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[Assistant] But the biggest blow of the day is Jalen Phillips tearing his Achilles. Yes. I don't know if I feel like the Dolphins can win the Super Bowl now without Jalen Phillips. That's literally how big of an injury that is. See, he's not a household name yet.


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[Assistant] But like, you know, they lost their Miles Garrett. He's the best player on their front seven.


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[Assistant] And so for them to lose him, and I know he's not Myles Garrett yet, but he's one of the best edge defender pass rushers in football. You know, they'll beat a lot of teams, we know that, but like what you're talking about, the upper echelon, the really good teams.


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[Assistant] Can they beat them without a Jalen Phillips coming off the edge? I don't know if I feel like they can go deep into the playoffs and get to a Super Bowl without him. That is going to be an interesting thing to see how they kind of...


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[Assistant] That does suck. They do have some studs on defense. Yes they do. I love Jevon Holland. That's great to see. I'm loving that everybody's seeing Jevon Holland who I voted for first team All-Pro last year.


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[Assistant] Everybody is seeing now, with the defense that's not so crazy aggressive, and he doesn't have to play man to man against a receiver, you know, every third play, cause last year they all out blitzed all the time.


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[Assistant] Now he's getting to play true safety, and he's really a well-rounded, awesome football player.


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[Assistant] I think I'm still there. I don't think I ruined it last year. I think I'm still good to go.


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[Assistant] I think this is a, this is a sneaky good game tomorrow night. One, Justin Fields has been playing really good. The Bears can run the football. The quarterback design run game is gonna give Flores and that defense some issues. And as we know, they don't have great corners up there in Minnesota.


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[Assistant] And the Bears got dangerous receivers, as your Lions team saw two weeks ago. They got some guys that can run by you. So I look at that and the way the Bears have been playing defense as of late.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I, I pick them, you know, every week I try to pick like the one or two games where I look like, ooh, this could be the upset. I took the Bears to win 23-20. I think this game suits them very nice.


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll see where it goes, uh, but, you know, Dobbs and the Kevin O'Connell, what they do on that side of the ball, always is scary. They always have a good game plan. After a Lions loss, I would like that result. I think that would be a good result. I would take that. Give you a little separation.


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[Assistant] Alright, we did it again. We did it. That's right. Week 12 in the books.


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[Assistant] Chris Sims on button with my man Ahmed Fareed here to lead the charge.


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[Assistant] Charge, he's tired, I'm tired, I can barely say charge, see? Can't even see that.


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[Assistant] We're gonna break down all the important stuff that went on today. Subscribe, rate, review.


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[Assistant] Ahmet Fareed, thanks as always. You were the man. You were my buddy. Peace out to everybody out there. Enjoy Monday Night Football. We'll see you Wednesday. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] The news on Monday. Yeah. And I'm on like Yahoo, right? Cause like, you know, I'm not a big news guy, but I kind of just like, let me just see what's going on in the world a little bit. And I'm scrolling through it and it has that on there.


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[Assistant] And I was like, damn, of all the things I've done all week talking about football, they chose start spreading the news to put on Yahoo news. Yeah, it was on there and I was like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe it. That's the kinds of kind of things that make you think twice about doing that again.


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[Assistant] Well, we got a good one today. What's up, man? How are you? Good to see you. It's a big day. Like we said, Wednesday, November 29th. More importantly, it's Pete Dimalidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidolidol


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[Assistant] Like, what a bunch of bullcrap. He was at home getting some birthday booty and he got here late. Like, so what the hell?


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[Assistant] It's the first time you think like, man, I'm actually on the down slope of life.


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[Assistant] It's actually like, it's amazing how a switch flips where all of a sudden you come back from like a workout and you're like, Oh shit, my back hurts. Or like, Oh, your body starts to fall apart. And I, after 40 was like probably the first time ever. I actually had thoughts of like death for the first time ever. Right. Or I hit 40 and just random moments of like,


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[Assistant] Yeah. They were old. Yeah, you were like, oh my God, I can't believe my dad. I couldn't believe my dad turned 40. I was like, shit, dad's old.


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[Assistant] I mean, 7,000 minutes of listening to, to me. I mean, we deserve, you deserve a t-shirt or maybe a daddy cigar or something. Uh, but do appreciate it. And I mean, the good thing is the reward you got is you're smarter than all your friends when it comes to talking to football.


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[Assistant] And you're not giving like, you know, the prototypical bullcrap that's out there sometimes. You got a little nuance to you. I like that gold line stand too.


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[Assistant] Yes, he was. Josh Allen was out of this world good. I mean, out of this world. You know me, my big thing is looking at taking advantage of what's there, what's available, and then when nothing else is available, what are you doing there, right? And the great ones when nothing else is there,


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[Assistant] They still find, eh, there's something there. I got it. I found, I made something there, right? And, I mean, he maximized the game. He really did. In every facet.


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[Assistant] It was an incredible performance by Josh Allen. It really was. The throws, the degree of difficulties of the throws.


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[Assistant] But then, you know, the amount of times people are covered or nothing's there or the pocket collapses and he still gets out or runs or makes some unbelievable throw. As the game went on, the offense delivered less and less for him and it just was Josh Allen taking over.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's drives where you go, there really wasn't one play on the drive where you go, ooh, that was surgical by the offense. It was just Josh Allen being amazing, right? He had one mistake. It was a big mistake. This is the problem with the Buffalo Bills.


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[Assistant] There's, you know, there's no quarterback that is dependent on more to carry his team right now in football than Josh Allen. And that's why we didn't pick him to go to the playoffs and we've been trying to tell people that's not sustainable in the NFL. He played the game perfectly. He maybe missed


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[Assistant] Like one throw on a corner route to Dalton Kincaid that he could have made a hit and still hit both of his hands. Of course the interception was the only bad play of the day. And that just tells you.


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[Assistant] About the Bills in general, right? I mean, he plays perfect. He plays out of this world. I go to the gym. Anybody I talk to, they're all like, Josh Allen, Josh Allen, Josh Allen. And they still can't win the game with one of the greatest talents we've seen.


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[Assistant] Right? And he makes one mistake and they can't win or overcome that. And that to me is the problem.


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[Assistant] The luxury of, er, not the luxury, the slumming of, no, you can't make a mistake, you have to play perfect, and if you don't play perfect, it's gonna, we might win by the skin of our teeth. I mean, that's where they are.


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[Assistant] So let me give some context to that. 81 of it is Josh Allen and the other maybe 50 of it is on the last drive of the game in regulation, okay? When the Bills put an extra offensive lineman on the field.


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[Assistant] And the Eagles still were like, we don't really care. We're going to play nickel defense because we're going to worry about Josh Allen throwing the ball.


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[Assistant] They had numbers in the box and a huge size advantage and they had a little success at the end of the game because Philly was trying to protect, let's not let them score a touchdown, let's make sure they kick a, or you know, let's make sure, you know, let's protect the big play, not the touchdown, excuse me. And they were trying to play that and protect, not the touchdown, you know. So that was in the competitive first three quarters.


