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[Assistant] So now you're gonna have man on, on who? You're gonna have a linebacker on McCaffrey? Like in the slot? I mean, forget it.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, oh, even a linebacker on use check? Right? Another one on kiddle? I mean, just let alone right there. So that's going to make teams like juggle around how they want to approach this and what they want to do.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's going to be a whole lot of a different offense really other than he's just going to play those two off of each other a little bit more and it's going to create more big plays because you're just more worried about those guys and of course those guys in space are dangerous as it is anyways.


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[Assistant] It makes them better. I think it's going to make them a better running football team. McCaffrey's better than anybody they've got at the moment. I like Jeff Wilson, but McCaffrey has special vision. I mean, his ability to cut and read the cutback lanes and all that is special to go along with it. And then yes, he's not.


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[Assistant] He's a different animal in the pass game compared to Jeff Wilson. Again, Christian McCaffrey can run routes like a wide receiver. So that's where I think it does that.


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[Assistant] And then also, like I said the other day, I think it just takes pressure off of like, well, we can rely on this a little bit more than Jimmy G throwing the football. And I think that's really the other thing I look at too.


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[Assistant] And that's what he's great at. He's great at getting his weapons to ball.


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[Assistant] With space and creativity and that's where we go, whoa, Debo, I mean, I don't know if he really caught a pass down field today, but he caught a bunch of slants and screens and he had seven catches for 135 yards and he didn't catch one ball in the traditional sense of like an in-cut and a deep out route and all that.


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[Assistant] Well, that was, yeaah, right, we'll get into that. But yeaah, I mean, this is, this to me isn't a problem with their offense. And it's a problem in this football game.


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[Assistant] Because again, you're worried about all the things Shanahan does in the run game. So, you know, teams want to play.


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[Assistant] Wait, we want an extra guy in the box. We can't, you know, with all these things that Shanahan does, we're always outnumbered in a gap, somehow, some way.


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[Assistant] And because of the way they throw and their passing game is, even though they're tough matchups to go, hey, KC Corners, we want you to play Iyuk and Debo, man to man, where you go, ooh, that's scary, but it's not scary.


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[Assistant] When the dots look like that, right? Where everything is kind of going to a certain area. So again, yeah, I might not be as good as you man to man covering you, but when I kind of know where you're going to end up all the time.


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[Assistant] I'm better. I'm better. All of a sudden I am a pretty good man to man guy. Cause damn all you do is run in and in and in and in and in and in. And I don't really have to worry about anything out or down the field.


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[Assistant] And now you're effective that way. And then the other thing they did off of that to compound that was the, the Chiefs who, you know, spent two weeks playing them in the Super Bowl, so you're extra prepared in that, hands up.


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[Assistant] They had a number of those as well. There was obviously a concerted effort of weight.


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[Assistant] You know, our guys are not going to be able to stay with them on all these inside breaking routes. So, you know, if you see them getting ready to throw, it's going to come right over you D tackles, get your hands up, knock the ball down. And Dunlap got one, he got one. There was a few others in the football game too, that I think is a real part of defending them. And that's where CMC and Debo can help out too.


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[Assistant] Is just screens on the outside, you know, compound some of that stuff. Also what I think you hope to do here too is you hope to get more man to man like they're getting here. And then what you hope is that you can get


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[Assistant] Okay, let's say, to where you can get guys who are playing man to man who are also responsible for a run gap. And that's when you can start to cause issues with the defense. Because, say they got a, you know, the traditional eye formation, right? And then Kittles to your right, and Debo Samuel's the receiver to the right, and maybe he's closed down split, right?


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[Assistant] And he's a part of the, they're gonna run a run play to the right side there. Okay, so now he runs inside, you know, to block somebody.


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[Assistant] And that guy that's playing him man to man, he might have a responsible for that outside gap.


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[Assistant] But because he's playing man to man and he's so scared of Deebo running inside routes, he runs over there to kind of cover him and it's like, oh shit, wait, I have to get back out there. Oh, CMC's already there and he's turning the corner. Uh oh. Or, you know, again, we talk about testing communication. Wait, I got the outside gap. Oh wait, set hut.


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[Assistant] Oh shit, Debo's going on a reverse and wait, we didn't communicate now, who's got the outside gap? And now they give the ball to McCaffrey on the outside and there's nobody there to defend the gap. That's what I think is another thing that can play into this a little bit, where it can help their run game out.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, well, I mean, it's, it's, it's a guy that's just, he wants more from them. He expects more from them. I understand that. You know, they are too talented. They are. They were close in this game though. That's, that's where you can't lose sight. You know, take away the dumb Jimmy G interception. Down there after the Skymore muffed pun. That should have been an easy touchdown.


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[Assistant] You know, we're gonna break the play down on social after this. They all out blitz. They free release their 5 eligible receivers.


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[Assistant] Well, usually when you, like, get an all-out blitz and you release your five eligible, you look to see, wait, did the guy that was supposed to be covering the back blitz or not?


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[Assistant] And this one, and usually when it's that type of play, it's already in your brain pre-snap. Wait, oh wait, I got all five releases here. So if I get this Blitz.


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[Assistant] Like, let me make sure that whoever's blitzing, you know, do they come off and peel off to take the back? And if they don't, that's your hot throw. He threw the ball to Kittle on a corner route, fading away, which if the back was in protecting and you were in one short, that would be the proper way, proper place to throw it. He threw a shit ball.


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[Assistant] You know, that's, those are little nuances that Jimmy G's gotta fix. I mean, that was seven points. He's gonna walk in the end zone. They got nobody to cover him.


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[Assistant] The guy that was supposed to cover him blitzed. He probably went, wait, oh wait, they free released him. And so those are some opportunities that are missed there as well. But let's, let's judge it from here on going forward.


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[Assistant] But they've been a team that's been able to do that. And you know, we've talked about this matchup a lot in years past, right? Or even earlier this year. This is one where it's a tough matchup for the Rams. We always talk about matchup league. The Rams are a fast football team, right? They want their speed to create chaos. The 49ers are also


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[Assistant] Equally as fast, if they're not as fast, they're just a hair slower, but they're significantly bigger.


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[Assistant] So, they negate some of the strengths the Rams have there. And yeaah, this will be an interesting one for sure. And if the 49ers had a healthy D-line, I'd just go, the Rams would have absolutely no chance in this football game.


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[Assistant] With the fact of where it is, you know, maybe they can hang in there and muck it up and make it ugly and win something like that.


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[Assistant] It's, it's absolutely amazing. And I wish we could sit here and I could just show you like ten throws of everybody and just go, look, we all just go, oh yeah, it's my home's magic.


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[Assistant] And I wish we could all slow it down and enjoy it together, where I just go, yeah, it's my home's magic and it's just, it's insanity. Like it's insanity, some of the throws he makes and wouldn't, you know, other than Josh Allen, I don't think anybody in football can make some of them. And he does it with ease. Well, there's one player I want to talk about in this game,


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[Assistant] One of the two amazing things we're seeing from, I don't even know where this stands, but yards per pass for the Chiefs right now with that Tyree kill has got to be extremely high. Nobody thought that was going to happen.


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[Assistant] You know, all those people that weren't sure if Mahomes is still gonna be good this year without Tyree Gill, they need to send an apology letter, like, for like,


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[Assistant] What was I thinking? Why would I not think the greatest, one of the greatest talents to be ever seen wouldn't be good? And then, the Chiefs defense, I just have so much respect for them because, can you imagine playing on the Chiefs defense?


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[Assistant] I mean, every week you get everybody's best shot. You get everybody's like...


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[Assistant] Hey, those plays we didn't really want to try the last seven weeks.


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[Assistant] We gotta try them this week if we're gonna beat the Chiefs. Like, we can't stop. So, they get like more. Gotta go for fourth down. Exactly. They get more of the kitchen sink thrown at them than any other defense in football. And that's why they let up some plays and do that.


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[Assistant] Within that, they make so many plays, and that's where they're special. They're like-


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[Assistant] One of the, they're cool because they're like, okay, okay, we might give up play, we might do that, but oh, it's only a matter of time before big butt award winner Jones gets back there and gets a strip sack or causes pressure to throw an interception or whatever.


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[Assistant] Well, he, and he's, he's just, he's a butting superstar. That's what he is. I mean, he really, he's a butt-ting superstar. Alright? Yea. He really, he's uhm, you know, I was happy during the game, I don't know if you heard it, Collinsworth gave him some love during the game.


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[Assistant] You know, he's a physical presence in the run game, and he's got all the tools and everything you look at to go, he's an elite pass rusher. And I think he's a guy that...


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[Assistant] As the end of the year comes here and into next year, we're going to go, Oh, this is one of the best pass rushers in football. There's no doubt about it. There's no weakness to his game. He's everything is like we talked about coming out in the draft process two years ago. He really is. And yeah, you noticed he was out there a lot during that game on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is really interesting. And you know, and I hate to go back to the phrase of like matchup league, but


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[Assistant] Yeah, there was some issues caused by the Bears and what they do and who they are as a team. I mean, you heard me, one of the first things you, when we talked this morning, just a little bit, you walked in the office. I was like, yeah, it's kind of crazy. Like the Bears beat them with like basics, like plays where you go,


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[Assistant] Here's sprint right option, the play that, you know, Joe Montana threw to, to Clark in the back of the end zone. And I mean, plays where you just go, every team defends this on the second day of training camp.


