Assistant] It was representing my people. And so I thought that was kind of an interesting perspective to put on the whole thing.


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[Assistant] No I would not in a million years and so of course the name's gotta go.


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[Assistant] But, you know, I am a little sad. And I guess it all had to go, you know, if one of, if the nickname goes, like, what are you gonna do? Keep the logo as well. But part of me is sad because I think that logo was badass and I think you could look at it as honoring Native Americans. Just my two cents.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the problem becomes when the, when the mascots become kind of cartoonish, right? I know. And stereotypical, and that's where you run into a problem, but I think there's room for a little nuance in that. But the helmet has changed, I still like the, uh, the color scheme, but I don't think- So you lost two out of your last


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[Assistant] I'm gonna have to go back to the drawing board here. I was hoping that would be permanent. I was like, I hope, see you, you, you did it smart because you pick all the classic helmets that will never change. So you never have to change your top five.


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[Assistant] Thank you, thank you. I think that's it. Chris, we still went over an hour. Even with all the technical difficulties, my crappy microphone, me in a giant room here, we still went over an hour.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's no coincidence that, you know, Greenwich is like some of the richest people in the Northeast. It's like, oh wow, power is back within like minutes there. Unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, I did the research. You buttoned up. I went one button up. Well, this is a shirt that you get caught in between. Right. So some shirt, you don't have to worry about this, someone who buttons all the way up. Yeah, thank you. But for someone like me, like a normal person, who does unbutton, see some shirts, one button is a little too stuffy. Right. Right?


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[Assistant] Chris, I was looking up. We like to rank things on this show. You love to rank things. Because you create a firestorm. I guess I do, yes. I looked up our podcast rankings. I looked them up. Because they have those. They take listens and downloads and all that stuff. Currently in America right now, where do you think we are? On Apple Podcasts.


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[Assistant] We're not happy with that. And I looked at the list, there's some dogs ahead of us. We gotta catch them. But here you go, but I'm gonna cheer you up right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, in China? Yeah. 28th. Whoa. So we're doing better there. Whoo! 23rd in Australia. Bam. 17th in France. Bam. 10th in Iceland. Oh, well. So we're big there, we're top 10. France and Iceland, I gotta go there, I'm hot. 9th in Romania. Alright. 5th in Chile. 3rd.


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[Assistant] You know, that's tough to beat for us. That's their native language. But we're third there. If we can get to be second or first in the Dominican Republic, then I'll be happy. That's my new goal. That's your new goal?


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[Assistant] To carry the weight there. Uh, so fun to look at, fun to grade ourselves because you're about to grade, uh, these football games. We got four of them that you looked into. Yep. In depth. Deeper dive. Deeper dives. This is what the F happened on Wednesday. Uh, we got the four games are Texas Titans,


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[Assistant] Looking at both sides of the ball, Chiefs offense, Broncos, Patriots looking at both sides of the ball, Rams 49ers both sides of the ball. And then at the end, we'll have a little bit of a variation on the Trevor Lawrence top pick power rankings. I assembled a super team.


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[Assistant] From the NFC East. Best players from every team.


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[Assistant] If you take a whole conference and just put all their best players together. Division, division. Yeah, division. If you're not the best team in football, you have a real problem.


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[Assistant] First, let's start with a team that could be the best team in football right now. You could make that argument.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the, uh, Tennessee Titans versus the Houston Texans. So much scoring in this game. 42-36, Titans came back to win after, uh, the Texans came back. It really was a good offensive game. I don't know if you're a defensive player or coach, you wanna look at the film too much.


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[Assistant] Right, uhm, but let's start, cause this is all on what the F happened on specific plays. Let's start with a 94 yard touchdown from Derek Henry, uh, where he just proved once again that he is such a unique talent and can do things that no one else can do power wise and speed wise. Yea, no, he is. He's a unique talent.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you what I saw here too with this play, which I thought was interesting, is that, you know, you got the right guard, Ben Jones, a good job of pushing the defense.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the next-gen was right. Next-gen was right. Okay, alright. And what happens a lot of times on these, Chris, is this is what I thought as you see Derek Henry running, even in next-gen dots, he's super fast. The linebacker's always getting caught up in the mess, it seems like, and then it's all over when you got a safety trying to


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[Assistant] So you're looking at this Titan scheme as a whole, and early on you noted that they were doing zone cutbacks early on. All it was. That's basically what they were doing.


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[Assistant] So this is what I'm starting to think with the Tennessee Titans. I think a lot of people have evaluated this offense as Ryan Tannehill.


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[Assistant] Game manager, ground and pound, kind of a boring offense. Good players don't necessarily stand out, but they do just enough to win ball games. From seeing them against a team like the Texans here and throughout this year, I mean, they haven't lost a game.


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[Assistant] Is there a chance that we are underselling the amount of talent and what they're doing schematically with this titans?


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[Assistant] So Sloppy Jojo Cards wants to put you to the task here. Chris, if you were to create a defensive game plan to stop the Titans offense, what would you do? I think they're very underrated, such a complete attack, which you just said here. So what would you do? If you're a defensive coordinator, you're seeing Derek Henry, you feel like number one, you gotta stop him, right?


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[Assistant] You can't have it all in your head there. Uhm, end of the game. Did you see anything special? End of the game with Tannahill, the last drive to tie it in overtime. They had that big play action pass in overtime. They do.


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[Assistant] Offense looks so good, so good when Derrick Henry is running wild like that. Uh, can we pour one out for Deshaun Watson? Oh, well, I mean, yes, I mean, he's only the only reason they were in the game. 138.9 passer rating, the highest in a loss in NFL history. Minimum. Is that right? 37 pass attempts. Holy shit. Minimum 37.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna throw that in there. Woah. Uh, but he was, yeaah, without him, they lose by 20.


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[Assistant] You like Jeffrey Simmons in this game early on, defensive lineman for uh, for Tennessee. Second year out of Mississippi State, he's the 19th overall pick.


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[Assistant] So, you mentioned Jadevian Clowney a couple of times here. Ivan Milan wanted to know a little bit more. Is he making an impact on this Titans defense? And so, what about the future of Jadevian Clowney? Yeah. Because...


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[Assistant] Texans are what, one in five now? One in five, yep. Not great.


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[Assistant] Cause it was a different offense. You've talked about it a couple times already. It was a run heavy short passing game offense. Here's a tweet from Thad Brown covers sports in the Rochester area. He says, sure, 245 rush yards is bad.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes, first game where Kansas City had more rush yards than passing yards. They had 46 rushing attempts in the game.


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[Assistant] Most ever under Andy Reid, who's now in his 8th season. It's amazing. Most ever rushing yards in a game under Andy Reid. Well, yeah. 245. So it was, it was.


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[Assistant] I'm not going to say an anomaly, but it was the unique game in that fact. The question is, how many teams will the Chiefs in the future feel the need to play this way?