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[Assistant] The run game was laughable. I mean laughable. Like let me just break this down just a little bit just to put it in perspective too and don't forget what you were going to say the next thing you were going to say. But like James Cook, he had an 11 yard run.


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[Assistant] Look, Murray had a 13 yard run. James Cook had 16 for 43 with an 11 yard run and there was another like 9 yard run on top of that. His other 14 runs were literally all behind the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] Murray, he had an 11, he had 9 for 30. One of those runs was 13 yards. Another run was like 6 or 7. So he had like 7 runs for like 12 yards. Their run game was non-existent.


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[Assistant] You know, it was all Josh Allen, uh, so sorry, and you want to get to the point. I just wanted to throw that out there. That's because the stats can be misleading. People go, well, they run the ball pretty good. And it's like, no, they did not run the ball. It did not help them in their offense at all throughout the game. And you didn't necessarily see anything


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[Assistant] You know, not that they have to reinvent the wheel, but we had this conversation I think a little bit


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[Assistant] You know, when they played the Rams early this year and we broke down the game a little bit, just, if they could just infuse a little illusion or a little like, hey, we might blitz here, but we're going to drop out or whatever. They don't need to do much because they're so talented, but I do think at times they get a little too bland and simple.


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[Assistant] And that's to me what I would say early on in the game was what was going on. They were playing kind of conservative zones. They might have had a five man front, one would drop off, but nothing that was, you know, like, oh wow, this is cool. As the game went on,


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[Assistant] You know, they did start to play more man to man because they realized Buffalo is not going to run away from us. So it's like the same thing we see all the, all the time. People play Buffalo and they start to go, well, why are we even playing zone? Josh Allen is going to pick us apart. We can play man and then even blitz or send five and contain Josh Allen a little bit more.


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[Assistant] That would be really how the game unfolded. There was two or three plays on the third down where they doubled, uh, digs or did something creative to him.


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[Assistant] Those were kind of all earlier in the game too, and as the game went along, they didn't even give him special attention really. Uh, but I, I wouldn't say there was anything there from Philly that you went, ooh wow, they did something special or something great. Let's not forget, Buffalo did have 505 yards of total offense, and 420 of them were from one human being.


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[Assistant] They definitely did. You know, the bills online, this is where they're annoying. They're good at pass protecting.


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[Assistant] You know, protection wasn't a huge issue the whole game. Like in Philadelphia, we know can overwhelm people as far as, you know, what they do in the pass game. It wasn't overwhelming, you know, but they're tough and they keep coming and they're fresh because they got so many bodies and all that. Yes, but the Eagles linebackers, aggressive as hell.


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[Assistant] You know, whether that's Morrow, Cunningham, uh, 53 Ellis who came in, cause I think Cunningham hurt his hamstring, but they definitely popped in, in the run game with


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[Assistant] You know, when Buffalo was kind of trying to play a conservative early and throw the ball short and get their line and team used to Philadelphia, but their ability to shoot the gaps.


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[Assistant] Like we talk about with good teams. Hey, there's a hole there. Linebacker run through it because the running backs in that hole too. He's going to be there in a minute.


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[Assistant] I wrote in my notes, right? They better slow the f*** down this week against the 49ers. Cause if they play that aggressive against the 49ers, they're gonna have George Kittle and Debo Samuel running behind them for big gains all game long. So it's a different attack there. But then when you get into Ellis specifically, the linebacker, and I think this is where you're taking me, or at least I'm gonna go there.


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[Assistant] On the interception by Josh Allen was the play of the day. It was the play of the day. And he's not gonna get any credit for it, but he should get credit for one reason. Let's go ahead, I'll let you go.


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[Assistant] Yes, okay, so they got an empty set, alright, it's empty, he's shotgun, it's concave to the right.


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[Assistant] Shakir in the slot to the right, Dalvin, uh, James Cook, excuse me, all the way outside on the right. So those are the three eligibles to the right side in the empty formation. On the left side, you got Gabe Davis on the outside, and Stefan Diggs in the slot, right? Alan Audubles to this play.


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[Assistant] And he audibles his play because it's a two safety defense and he's going, wait, I know they're playing zone with how they're lined up.


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[Assistant] Underneath Ellis to because now there's going to be nobody in the middle of the field and you can catch the ball running and get some yak, right? You can kind of see how that, how I draw it. It's a split safety defense, blanket ships to the left, buyers to the right number 31 and the coverage to the three receiver side on the right is quarters on the left side. It's covered too.


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[Assistant] Ellis does a great job of not attacking Stefan Diggs when he comes off the line of scrimmage. Stefan Diggs kind of comes off slow, like, come on, come and get me, come and get me, I might break out, I might break out. Cause he wants to set him up to get him to move that way and then he's gonna cut right underneath him and be like, ah, too quick, see you later, right? So, he tries to do that.


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[Assistant] Ellis does a great job of holding his ground. He stays inside of digs and makes digs have to make the out breaking route.


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[Assistant] And that's where now again, there's a little bit of a trust tree element here, but you still got to see the throw. And this is where Josh Allen messed up because I think he's staring down digs and he's not paying attention to Bradbury on the outside.


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[Assistant] Traditionally, with this type of coverage in cover 2 over here, Bradbury, you know, he should ride, Gabe Davis takes an outside release and he should kind of ride Gabe Davis up the sideline a little bit to where Stefan Diggs should be there.


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[Assistant] Bradbury's a pretty smart guy. He's been around football for a while, right? Giants, Eagles, he's been coached by some good people. I think he has a little feel for what might be happening.


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[Assistant] So he kinda jams Gabe Davis who goes outside, but turns around right away. Doesn't ride him up the field at all. And therefore, as he turns around,


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[Assistant] He's seeing Alan look there at Pat cause Alan's waiting for Diggs to make the move on the linebacker and break out. And that gives him enough time to where now Alan's kind of throwing it going, wait, all I'm worried about is 53. Diggs has got 53 beat and boom, he collapses on it.


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[Assistant] And guessing interception, huge play the football game as we know. One that Josh Allen will look back at and go, damn, I should have thrown the whole shot to Gabe Davis up the left sideline. Cause I already threw a whole shot earlier in the game where I made an amazing throw. And that would have been another one, but that was truly the only mistake the guy made the whole game. And as we know that resulted in seven points for the Philadelphia Eagles.


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[Assistant] These are forwarded, no room of error. So here, let me just point, paint this picture, like, the first half, right? It was the first drive, second drive of the game, right? James Cooks drops a touchdown going up the left sideline. I mean, it's right in his hands, breadbasket, like right in his face.


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[Assistant] They come away with no points, you know. Later in the second quarter, they get down to the seven yard line, miss the field goal, gets blocked, right?


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[Assistant] No points, right? Of course they had another miss field goal in the fourth quarter that was very easily makeable.


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[Assistant] There he is, he played perfect, they dropped a touchdown, they don't come away with a field goal, they come away with zero points and drives, and he drove them down and did everything Josh Allen was supposed to do, and it's like, oh shit, I don't know if they can win still, even though they go in at 77.


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[Assistant] Where, you know, the quarterback on the other side, okay, and I'm just, I'm not trying to, like the quarterback on the other side,


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[Assistant] It's a different game, and I'm not trying to say that to downplay Jalen Hurst, but I'm trying to explain to everybody that the game is so much harder.