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[Assistant] It worked. And then it's a bootleg where it's like, oh, he faked to the right and boot till left and there's a guy in the flat and a crosser. You mean the other play we put on on the first day of training camp? What? It's another 20 yard game.


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[Assistant] Borderline over consumed with the run game of the Bears. I guess is the first thing I would say. What do you mean by that?


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[Assistant] Bear front, five guys at the line of scrimmage, just every play, so worried about, you know, being overpowered in the run game. Which is, it's a real thing, we know, with the Bears. The Bears-O-Lions, I guess is, you know, from my own self-scouting, is bigger and more powerful than I gave it credit for.


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[Assistant] The, the Patriots could not really get off blocks, and they had issues there. And then...


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[Assistant] They broke out Slim Omar quarterback design runs. It looked like Lamar. It blew the Patriots' brains up. They didn't know what to do. They had no answer for it. So now, what does that do? Like, all those basic plays we talk about.


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[Assistant] They become, you know, all of a sudden harder to defend, cause wait, we gotta do something to worry about if he keeps the ball, or if he runs the read option off the edge, and oh wait, if they pull the guard and run power with him here, even though they're an empty,


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[Assistant] We're screwed, so now we gotta play a basic coverage because we're worried about he could keep the ball and do that. So that was the big thing. Let alone they couldn't get off blocks, you know, really for the most part. Interesting. The Bears, as compared to, and this is an element I wish I would have thought about a little bit.


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[Assistant] Where the Patriots dominated Cleveland, right, in the run game. Cleveland likes to pull Lyman and do that, and the Patriots just...


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[Assistant] We're just going to kind of come off together as a unit, get double teams or go inside zone and keep bodies on bodies. And it gave the Patriots defense alignment issues. Not only did they get pushed around, they couldn't get off blocks.


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[Assistant] You know, with the running backs and then Justin Fields, it also exposed that the Patriots are still a very slow team in the front seven, along with some of his scrambles.


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[Assistant] You know, they had Ushay from Michigan as the only guy that could run down somebody like Justin Fields. They have nobody in their front seven right now that can even come close to running down a guy like Justin Fields. And that was exposed to be an issue again for the Patriots for about the third year in a row.


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[Assistant] Herbert is, it should be their go-to guy in my opinion. I like, don't let me, get me wrong here, I really like Montgomery. He does a lot of good things. Herbert has another gear and another, you know, I don't know if you see it the way I do, but another level of explosion in how he hits the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] Let alone the way he finished his run. Montgomery is incredibly strong and he's incredibly shifty for the size he is.


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[Assistant] He can't rip off some of the runs like Khalil Herbert can in my opinion.


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[Assistant] That is where, well, that's where it was really, it was...


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[Assistant] It was really fascinating on some of the runs where you just go, damn, these are some big people. The Patriots got their, their four yards downfield and he's, he's running it up in a play where we go. It looks like they're just all coming off the ball, blocking straight.


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[Assistant] And he's getting to run to the line of scrimmage without ever having to do anything. Let alone two or three yards down the field and then going, okay, now let me cut here and do that. You know, I, I think the thing that I, I thought the, the Patriots game plan was too basic. I really do.


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[Assistant] You know, when you play a team like this at times where, okay, we've got a few series and we see that they can block us, they're powerful, we're not, it's not gonna happen. Oh wait, they have a little bit designed quarterback run thing here. Whoa. Like,


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[Assistant] You can't think you're gonna play the perfect defense every play. You know, I think that's one thing that...


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[Assistant] You know, I'm learning as I go along here too, where you see these teams that try, oh I'm going to stop the running quarterback and that offense by


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[Assistant] Like Minnesota in Philadelphia in week two, we're just going to play basic and be in the gap. Well, they do some things every now and then they fake a run here and two guys pull around this way and you go, well, now there's two extra gaps over here and.


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[Assistant] You can't stop it because you kinda went with the fake to this side and you're not gonna be sound.


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[Assistant] It's impossible to be sound. You know, you said it to me when I was explaining this to you earlier. It's like, yeah, they kind of make it hard for you to be right. Yeah, they do.


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[Assistant] So, with this type of stuff, in my opinion, like at some point, the Patriots needed to get to a little bit of like, let's blitz two guys off the weak side edge, and we'll have the line slant to the strong side, and yeaah, we might not be perfect in every area, and if they call this one play, they might get 8 or 10 yards.


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[Assistant] But we're not gonna die the slow death of the run and the quarterback design run and all of that. Create some chaos a little bit, right?


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[Assistant] Right. Be the aggressor. Right. You might be wrong, okay, you know, and again too where you go, well now they could just run a bootleg and he might come out scott free and, and, well he's not gonna come out scott free, you're gonna have two guys puttin' off the edge. Yeaah, there might be less coverage downfield, but at the same time, you should have one guy, right, pressuring him to where


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[Assistant] Oh, he's gotta throw the ball in the flat real quick, even though the crosser's gonna be wide open because of that blitz. Right.


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[Assistant] You know, you know he's gotta throw it quick now, and now because you knew he had to throw it quick, your safety was flying downhill to get that guy in the flat, and yeaah, he caught it, but he got a two yard gain. So what? You know, and that's what I see a lot of great defenses doing in football. That's something like the Chiefs would do. The Bills would do stuff like that. They'd go, okay, yeaah, you know,


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[Assistant] I sure hope so. They're gonna be a pain in the butt if they just have, you know, five to ten quarterback design runs sprinkled in the game plan. You know, one, I mean,


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[Assistant] Montgomery, Mooney, they're the best players on their team. So let's put the ball in the guy's hand that runs 4-3 and is built like a Greek god a little more often. Right?


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[Assistant] You know, we don't have great receivers. Okay, Mooney's our only go-to guy. Well, you know, back to our point, like we talked about with Lamar and some of those guys, like, now you're worried about that? Okay, well.


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[Assistant] Our not great receivers are getting like optimal looks to get open on certain routes that we go, okay, you're not that great, but you, you can get open on this route, right? Against this coverage, it's so basic.


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[Assistant] So I do, I think it's going to give them the illusion of complexity with really being pretty simple of an offense, but them having to, defenses having to stop that aspect of their offense is really going to cause problems. I would be shocked.


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[Assistant] And the way their defense is playing, I mean if they do this, this will make me think differently of the Bears. Where I go, uh oh. I mean with the Bears D. Yea, hang around 500. Exactly. He manages his games amazingly. Ibra Fluse deserves credit.


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[Assistant] One thing I said on Tuesday on the show in the morning, like, did you, did you, uh, you watched the Monday Night Game, right? Yeah. Eberfluss.


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[Assistant] Was next to Luke Getzi like the whole night. The offensive coordinator he's calling plays. And he was managing the game.


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[Assistant] Run the ball here. I do this here. Run that there. Do this here. Yea, I'd like you to run it. You see what you did with Justin Fields right there? Do it again. Well, I mean, I think there's some of that going on. Hey, it's his ass on the line here.


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[Assistant] So, and he's, he knows what they are. They're a well coached team. Do they lack some creativity and like scariness in the drop back pass game? Yes.


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[Assistant] You know, but, I never come away going, oh wow, they're really out coached or not doing the right things here and, you know, now he's managing the game and they add that wrinkle to them, I think it's going to make them a real pain in the butt.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's the first thing I would say. I mean, he just got a little lucky like the game started out. I mean, there was, I didn't, I, you know, watched every play. I didn't come away and go, oh man, he's missing people. They came out and they played some man to man and they couldn't separate.


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[Assistant] That was one issue. You know, I, you know, they called some right defenses in a few plays where it just, hey, there was nowhere to go. He had to run and do that.


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[Assistant] His interception was bad. There's no doubt. You know, but the game like, where yeaah, they're still trying to figure out how Chicago is playing them and wait, what are we gonna do off of that? And then Bailey's Appy got to come in right when they kind of got a feel for it. And,


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[Assistant] You know, everything just fell right. It's like he's, you know, when you gotta shamrock up your ass, you gotta shamrock up your ass. And that's what he's got right now. He comes in the game.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's a, it's third down. It's as basic of a play as can be. They try to kind of, for the first time all night, send a little blitz, right? They blitz the weak side linebacker. They're trying to disguise it and not really show it.


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[Assistant] And the guy that's responsible for covering Ramandre Stevens up the sidelines, he's to the left of the offense. Cause they're trying not to show the blitz. So now he free releases and the guy covering him is 10 yards behind him. I don't sit at that play and go, well man, Bailey's zappy.


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[Assistant] If he wasn't in the game, that play wouldn't have happened. No, that's just, he got lucky. The next play, they run the oh shit play.