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[Assistant] Well here's a concerning play for me too, the Kelsey 12 yard touchdown.


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[Assistant] Andy Reid, you're watching other coaches, you're stealing from Sean McVeigh, you're stealing from other coaches, and you're listening to what else is out there, what else is being said.


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[Assistant] The lead ball will come in and he'll take some pressure off Edward Zellare, but Edward Zellare is the most talented back there in Kansas City.


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[Assistant] New England Patriots have a good running game with their quarterback, mostly. But there are some concerns as they fall to 2-3 and Denver improves to 2-3. Broncos beat the Patriots 18-12.


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[Assistant] Talk around this game is rightfully so. The Patriots and the lack of practice and Bill Belichick hasn't been able to put a stamp on it. But I think that diminishes some of the good things that the


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[Assistant] Broncos were able to do to slow down Cam Newton and the Patriots. Despite all that, you looked at the film, you looked at both sides on this one, right?


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[Assistant] Let's start with Cam Newton. Yeah. Uhm, and the New England Patriots offense. Right. Was this just the offense screwing up? Was this the offense shooting themselves in the foot? Or were there some players, I'm thinking of Malik Reid, undrafted out of Nevada, on the Denver Broncos side, who made life really, really hard for him? Yeah, no, I mean, I don't want to


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[Assistant] The Patriots know. It can. Okay. It can. Cause they got two rookies starting. Yep. Heron, out of Wake Forest, and Awenu out of Michigan.


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[Assistant] They got Illuminor, the main Illuminor.


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[Assistant] Made his fourth, uh, start this year. That's right. And then he got hurt. Then he got hurt. Yeah. Uh, but you still, you still saw good things from the offensive line.


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[Assistant] That, that was a fumble. I mean, maybe he's waiting for some of his receivers to get open. This is coming from Alex Thomas. He goes, where was Nkeel Harry? Where has he been? And do the Patriots have enough offensive weapons to beat the premier teams in the NFL? That's gonna be, I'm not sure.


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[Assistant] Alright, so you're not giving a ton of credit to the Broncos for stopping Patriots, and is that partly because they roasted you on Twitter? No. Because if you go to their Twitter feed, the Denver Broncos Twitter feed,


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[Assistant] They roasted you in a video, a former player nonetheless. Like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you admit your mistakes, but for whatever reason, you get under people's skin. I guess I do, because I make strong


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[Assistant] Can we talk about real quick the last four plays of the game? Because it did seem like Vic Fangio was bringing the pressure, uh, to Cam quite a bit there. And that was significant because it did look like after this whole game where it looked like, ah, the Broncos can do this. They were like, wow, the Patriots probably are going to pull the rabbit out of the hat and figure out a way to win this game late. Didn't happen.


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[Assistant] They needed to score enough points, they did that off the leg of Brandon McManus. Yup. Undrafted, out of tempo. There are three undrafted guys who played big in this one. Brandon McManus, Malik Reid, Philip Lindsay returned from turf toe, he had a hundred yards, uhm, but,


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[Assistant] Drew Locke. Yeaah. I almost was thinking I saw the passer rating.


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[Assistant] To the film. Pro Football Focus, I was reading stuff on their website, they said it was a really good game. It was.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't think a 34 passer rating gets you and Pro Football Focus pumped up about Drew Locke, but it did.


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[Assistant] And I've never seen this before. On average through the ball, eight yards past the first down marker. So they were going, they really were. It was like in any situation, they were going deep down the field. And I know you had to love that third and 21.


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[Assistant] So the, the Patriots defense, you know, last year they were special. They were elite. They lost to a lot of guys.


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[Assistant] You know what? I think you're right. You're probably right. That's what they're doing. What was interesting is that you're right. He didn't start in this game. Played 72% of snaps.


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[Assistant] Last week versus Kansas City, started, played every snap. Yeaah. So I was like yeaah, we need em, versus the Chiefs, we don't want em to miss any time. Exactly. Maybe we can get by. Right. Without em, starting. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know, and they're on that cover too whole, shall we talk about? I feel like we're getting into like, conspiracy theory territory. Well, it's okay, a lot of times.


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[Assistant] Three and three sounds a whole lot better than two and four, especially when you look at the schedule that the 49ers have upcoming here.


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[Assistant] 49ers to George Kittle. That's what we're gonna start with here. You got the dots. Uh, Chris, there it is. Touchdown George Kittle. Gone. Looks so easy.


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[Assistant] So like you mentioned, Rams rushed six, so all the five routes were man up, and they had Darius Williams on George Kittle. Why not Jalen Ramsey?


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[Assistant] When you have, for him, most are running like he is. Oh, come on. Debo back. Debo Samuel, yards after the catch for him. Of course you're gonna get that with a receiver if your pass game is right around the line of screen.


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[Assistant] So let me show you the comparison between the two quarterbacks then. You will not be surprised to know that Jimmy G had the fewest air yards downfield, 4.4 yards per pass. Fewest this week.


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[Assistant] In the NFL. Interestingly enough, Jared Goff had a little more. Second most intended air yards per pass, 12.3 yards downfield. So you'd think, okay, that's, they're doing something that they haven't normally done. Or, how does Chris Simpson see it?


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[Assistant] So was this just a situation where the 49ers, despite the injury to Nick Bosa, they're just talented enough to be able to get Sean McVay and the Rams out of what they want to do offensively, or is it something that other teams now can look at and be like, uh, maybe we can do this?


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[Assistant] They were hurt by a lack of time of possession in the first half. Oh my gosh. Sean McVay told us at halftime that was an issue.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just didn't have the ball. No. But I know from spying on your notes too, you loved one particular player for the 49ers, cornerback Jason Verrett. Oh my gosh, well.


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[Assistant] Former first round pick out of TCU, played for the Chargers. His injury history is crazy. Two torn ACLs, a torn Labrum, a torn Achilles. Oof. Come back from all of it. All of it.


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[Assistant] Pete has fact checked you, he's looked into the numbers and he said entering last week, golf had an NFL best 9 yards per attempt but 6.4 average depth, the target was the second lowest, only the Drew Brees.


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[Assistant] Yes, I'll give you that. No doubt. Alright, we put that one to bed. I think so, I think we did it. Alright, that's the four games you did the deep dive on. Uh, Chris scribbled his notes. I was able to read a lot of them, um, which was good. It was just rare. Sometimes I can't.


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[Assistant] Alright, we'll finish it out with this. No new Trevor Lawrence top pick power rankings, but I will say, you know, we had Jets, Lions, football team, Giants, and Jaguars in there last time. Those same five teams are in there, again. There's no team that has dropped out, no team that has entered.