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[Assistant] Running, run blocking, you're a son of a football coach, you know football. Run blocking's an attitude, a state of mind. It gets started back in the spring. It's not like week 12 where we're like, we're gonna run the ball and be tough now, even though we've been throwing it every play all year long, right? Not gonna happen.


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[Assistant] So, you know, they did some good things in the football game. They definitely did. They played their hearts out.


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[Assistant] Right? Their desperation like seeped through the screen. Right? And for them to not come out on top, I know that was crushing for them.


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[Assistant] I watched film, then I went to the TV version as I wrote my notes, cause I was like, I like to try to, you know, find things that- This is overtime we're talking about here, it was a touchdown, he was wide open, yea.


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[Assistant] Odd play in that, like we said, it was a Switch release at the line of scrimmage when we talked about a Sunday night. Yea. Right?


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[Assistant] From what Josh Allen said in the post game press conference, from the reaction of Josh Allen on the field,


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[Assistant] It all makes me think Gabe Davis, from Gabe Davis' reaction on the field and then to going over to the sideline and being pissed and throwing his helmet, you know, on the heater or whatever that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, all that tells me that it was Gabe Davis. It does. And more times than not, again, my football.


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[Assistant] What I've been taught in the world, you know, for the most part is you continue to go straight and go over the top on that one, right? It's a route to go from the outside, switch release in, and then run a corner route takes too long against all out blitz. So I can't imagine that that would be the answer to an all out blitz.


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[Assistant] I think Alan threw the ball where he was supposed to from, from my studies.


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[Assistant] And if Gabe Davis stays straight, he's gonna catch a touchdown and they're gonna win the football game. Alright, so that's a good look on that side of the ball. Last thing with the Eagles too.


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[Assistant] Too much zone, right? They gotta do that and they gotta trick it up just a little bit like we talk on defense. It doesn't have to be like insane or anything like that. It just has to be a little bit that I think can take them because they're reeling a little bit on defense right now.


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[Assistant] You know, people are kind of picking them apart. There were a lot of yards here as of late, right? So they gotta fix something and that to me


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[Assistant] And you gotta, you gotta like, somewhere trim the fat, right? You can't have all-stars everywhere, even though they're close to it. But that's one position where they went,


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[Assistant] You know, if there's one area we're not gonna spend top end money or assets on, well we got five awesome defensive linemen. I think we can...


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[Assistant] You know, a forward to not have great linebackers. Like the 49ers are playing this week. What do they do? They trim the fat at what position? The corner position. They go, we got great linebackers and a great front four. We don't think we need great corners behind that. You know, same type of logic, except they just went corners. Eagles went linebackers. Uh, they're still both pretty damn good because of that.


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[Assistant] Is when they play through their run game, it opens up the field. I think that's the thing that I look at more than anything. This was a game again where


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[Assistant] You know, make it hard on a quarterback or play caller. I talked to you, I think you saw in my notes, you know, their disguises and, hey, we're playing run defense. And then they run out of there the last second and play pass defense. Hey, we're playing pass defense. We're way back here. We're playing pass defense. Said Hut, they're all the way up to the line of scrimmage now and they've changed and they're playing a run defense, right? They're good at doing stuff like that.


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[Assistant] It's not like crazy, it's like it goes from cover four to cover three, cover three to cover four, you know, cover three to cover two. It wasn't like, oh my gosh, this is the most unbelievable game plan in the world, but they, they make teams think.


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[Assistant] And figure out how they're playing before they can just dial up the plays they want. I think the big thing was that. Was just that the...


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[Assistant] The run game became more of a thing in the second half.


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[Assistant] So when you play that, they tied it together a little bit better with play actions and read option type of plays, RPOs, right?


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[Assistant] They got the run game, we're worried about that, and now we gotta kinda like take tactical chances to stop other things, and if we don't call the right thing, and we're tactically wrong, we're gonna be


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[Assistant] And somebody's going to be wide open over here. And that's when, that's what happens with the egos.


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[Assistant] Their physicality, their talent on the field compromises defenses to start having to call things that they normally don't want to call in certain situations, and to me that's what


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[Assistant] No, exactly right. That's to me, and that's where in the third and fourth quarter, I thought there was a lot more than that and we'll get into some of those examples. But yeah, that to me, a little bit, sometimes they get a little bit, I don't know if it's cocky, whatever. It's just Rolodex. Like we're, we came in this game and we're going to throw on Buffalo. We're throwing on Buffalo.


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[Assistant] And it's like, okay, the first series, hey, the throwing didn't work that good. Let's, let's start to adjust or, you know, let's, let's start to move on to something else or a different thought, you know, but, but,


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[Assistant] Eventually they made the right adjustments, and that's where the game changed, and you know, it's 17-7, third quarter, and the Eagles started to just gash the Bills with weak side runs.


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[Assistant] Weekside runs where, you know, there's a little bit of a hole there between the D-tackle and the weekside end. They might block down, Travis, you know, Kelsey, uh, might pull around and all of a sudden, you know, it's him on a linebacker in this huge hole and the running backs behind him, right? They started to do stuff like that to where Buffalo all of a sudden now was like, oh shit.


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[Assistant] You know, they've gotten their run game, they found something out they wanted to attack with, it's there. And like I said, then it became run game, run game, run game. And then it became the read option and the RPOs and the play action and they just were screaming down the field wide open.


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[Assistant] And he's gonna pull the ball after the fake.


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[Assistant] And Leonard Floyd's gonna be there in a way, and we've kinda talked about this earlier in the year one time on a similar type of play, where, you know, Hertz doesn't have a lot of arm angles, that's one of the negatives of his game.


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[Assistant] Floyd does a great job of kind of sitting there. He waits for hurts. He stays there. Let's go to the next shot. And hurts as he, you know, pulls the ball.


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[Assistant] He's got Devontae Smith wide open, and it'll show it even more on the next clip here. But Hertz here, he's gonna try to throw to, uh, the damn, uh, tight end 89 stole here in the flat, and you can see 25 dots and it's just waiting for him to come. So one,


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[Assistant] If Leonard Boyd doesn't tip this ball, this is going to be Dicey with 25 driving on it when he finally does start to throw, because he's not even in the throwing position, right? And I don't know, do we have one more shot here, uh, just to make sure? But see, see here, he should have just sat on his back leg, look at


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[Assistant] Uh, Devontae Smith coming open behind it and he's gonna hit him in a slant and he's gonna be running either way. But you see there, you know, it's one of the things Hertz needs to improve a little bit. It's just the sidearm throws, drop it down, whatever. He kinda tries to just throw it a little hard past Leonard Floyd's ear and he does a great job of getting his hands up and


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[Assistant] Right, and he makes so many plays and does some things, right, to where, you know, Mahomes and Allen have fallen into this trap too, you know, where


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[Assistant] Hey wait, I've been moving and I've run and it's working for me all day, right? And I feel like he...


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[Assistant] Has had a little bit of an issue lately of falling into that trap. It's all worked out for him in the end game, why don't you say it. But let's go ahead, pull that up, Pete. But yea, there was some plays in this game.