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[Assistant] Where they fake the little run and the receiver comes down and makes it look like he's gonna crack the defense end and he kind of goes through the line of scrimmage and comes out the back door. I mean he's wide open, he should walk in the end zone. He threw a shit ball, the guy that made him rock his catch.


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[Assistant] Alright, and then he threw a jump ball to Devonte Parker, the next drive. Which, hey, was nice, man to man, he gave him a chance. But, like...


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[Assistant] That's where, oh wait, the run game wasn't totally dominant and people weren't totally wide open? Oh, Bailey's Happy wasn't good then? Oh, I'm shocked. Alright, so that to me, you come to the end of the game, if Mac Jones is anywhere 95% or better, to me would clearly be the starter. Bailey's Happy does not have a strong arm. He plays very small.


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[Assistant] Right? He's not that accurate. When you saw, when the game became, oh wait, they know we're gonna throw, and you gotta throw some balls into some tight windows here, and now he had to throw it with like, he couldn't just be like, oh wow, he's wide open and I can just be smooth and throw it like it's practice, the ball went everywhere.


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[Assistant] So that's where I'm, I certainly think Mack is still the guy.


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[Assistant] I mean it was. It was. Max was a bad decision. Farther off the target. Farther off the target.


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[Assistant] Yes, Max was a bad decision. The guy, Jaquan Briscoe, made an unbelievable one-handed catch. He kinda misjudged the ball, but still caught it. Their ability to, because teams are worried about their run game, they're willing to take their shots in the pass game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean we, you know, a lot of the big plays have been through the run game and people scaring people that way, certainly the last few weeks.


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[Assistant] So, but yeaah, I just think, again, I think that showed why you need Mack Jones. I mean yeaah, cool. Bailey's Abbey can play if you can run for 230 yards and people will be wide open to play action. I could also play. Chris Sims could, I was gonna say. Put me in. I'll play in that game. Please.


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[Assistant] But can Bailey's Appy play when the game's maybe a shootout or a little bit back and forth and there is no run game? That to me is where I have major questions.


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[Assistant] I don't. I just, I just don't understand where, you know, the way he's seeing the field right now. You know, his pocket awareness, I really went into the game going, wait, did Mack run on a few of those times because he just was the first game back and he was uncomfortable and he got jittery and just ran out. So I was ready to be critical with that. There was nobody open. He had to run the times he ran. So I had no issue with that.


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[Assistant] You know, it's just, there's been yeaah, four or five decisions through the year where you just go, man, Mac didn't do that last year. I can't believe he forced the issue. And there's something going on in New England.


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[Assistant] He's pissed them off. This is a real thing. I know it. Florio knows it. I don't know the exact details. Whether he talks shit about the coaches behind them to the Kraft family or he talks shit about the two new offensive coordinators to Belichick. There is an issue there.


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[Assistant] There is. I mean, there's a part of me that the game ruined out and I want to go, ooh, they called those plays with Mac Jones and they put Bailey's Appian and they called the...


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[Assistant] You know, someone, I wanna be like, were they setting it up for failure? What was going on there? The whole thing was just un-New England-like and weird to me.


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[Assistant] And here's the last thing I want to say about the game. One more thing. Alright?


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[Assistant] The Bears did a little bit of what we talked about that we thought the Patriots should do. The Bears defense, first off, the three guys at the second level.


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[Assistant] Rokhwan Morrow and Jaquan Brisker when he's down there, I mean, they're phenomenal. They're all over the field. They really are. Rokhwan was amazing.


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[Assistant] Mauro was unbelievable too, number 53. Jaquan Brusker is already one of the best safeties in football. I mean, for me. And he's amazing. Every week. I mean, he's an ass-whooper.


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[Assistant] The run game stuff. The Patriots have been, like we've talked about, the hottest run team in football to a degree.


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[Assistant] They knew that they couldn't play just basic run defense. They knew like, wait, if we just line up how they think we're going to line up, it's Bill Belichick and company. They're going to block it the right way. And even if we play it pretty good, there's still going to be a hole.


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[Assistant] You know, they shift the front before the snap, right? Hey, we were running this play to the three technique, all of a sudden they shift it, and wait, oh wait, no, it's the shade nose now.


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[Assistant] And that changes how we double team to the linebacker. Oh no, we can't do it the way we wanted to do it. Or like what I talked about with just like creating chaos. They did run game blitzing. Hey nickel guy, when you feel him getting ready to say set hut.


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[Assistant] Come off the edge, Strong Side, DN, you know, Bump Out, Weinbacher, Blitz's Week 2. Create some chaos to where it's just not like it's on the chalkboard or like the guys in New England are masters of the chalkboard.


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[Assistant] And make them adjust and do some things that are not that easy. And that, that caused some issues in the Patriots run game. Bears are at the Cowboys this week.


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[Assistant] It'll be, it'll be interesting. You know, that, that'll, the, the Cowboys will take that approach of we're going to be chaos and we know we can't be in the right gap every play all the time. So we're just going to use our speed and our playmakers and we're going to get back there and you know, make things annoying for you. But I wouldn't be shocked to see also within a few of that, that


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[Assistant] Yeah, because of that and their chaos that like Justin Fields rips off a 30 yard run down the sideline or, you know, they catch them in the right blitz and it's a Herbert strong side run and there's nobody there to account for the gap and he rips off another 20. I wouldn't be shocked to see that.


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[Assistant] They're another team, Ahmed, that doesn't seem to play analytics, that seems to just go, we're gonna take the points, we're gonna punt, and they're exceeding expectations and sitting here and hanging around.


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[Assistant] You know, as I'm sitting here thinking, like, they don't seem to be a team that's been crazy with fourth down, go for it type of stuff.


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[Assistant] They're not too many turnovers. No, definitely not too many turnovers can run the ball. I mean, high percentage play action pass. Hey, it's, it's a big part of the football game. There's no doubt about that. So that is, that's an interesting one. I wouldn't have guessed that big part of the football team is the


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[Assistant] Yes, the one diving to knock the ball out of the end zone. I mean, Pete live, live was going crazy. You would have thought that play just won the Super Bowl for some team. For Pete, it's the equivalent. It was. It was very bad. He won the flyer of the week. It's the same thing to Pete. Oh my gosh, oh my, what a play!


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[Assistant] Well, decent, I'm not gonna, like, decent game, yes, decent. You know? Was it as good as you were hoping to see?


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[Assistant] No, it wasn't a good game, but it wasn't a bad game. That's where I think everybody's gotta like, back off a little bit. You know, like, let's put things into context here a little.


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[Assistant] He comes back, he doesn't get to play preseason football, it's year two. He doesn't get to play the first three weeks of the year. And then his gift is, hey!


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[Assistant] I mean, really? So, and you were down by 10 in the fourth quarter and he brought you back to beat him. You play the Miami Dolphins who were...


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[Assistant] Create turnover, sack the quarterback, do wall that, right? Yeaah, it's not a, it's not like a great day.


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[Assistant] But it's a good day, and he made some big plays in the game to help them win it.


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[Assistant] Alright, so you have that, and I just go, I, I, so I, I don't understand there. Alright, you beat the, the Dolphins, a team that is, like, was beating teams with their defense. And yea, you had 14 completions for 210 yards. It's not a bad day.


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[Assistant] Alright, alright, and then you play the Green Bay Packers in a misty, rainy day, sleety day.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, again, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you it's special, but had the biggest pass play of the day that changed the game more than any other pass play of the day. So, you have that, and then you go into Denver, who's made every quarterback look shitty? I mean, everyone the whole year.


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[Assistant] It wasn't, like, good. It was just decent, like you said. Was it bad? Absolutely not that bad. Absolutely not.


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[Assistant] And that's where, is there a few throws where I go, yeah, Zach Wilson should hit that throw. He lost control of about, I'm going to say three or four passes where I go, you're Zach Wilson. I don't care that, you know, somebody was close to you or you were off your back foot there. That should be completed. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] He sailed an in-cut on like the first drive of the game.


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[Assistant] No doubt. He sailed, he had a blitz and had like a shallow crosser and they didn't pick up the blitzer and he was kind of just backpedaling.


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[Assistant] And he threw it over the top of Conklin's hand. There was like three or four passes. He also had like two or three drops in the game too, to where I go, that's not fair. You know, let alone they had some penalties or some tough situations. Let alone, you know he was in a week where they're going,


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[Assistant] The problem goes off and sucks. And they're starting Brett Rippon at quarterback. So don't take many chances. Be smart.


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[Assistant] I mean, for a guy like Zach Wilson, that's the positives you gotta take away. A guy that's...


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[Assistant] Huge right arm. His history is he wants to fit every ball in every tight window. And here he is. He's played some good teams and gone, you know what? I'm going to just play the right way to win the football game. And he's going to get criticized up here in New York. That's what's crazy.


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[Assistant] So, yes, again, I, you know, I don't know if anything else jumped out to you in those notes or anything there.