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[Assistant] In terms of Trevor Lawrence Top Pick Power Ranking. So we're gonna do a little different. Pete suggested this. Also, KyleThomas24 said,


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[Assistant] A couple weeks back, if you combine the Jets and Giants roster, would they, would they move up or would they still be the worst in the Trevor Lawrence Top Pick Power Ranking? So this is what we're going to do. I went through the rosters of every team in the NFC East and I'm combining them to make the best starting 11 on offense, best starting 11 on defense.


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[Assistant] We're gonna look at Mike Florio's power rankings, and then you're gonna place this hybrid team. Yeah. Pete calls them the lamest version of Voltron ever.


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[Assistant] into the power rankings and see where they are. Okay. And if they're not number one, if they're not number one, we really have an issue.


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[Assistant] We really do. Alright, so offense, you want to start there? Yeah, let's do it. Quarterback, Carson Wentz. I almost went with Daniel Jones just to kind of throw some fun in there. No, but you go with Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz, Zeekas are running back, Amari Cooper, Darius Slayton, Terry McLaurin, the three receivers. I think you're right.


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[Assistant] Dallas Goddard, I'm putting him at tight end. Okay, I like that. My line, and I switched right guard, left guard a little bit. You can be versatile, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, guards are Zach Martin. Yeah, we just gotta get the best 11 on the field. Best 11, Brandon Sheriff for Washington. Uh, tackles are Morgan Moses for Washington and Lane Johnson for Philadelphia. Okay, I got no problem there. My center is Jason Kelsey. Jason Kelsey. Okay, so that's the offense. That's a talent.


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[Assistant] Right. Well, he's starting from my, uh, my lamest version of Voltron ever. Yep. Defensively. Defensive tackles, I got two of them, Fletcher Cox, Eagles, and I got Delvin Tomlinson. Ooh. For the Giants. Okay. I thought about him or Leonard Williams, but pro football focus likes the year Tomlinson's had.


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[Assistant] My edge guys are Demarcus Lawrence, the Cowboys, and Chase Young from Washington. Okay. Uhm. Why, you don't like that? I thought that was hard to argue with.


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[Assistant] Uh, linebackers, I got a couple of them, Blake Martinez for the Giants, and Kevin Pierre Lewis, pro football focus, high on him this year, so he is the 13th best linebacker for Washington.


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[Assistant] Uh, three corners, we're playing Nickel. Kendall Fuller for Washington, James Bradbury for the Giants, and Darius Slay for the Eagles.


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[Assistant] Very good football player. And the two safeties got Landon Collins for Washington, Rodney McLeod for the Eagles.


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[Assistant] I thought, you know how much I love Gallup, you know how much, you know, CD Lamb you could think, but I was like no. No, I like the three you got. I'm down with that. Alright, so I like, the offense seems better than the defense. Defense seems to have some question marks. Defense doesn't have the star power you would think it would. And the stars are aging stars a little bit.


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[Assistant] Are they not number one? Is there a team, a football team that you would take over this football team?


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[Assistant] What's their biggest weakness? How would you attack this team? What's their, is their weakness defense? You think you could score on them?


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[Assistant] Alright, so maybe they should consider it. Maybe they should. They're not, I mean, what are they, what are they doing this year? Well, just shut down three of the teams, take all the players, transfer them to one other team, and win something.


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[Assistant] You're like, you're on notice though. Like, you've been put on notice. Like, if you're 9 and 7, if you're a team, it's like, you almost didn't host that playoff.


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[Assistant] You're really putting money on a team in the end. I think you should not put money. It's like betting on the Lions. It's like, just save your money. Even if you're sure, save your money.


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[Assistant] We end with a question from Pete. If the Giants win tomorrow night,


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[Assistant] Would you change your mind and say the Eagles are not the favorite?


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[Assistant] Uh, this is over. Our podcast is over. Well done. I learned a lot right there. And I'm gonna use some of that information and put it onto my TikTok videos, which I, by the way, am becoming a huge star. Well, you're a big star anyways.


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[Assistant] But it's still pretty good, you know, and, and you know, some of those games where we went seven and seven and five and nine against the spread. I mean, come on, they're tough. I don't know what else to say. Some of them I would never bet or do anything like that. So we got to pick them, whatever. It's all right. We got a rebound. It's okay. We're still good. We're still above 500. We're making people money.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm gonna go with the Carolina Panthers in this one, 20 to 17. And yeaah, it's, it's, this is a tough one. I mean, it is kind of a coin flip, uh, football game here. But the way the Carolina Panthers have been executing at offense,


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[Assistant] I think they're going to be able to muster enough offense. There's enough weapons and enough offense there to even make a good defense like Chicago go whoa.


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[Assistant] You know, again, DJ Moore, Robbie Anderson, the running game. You know, some of the other guys that are good role players that support them. You know, there's something there. The system, I kind of like that too. And then I think the thing that's just gonna give me, that makes me sway just a little bit in the Panthers advantage.


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[Assistant] Panther's playing pretty good defense lately. And this is not a great offense with Chicago. So I'm going to take them at home, kind of winning a ugly close football game, kind of a gut thing here. I, I, I do think like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I don't doubt that. I don't doubt that one bit, you know, and I think Carolina can kind of play that respect card too, just like, oh, nobody's given us, gave us a chance. Look where we are. Let's keep fighting all that. But you're right. And to me, you explained it, right? I think it comes down to that Bears offense. Like you said, it's really where it is.


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[Assistant] I'm betting that Carolina gets a little bit of the edge there. You're saying Nick Foles will make a player two to get it done. The one thing that you bring up about Foles, I think that is very right. That's the great thing about him too, when things are bad.


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[Assistant] He doesn't affect it. I mean, last week that was ugly on offense for a long time, but he didn't panic. He didn't try to force the ball, force a play to happen, allowed them to hang around and they just got enough of a mojo to pull out the football game. So yeah, the Bears are one of those teams. I don't know. I mean, they beat the Lions, the Giants and the Falcons to start the year and none of them were very impressive.


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[Assistant] And then they got dominated by the Colts and then they beat a good Bucs team. So yeah, I guess we're still in the process of figuring out how good they really are.


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[Assistant] Sorry, Bengals fans. I know I don't say Bengals, but I'm from New Jersey in the Bengals 80s band and all that. Sorry, it's a tough one for me. But I'm taking the Colts.


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[Assistant] Regardless. I don't think Jersey has anything to do with it. I think you'd be saying that wherever you were from. I think one of the girls on the bangles was from New Jersey. If I'm not, I might be wrong, but I'll, we'll have to look that up. It doesn't make it any better. All right. Either way. No, it does not. I know it doesn't. Uh, what, but I'm going to go with the Colts. Of course I am. I mean, come on this pass rush.


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[Assistant] Against that pass protection of Joel Burrow, you know, again, they can make some plays in Cincinnati and do some things. They move the ball a little bit, but I just think ultimately they're overmatched on that side of the ball. And then we kind of hit on like this earlier in the day.