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[Assistant] You know, he was protected phenomenally. And where I would say, like, one thing where I would say, like, you gotta be careful because it could turn into bad habits this week, especially against the 49ers who were way better than the Bills on defense, right? Where there was plays you saw in my notes where I go,


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[Assistant] He scrambled, but the pocket was perfect. He didn't need to scramble. Or he scrambled, and there was somebody wide open, and yea, I know he ran and got five, but Devontae Smith is open for like a 15 yard out route. I don't know what he's doing. And here's a play again, where... First play of the second half. First play of the second half.


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[Assistant] Little read option RPO, right? Here it is. Okay. And he's going to keep the ball.


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[Assistant] Off the edge here. And if you continue to go, it's not similar, totally dissimilar from the interception he ran, but this time Floyd's not even worried about him. And as you'll see, it's going to be a lot of the same look we just saw.


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[Assistant] He kinda rolls out here, and another step or two, if he just waits, he's gonna hit A.J. Brown on a slant route, and it's gonna be A.J. Brown against, look at this, against Micah Hyde.


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[Assistant] Uh, one on one in the middle of the field and it might be a touchdown. It might be like knock your head on the goal post type of thing there, right? But for whatever reason, he comes off of it and goes, I'm going to try to run and make a play with my legs. And he can't get out of, get out of the jam on this time. And he ends up getting sacked eventually, but there was,


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[Assistant] Four or five plays during the game where I just went, man, Jalen Hurts, you're too good here. These guys are open, like you don't need to leave the pocket, just stand there and throw a strike like you did the play before or whatever. And, uh, that's the only thing I worry about. Sure. Just the bad habits of that there. But again, it didn't matter.


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[Assistant] You know, the team hangs around and of course he hangs around and then he starts to make plays and of course his legs kill you and then he starts to go to the right place with the ball and they caught on fire not long after that.


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[Assistant] It's all set up, this drive right here, because the drive that they went and made at 17-14 was the weak side runs, the gashes, right? They were just killing them. So now it's the next drive of the football game.


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[Assistant] Buffalo is in the total like, oh shit, what do we defend now? We can't play man against them, right? We're not big enough up front to handle them straight up in the run game. So they're in a guessing game now. They're trying to do anything they can. And here's a drive where, you know, they, they played run D the whole drive.


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[Assistant] Right? And Hertz had a great third and five scramble, uh, you know, and made a few other plays.


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[Assistant] You know, now comes, okay, we got them guessing, and they run the fake little bubble screen out here.


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[Assistant] To, looks like it's gonna be to Julio Jones, and the bills just completely overplay it.


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[Assistant] You know, they're gonna be in trouble no matter what playing cover 2 against this right here. Uh, but, Herz looks out there, he looks to Julio Jones, and he gets the, the corner Bernard and Tyron Johnson the nickel, both.


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[Assistant] Fly up to Julio Jones. Why? I don't know. Because the first thing I want to tell you is it's Julio Jones. He runs 4.8 right now. So don't be that overreactive. The, the...


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[Assistant] And poor Micah Hyde is going, wait, I have to cover Devontae Smith and AJ Brown. And again, to me, this is when they run, they throw screens, they run quarterback design runs, they


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[Assistant] You know, like I said, the drive before, they bludgeon him with the run. They come out, they run the ball for five yards, I think, on first down. Then they got him in a run defense so bad, and he gets, he gets, uh, Devont, uh, Devontae Smith wide open over the middle for a deep crosser, right?


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[Assistant] Then it's Swift for five yards. Swift for one yard. Jalen hurts scrambles for twelve. Then it's another five yard run by DeAndre Swift. So they had their heads spinning right there and then they dial up that right there touchdown and the dam was breaking as we spoke right there.


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[Assistant] The play of the day, play of the game, whatever. This was the play of the game. This was the straw that broke the camel's back right here. Right? Now, what I will say, and again,


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[Assistant] You know, uh, this wasn't, this wasn't the one. Sorry, I was thinking of something else.


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[Assistant] The great job, like nobody opened it first. So he, he goes, wait, I'm sitting in the pocket. I don't see anything. Let me get out here and see if I can't threaten the line of scrimmage, which he's so good at, right? Maybe I'll run, maybe I'll throw. He knows now I got enough time. So he gets back into a throwing position and starts kind of like backpedaling.


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[Assistant] Towards the sideline and throws a perfect pass in the back of the end zone for Zaccheaus to get.


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[Assistant] The thing you'll look at is watch Micahide on the left side. Micahide23, he over commits right there.


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[Assistant] And if you saw the real people, you'd go, why Micahide? Why? Because 47, the corner, was there to cover the guy. He kind of came up all of a sudden trying to worry about, like, the underneath receivers and let Zacchaeus get behind him. And when he got behind him,


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[Assistant] That's like the second he got behind him, Jalen Hurts let it go. He had great feel or anticipation of it all and put it back in a spot where


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[Assistant] That's what they always do. That's what they always do, and at some point they're gonna compromise you and find the answers to where you're gonna start to go, oh damn, we're in a tough spot, we gotta start doing things we don't wanna do. And that's kinda what happened as the game went on. You know, they couldn't get any pressure on him.


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[Assistant] You know, like I said, even the place he scrambled, they were like, he didn't need to, he was like, there's nobody around. Right? So they had that. And then, even when they did Blitz, it was a disaster. They couldn't even get close there either. So, that's where Buffalo was like, I don't know what to do, we want a Blitz to contain him and help him.


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[Assistant] We blitz and he throws the ball to AJ Brown and they get five and eight and they just pick us apart slowly. So that's where it just became indefensible at the end and once, once Philly starts to get like that and they crack the code, uhm, they're, they're


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[Assistant] 49ers, I think, you know, are one of the few teams that could do some things to the Eagles that the Eagles do to everybody else a little.


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[Assistant] Like, oh yea, you're compromised. You gotta stop our run a little bit. We got a lot of tricks up here and things we gotta do. Oh, you're gonna have to, oh, now you're gonna have to maybe, you know, play man-to-man on Debo and Brandon Nyuk. Or, you know, they're just gonna be able to do some things to them that I think will get Philly in some uncomfortable positions, especially on the defensive side of the ball. And same with the offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Because this is one of the few games I look at on Philly's schedule and go, well, they're not just guaranteed to overpower the front and run the ball like, you know, they did against Buffalo there, right? You know, when they decided to turn that on, it became a gash session with them running the football.


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[Assistant] So, that's where I think the game, you know, can be interesting. This is one of the few teams in football, Kansas City, Baltimore, the 49ers.


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[Assistant] That can get on the field with the Philadelphia Eagles and go, we're not physically out manned. You know, we can hang in there with them toe to toe. If we play straight up, we're not, they're not just going to blow us out. And like we've talked about too, I think 49ers at their best this year, Eagles at their best, the 49ers are more impressive.


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[Assistant] You know, the problem is at their worst, the Eagles still win and the 49ers lose three in a row. And that's gonna be like, where does it meet here and where does this go? And of course the, you know, the 49ers gonna have a chip on their shoulder and, and feel like they should have won the game last year. I cannot wait for this one.