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[Assistant] And the drives, right, the drives over now. Now you're in third and 25 and now you're not going to get down there to get the field goal drive, the field goal. So that's where people got to look at that too. He had some incredible, incredible escapes. Now did he get lucky on that one where he put the ball on the ground?


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[Assistant] And fumble, like to me that still looked like a fumble. That did. I don't know why they didn't call that fumble. I'm still shocked by that. Lamar Jackson had a similar play and they called it a fumble earlier on Sunday.


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[Assistant] I, I, I don't understand that one. So he got lucky. I'm not gonna lie on that for sure. But, you know, to sit here and everybody just go, oh, he played bad and let's just absolutely tear him apart. I don't agree with that. I don't. And, and again, you know, you gotta take in what we said it on Monday too.


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[Assistant] If the Broncos had a good offense, this would be the number one defense in football. Or it would be right there with, you know, the top defense.


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[Assistant] Anyways, right. I mean, they're right there. There's no, there's no doubt. And I don't even know where I've, I haven't seen this. Yeah, they're in the number 2D events in football right now.


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[Assistant] Barely behind Buffalo. So, they make life hard. And they're the number one, or the number two past defense in football. You know who's number one? The team he played the week before, the Packers. Right. So, that's where, again, I just, you know, people gotta calm down a little bit. And the reason I don't like it


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[Assistant] One is, it's four games in a row you've won. Let's be happy. Things are positive.


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[Assistant] And for some reason we're going to tear Zach Wilson down. And also, I feel a little bit like he's just one of those guys that people want to tear down.


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[Assistant] That's, it's, this has gone on throughout the, through the draft process.


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[Assistant] And that's where I just go, it's, it's unfair where I go, there's a lot of other quarterbacks played this way and they were four and oh, we'd be singing their praises a little bit more. And instead here we're going, no, we want more and we want more and we want more. And that's where, you know, it's annoying and they got to help him too. Not every throw can be over the middle.


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[Assistant] They got a little of the Shanahan 49er disease in that passing system.


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[Assistant] Same thing with McDaniel in Miami. Every throw is over the middle.


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[Assistant] So teams start to put people there. It's why you've seen the last few weeks, he throws a swing route to the running back and the guy runs down the sideline with nobody touching him because every team's like, it's coming over the middle, it's coming over the middle. Oh shit! One guy got outside our flank here and now we can't get out there to him. Uh, but that, that, they gotta help him out there too.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not shocked by that. I don't think they've played some defenses that are very creative, blitzing. So there's that. There was, they're not the best pass protecting team in football. At no point were they. And then I think when you add on to a,


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[Assistant] Younger guys, some new offense, they're not very good at picking up places. There's a few plays in this game where I go,


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[Assistant] You know, he threw hot or had a scramble or throw it away because they didn't block somebody. I mean, period. They were fooled by the blitz. So I'm not shocked to see that. Let's see where it goes from here. Let's see where it goes. Again, with the defenses he played,


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[Assistant] Those are like, if you're, hey Ahmet Fareed, you're gonna start in the NFL. Those wouldn't be the ones you'd hand pick to go, oh yeaah, start me off nice and easy with some basic defenses. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Really good defense. Great coverages and disguises. Great blitzes. Bad pass pro all day long. Some unreal escapes to keep them in good situation. No run game at all other than one play.


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[Assistant] One of those where, like, by the time we start to call people the best, it's like, no, he's on the downhill part of his career. Like, with Kenneth Walker, what I'm trying to do right now. He's already one of the best running backs in football. We don't have to wait for the numbers to get to 1600 yards for us to say that. I'm sick of that. So, this guy here, Patrick Surtain.


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[Assistant] There's a new wave of corners and I probably need to sort it out a little bit to say how good some of these guys are. But yea, he to me right now, when I watch football across the league,


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[Assistant] He's the best corner in football. He is. In fact, I think he would be one.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not so sure AJ Terrell wouldn't be number two down in Atlanta.


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[Assistant] And I gotta think about the rest. Xavier Howard I know is obviously in that conversation for sure too. He's up there.


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[Assistant] Um, sauce is putting sauce is up in that conversation. Digs is up in that conversation. Your dig has gotten to the point where he is phenomenal. I don't even care that he lets up a play every now and then. I don't care. It's not like he can't cover the guy. It's just like he goes for it. So I respect that.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm, I'm gonna throw him in that conversation. I'm, I gotta think about it a little more. I know Jio Alexander's real good still. I don't think he's as good as those guys I just talked about. I don't. Uhm, yeaah. Tyson Campbell, down in


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[Assistant] The guy who I made above Patrick Surtain coming out, Tyson Campbell is phenomenal. He'd be another guy and throw in there in the top corners in football. Along with, you know, Marshawn Latimore who he knows up there too.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna be, there's nothing really to be critical of here. He's got it all. He does.


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[Assistant] I mean, and, and he's playing, he's doing a lot of good things. And, you know, they, they push the ball down the field and ask him to make a lot of, you know, 15 yard outroutes and...


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[Assistant] You know, some of the incompletions that, that he had in the game. Cause what was he's like 22 or 43. Uh, there was a number of like end of the first half, like we're trying to, you know, inch our way a little bit closer to field goal position. There was some incompletions at the end of the game. There was some incompletions. So it's a little misleading the numbers.


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[Assistant] Still made a lot of big plays. I think here's the big thing, that just watching that more than anything. You know, they got some weapons, we know that. ATN's the real deal, running the ball.


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[Assistant] I guess here's the last phase we're looking for with Trevor Lawrence. And it's just come up where the wow factor, the wowness. There's just a few throws in this game and other games where I go, wait, you're too, you're, you can make this throw. You're good. You're the first pick of the draft. If you would have hit that one, oh, you guys probably would have won the game.


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[Assistant] And I've just, I've felt like I've come away saying that probably about three or four times during the year. And this game, same thing. There's a wheel route up the left sideline to James Robinson. Would have been a really good throw.


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[Assistant] But I just go, ooh man. He had Zay Jones on a post-route across the field one time. And he threw it out of the back of the end zone. He had a little pressure, and I understand it wasn't easy. But I'm telling you, we're talking about number one pick superstar type of guy here. Where I go, it's those plays that...


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[Assistant] Help you win a game that's in the balance right there. So I guess that's all I'm saying from him. But man, everything else is really good. It's gotten way more consistent than it was last year. It's still maybe not where I'd want it to be. Just striping the ball every time.


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[Assistant] Man, Trevor Lawrence, he's on his way to being certainly a top 10 quarterback in football.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. Yeah, probably, really probably higher than that. He's, I think if he reaches his peak and the wow factor and the take over the game factor, right? Right? To where, yeah, like,


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[Assistant] Right now, he's, he's above 20 for sure. He's top 15, I think, if I had to maybe go back and think about it.


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[Assistant] But he's a guy that I sit there and go a few plays every week to where I go, oh man, you, you know, you hit this, that, you're in the top eight. I mean, he's got the potential to be top five, top six-ish. He has everything. Right. He does. And it's just that.


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[Assistant] Taking over the game aspect that we've yet to really see, right?


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[Assistant] And not that we've seen it, you know, again, I'm not sitting here trying to say we've seen it from Zach Wilson. I've seen more wow from Zach Wilson. I've seen more wow throws in two years where I went, ooh.


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[Assistant] Wow, that just changed the game right there. What a throw, what a play, right? You just even like the Green Bay game, running out to the right, throwing a ball 50 yards down the field to Corey Davis running it out and up when you're on the run. Like that was a wow play that you go, whoa.


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[Assistant] That might be the difference that got them jumpstarted to win the football game. You know, it's, it's that stuff. It's Joe burrow last year going.


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[Assistant] Whoa, whoa, he escaped, the pocket did this, that, that bought time and made an unreal throw, like he's taking over. That's the stuff I've yet to see from Trevor that I think he is very much capable of.


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[Assistant] I mean, gets the ball in some plays and he's running behind the right guard and he just like...


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[Assistant] He hops, steps to the left like with two just jump cuts or just hops and then runs forward and you're like, holy shit, he's seven yards down the field already. He's, he's got something to him. He really does. And for a smaller guy, man, he runs through a lot of arm tackles and brings it. So yes, they got something special.


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[Assistant] You know, keeping it real by Chris Sims is just thoughts that are going through my head as I'm watching this. Cause you're just going, this offense has got a little everything. They're doing things where I'm gonna go, Shane Waldron didn't just like go like, oh wait, I never had this play in my offense, let me put it in this year. I just go,


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[Assistant] Maybe Seattle was playing a certain way and things to where, yeaah, they didn't trust Russ, or Russ didn't like some of these plays, that Geno's like, yeaah, don't give a shit, I'll throw the ball down the middle there, that's no problem, no problem. So yes, I'm just, I was giving natural, my natural free flowing thoughts, putting them down on paper here, and yeaah, it's hard not to think that.


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[Assistant] Well, it's just, the drop back pass game seems more vast and just there's more to it, alright? You know, the offense itself has a little bit more versatility. Their offensive line is better, right? That gives them a fighting chance as compared to where it was. The damn two tackles that they got, they hit gold with their two tackles.