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[Assistant] You know, the Bengals can't stop the run. They just lost DJ Reader for the year. And I think the Colts got to start getting back to running the football and not let it go through Philip Rivers right arm, which is sometimes shaky. So I'm going Colts 24 14 in this one.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm going with the Lions. I mean, I can't get behind Jacksonville in that defense right now. There's no way. And you know, the offense, there's some, there's, you know, some redeeming qualities, but it's a little bit all over the place too. It's a drive where you go, whoa, that was impressive. That looked really good. And then it's two or three drives of like, well, what the hell is that? They did nothing there.


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[Assistant] And their defense has not stopped or made plays against anybody recently. I mean, really, the whole year. So, because that, and yea, the Lions are 1-3 in the same record, but the Lions' losses have been better than...


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[Assistant] Than, than, uh, Jacksonville's, that's for sure. I mean, they were in some games and had it there to be won. I mean, we know what they did against the Bears. The Saints game was a...


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[Assistant] I mean, a toss-up moment, right? I mean, so they had plenty of moments this year to where they could be a little bit better. I'm gonna go with the Lions 31-27. I think there will be a lot of plays on the offensive side of the ball, obviously, but I'm going with Stafford and Detroit.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go Minnesota. Again, the way Atlanta's defense is not impressive. Minnesota's found their mojo on the offensive side of the ball with the way they run. I think they found the correct formula as far as using those guys in the, you know, in the past game, Thielen and Justin Jefferson, who looks like a superstar.


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[Assistant] You know, and, and yeah, that's a coaching change, but it's still the same regime there and everything. And I just think there's just a bad taste there and, and, and Atlanta and there's just not enough of like, uh,


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[Assistant] There's just not enough offense there either for me to go, even though Minnesota's defense is not great.


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[Assistant] I'm not looking at Atlanta like Seattle or some of these other teams. I think Minnesota can, I mean, Atlanta's not a good running team. You know, I know they ran the ball a little bit better last week, but I have a hard time thinking that's gonna happen against Minnesota.


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[Assistant] And I just don't think Minnesota is going to give up a lot of big plays or at least plays like we saw with Russell Wilson. I think they're playing better football. Vikings have sneaky, sneaky been better the last three weeks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, now they've had two losses in those three weeks, but could have beat the Titans like we've talked about, and certainly could have beat Seattle. So I think they're kind of going upward trend, where Atlanta, I think it's like, sorry, season's over, we're not sure if we're gonna be here anymore, COVID-19, I'm not sure if the team will be the same, see ya, sorry Atlanta, bye bye, 2720 Bikes.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I do like the Patriots. I mean, we know that. I mean, we can't pick the Broncos. Drew Locke, first game back, like you said, against that Patriots defense who just gave


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[Assistant] All those issues to Patrick Mahomes and company and really stymied that offense. I just don't know if there's enough offense to go around, you know, with the, with the Denver Broncos. And I don't think their running attack is good enough necessarily. And especially now, I don't know what's going to go on with Melvin Gordon, right? I mean, is he playing this week or what? Um,


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[Assistant] But I don't know if there's enough of a running tack where I just go, oh.


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[Assistant] They're going to take advantage of the fact that the Patriots don't have a lot of big people on their team. I don't think that's the case. And then the other side of the ball, Denver's defense, you know, it's just, it's average at this point. It's kind of reeling and I'm not sure it might not just continue to get worse here as more and more time goes without any.


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[Assistant] Difference making front seven type of football players. So with that, Cam Newton being back in the fold, I think just slowly but surely, Patriots impose their will. 28-13 New England.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I like Washington. Uh, I'm not betting on this game. I would never tell people to bet with teams that are bad teams because they can dominate games and find ways to lose, that's for sure. But I like Washington better than I like the New York Giants and what I see right there right now. I mean, the Giants offense stinks. There's no other way to say it.


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[Assistant] You know, I know people are going to look at it and go, well, they scored 34 points last week. Well, they had a deep defensive touchdown. They had another short field and the Cowboys defense is one of the worst in football. So I think when I look at all of those things.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, uh, then like Washington, defense is good. And I think there is a few things to like about the Washington offense. If they can just get a little something out of the quarterback play.


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[Assistant] I do. You know, Brandon Scherf coming back at the, at the offensive line. Run game shows glimmers every week. And then of course, there's a few receivers and Terry McCormick, I think is one of the 10 best receivers in the NFL right now. So with that,


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[Assistant] And that defensive line against a Giants offense that's inept, uh, I'm going to go with Washington to win a close, ugly football game. I'm going to say 20 to 14 Washington.


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[Assistant] I thought about that too. Uhm, you know, the Eagles are a physical football team. We see them hang in there with Pittsburgh last week. I can understand the line not being much bigger than that.


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[Assistant] I can, uhm, I don't see it that way. I think Baltimore is going to win by more than that. I do. You know, again.


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[Assistant] This, this to me is different than, yeah, Pittsburgh's a great defense and, oh, Philadelphia hung in there. And now Baltimore's a great defense. Philadelphia should hang in there as well.


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[Assistant] No, this is a different style of a great defense, and there's gonna be less easy throws for Karsten Wentz this week than there was last week. They are. They're a little bit more sound with what they do in Baltimore, and


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[Assistant] I doubt it. I don't see them getting gashed in the run game for a big play or doing something like that. And the fact is they can blitz and really lock you up man to man, especially this group for Philadelphia where Pittsburgh can't do those types of things. Pittsburgh doesn't have good man to man corners. I mean, Joe Hayden is their best corner and Philadelphia anytime they were in man,


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[Assistant] At Joe Hayden, they said, no, we like that matchup. We're going after 23. So Baltimore doesn't have that guy and Philly's offense is compromised. And then, you know, Philly's defense I think can physically hang in there.


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[Assistant] But I just think it's ultimately going to be too much. What really worries me about Philly's defense is their linebackers stink.


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[Assistant] I mean, it is an interesting matchup. There is a lot of talent on the football field, like you're talking about.


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[Assistant] I do think this Steelers defense is really freaking good. Now, they get burned, and this is something I've been talking about in my podcast. They over blitz, which I don't understand. What's the point of having this great defense aligned if you're blitzing? I don't get it. Still don't understand. I mean, the game last week, when they blitzed, Carson Wentz torched them. When they played coverage, he couldn't find anybody open.


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[Assistant] You know, what's the point of having Stefan Tuett and Cameron Hayward and TJ Watt and Bud Dupree if you're not just gonna let them work. So I'd like to see that more out of Pittsburgh. I do think that...


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[Assistant] I just can't imagine Cleveland having a ton of success on Pittsburgh's run game. And these are the type of games where, yea, I know Pittsburgh let off the big touchdown run last week.