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[Assistant] There's so much on them, and there's so much on one guy, and yeaah, they got a lot of stuff going on them all together. I will say, you know, the fact that


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow hurt, Cleveland quarterback situation, you know, the Colts and their quarterback situation, and it's the Houston Texans and our young football team.


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[Assistant] You know, there was a point where I went, nah, 10 wins is gonna get you in the AOC. Now I'm starting to look at it and go, eh, maybe 9 can get you in, the way it's kind of unfolding here. Right? So we'll see where it goes, but yeah, there's a lot on their plate up in Buffalo right now.


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[Assistant] That game, it's a different type of quarterbacking than the game of the, you know, Hertz vs. Josh Allen, where there's a little more backyard element and all of that, right? But if you're talking about maybe pure


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[Assistant] You know, in the pocket-ish type of quarterback play, right? And doing that.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was two guys that played at like an unbelievably high level. I mean, it was one wow throw and play after the other, and both different ways. Uh, that's what I think was really cool, where, you know, I don't wanna, I don't wanna spoil it, uh, but, but, I mean,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Stroud was phenomenal. Trevor Lawrence is phenomenal. Let's get into it before I blow the rest of my head. This is the time to blow it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's the exciting thing. There's different stuff. It's just, it's continues like every week another door opens, you're like, oh shit, he can do that too? Oh shit. Right? He's slowly but surely been like,


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[Assistant] Showing us little moments of, hey, I can take over a game, even when we're not playing our best, you better watch out.


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[Assistant] Nothing was more of that than this game right here.


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[Assistant] You know, there was, you know, maybe a few plays that were more accurate to what I said Sunday night where it was like, Hey, I felt like CJ Stroud, some of the plays where he was buying time and stuff, you know, it was like people were covered and he was just waiting for somebody to get open. So I got to buy time. Not the case when I watched the film, not at all. It really was not.


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[Assistant] You know, there was a few of those, but for the, for the most part of the football game,


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[Assistant] All right. Jacksonville's D-line, one, I mean the Texans couldn't run the ball at all.


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[Assistant] And then two, the pressure on CJ Stroud in the pass game was much more turning on the film than I realized. He's so cool and calm. I think TV sometimes doesn't do him justice, right? Cause he's just like, Oh, I'm getting pressure. Let me slide here. Boom. Completion. And you're like, Oh, I don't know. It must have been nobody to open. But the big thing here was,


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[Assistant] This was a superstar performance. This was one man band.


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[Assistant] Josh Allen, Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, right? Russell Wilson and his prime type of stuff. Wow. Where I would just, every play I was like, oh, nobody's open, oh, he's under pressure, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh


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[Assistant] And for a rookie, week 12 and the team's just going, let him go. I mean, that just kind of tells you what he is and what he is behind.


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[Assistant] I think it's a game they probably could have dialed it up a little bit more, right? Between the past, the pressures,


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[Assistant] Jags were playing a ton of like zone defenses for the most part. You know, they don't have Tyson Campbell right now that hurts them.


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[Assistant] Cause he could kind of be their guy where, hey, you play man and we'll play zone everywhere else and they make it tough on you.


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[Assistant] But it was primarily zones, right? To where, with that type of pressure, a little bit of game where I'd go, I'd have liked to have seen a few, you know, one, two, three, boom, get it out, one, two, three, four, five, oh, here's something for a six yard gain, and let's see if Dell can run for a few more. You know, I love their offense, as you know, because it's attacks, it's down the field, everything's aggressive.


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[Assistant] Right? And that's awesome. But there was a moment in this game where I was like, hey, a little surgicality, a little more surgicality in the short passing game.


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[Assistant] No run game like you're talking about. Play action game gone. Now it's shotgun. We're talking about he was under pressure already. Now it's becoming like, hey, pin your ears back. We're going after him all the time.


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[Assistant] What he showed in that game, to me, is you better have a pass rush plan. You can't just go after CJ Stroud like he sold some, you know, Joe Smith off the streets here.


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[Assistant] He's getting to the point here with his movement and stuff where you almost have to play him a little bit like a Mahomes.


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[Assistant] Or a Josh Allen and the fact that you can't just go crazy rushing him and giving him lanes to move through and scramble and attack the line of scrimmage. He's too dangerous. And that was a problem for Jacksonville as the game went on as they could not contain him. And he showed unbelievable ability to move and throw and do that. I mean,


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[Assistant] I just, you know, you saw at the end, I wrote, it's unreal. I mean, he never misses a throw. He never misses a read. And I wrote, they're letting him carry the team now. And I just, that's unheard of for a quarterback in this 12th game of his NFL career.


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[Assistant] Cross the board on the D line. They got two really good linebackers. You know, their secondary is good.


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[Assistant] Right? I love their safeties and Jenkins and Cisco, right? Their man-to-man ability is what's questionable and especially without Tyson Campbell like I was talking about. So that's something that


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[Assistant] You know, hopefully when he's back healthy and they can get a little bit more there, but I do, I like their defense. I do. You know, their pass rush seems like it's coming along, right? I think they were worried about that for a time, worried about like, man, our front four can't get there. We got a blitz to get pressure. I think they're having to do less of that.


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[Assistant] Well that's, that's, you know, again, back to one of my things we said at the start of the show.


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[Assistant] I think it was gonna be quite what I thought it was, right? One, I love the attack.


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[Assistant] Right? We've been saying the last few weeks, like, right? I like Jacksonville's offense. There's just something missing, right? It's just something that's like, and to me, when I finally like started to wrap my head around it and I was watching the film from last week's game, I started to go,


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[Assistant] They gotta start attacking the field more. They got a good offense. They got a lot of good ways to throw the ball 5 and 10 and 12 yards down the football field.


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[Assistant] I think they, early part of the year, and the stats backing me up a little bit here, it was too much of that. And teams were playing for that. They were going, we stopped the run, we stopped these 5 to 10 yard throws, and we can slow down Jacksonville. They don't really throw the ball down the field that much. Now, attacking down the field,


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[Assistant] And it opens up everything else, like you always hear me talk about. Now there's a little space on the field. The safeties back up three or four more yards. The corners start to go, I'm playing man, but I'm gonna bail out of there a little bit, right? And even had the Calvin Ridley drop on the left end zone, that should have been a touchdown on one of the deep throws. Two hands on it, should have caught it. Period. But that is what I like.


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[Assistant] And then his quarterback play on top of it, different than Stroud's, where Stroud didn't have people open, he was under pressure, right? Lawrence was under a little pressure, there's no doubt about that, because this, you know, this is Will Anderson.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's a boss off the edge, right? And Greenerd wasn't even totally healthy, so he only played a little bit. So he wasn't an effect, but like the thing that was different about Lawrence compared to Stroud was, it was like,


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[Assistant] He had to make, you gotta make the decision right now and you gotta throw the ball. The window was about a foot big and you gotta put it in there and he was just letting it rip. And I mean, bullseye, ding, ding, ding, one after another. I mean, there was a few throws, especially in the first half where I was like, I can't believe he had the f***ing guts to even throw that ball in there between those people, right?