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[Assistant] Cross at left tackle, the kid Lucas at right tackle who they drafted out of Washington State, Abraham Lucas, he's a kind of a freak show. To get him in the middle of the draft, that's amazing.


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[Assistant] It wasn't like, it wasn't bad. It wasn't to where I went away and went, oh man, he's getting overpowered.


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[Assistant] He's not. I mean, he, he more than just hung in there. And again, for what, the way they play, like he doesn't, they're not playing dink and dunk, throw the ball offense here. You know, this isn't like, oh, let's get the bottom of his hands because we can't protect. You know, they're looking to strike and.


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[Assistant] I don't remember actually a time of the tape going, oh man, ooh, cross is getting lucky, ooh, he's getting dominated, good thing Gino got it out here and there. And I don't know what Mac's final stats or pressure numbers were, but it wasn't good enough to where I went, let me write something about it, or this was a huge part of the football game. You always want to have more depth at running back.


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[Assistant] He's... I think I wrote my notes. There's no running back that makes more out of less right now in football than Kenneth Walker. Maybe other than Saquon Barkley. Those two.


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[Assistant] There's too many plays where I go, well, that should be no yard gain. Oh, what? Ooh, what? He got out of there and got seven around the corner? What? Oh, what? No, they didn't block anybody. He turned the corner for 20?


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[Assistant] You know, that's where he's amazing. Nobody blocked in the middle and he jumps and weaves and gets six yards and you go, wow, unbelievable. Let alone, again, I'm not trying to downplay their offensive line. Their offensive line is good. They're blocking pretty good. It's not like, oh wow, he's making them look a lot better than they are.


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[Assistant] You know, just, they have an interesting three tight ends set. They're using him as a decoy a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, they're going into the realm of what we talk about always with good offenses. Like we talked about with the Chiefs to start the show. One of my, you know, old go-to phrases. They make you defend every square inch of the field.


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[Assistant] And that's to me when defenses start to get, I mean offenses start to get really good. Cause there's no one area you can just go...


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[Assistant] Well, we don't have to worry about that. Like with the Chiefs, he used to go, we don't have to worry about them up the middle running here or short passes, you know, outside the tackle box or a short pass out on the edge of your screen pass. Now they're starting to do it and we're going, holy shit, what do you stop? How do you stop it? What do you do?


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[Assistant] That's, that's, that's right, you know, and they're not like necessarily a great screen team or anything like that, but yeah, I mean, again, everything about 10 plus yards down the field is either significantly above league average or just a little bit above league average, you know?


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[Assistant] You know, the outroutes 10 yards and under, obviously they make you defend that.


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[Assistant] They're, it's almost like opposite Russell Wilson. They don't make, or, you know, it is still kind of like Russell Wilson, I should say. You know, they don't make you defend the 10 yards over the middle at all. That's not even part of it. But the way they do everything else, and I think then when you add in the run game, that makes up for that right there. And man, when they throw out their med cap and,


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[Assistant] Locket, and, like I said, Phant, and Walker, and then, oh wait, one of those guys is out. Well, so what? It's, you know, uhm, uh, Godwin. I mean, Marquise Goodwin. Sorry, Godwin. Yeah, Marquise Goodwin. I mean, he can still fly.


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[Assistant] The kid from, uh, number one, Dwayne Eskridge can fly. So that's where they're fun to watch. They have guys that can stretch the field or just get the ball in their hands and watch out. And uhm, yeaah, they, they, they tore up the Chargers on some


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[Assistant] You know, and the Giants are, they're struggling, stopping their run a little bit. It's not been a great, the Giants, they play a lot of...


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[Assistant] Crowd the line of scrimmage pass defense. That's how I would say that. They try to scare you with like, hey, look, we're all at the line of scrimmage, we're gonna blitz and do all this. And then they drop out and play cat and pass coverage and play all these intricate things off of it.


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[Assistant] You know, they might have to actually keep people down at the line of scrimmage this week with Kenneth Walker. This is going to be a tough one to figure out. I mean, this is going to be a tough one as far as the formula. Oh no, you're going to pick against your giants again. Maybe, we'll see. I don't know. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I picked up the cover last week, I thought they would lose by a field goal of the Ravens.


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[Assistant] I think I, I thought they would, oh actually I think the Packers game, I kind of picked them to lose by like more than 10 points. So that one would be wrong. Uh, yeah, watch out. Gino, the offense, they're good. And guess what? The Chargers defensive line, their D-tackle is still never to be seen in the game. I mean, it's embarrassing that way. They just get


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[Assistant] You can't be a defense that lets up touchdowns like this, right?


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[Assistant] And then we're in offense that takes 74 minutes to go down the field. Right. Or, or turn the ball over a couple times. Exactly right. You know, you, or yeah, be that team to where, wait, they're scoring and now I threw an interception and got strip sack and wait, it takes us 12 minutes to score and it takes them four seconds to score.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's just not what we call team football, complete team football right there.


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[Assistant] I guess. I'm gonna say I do like the Over as of right now. I do. I mean, they're one of those teams that I think we could put in the same book. That's like the Giants. A little bit. Mmhm. Where you just go, man, every game's gonna be close. I don't know if there's any game you can look at and just go, oh yeah, they're definitely gonna win that one. You know? But, alright.


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[Assistant] Hey, Giants game this weekend, certainly is winnable. Up there in the Pacific Northwest. We know they can beat Arizona, they just beat them.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm definitely going with the over. They got teams like the Carolina Panthers on their schedule.


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[Assistant] You know, I think they can, they can beat a team like the Raiders. You know, they got the Rams twice, certainly.


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[Assistant] So yes, if you made me choose, I'm going to say the over. I like a lot of things there. I like the comeback player of the year thing. I like Kenneth Walker as definite offensive rookie of the year. So yeaah, I guess I'm pretty high on the Seahawks that way.


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[Assistant] They're just not, they're just not as good as we thought they were. I think that's the first thing. You know, as I'm sitting there, too, and I'm just going, like, first off, let's just go basics here. What's different about this team?


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[Assistant] Alright, what's different? Okay, Sue's not there. You know, they signed a Keem Hicks. He's hurt. He's a guy that's been hurt a lot, you know, through the last few years. So that was risky. There's no JPP, right?


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[Assistant] Evita Veja's there. Shaquille Barrett's not playing as well. Some of the guys they're asking to play defensive tackle. Logan Hall, William, uh, Golston. I wanna go, they're not really, those are big defensive ends. They're not defensive tackles. So they can't hold their area. The running game,


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, it's, it's, you know, you saw my notes. I mean, they're, they're, they're get pushed around. They do where it just, you never used to see that, let alone we used to see guys break through the line of scrimmage. So yeah, try on Chienko. He's not as good as JPP rushing the passer or stopping the run right now.


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[Assistant] There's, there's definitely that. So, you know, you add that into, and then you also add this into it. You know, as I'm sitting there again, just base thoughts right off the bat. And then you look at the secondary, go, damn, the secondary is different. You know, Carlton Davis is not out there right now. Sean Murphy, Bunting, not there. Right? They lost Jordan Whitehead.


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[Assistant] So he's not there. Antoine Winfield got hurt. Antoine Winfield got hurt, right? So he used to be your other safety. You used to be able to go, you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, Antoine Winfield, Jordan Whitehead, Carlton Davis, Murphy Bunting, and number 35, who I always forget his freaking name, the other corner on Tampa Bay. It's unbelievable. I have a brain issue with this guy. It's killing me.


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[Assistant] But now they, they, they can't play that. They got Kean O'Neal playing safety, Winfield playing, you know, nickel. Zion McCullum, a rookie, is playing corner. Had to start at the other corner, right.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yes, exactly right. I mean he peeks in the backfield in cover three or peeks in the underneath route and lets the guy in cover three run a deep corner where he should just be standing there and it should never even be thought of being thrown. So that and then we got into like the long run by Deontay Foreman, right?


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[Assistant] That play was a play actually where yeaah, they're getting pushed around a little bit. He's got running lane and he's coming downhill in a hurry. Vita Veja is in the right gap.


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[Assistant] Right? They kind of got it stopped. He's going to get a four or five yard gain. Great. But Villavella, for whatever reason of the last second, he's in the right gap between the center and guard.


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[Assistant] I guess he thinks he's gonna cut back and tries to get on the other side of the guard and Deontay Vorman just runs right through where he was and he goes untouched.


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[Assistant] You know, so there's a, I think an issue of a guy maybe trying to do more than he should, right? As you hear that phrase in football a lot. But I think all in all, it's just not as dominant as a group.


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[Assistant] There is no great quarterback pressure, there is no great disruption of guys shooting through the line of scrimmage, let alone Vita Veja is really the only guy that can hold his ground.


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[Assistant] And make a mosh pit of things. The rest of those guys get pushed around. And you liked Carolina's offensive line at least. It's getting there. It's getting there. Exactly. He has plays where he pops, where you just go, woo.