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[Assistant] They weren't worried about the run game as much as Philadelphia. I think Pittsburgh's one of those teams where they go, Ooh, wait, they can run the ball a little bit and they kind of button it all up. And I think, I don't imagine Cleveland being able to run the ball consistently well. And then I still don't think the pass game.


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[Assistant] Is there to carry them yet? I don't. It's getting better. I think Stephanski's got a phenomenal job of managing them and everything like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I, that's what I worry about for Cleveland on the offensive side of the ball. On the other side of the ball. Yeah. I, I worry about Pittsburgh's offense too. I do because they can't run the ball. Cleveland is a team that can rush the passer and just send four and drop seven and make things.


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[Assistant] And I'm going to go with Pittsburgh to win the football game. 28 to 21. Uh, I'm not going to make it a best bet or anything like that. I do think it's kind of a coin toss game, but I think in the matchup, I, I like, uh, Steelers advantage a little bit. I really hate


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're gonna go, man, my gut, my spaghetti, my meatballs was telling me Cleveland and I didn't do it and I didn't listen and I always listen to spaghetti and meatballs because I'm like Florio. So yeah, I get it. But I think I'm, and I'm joking, but of course I, I hear you. Your points are, are very real.


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[Assistant] They re- they really are. I- I- I don't doubt that at all. I mean, I worry about that, certainly. And the Steelers do have a real legitimate, like, put a team away problem. Because they can't run the ball, they run the clock out. They're- they're horrible at running. And then their defense, it goes back to something I said early on. They get a lead, and they go for, like, the jugular too much. To where I wanna go, like,


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[Assistant] We don't have to like pulverize them into the ground. We just have to stop them from scoring again. We don't have to like embarrass them and get 10 defensive touchdowns. How about just not let them score right here and the game will be over.


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[Assistant] I hope they realize that. The numbers have to start to show them that when they blitz, they get torched and when they play coverage, they're really awesome. We'll see if they learn that this week. I'm really excited about this game. It's cool to have a Brown Steelers game that means something. I know that. It's cool for football. And even though there's a lot of bad games


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[Assistant] I agree, and then you know, short week is worrisome, like you said, it is. Now the good thing is though, it's such a common opponent, and nothing's changed, that they're gonna have great


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[Assistant] You know, knowledge or comfort level of going, wait, we know what to expect from Houston here, even though it's a short week and everything like that.


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[Assistant] We know how they play defense. Vrabel, he knows that defense. It's the defense he played under and Romeo Cornell. So he's going to know a lot of those rules and out of the fact that the Texas defense just stinks. There's no, nothing more to that. They can't stop the run or the pass.


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[Assistant] That is danger, danger, danger against the Tennessee Titans who can really do both at a very high level and especially


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[Assistant] When they know they got you by the kahunas in the run game, then you're done because then you start going, oh, we got, we can't stop this big soldier at running back and we got to put more people in there. And when Tennessee drops back to pass, they're not looking for four yards. They're looking for 40.


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[Assistant] So I'm with you. I mean, I'm going with the Titans here all the way. I gave the Texans a few extra points.


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[Assistant] Just because I could see the game being like 34 13, like you're saying, text and score late touchdown or do something like that. I picked 34 24, but I certainly expect like you're saying.


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[Assistant] And if they can get their receivers back with AJ Brown and get Corey Davis back and Adam Humphries back who are on the COVID-19 list and all that.


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[Assistant] Humphries is back. AJ Brown played Tuesday night, so, so Davis is the last one. So that'll be, they get him back, and Mike, sorry, one more team here, I don't mean to be long.


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[Assistant] But Tennessee, I hope they figured something out on Tuesday night too. Stop being so damn aggressive. They play these great zone coverages and all this mix up stuff.


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[Assistant] And Buffalo Bills, the most exposed, one of the most explosive offices in football had issues. So I hope they learn something too about like not always going for the jugular so hard. Uh, but I'm liking the way that Titans team looked and, uh, I'm, I'm going with them.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, come on. I mean, I like the Dolphins because they don't suck like the Jets do. I mean, that's why. Is that good enough? Can we move on to the next game?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I have no faith in the Jets and the Dolphins, as you mentioned just before. They're not chopped liver. I mean, they've played everybody tough. They could've beat the Bills, they could've beat the Seahawks.


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[Assistant] They whooped the crap out of the 49ers last week. So when I look at it from that aspect and that bears offense, that's, I mean that Jets offense that has nothing. I mean nothing.


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[Assistant] And that Dolphins defense is starting to kinda look like something. I mean, they got big guys in the middle and they got great corners on the outside. Byron Jones is back.


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[Assistant] Man, there's no way the Jets are scoring points in this one. I'm going Dolphins 24-13. Uh, it won't be easy, like Fitzpatrick and them I think could have some moments of being struggling against that Jets defense, but they'll break it down and win that football game. No doubt about that. 24-13, Dolphins. So you got the Dolphins


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[Assistant] Yeah, I get you there. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked either, especially the fact that, you know, Gays is going back to Miami and all of that. There's a little incentive there to that. So, uh, I wouldn't be shocked. I wouldn't be shocked if that was the case.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be awesome. Yeah, there's no question. I mean, like right now at this point in time in 2020, there's no comparison. I mean, Rogers is clearly the better quarterback. You're right about that. You know, uhm, but I do think Brady and the offense and Tampa, I mean, like we've seen, we've seen some goodness there. We certainly have.


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[Assistant] You know, they blew some opportunities there that game last week to kind of put it away, really put the Bears in a tough spot, all of that. They gotta be a little bit pissed by the way they played in that football game.


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[Assistant] I think this is going to be a really close football game. I think we could see a lot of big plays in the pass game.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, I'm gonna go with the bucks in this one. I am. Because I'm just not, yeaah, I know. I'm just not sold. I'm, I'm, I'm calling Aaron


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[Assistant] I'm just not sold on that defense. It ain't cause of Aaron Rodgers. It's the fact that it's 30 points against the saints and you know, 20 points, 21 points against the lions. And it was, it could have been more than that. And the way the Vikings game looked early and even the Falcons, they were dysfunctional. There was opportunities there too. I mean, so


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[Assistant] I just not sure about that. And Tampa, the fact that they've been able to run the ball a little bit lately, they can pass protect.


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[Assistant] Green Bay will give you opportunities to make big pass plays down the field. And that's what scares me a little bit. And then you flip it around and that Tampa off, I mean, uh, that Tampa defense, you know, I don't think Green Bay's gonna have the luxury of being able to rely on the run game. I'd be shocked.


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[Assistant] I just don't see how you can run on Tampa. Those dudes, those dudes are awesome in there. You know, when it comes to stopping the run, if you made me pick one defensive front seven, I'm taking them. Now Vita Via is not there and that stinks, but they're still really good. Vita Via. Vita Via. Damn it. I can't get that damn name right.