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[Assistant] You know, he knows that team's fast, there's not a lot of windows to be had, he processes


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[Assistant] Uh, quickly, you know, he has a pretty quick release. It's not the quickest in football, but it's up there. And then his arm strength is really up there to where when he wants to put some, some heat on it, a little extra elbow grease into it, he can do that.


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[Assistant] Uh, not only the down the field throws, you know, but a lot of phenomenal 10 and 12 yard throws where you just went, if he doesn't throw that on the money, that ball's going to get tipped and pop in the air and be interception, or this guy has to slow down and now he's going to get hit as he throws it. I mean, as he catches it and the ball's like, there was a lot of those where you just went, holy crap.


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[Assistant] An element of their offense that I think could be a cool little curve ball or change up as the game goes on.


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[Assistant] Right, I think that's the thing that excites me, and we'll see if they continue to dabble with it, but we know Evan Ingram's A Pain in the Ass right at tight end, right? They got Brandon Strange, uhm, uhm, the kid in 85 who they drafted out of Penn State.


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[Assistant] And then the other kid is, uh, what is it? 89? Is that what his damn number is? I'm trying to- Oh, here it is. 89, right? So, and uh, you could pull up his name cause I'm blanking on his name.


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[Assistant] Uhm, unless you want me to beat you to it. No, no, don't do it. Don't do it. I'm gonna beat you. I'm gonna beat you. His name is, uh, Luke Farrell. Luke Farrell. Damn it. Ohio State. I couldn't think of it. Yes. Now he's kind of the blocking guy, right? Strange. Penn State is kind of the


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[Assistant] I can run routes and block pretty good. And then Evan Ingram's like, I'm awesome at catching the ball and I'm just kind of okay at blocking, right? Were there times that all three of them were on the field at the same time? All three on the field, right?


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[Assistant] And hey, they got a big ol' line to begin with, and like you said, they got an ATN at running back.


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[Assistant] They're going to be able to put some teams in some blinds here, binds here. Like there was a little point in the football game where they put all three tight ends in and you know, the Texans go out and they're, we got to get another linebacker in there, right? We're going to play four and they can't play nickel. We got to play four, three base defense, right? We got to get big here, right? So they do that. They run the ball, but then the next play they split out and like shotgun and all of a sudden it's like, Whoa, well,


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[Assistant] You know, you're three linebackers. Can you cover these, these guys down the field? And I think they got something there where they're going to be able to create some headaches from some people and give themselves another element of offense that, you know, make teams game plan.


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[Assistant] It's not even about the pass rush all the time too, it's the instincts and the physicality in the run game. He is just...


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[Assistant] You know me, I love guys that have no regard for their body, right? No regard. You can't think in football, there's no regard. Coach says go run through the wall, you go run through the wall. I'll think about it later, when I'm retired. Right? And that's what I love about him. It's just like, here's the running back running through this gap, he sells out. Let me dive in there and just


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[Assistant] You can create chaos and I'll tackle him and knock the blockers down and do it all. Right? He's just, he's great that way. Uhm, and of course his get off and pressure around the edge is damn good too. And there's another player too. Uh huh. And I brought his name up a few times lately, but a player that you says has the chance to be the next Fred Warner. Uh huh.


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[Assistant] Yes, from Alabama, he doesn't start, you know, they let Blake Cashman start, and when they go base, Toto comes in, but Harris...


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[Assistant] It has a similar body makeup to Fred Warner.


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[Assistant] And he's got rockets up his ass to where he can fly, sideline to sideline. I mean, he's phenomenal that way. He fits the defensive scheme. He's being coached by D'Amico Ryan.


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[Assistant] And Fred Warner, let's not forget, what was he, a fourth round pick, right? I think somewhere in there, Christian Harris, I think is a third or fourth round pick too, as well. And I think they found something in that guy, yea. He continues to play in this scheme and gets comfortable in the NFL. His physical gifts are up there with anybody in the sport as far as running and explosion goes. Third round pick.


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[Assistant] You can just, if you're willing to throw the ball outside, Seattle scheme. They don't play a lot of man to man, right? They play cover three bail or it's cover four where they're really worried about bailing to kind of.


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[Assistant] Is he the same kind of coach? Is he running the same thing in Houston? He's running the same thing, except there is more man dabbled into the conversation now. And I think the big thing is, is cause he's got, you know, some corners on the outside.


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[Assistant] Who can cover people? You know, Stingley?


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[Assistant] It's starting to, you know, pop. It's not like, oh wow, you know, he's


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[Assistant] The third pick or the draft quite yet type of pop, but it's still damn good. And then Stephen Nelson on the other side, you know, so they have,


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[Assistant] That's where I feel like they have a little bit more versatility than maybe he did with the 49ers. Yeah, let me blitz here, let me do this little crazy thing and I'll play man to man because I'm comfortable with my corners on the outside.


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[Assistant] And it's been a nice little curve ball or change up for, for me at least is watching them and watching D'Amico Ryan's all the years with the 49ers. Houston Texans next up for them, the Denver Broncos. That's going to be kind of, that's going to be a good game. No doubt about it. I mean, that's, it's, you know, both teams that are hot and believing in each other and two quarterbacks again, that,


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[Assistant] You know, Russell ain't playing like CJ Stroud. Let me, let me just get that right. Uh, but Russell's playing good. He's taking care of the ball. And unlike last year, early this year, he's making his best plays when the game counts instead of his worst plays, which is what he did.


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[Assistant] You know, ever since I, you kind of put that on my radar, it's, it is, it's them, that's the problem. It's just like what, at one point in the year it was the most explosive runs and the most explosive passes in football were all by the Bengals defense, right? So that's an issue, especially with a team balanced like this and you worry about


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[Assistant] You know, the Bengals offense, are they going to be able to stay on the field, sustain drives? You worry about the Bengals defense kind of wearing down eventually against this Jaguars attack.


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[Assistant] And I certainly don't say that to be disrespectful to Trevor Lawrence. There's just something about the style of play and the way CJ Stroud throws and sees the field that I think


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[Assistant] Is really special. And I think Trevor Lawrence is special. You know that. You've heard me talk when we're off air or whatever. Right? It's like, if I had a do-over, I definitely would go, uh, Trevor Lawrence over Zach Wilson, right? I mean, that's, that's, he's put egg in my face with that one. But I'd, I'd probably take CJ.


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[Assistant] You know, holding it down that way. You know, is the run game going to be good enough to just dominate all the way there? Listen, I understand the Steelers being at the top of that. I do. You know, there's of course a grittiness and a toughness that we know Pittsburgh has. They know how to win football games all together.


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[Assistant] You look at their schedule, and I think that's what you gotta base a lot of this on, right? You know, I mean, yeah, the Cardinals, the Bengals, without Joe Burrow, the Patriots are on there. Now they got the Seahawks and Ravens at the end of the year. That ain't gonna be easy, right? You know, and they got the Colts on December 16th. So there's still a little work there to be had.