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[Assistant] That guy, boy, that guy's big and he's moving like that. Oh, 79. That's icky. Oh gosh. Got it. I forgot he was there. You know, you just, you do that and he go, damn, he looks good. So yeah, there's some positive things there. Certainly. And PJ Walker did a nice job. He really did. But yeah, the bucks, I just, I I'm done with.


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[Assistant] This'll be the week they turn it around. I don't know why I even went into last week thinking that. I gotta change it and go, this is who they are and they're gonna be an ugly, you know, probably struggle to win almost every game type of team. Like it's just the way they're gonna be. I don't think anything's gonna be really easy for them this year. Right. And who do they have?


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[Assistant] No, the, the stats are, are, are lying to us there. They are, they were not league average. They're below league average. You know, if it takes you to get like 9, 97,000 plays to get to that yard mark where you're talking about, that would be interesting to see like that aspect of it. Well, I got that too, and you're exactly right.


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[Assistant] 481 plays they've run. It's third most in football. And you know who the other two teams are? The other two dinkin' dunkers. Right? The Cardinals and the Chargers. Right. You know, just not scaring anybody. So yea, league average, but, you know, the numbers are lying there. And then, and then of course you go, well league average, yea great, the numbers are telling me league average.


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[Assistant] The average play is, oh, he's over the middle and he's getting pressured and he has to hang in there and get his head knocked off to get a six yard completion. Whoop-dee-doo. That's not league average, that's below league average.


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[Assistant] It's a little, that's what I want to say. It's a little bit of a white lie. I feel like they're getting close to being able to live up to that expectation we're saying right there. Yeaah. They are extremely balanced. We're seeing Derek Carr and the pass offense take off. We're seeing the run game really take off. Right? Right?


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[Assistant] So that's, you know, and points haven't been an issue to your point is I'm sitting here just looking at their schedule.


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[Assistant] You're right. They just, you know, didn't put Arizona away with one more drive there early in the year. Tennessee, they had chances at the end of the football game. But yeah, I, Ahmed, I don't think your thought is far off. They are a team to kind of watch out for here. They got it going. They're executing in both phases of their offense.


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[Assistant] They can't just line it up and run it down your throat.


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[Assistant] But they make up for it in other ways. So that's where I would go, let's not read too much into it and go, oh look, they're not good at running the ball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they're awesome at throwing RPOs where you have to, you know, oh wait, we were gonna run the ball, but you crowded the box and now we've hit Tyree Kill and he caught it cause you're worried about the run game and he ran up for another 20 or 30 yards and their screen game takes away from that too. So I think this is one where.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't be surprised if their run game starts to pick up here. Because teams, like we saw even on Sunday night.


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[Assistant] You know, Mozart had some times where he ripped some runs off and stuff, especially early in the game, because Pittsburgh was so worried about stopping some of those other things that we're talking about. Oh, the wide receiver screen. Oh, the RPO. Oh gosh, we just let him run right up to the gap here, you know, for 10 yards. Oh no. I, I, so.


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[Assistant] So, what am I saying here? I guess it's telling the truth, but there's some context to it that still makes them a dangerous offense around the line of scrimmage, I guess is what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Listen, they're dangerous, but it goes into again what we were just talking about. You know, again, go back and watch. His biggest passes the other night are RPOs. Where, oh, they blitzed too to stop the run off the edge and he throws a dink pass to


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[Assistant] Waddle, and then Waddle's got no one around him and runs up the field for another 20 yards. That's not like a most aggressive passing, you know, as far as a quarterback's concerned in my opinion. You know, that's more about the offense itself and what they do. You know, we've had a number of weeks where, you know, again, they,


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[Assistant] It's, it's waddle this way, tarik this way, waddle this way, oh, gussicky's wide open over the middle.


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[Assistant] And again, yes, he's open over the middle and he gets a 25 yard game, but the throw was only like 7 or 8 yards and then he runs to a wide open spot or throws the screen to Tyreek out on the edge and he weaves through traffic and gets 25 yards and that leads to that. So that's where I would say that's misleading. And I know I'm the hater of the world here. Misleading, but not a lie.


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[Assistant] Would I sit there and agree with the numbers and go, they're definitely the best pass protecting the line? No, absolutely not. This goes into everything we've said the last two weeks about the Chargers. Everything is get the ball out of your hands. Everything is a six and seven yard throw.


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[Assistant] They could sit back there all day sometimes against some team fences when you just rush four.


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[Assistant] I don't think that Herbert and them can do that quite to that extent. I'd like to see them hold the ball a little longer and throw the ball down the football field a little bit. Like we talked about, it's doing a disservice to their team right now.


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[Assistant] A hundred. A hundred. Again, I just think some of that stuff is being a little overblown in this new era of football.


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[Assistant] I do. The game, as you've heard me say a million times, it's about plays right now. It really is. And it's set up for the quarterback to make the plays. And when you're not doing that and you have that type of talent at the quarterback position, you're not taking advantage of all your team has to offer.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, okay, yeah, the Chiefs game, they were unstoppable in that game. They were going up and down the field until late in the football game and then...


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[Assistant] Last week, you know, we came in on Monday and we went, wait, that second quarter touchdown and all of a sudden you couldn't stop them again. Yeah. It was every drive they went down the field and scored. So yeah, they got a little something going and then they were one of the few teams this year to make things hard on the Broncos defense. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, when you think about it, you can go, it's better than I'm, than I'm visualizing


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[Assistant] We are done. Alright. I know. We got defensive stat lies. We'll do that at some other point. I know. My breakdowns of the games went too long as usual. Uh, welcome to the club. That's what always happens. Welcome this pod to the latest of all.


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[Assistant] Uh, pick spod. Pick spod tomorrow. Florio, me, PFTPM, Chris Sims on button collaboration. Again, tune into the podcast. Listen to all the things I have to say. You decipher off of what I say, what should be the pick of the game. Don't listen to my pick. That's the category we're in right now. I can break down teams and games.


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[Assistant] They would. They would. Yes, they would. Exactly right. They'd be way above, way above winning a record. Uhm, but everybody keeps sending in the questions, keep listening to the pods, subscribe, rate, review. Ahmed, you the man. Thanks for leading the charge. Once again, we're gonna do some videos for social. You'll see those. Check those out on Instagram. Alright? And, uh, that's it. Okay? You good? I'm ready. Clap it up. Clap it up.


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


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[Assistant] I think as men we don't like change, right? We like things to stay the same forever. It's kind of rocking our world to see you with a different kind of a hairstyle. But I like it. I think you've powered through kind of an awkward middle stage. And now I'm noticing a little bit of a wave. You see that wave there?


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[Assistant] I feel like I have a little bit of a youthful look sometimes, where people sometimes think I'm still a kid, to where the gray helps. It gives me some authority. It's like, alright, that guy might know a little bit of something. Where if I just had no gray hair, I'd be like, why is this kid trying to tell me what's up? That is hair talk.


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[Assistant] What the F happened Wednesday? Real Treasures. Uh, Treasure Hunters. We're rebranding it Treasure Hunters cause yes, Chris, as he mentioned there, he went deep into the film. Yep. He looked for hidden treasure.


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[Assistant] So because on, on Sunday you got all the games going on, it's hard to keep track of them all. Even the Monday we had two games happening, it's like, you gotta dive into these films play-by-play to really uncover these treasures, right? Yes, you do.


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[Assistant] And the, and the good thing I like about, about this too is that you will pick out all the things where you're like, all right, this is my gut feeling on Sunday and Monday from watching it. And it was confirmed in the tape or my gut feeling has been denied by what I saw on this tape. It's been changed.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're going to get into that. We got Tua, we got Lamar, we got Josh Allen, we got Mahomes, we got Herbert, we got Kyler. It's not just the quarterbacks, it's the teams, it's the offenses, it's the defenses that they faced. Cause we got some compliments, uh, to give to some defenses out there that you really are falling in love with here early in the season. Definitely. Uh, which was reflected in your cursive note. So let's kick it off.


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[Assistant] With the same team that kicked it off on Monday because I think they are the talk of the NFL right now and what they are doing. The Miami Dolphins and their great comeback win against the Baltimore Ravens. And of course the Twittersphere is going crazy with you because of what you have said about Tua in the past, not really jumping on board with his arm strength and the way he sees the field.


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[Assistant] So you took a closer look here. There was hidden treasure in what Tua actually did. Uh, where does Tua get credit? Where does the Ravens defense get blame? Uh, you looked at the tape. You looked closer at Tua. After doing that, what's your gut telling you?


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[Assistant] So what is it about it? What was better in this game than you have seen Tua do in the past? Outside of those things you mentioned there, but you also mentioned some of his quick release ability.


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[Assistant] Is Mike McDaniel a perfect coach for this team? The way it's constructed? The speed? Speed. What do they do?


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[Assistant] So that's a good jumping off point for the Ravens here. As you look at that side of the ball, of course the Dolphins did things to stress them out. Did the Ravens shoot themselves in the foot defensively?


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[Assistant] So after those shots, those long touchdowns to Tyreke, 35-35. At that point, was the Ravens defense just completely lost? Like did they not know what to do because they gave up another long drive. 100%.