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[Assistant] I just think that Tampa defense to slow down.


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[Assistant] Rogers than I do the other way around right now. Now what makes me a little skeptical is we don't know Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. That bothers the hell out of me.


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[Assistant] Whether they're going to play, but I'm going to take the bucks right now and I'm acting like they're going to play and I'm going to go 34, 31 bucks. I think they, they're realizing it's kind of a big game for them. They got to be a little bit desperate here. You go to your third loss right here. You're going to be fighting here the rest of the way.


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[Assistant] I don't know, maybe it's just I'm scarred of years of him trying to carry the team that I just don't trust them all the time. I think the points you bring up, obviously I picked the bucks to win a close one.


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[Assistant] But I do think the points you bring up and some of the psychology there.


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[Assistant] Underdogs, I'm not going to make it the best bet because I could see a scenario like you're talking about to where that scares me. I'm, I'm going on the.


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[Assistant] I think they might have to play a little bit desperate this week and they realize how big this game is because they got some big games coming up on their schedule to Tampa Bay to where I think they'll realize that, but I am very scared of kind of the aspect and things you brought up and know what the hell is his name? The defensive tackle.


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[Assistant] For the Bucks. Vita Vea. Vita Vea. One of these years. I'm sorry Mr. Vita Vea, but that does scare me though that maybe they won't be as good a run defense. We'll see where it goes.


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[Assistant] Well, I like the Rams, you know, I mean, I'm obviously biased. I mean, you know, I'm rooting for Kyle Shanahan. I like Sean McVay a whole lot and consider him a friend, but you know, Kyle.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's my buddy, and, and, but I'm worried about them as a football team. How could I not, how could you not be? How could you not be with what you saw last week? You know, that defense, the way they played. I mean, the Dolphins spread them out and just torched them in the pass game. You know, I think, I, I gotta worry about that a little here with, with, uh, the Rams coming to town.


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[Assistant] I mean, the 49ers defense, it's still good, but there's issues. And the pass rush certainly isn't as good to where they're just going to be able to, oh, we'll rush four and drop seven. I mean, Bosa and D-Ford, they're not there. They're different.


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[Assistant] They're different, and the Ramso line's pretty damn good. And I've really only seen...


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[Assistant] One team so far this year slowed down the Rams and that was the Giants oddly enough but that was because the Giants had a lot of big people on their demons in line and they could kind of just say you guys stop the run and I can use all these guys to do the pass stuff and all that. I don't think the 49ers have that luxury and then I think the other thing I just look at is


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[Assistant] You know, as creative as Shanahan is and everything, and at least they're getting a little healthier on that side of the ball, they might be able to move the ball a little and do those. The Rams just don't give up big plays.


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[Assistant] Other than the Josh Allen, they've been pretty damn good. And this Rams defense is really damn good.


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[Assistant] They don't blitz, they got that Aaron Donald against two guys inside that are suspect. I'm going Rams, 23-20 and a close one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know, this is two of my favorite quarterbacks in the game right now. They're awesome. They're fun to watch. I do think there's a little personal aspect there of like Josh Allen wants to prove that he's...


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[Assistant] Somewhat close on the same level of Patrick Mahomes and all that. He certainly has.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's just not a good formula against the Kansas City Chiefs. Now when Mahomes can just sit there and buy time and buy time and you can't play man to man on some of these guys with some extra help of other guys to help in the man.


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[Assistant] You know, because they're going to have to blitz or pressure. I just look at that and go, oh, that's advantage Chiefs there. Now I do think the Bills are going to make some big plays too on that Chiefs defense.


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[Assistant] The Chiefs have playmakers on defense, and we see them make a few plays every single game.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna add, with that aspect and the fact of Spagnolo, Spagnolo, Steve Spagnolo always does something a little off the cuff, outside the box.


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[Assistant] I think he'll have a little bit more of a game plan to stop Josh Allen and that, that offense as compared to the other way around. And because I'm going to go with a shootout still, I'm going to go the Chiefs though, 38-34.


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[Assistant] I think they're gonna lose. I'm picking them up. Yeah, I am. You know, Arizona.


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[Assistant] As much as I was kind of touting them a few weeks ago, going into that Carolina matchup, and even though they had just lost to Detroit, I went, oh, there's some things I like and everything like that, I feel like I've almost done a 180 from that point, because I've just gotten weight.


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[Assistant] Like a few of the wrinkles I saw on the offensive side of the ball, they've kind of disappeared. It's back to just four wides and then, you know, short passing game and basic, you know, college crap there on that side of the ball. And then the defense...


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[Assistant] I think what I saw a little bit is a defense that I probably thought was a little better than what it was.


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[Assistant] With how Carolina moved the ball on them. You know, even Detroit the week before that. I know it was better last week, but the Jets stink.


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[Assistant] I just think it's gonna be tough for them. This Cowboys offense is still talented, Andy Dalton can still make plays, and because


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[Assistant] Tells about what they do and where they attack to where they can just be respectable. I'm going to go Cowboys 30 to 27, kind of like I got some pasta in my gut, but I'm not Italian. So I'll go like meat and potatoes. All right. I got some in there that's just telling me go with Dallas. This Dak Prescon injury could bring everybody together a little bit.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I'm gonna, the first one I'm gonna go to is New England. That's, that's where I'm gonna go to start the day off. Because the Patriots playing Denver 10 point favorites, I'm riding the points. And I've been doing okay riding the points lately. And I just drew Locke's first game back against this defense and everything like that. And then Cam Newton back and that running attack.


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[Assistant] Lack of defensive tackles for the, for the Denver Broncos. I just think like either they blow them out from the get-go or they just slowly wear them down, but I'm going to Patriots as my first best bet.


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[Assistant] I just, I don't like betting on teams that are just eh, eh, or make mistakes every now and then. I'm gonna go with the Ravens for the third week in a row, cause they have not disappointed me. That's why. Yeaah, they're favored, what are they favored by? Seven and a half? You know, I could see them winning by 20.


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[Assistant] I can see them at the worst. I feel like they're just going to win by 10 or something like that. I just don't see how Philadelphia can move the ball on them. And then Philadelphia's defense it's good, but I just don't think it's good enough to shut down this Ravens offense and stop Lamar and some of the one-on-one matchups they're going to get in the pass game. I think you'll see Andrews and Hollywood Brown make some big plays.


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[Assistant] My next one, I'm gonna go Tennessee Titans. I'm a little scared here just because it's a short week aspect and all that stuff, but I just think they're so clearly the better football team and have such an advantage with their offense as compared to the Texans defense that


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[Assistant] It's going to pose major problems. I wouldn't be surprised. The first drive of the game, the Tennessee Titans went down on a 10 minute drive, scored a touchdown, something like that. And then they have to overcompensate and stop the run and just bombs away. So I am, I'm going to ride with the Titans. I'm going 34, 24. Uh, and uh, I feel pretty, you know, I feel good about that. Other than that short week for Tennessee.