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[Assistant] You know, I think that's what I'd want to see too. You know, I think, you know, again, I respect the Browns and the Steelers and what they're doing, but


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[Assistant] You know, that could, those could be some ugly football games. And it could be also like ugly as in like, okay, it's 12-10 or something. Also could be ugly and man, they just, neither one of these teams has enough offense and.


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[Assistant] Even though their defenses are great, they're slowly getting worn down and we look up and it's, uh, it's 27 to 9 and it's not that fun to watch, right? Where I don't think we would fall into that trap with the other guys, right?


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[Assistant] The Texans, I look at the Texans and see a lot of things about their football team that


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[Assistant] I, you know, if you made me pick a team right there, I think I would take the Houston Texans. I would. And again, they don't have a horrible schedule either here. We know that the Broncos, that'll be a big...


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[Assistant] I think if they get in the playoffs, they can win a playoff game.


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[Assistant] I do think that. And then I think they could be almost like Jacksonville last year, then go to one of the top seeds in the second round and put on a good game and we go, oh man.


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[Assistant] Houston almost pulled it out. Wait till next year, they're gonna be dangerous, right? You know, they get another weapon around CJ Stroud and uh, I feel like that's about where it is. I don't see...


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[Assistant] You know, two games, I don't think so. I think something would have to happen. Kind of remarkably, one team fumbles, does dumb shit, whatever. But that's how I envision it. Get in, maybe win that first one, give that second game that one or two seed a handful and more than they wanted.


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[Assistant] And you hit your owners willing to spend a little money.


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[Assistant] You know, but what I didn't realize watching on TV is they only had the ball four plays in the first quarter. The best way to stop the Chiefs is keep them off the field. We've heard that before. But I think they're showing


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[Assistant] Maybe more versatility in their offense than I've ever seen before.


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[Assistant] Right? And I don't know if that's what you were alluding to in my notes and tried to bring me there, but I think that is the thing that jumps out to me about them that I haven't seen from them in years. Now, what I mean by that is one, just the way, hey, we know running the ball is kind of a new thing.


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[Assistant] You know, not that they're a run first team, but they're about as balanced as it gets as far as what I look at. And I know they always want to throw it with my homes, but they're not going to give up on the run like they did in years past. So there's that.


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[Assistant] The screen game to the wide receivers is becoming a thing, right? They have a vast


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[Assistant] Array of ways to get their guys the ball out and you want to crowd the box. You want to crowd the middle of the field to take away Kelsey and all that. Boom. He's amazing. Get the ball out of his hand as quick as anybody ever and throw the ball from his knees and throw it up like a rocket on time and do that.


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[Assistant] I think that's the thing I love about them. You know, the two and three tight end sets.


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[Assistant] You know, our receivers aren't, you know, all that in a bag of chips. We got some young guys that are still kind of learning our offense and stuff. We can't put the pressure on them and like, Oh, my home's got to throw it 45 times a game and 400 yards. It's not going to happen. So they found a new way to reinvent the wheel for them. And I think it makes sense for the team they got right now.


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[Assistant] I, I, I think so. You know, I think, you know, one, it, it became very apparent to me as you watch the game, there are two receivers I think they're going to feature going forward, are going to be Rashi Rice and Skymore. Those are the ones that are going to get all the meat and potatoes. They go two tight ends, two receivers, those two receivers are in the game.


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[Assistant] Right. I think Justin Watson, you know, he's a little out of the trust tree. I think because of his performance against the Eagles, some of the drop passes and bad moments there, right?


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[Assistant] You know, I think he and Valdez Scantling will only be on there if they wanted to take the top off the defense or when they go three tight ends and they go, we got to stop the run. That's when they put Valdez Scantling on the board, on the field. Cause now, hey, play action. He runs a post. Hopefully he catches it. Unlike the Eagles game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think you're gonna see them feature 4 and 24, Sky Moore and Rashi Rice. And this was the first game that I felt like,


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[Assistant] There was probably six or seven plays in the game plan where Rashid Rice was the bonafide number one read. They called the play to hope they'll get the ball to him and see what he can do. And I think that was the first time I've seen him have that role in this offense in his young career.


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[Assistant] Powerful runner with bigger strides, right? So it's one of those, even when I was watching on college, I was like, is he fast? And I was like, well damn, he's pulling away from everybody for an 80 yard touchdown here. I think he's faster than I think he is, right? So same kind of thing. And then he's got, you know, he's 6'3".


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[Assistant] He's 207 or 8 pounds, right? He's got good body control so he's, he can catch the ball and break tackles.


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[Assistant] Mahomes scramble. He found the right spot. Mahomes hit him. Showed some instincts there. So I think that's the thing I like about his game. I think they found a guy at least that they can feature a little bit.


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[Assistant] In the, in the, uh, the pass game. Run the ball, short passing game, screens, and the occasional shot play. That is the formula for the Chiefs right now, and I like it.


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[Assistant] And I think it's going to be the best way to maximize their football team and what they got here in 2023. Let Isaiah Pacheco be your hammer of this offense. He's fun to watch run. I'll tell you that much. He is a blast to watch run. I mean, to me, he's like Marshawn Lynch light. It's a lot of just like, you want to hit that crazy running that hard.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, the body and even the running style a little bit reminds me of him. He makes a lot of tough yards. If there's a hole, he hits it as hard as hell and runs through it. My problem with Isaiah Pacheco is if they called the run to the left


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[Assistant] But that hole was not there. And there's a huge hole to cut back into. He's gotta get better at seeing cut back lanes. And I'm sure when he was young, they kept, cause they were, you know, young guys always wanna cut back or bounce outside. So I'm sure they were like, just run to the hole. You're too big and powerful, run to the hole, run to the hole.


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[Assistant] We've graduated now. He's gotta start looking for the damn back, uh, cutback lane because there was runs not only last week against the Eagles but against the Raiders of course on Sunday where I went, oh my gosh, if he just sees the backside linebacker over pursuing too much, he's gonna run for 20 yards in the backside hole.


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[Assistant] They're alive. They're alive. They are. I watched that game back yesterday too.


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[Assistant] Here's, here's the difference in the last few weeks and then it hit full.


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[Assistant] Jordan Love, we're running the offense and we're attacking, right? No more like, oh, I want to take care of him in this situation and I want to run this play because he's comfortable about it. I feel like the last few weeks, and I think I've said this, it finally got to the point a little bit where they started to just go, he's either gonna


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[Assistant] You know, succeed or he's gonna fall flat in his face and fail. But we can't like keep the training wheels on anymore, right? And then Thursday hit the all point of


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[Assistant] Like, by far the most creative, aggressive attack I saw the Packers have the whole year.


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[Assistant] It is looking more like that. And you know, I know he alluded to a few weeks ago there, he said they were simplifying the offense and yeaah, they were. You know, like I was saying, there was a point there where I was concerned and it was so simple and they were so worried about making sure he didn't look good that it was, it was hard for them to play good or look good on offense or as a football team. That's gone.


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[Assistant] He plays like he has the last two or three weeks. He's gonna be the future of the Green Bay Packers. I see things in his game that certainly show he could do it. I went through a time here during the year where I was like, I don't know. I'm not sure he's gonna be able to turn the corner here.