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[Assistant] Either way, it might be a situation where this year the Ravens offense will have a little pressure on them to score some more points and from the looks of this game, they might be able to be able to do that because the Dolphins defense we think is going to be pretty good and they still put up a ton of points, 38 points on them. When you took a closer look at that side of the ball with Lamar Jackson and the Ravens offense,


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[Assistant] What stood out to you about how they got that big lead? Kind of stalled out in the second half, but they certainly built that lead up.


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[Assistant] The running game for them. That has been such a staple of what the Ravens have done here. Outside of even Lamar Jackson, he's been a big part of it.


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[Assistant] Going forward, is this just an early season struggle with the running game for the Ravens, or with their O-line, with their running backs, could this be a season long problem?


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[Assistant] Well, we have a graphic on that for our Peacock and YouTube audience. Last thing we'll mention about this is yeah, maybe, you know, they couldn't slow down even with all that talent. They could not slow down Lamar Jackson and they blitzed quite a bit. You look back at when they did that in 2021, kind of held them in check.


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[Assistant] Sacked him four times, this time with their blitz on 55% of the dropbacks. No sacks, couple touchdowns given up.


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[Assistant] Obviously it's easy to see those long touchdown passes to digs, but something that caught your eye. Yeah, take me there. Was how quickly he got the ball to some of his receivers and gave him a chance to work.


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[Assistant] And then he can still beat you deep as you saw against the titans with digs deep, uh, the play that's all over social media. You liked it though and taking a closer look at it for a different reason. Yes. You don't think all quarterbacks necessarily would have stayed on digs there.


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[Assistant] Talk about a offense that's clicking on all cylinders because obviously Allen and Diggs, they're, and they're running just enough to keep you honest, do you think? So what are they doing with their formations, their mixing of personnel that could potentially be making it hard on defenses?


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[Assistant] So a lot of the problems for the Tennessee Titans were created by the Buffalo Bills. And did you think they were bigger out there? Is that what was in your notes at the end of your notes?


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[Assistant] Alright, doctor, this is the part of the pod where we diagnose what's wrong with the Titans, too. So we look at their D real quick on their offense, too. So D, you mentioned some of the problems, the Bills stressed them out, right? And the Bills are going to do that to a lot of teams out there. Is this just a, I mean, now they're 0-2.


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[Assistant] If you're a betting man which will force you to do, coming up tomorrow, uh, will they get that going against Las Vegas?


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[Assistant] So let's finish this game with that because you've already gushed about the Bills on offense. And so defensively, statistically in a lot of categories, they were pretty good last year, but you said they beat up on the bad teams, some of the good teams they struggled with. Do you think this is a completely different defense than last year? Yes, I do.


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[Assistant] I think we have a graphic on the pressure that they put on teams or the amount of pressure they brought last year versus this year. So last two seasons, if you're watching on YouTube or Peacock right here, sack rate.


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[Assistant] Uh, they've bumped it up. It was 7% last year, 12% this year. Their pressuring quarterback's 51%. Uh, but their blitz rate has fallen from 25% to 6%. Wow.


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[Assistant] Our next game we're going into is Chiefs and Chargers, a closer look here. We know this game was a little while ago, but these are hidden treasures that were lying dormant in that film that are now being uncovered for the first time. And so we get to really see what did happen in that game. And I mean, it wasn't a,


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[Assistant] A prolific high scoring game. Like I didn't score 40. No. Either of these teams. No. It was 27-24. And so what can we learn from diving deep into those tapes? Let's start with the Chiefs offense here. Okay.


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[Assistant] And Patrick Mahomes, because for a good part of this game, I was like, man, this Charger's defense is really giving him...


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[Assistant] Some issues, right? Yeah, some issues. I don't know how much of that was self-inflicted or how much was not, but by taking a closer look at the tape, what do you think?


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[Assistant] So it's interesting you say the Chargers D for the most part outplayed the Chiefs O, but they gave up some big plays. You just described the Bills defense in saying that they're aggressive, but not vulnerable. Are the Chargers able to pull off that balance?


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[Assistant] The way they guarded Travis Kelce. What was their plan for that? How may it have been different than what they've done in the past?


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[Assistant] And they ran the ball effectively in this game. Of course, Clyde Edwards-Delaire had that 52 yard run, but you thought that they, they ran it so well that it could have opened up more things with the play action.


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[Assistant] Before we flip it to the other side of the ball with the Chargers though and Chiefs defense, overall though, you feel like this is, I kinda get the sense.


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[Assistant] You walked away looking at that. Mahomes is Mahomes. Chiefs are gonna get people open. They're gonna score their points. But the biggest difference is the Chargers D. They have the ability to be more special than they were last year.


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[Assistant] How about the Charger's Offense? Aggressiveness. And let's just start actually with the, uh,


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[Assistant] With the offensive line, because they're going to be thrown quite a bit. They're going to be thrown to the running backs. Austin Eckler, even though they handed it off 14 times for only 39 yards to Eckler in the game, a lot of it starts with the offensive line. How'd they look?


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[Assistant] The Chiefs, were they trying to make it hard on them too? They have some different looks that they can use, but that didn't affect the Chargers at all.


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[Assistant] The one game changing play, this game could have been completely different without the pick six that went back, what, 99 yards or about that?


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[Assistant] Well, you took a closer look at that. I think it's been well documented. Everett was trying to get out of the game and they're like, I'm tired now. You can stay in the game. Hell of a play before, right? Great play before. And then Herbert threw his way. Is that basically what happened? Anything that you learned from closer examination? Right.


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[Assistant] Chargers gonna get to go against the Jaguars next time in that defense. We're going to talk about here in a second. The chiefs are at Indianapolis, uh, who we'll also talk about in a second, but next we're going to the other Monday night football game Eagles against the Vikings.


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[Assistant] I thought it'd be more competitive than this. I was really hoping for that. Another quarterback that is...


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[Assistant] Sometimes been lower on the Chris Simms top 40 back countdown list than their fan base would hope. Jalen Hurts. Uhm, what'd they do early on with Jalen Hurts? Cause it seems like this is a team that's gonna go through the run game and then make it easy on Jalen Hurts. They're not gonna put a whole lot on his plate. Is that what you saw from watching film?


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[Assistant] 53 yard touchdown to Quez Watkins. Who do you give the creditor blame to on that?


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[Assistant] Well that might be a problem for the Vikings because you noticed that it wasn't like they were trying to do too many complicated things in this game. No. What did you, what did you notice about that, that side of the ball for the Vikings?


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[Assistant] Puts pressure to score some points, which the Vikings did not do in this game. Was that a function of the big dudes up front for the Eagles making life hard? Didn't make it hard on my Detroit Lions last week.


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[Assistant] Eagles are a favorite at Washington. Uhm, boy, that could be a, that could be one of your best bets of the week. Right there, six and a half. We'll see.


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[Assistant] The Vikings are favored by six versus my Lions. That's an easy bet. Lions crush them. I'm going to pick them to win outright right there. Uh, bet MGM, speaking of odds, the NFC champion odds are changing by the week. Of course they are. The Eagles now have the second best odds to win.


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[Assistant] The NFC. So the Bucks are still the favorite. Last week the Bucks were plus 275. Currently they're plus 275. But the Eagles have gone from plus 600 to plus 450. So the Packers were ahead of them last week and now they have jumped the Green Bay Packers.


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[Assistant] Eagles were plus 1800 at points in the off season. Then got AJ Brown, had a pretty good draft, and now you see what they can be. A couple more games to get you here real quick. Let's go through, actually it's just, oh yea, two more.


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[Assistant] Cardinals and raiders, a closer look here, buried treasure, uh, hidden gems, our costumes are on, if you're not watching, just imagine us with the helmet on, with the light and all that stuff.


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[Assistant] Have you ever seen Indiana Jones? I have seen that. I did like those growing up. I have seen those movies. So you can imagine us however you want to imagine us if you're listening to this podcast right now.


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[Assistant] Okay, deal. Seems like you're the cooler one. Yeah, it does seem that way. Cardinals offense here versus the Raiders. So talking about all those odds, I think at points on Sunday,


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[Assistant] You might have been able to make a bet that the Cardinals were going to be the worst team in the NFC. They just hadn't gotten anything going, even with Kyler Murray, but then that all, that all turned around, uh, late in the game, second half, but I thought it was interesting in reading your notes.


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[Assistant] When they were down 20 to nothing, they had to kick it into gear. They had to become who you think they should be all the time. And I think you, for someone that didn't watch the film, it seems like, well, Kyler just did some crazy things out there. Where there are also some things that Cliff was able to do to put him in position that maybe they hadn't done in the first half. Definitely.


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[Assistant] And then the million dollar question, uh, is, you know, on the other side of the ball, I was going to finish that, I actually was saying, uhm, they got tired out then. They got, the Raiders defense got tired out at the end.