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[Assistant] I thought about it too. I, I did, I wrote that down too as a possible over or whatever. Yeah, it was 55. Uhm, definitely, it could be one of those things where you're so excited for the quarterback to shoot out that, you know, these defenses do some things that maybe you wouldn't expect them to do and there's like an overcorrection there. But, uh, I hear you. Alright, I hope you lose all of them and I win all of them.


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[Assistant] Maybe 23. Oh, maybe. You're right. Maybe 23, maybe 29, maybe 31. I don't know. It depends on the day. I will talk crap about your team. No, if they play crappy, I don't care. I don't play favorites, right? I'm gonna be fair about it. I mean, you know, I talk crap about my family members when they do things I don't like.


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[Assistant] I go longer, I got some black Nike socks on. What's your tattoo of? Oh, that's my longhorn there. Okay, good, good. A little longhorn there. But I go long socks, and Paul, I will...


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[Assistant] I don't know what it is, but in the morning I'm cold and I just want to put it on so I'll start putting long johns and put the socks over the long johns and yea, at times can lead to a little bit.


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[Assistant] It did, it does. I'd like to, I really, it's great, I don't, you probably feel the same way, just to be able to sit and watch one game.


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[Assistant] But man, one game, all those other nights, I'm, I'm, I'm up for that.


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[Assistant] Of course they were. Yes. I mean, you're not allowed to ever drop Radiant Breeze, even when they're 94 years old. I'm going to still have to put them in the quarterback ranking. But yeah, I mean, you see first off,


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[Assistant] You know, again, it's another great example of when you put a guy on a team where the team fits and can support him in all those, you see the talent finally rise to the top, right? You know, the example I use is another guy that came from Miami. Oh, Minka Fitzpatrick, he's a bus down in Miami, gets to Pittsburgh, all of a sudden we go,


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[Assistant] Steven's player of the year, right? So scheme, support around you, other than like a few freaks of nature like, you know, Mahomes and Rodgers are really, really important to show what a player has, right? And I think yes, the way they play on the offensive side of the ball, he's being protected, he's got a few weapons.


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[Assistant] That's exactly right. It's why before the season started last year, I said, Ryan Tannehill will be the starter and take over the job for Mariota. He will because it was lost in the shuffle. Again, it became the, we're going to blame the quarterback for the whole organization failures. And that's what happened to him in Miami. The perception kind of ran stale.


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[Assistant] He had a few, a player and his wife rag on him all the time, which is annoying to me because then the player and the wife went to another team where that quarterback threw interceptions every other play and they never ragged on him, which I, I still will never forgive them and I'm not even going to bring them up. But either way, uhm, Tannahill has it all. He really does.


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[Assistant] To the maximum, almost every week. And that's where he's really impressive. And then, you know, last night, with that game, you know, the stats and numbers aren't gonna look like they're amazing, but as you break down the game and everything like that, first off, they were very fortunate, right, to get the short field a few times. So, that set themselves up for some scoring and all that.


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[Assistant] They were going to have to throw the ball to score some touchdowns and do that because Buffalo was selling out to stop the run. They weren't going to let Derrick Henry and company just maul them that way. And so some of these looks they got in the pass game were just too good for them to pass up where, you know, they want to stay patient with the run, but I think when they got into the second, third quarter, they started to realize like,


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[Assistant] Hey, there's too many guys up there, and we got mismatches. Let's start tacking.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. I'm a big fan of that. I mean, I really am. Uh, you know, Attempts is a big number for me for offensive success. Opens up the play action.


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[Assistant] You know, gives your offensive line a chance again to just fire off the ball a little bit. He is your best player so you still want to give him the touches. We've seen him go 18 carries for 30 yards and all of a sudden he breaks 270 yarders and you go, oh he had an unbelievable day. So, and the biggest thing is,


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[Assistant] Mike Frable, it's the attitude of the football team, is based around that. So they're not gonna give up on that. And that's why I give them credit. Again, 19 for 57, that's a shitty day. Yeah. Shitty.


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[Assistant] It's the benefits of what it had for everybody else, like you're saying. They didn't get away from it. No. And at the very mo- the other thing it does, keeps Josh Allen and all those talented guys


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[Assistant] As having to ever really save the day or have to, like, be the guy on a given game where you're just like, well, you know, we're in one of those, like, hey, Tannehill, you gotta throw for 350 and three touchdowns or we can't win. It's never really like that. They kind of always go the way you're talking about. Wanna run the ball, they got some exotic things they do on defense, and then


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[Assistant] You know, if their opportunities present themselves, they take their shots, and they're aggressive. They're a big play football team. They really are. I mean, think about last night. It wasn't a lot of, like, necessary consistency. They're leading football in turnover margin and explosive plays. Those are two of the biggest stats that, you know, determine games.


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[Assistant] Interceptions, big returns, big passes down the field, big punt return that sets up short field. You know, you talk about the first pass for the touchdown, 20 yards something pass. So they're not looking to dink and dunk and do anything that way. It's run, take shots, and they're aggressive on both sides of the ball. Very complimentary football.


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[Assistant] And you just saw the touchdowns and it's like if you'd walked away from the game watching on TV, you just go, oh, they, they moved the ball up and down the field all night. What you don't really realize is,


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[Assistant] Bill's defense played a little bit better than I wanted to give him credit for when I turned off the TV last night. And then when I watched the film today, I go, there were some things that I really liked about what they did. They were put in some tough spots.


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[Assistant] You know, they really were by their offense and the punt return and all those type of things. But what I did like best is they were not, running game has been a little bit of an issue for them. They were not gashed in the running game. Now, did it compromise?


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[Assistant] Them in the pass game? Definitely. And am I still worried about that with Buffalo? Yes. I mean, Buffalo, uhm, is...


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[Assistant] So we always talk about when a team does something elite, it forces the team's other team's hand to do something and it forced Buffalo to have to put Josh Norman and Tyron Johnson and those guys on islands against AJ Brown and they're just not going to win that matchup. How much should it matter to have AJ?


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[Assistant] It was huge because, especially with no Corey Davis and Adam Humphries who are on the COVID list.


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[Assistant] There could have been troubles if they don't have A.G. Brown last night. That might have been, ooh, swings the pendulum. Cause now there's like, ooh, wait, who is the guy that's gonna get open for Tennessee? Kaleev Raymond is very good, a speed guy. I don't think he's even totally 100% healthy.