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[Assistant] And they really ran very few plays early on in the game too. They really couldn't get into a rhythm there and then they did get into a rhythm, tired out the Raiders on the, on the defensive side and then it leads to the million dollar question that I almost jumped the gun and


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[Assistant] How'd they stop Devonte Adams on the other side of the ball here? Devonte Adams comes into this game after week one, it's like, oh my gosh, this is just like,


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[Assistant] Uh, Rogers and Adams, same thing over there. They're going to get 10 catches a game, 150 yards every game, uh, two catches for 12 yards. Yes. How'd they do that?


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[Assistant] When the Raiders did have success, you're giving a lot of credit to Josh McDaniels, obviously. But also, how did Derek Karluk make in those plays?


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[Assistant] You thought JJ Watt popped in the film, right? Still a force. You thought Zach Allen had a good game. The fourth year guy out of Boston College. No doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think we got it. If they go, if the Cardinals do take your advice and go full Kyler in the short screen and open everything up, I don't know, maybe they have a chance to beat the Rams who have a history of being able to bottle up Kyler Murray.


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[Assistant] Interesting. Final game we want to look at. Colts and Jaguars. Gonna look at one side of the ball here. What is wrong with the Colts offense and what maybe is right with the Jaguars defense? 24-0 was the final score. Uh, I'm just going to read what you have written here. Hold on. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Jaguar's Defense, quote, in your notes, in cursive too, if you can picture this listening on the pod.


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[Assistant] That's been such a strength for them. You don't think it is this year necessarily.


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[Assistant] They can make life hard for the Chargers, especially if they don't have Justin Herbert 100%, which he might not be.


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[Assistant] They got some swag, they got some confidence here, and why wouldn't they have some confidence here? Cults go up against the Chiefs, yeesh, plus 6.5. Oof.


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[Assistant] Chief six and a half point favorites in that game.


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[Assistant] Alright, and that's it. That is the Treasure Hunters edition of Chris Simms Unbuttoned podcast. We will have two bonus plays because we don't do the video plays here on this part of the podcast anymore. Right. But check your Twitter account, check social media out there because we're going to have a couple of plays. We'll take a look at a Patrick Mahomes throw.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I could do that again if I tried. That was a perfect, uh.


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[Assistant] If it's the same as alcohol, right? If I go a month without drinking any alcohol and then I do it's like one glass of Maker's Mark.


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[Assistant] We're not as close of friends as I thought. I'm wearing it, and I'm rubbing it in your face. Good, good. No, it's like the merch for our homies. It's in development. Yea, it's in development. I think we're about a year away. Just like our YouTube page. A year and a half away. Speaking of that YouTube page. Don't speak of it!


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[Assistant] Within, within 10 seconds of seeing you, right? Cause I knew, cause I knew I didn't have a t-shirt for you. Yes sir, yes sir. And so I had to give you a hug right there. Uh, this is, we have 42 trivia here. Ooh, I like this.


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[Assistant] This caught Chris's eye. Alright, we got 42 trivia. What Hall of Fame wide receiver won two Super Bowls wearing number 42? Wow, wide receiver with 42.


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[Assistant] What are we doing? 57! So they're getting there. That's right around the corner. A 6 year plan, probably about right. The 21 year plan. For where this roster is right now. So happy birthday, um, Chris. Thank you. The t-shirt is in the mail. Yeah, sure it is. For my birthday, I hope we get to 50,000.


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[Assistant] It's funny that you guys are both Scorpios. Both Scorpios, yeaah. And I can do the impression of him saying your name. By the way, we're not up to 50,000 yet. Uh, our YouTube page, our new football YouTube page, we gotta get there. We're up to 32,000 subscribers. Well, we're making jumps here. We are making jumps.


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[Assistant] Pete says we picked up over 5,000 over the weekend. We have a new video promoting it where Peter King is blowing off, uh, our guy Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that's our NFL on NBC YouTube page. If you have not subscribed, do it. We got 18 more thousand and you'll never hear of this promo ever again. Uh, we are going to do the AFC win totals. You've gone through every team. Have you gone through their schedules too or? I have. Wow. I did.


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[Assistant] From every team. I've got mine. I've got my playoff teams. I've got my division winners. I don't have the bracket. I don't have the full bracket. I'm not going to do the over under, but I've got my playoff teams. I'm putting my neck on a line.


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[Assistant] You know, it's out there though. Uh, but before we get to that, we got some reactions to week three in the preseason. Uh, so we're going to get to some of these teams and then we'll get to our AFC win total. Let's just start with the 49ers because there's a lot going on there. There's been a lot going on there for a couple of years now.


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[Assistant] We've known that they wanted to move on from Jimmy G. Uh, a couple years ago, they traded up, they got Trey Lance, they...


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[Assistant] Shot away a couple first round draft picks. And now in the preseason, there've been some concerns with Trey Lance and Jimmy G is still on the roster, even though they say they want to trade them. They're going to trade them. They might just end up cutting them, even though they say they don't want to do that. So is he staying on the roster or not? What's going on with the quarterbacks? Nick D Panfali says,


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[Assistant] Uh, but won't keep Jimmy on the roster, undermine Trey. So he is wondering if keeping Jimmy on the roster is going to undermine Trey. The Niners appear to be in a no-win position, but they really have no choice but to cut Jimmy due to the bed they have made with Trey. Yea, they do seem to be in a tight spot right now.


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[Assistant] Like the Packers, right? The Packers were in a similar situation. Obviously this was not the plan. You don't trade up to get a quarterback to have him sit for three years. That wasn't the plan going in.


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[Assistant] Easier for them to justify because Aaron Rodgers has played so well, right? Maybe some of the best years of his career. And so then they can say, yeah, we messed, we messed up and we're just going to ride the hot hand with Aaron Rodgers for as long as he wants to play with us. That's understandable. 49ers in a similar position, but Jimmy G is not Aaron Rodgers. And so I think that makes it tougher for them, but.


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[Assistant] No, I, I, I agree with you. What's Jimmy doing right now, though? Well, that's where I was, that's, so let's go to the other side of the


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[Assistant] That's the key point, because you brought this up with Mike on Pro Football Talk, and he goes, I wouldn't take a penny less if I was Jimmy Garoppolo. Problem with that though is if you are cut, you got nothing. Exactly right.


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[Assistant] Right. They wanted to upgrade from Jimmy Garoppolo. They saw some deficiencies there. They thought Trey Lance or some of these other quarterbacks could give him more. Sure. Along with the fact that he's playing under that rookie deal. Exactly. And they've got a lot of great players with Nick Boses and DeBose and they want to pay them. Right. So I kind of get the whole view of it. But this year, you've got a great roster. You've already fit Jimmy G's salary apparently into your


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[Assistant] They can make it work. Exactly. They're under the salary cap, right? Um, I almost think maybe they're not thinking bold enough. I mean, if Jimmy G is there and if Trey Lance has struggled,


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[Assistant] You have a Super Bowl competitive team with a Super Bowl roster. He hasn't been practicing, so that's a problem.


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[Assistant] If he was practicing and playing how he has played the past couple of years, not even any better, I mean why not go with GDG?


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[Assistant] Complicated situation for whom the bell tolls. We got smart homies out there giving us questions.


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[Assistant] Good Ed, this, I think is what I want to hear anyways. He goes, forget the questions, I'm way more interested in the third round compensatory pick we'd be awarded if Jimmy G stays another year. Okay. Along with the insurance.


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[Assistant] We can talk about that for a long time because that really is a fascinating situation. Just the last few years and how that quarterback situation is going to shake out for the 49ers. It looks like the Bears have their guy in Justin Fields. There's a lot of debate on if he would go two, three, four back in the, in the day eventually.


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[Assistant] He dropped a little bit, but, but he looks pretty good in the pre-season. Uhm, Kevin Miner asks you, with all this talk of the Bears being a bottom three roster in football, not including the quarterback, what are the chances that the O-line and skill players come out and surprise folks this year? Justin Fields is a stud. We already know that.


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[Assistant] They were 6 and 11 last year. We're not doing the AFC or the NFC win totals today.


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[Assistant] I don't know, might be around that range again, uh, again this year, but Justin Fields does look good. And that's a huge key, right? Do you have your quarterback of the future? Once you have that, everything seems to kind of fall in place. It's looking good. A lot of times, unless you're the Detroit Lions.


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[Assistant] And have Matt Stafford for over a decade and never figure it out, but that's another topic for another time. Uh, what'd you think of Baker Mayfield? We got the, uh, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold, Sam Darnold who went down. I haven't seen an update. It's a bad high angle sprain.


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[Assistant] Probably not going to be the Seattle Seahawks who were 7-10 last year, even with Russell Wilson on the roster, although he was hurt for a bit of it. They've gone with Geno Smith.


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[Assistant] Uh, Drew Locke has been beaten now. Mehmet305, he often writes into the podcast here. Is it fair to say that Drew Locke blew his final opportunity to become a starting quarterback in the NFL with his performance against the Cowboys?


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[Assistant] And their last preseason game went 4 for 4, 59 yards. His quarterback rating was 118.8. What does that number mean to you?