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[Assistant] They needed that one go-to guy in the pass game, and as you saw, not a lot of those play-action passes, he came up, he came looking for number 11, A.J. Brown, and more times than not, he delivered or got a pass interference call on him because they couldn't cover him. And, you know, I think they approached the game the right way on the offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Right, like the Kuliev-Raymond 3rd and 19 you're talking about, right? They go into a little slot inside slam and he beats the guy off the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] And yeah, Tannenhill throws a ball at the perfect time, the perfect spot to where Khalif Raymond doesn't break stride and he gets another 16 yards after the catch to get the first down. And you're right, that's accuracy in things that get lost in context of plays sometimes. And it does add, again, he maximized the play. It goes back to that.


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[Assistant] That play, we could see that and I could go to other quarterbacks in football last week and might have the same throw. Throw it behind or whatever else and it doesn't let the quarterback run. Hey, Monday night.


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[Assistant] Last play of the game, Justin Herbert, overtime, throws a slant to Mike Williams, he throws it in front, exactly right, they're gonna get the first down, he throws it behind.


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[Assistant] Uh, but Titans, I just can't say enough about them. The fact that they played that clean of football and executed like that without playing football in 16 days and very few practices.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, I gave him a C+, because I thought there was, you know, uhm, I probably could have gotten B-2 or B in that range. You're right, after watching that film back, too, the game's not as bad as you think, other than that second interception. I mean, the first interception's not his fault. Yeah, you'd like the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, you know, the other thing, you know, no John Brown, it's Andre Roberts who's playing that position. Is that John Brown that gets that ball? Probably.


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[Assistant] That kind of just signified the whole night to come for Buffalo. Like, ooh, that kind of looks good, but it's just a little off. We're off tonight. Like in all aspects, special teams, defense, offense, we can hit it all. But yeah, that started things off in the wrong way. And yeah, it was a third down and I want to say it was a third and long, maybe 10, whatever else.


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[Assistant] Definitely, and it was third and four, I'm sorry, I thought it was longer than that. So he threw about a 14 or 15 yard pass on a third and four.


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[Assistant] The Titans defensive game plan was awesome. It really was. I can't say enough about it. They played coverage the whole night. They ran exotic zone coverages. Mike Vrabel.


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[Assistant] But yes, I think the fact that he realized, and this is not the way the Titans have been playing the first few weeks of the year, they've been playing a little bit more of in your face, man to man, we're gonna cover you and make you earn it, but I think he realized, whoa,


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[Assistant] Today is teams over blitzing. It's gonna be a theme throughout all my notes. Where I'm gonna show you teams that blitz and they get gashed and then teams that play coverage right now are proving to be the better defenses. They are. And you can go to the plays or whatever it is.


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[Assistant] What we're seeing right now with a lot of this blitz is it's doing nothing to quarterbacks. It's nothing. They're too well-schooled. They know how to pick it up or where they're supposed to throw hot.


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[Assistant] It's throughout football right now. It really is. And you're letting the quarterback off the hook more times than not because you're making him not read anything or not have to make a decision. You're making the decision for him to where he goes, oh wait, they're blitzing me. I don't have a lot of time.


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[Assistant] I like Stefan Diggs one on one with anybody. I'm just gonna put it in his area. Oh, pass interference. Oh, big gain. So it's not doing the benefits that the people want to talk about.


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[Assistant] That was kind of the theme all night long. And like you said, was like, whoa, lots of people at the line of scrimmage. Are they blitzing? Who's blitzing? I don't know.


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[Assistant] One guy blitzed, but another guy dropped out. Oh, it's still four.


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[Assistant] They, how many times they, they really rushed for, and I call this blitz change, and one of them got home free. Was, again, another thing I'll look at to go, Mike Frable had a beat on the offense in knowing where they were going to protect, how they were going to slide the line. Yea, because it's not just the quarterback's confusion we're talking about. No.


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[Assistant] Yes, I think it's that. I mean even this, when I see this type of stuff.


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[Assistant] This is, this is, yeaah, even more than quarterback in the line. This is, you're catching the offensive coordinator, even Brian Dayball by surprise too. Right. And they haven't been caught off guard by that. But I think that was really the impressive thing. They never let, uh, Buffalo, and I mean within Tennessee's defense,


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[Assistant] They were going to make them earn it and execute and drive and do that. And Buffalo hasn't had to do that a whole lot because they're a big play football team.


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[Assistant] If you see the running back block, and now you know he's blocked, and you were supposed to cover him, then go, and then go green dog type of thing, right? But with guys like Josh Allen sometimes, they'll tell them still, don't go.


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[Assistant] Just kinda read his eyes, and as soon as he makes a break outside the pocket or does something, be there to be that guy to where, okay, he's outside the pocket, but he's not gonna get out there now, and now just sit up for a few seconds and find, he's gonna have the pressure on him to go, you better throw and make a decision, cause we got somebody running at you. You're not gonna just sit here all day.


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[Assistant] And that is great coaching, great game planning, and I think, uh,


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[Assistant] That was, you know, the big things that jumped out to me. Coverage, disguises, we talked about before we went on air. Disguises. They are, quarterbacks are so good now. Dummy snap count. Booty five, booty five. Say hot, hot, hot. And then the defense shows their hand.


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[Assistant] Check Mike 31 over here because they've showed now who they're gonna blitz and then the quarterback gets them in the perfect play and then


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[Assistant] Flinch from cover two. Right. Until set hut, the ball snap, and all of a sudden then it becomes cover three. Or it becomes man to man with a robber in the middle, or whatever else.


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[Assistant] That is the shit that confuses a quarterback for a split second. Right. Or then the other thing we talked about like your creative blitzes you're talking about where it still ends up only being a four man rush. Right. Where here's a nickel cover corner and if you're watching me


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[Assistant] On YouTube right now, you know, usually the nickel cover corner, he's told, alright, you got the blitz, your blitz in here, right?


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[Assistant] They can't help it usually. So the quarterback does a dummy snap count or even gets towards the end of the snap count and they're, they're, they're flinching because they can't wait to blitz, can't wait to blitz. And Vrabel has told them, hey, you showing it and just being a split second faster is really ruining it. Don't do that.


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[Assistant] We want to surprise them so they're not schematically capable of doing it. And they're great at like telling their corners and their blitzers.


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[Assistant] Don't even flinch, just look at your guy and when the ball snapped, I don't care if you get off the ball like a split second later than the guy who's told the whole world he's coming. We want to get there because they're not schematically ready for it and that's how they get a lot of


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would probably say a little bit more of the who's coming, who's not, just because it's a little bit of a...


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[Assistant] The really awesome defenses can do both. And that's a little bit what they did last night. So you'll have Josh Allen, he's going, wait, am I picked up? And then he's looking back up to the secondary and like, whoa, it totally changed. They weren't doing this a second ago.


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[Assistant] So that's what the really good defenses do, but I think if you make me pick one or the other, I think that confusion of, I don't know who's blitzing, who's coming, who's dropping out, let me peek out of the corner of the eye to make sure we picked up that guy, because I'm not sure if he's picked up or not.