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[Assistant] Like our guys say here, the last three weeks he's certainly showed another side, and Thursday was a whole different side. His talent is real. He can run, he's big in the pocket, and you saw he can make some awkward throws off his back shoulder and do some of that. He does have some art talent, so.


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[Assistant] And at Jeff McKeefer, he wanted to know about the defense. The defense has got so much young talent on it and stuff, and yeaah, they're starting to be real on that side of the football. If they can get their damn corners back healthy, you know, Green Bay is one of those teams where, you know, I wouldn't be shocked if they made a late run here, cause they got talent across the board.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, we'll see if I can get my mind right on these here.


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[Assistant] It was not a good game. We did get a little unlucky. He missed throws.


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[Assistant] He missed Jordan Addison on a wide open go route that probably would have changed the game. Down the sideline, right? Down the sideline. He threw what?


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[Assistant] Four interceptions and probably had, had another pick six dropped and probably had another two dropped in the game, I wanna say. I think he threw four and he had three dropped.


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[Assistant] The first one was his fault. Bad throw, Jalen Johnson left sideline, right? He's a back, the corner is in zone. He tries to throw a ball over the top of him, doesn't throw it over the top of him. Right? The second one, not sure if I can remember.


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[Assistant] And that was the one that bounced off his face, right? He threw the slant to the left, right? That was Addison's fault. He threw it hard, and you know, I think Troy Aikman and Joe Buck said he put some humbaby on it, and they were talking about Chris Collinsworth. He did. He threw it hard, but nah, I don't give a shit. I mean, the guy should catch the ball. Hit him right in the fucking face.


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[Assistant] Right. So that was on Addison. Then there was the 4th down over the middle, right? And I believe that was uhm, you know, 17. KJ Osborne over the middle. And the ball got tipped in the air. Jalen Johnson made a nice play.


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[Assistant] Watch the play back on film and you'll see that he had a slow down and the ball was behind him. If he throws a good ball, Jalen Johnson's not going to be able to get to it, right?


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[Assistant] So yeaah, that's a tough one. It wasn't the worst ball, but it wasn't a good ball. You throw a ball off target over the middle. Sometimes that's what happens, right? And then the fourth one is completely Josh Jobs' fault. He tries to throw the ball as he's being hit.


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[Assistant] And throw the ball to the check down and it bounces off the defense alignment. That's his fault. You can't do that in that moment. So, you know, I think between all of that and then probably some missed reads and some of the other missed throws is why Kevin O'Connell even came out yesterday and said I was thinking about taking him out during the football game.


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[Assistant] As you've heard me say from the get-go, there's a reason he's been on six or seven teams, right? They weren't all wrong, like, oh my gosh, we missed a superstar starting quarterback. No!


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[Assistant] You know, there's a reason they were 1-7 in Arizona. As we said, it was impressive, but we broke them down once or twice when he was a quarterback there. And I told you, there's still a handful of throws. He misses every game where we go, ooh, it's better than our expectations, but it's not good enough to be a starting quarterback, let alone the more he plays, the more the flaws will show.


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[Assistant] That's my belief. It's usually what happens to backup quarterbacks. That's why they're backups. They're good to hold down the fort for three or four games, but teams start to get a feel for how they play and what they do and the flaws start to reveal themselves. And I think that's a little bit what we had the other night.


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[Assistant] If Justin Jefferson is back, they're gonna go with Nick Mullins, the guy that knows the whole offense. He's Kirk Cousins' light.


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[Assistant] That's why he was with Shanahan in the 49ers. He knows he's gonna have a better understanding of the offense, let alone, I think he's a more accurate thrower than Joshua Dobbs. I think they'll end up going with him, with Justin Jefferson being healthy after the bye. What do you got against Jaren Hall? I ain't gonna like that guy. It ain't ready. And I wouldn't even want to do to that kid right now. They're in the middle of a playoff conversation here, right? You know, he hasn't played enough.


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[Assistant] It'd be tough to throw him in that situation right here and what, have the whole city of Minnesota blame him for losing games right down the stretch? You don't need that. He's not ready for that.


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[Assistant] It is, it is. You know, we've hit on it, right? You know, we talked about the zone defenses, the inability to play man, right? You know, oh, there goes DJ Moore, there goes Christian Watson, right? You can't, it's scary for you guys that way.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, and, you know, offensively, like we talked about too, I do think what teams are going to continue to do here, and what Green Bay did a little bit, is they're going to, they're going to play man.


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[Assistant] You know, other than like we've talked about with Jameson Williams, he's the only guy that scares you, and he's not full-fledged all the way in the offense like all systems go yet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I think they're going to continue to see people challenge their receivers and then people load the line of scrimmage, one, to pressure Jared Goff because he's not good under pressure.


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[Assistant] You know, throughout his career, and of course your run game's a handful. So I think that's, you know, what's going to be the next answer you guys got? I don't think we're going to continue to see this same Jared Goff. I don't.


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[Assistant] You know, Jared Goff is, is, uh, still really good and I think they'll find a way to shore up protection and come up with a new formula for kinda how the way teams are playing them right now.


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[Assistant] I, I mean, I got, I'm with them in the life department there, uh, at Neilmode 2010. Uhm, defense, we know, been good, right? Got a pretty good secondary, I think they figured out how to play there. They do got some pass rushers that can be disruptive, and


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[Assistant] Watch, I kept saying in the Devon McCourt, they're gonna make a play, you're gonna watch, they're gonna get a turnover, or just something, this game's gonna turn into Cleveland's favor.


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[Assistant] But Russell Wilson, I'm sure Sean Payne all week was, be conservative. If you gotta take a sack, take a sack.


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[Assistant] So that to me is week in and week out, I see the right approach. And then of course the team's buying into it and Russell, like we said earlier in the show, they are running the ball.


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[Assistant] Okay? And then, Russell's playing the right way. They're not gonna re- like, be one of the top offices in football.


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[Assistant] They're gonna have the right attack, and they'll pick their moments of when to make a big play. And I think they're gonna continue to play with that way, but I see life more than I see death in Denver.


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[Assistant] Give it to him, Ahmed. One butt cheap. This is why you're the big butt expert of the world.


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[Assistant] It's just like, does he actually get the sack to get the numbers this year, right? I mean, he's the ultimate turn on the film.


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[Assistant] This guy pops more than anybody else in football player, right? And he's another guy of like the F the play up stat would increase his, you know, defensive player of the year type of talk a lot more. Uh, but yeah, he's starting to put up the stats along with the F to play the stats up and he's, he's amazing. I love why.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's not the, you know, superstar deep tackle, but he's like a guy that, hey, I'd love him to start on my team and play.


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[Assistant] Hell of a player, right? He's just a notch below the superstar he tackles, but like effort, toughness, leadership through the roof, right? And pops every game. He's definitely one of the best players on that Buffalo defense. He's the one, one of the few consistent presence, presence you see week in and week out out of


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[Assistant] That Green Bay was able to pressure your quarterback like that with your offensive line, that's been pretty damn good, right?


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[Assistant] You know, Decker's a pretty good left tackle. I'm pretty sure Decker played that game. You don't see people do that to Decker all that much. Gary is really damn good, right? He's a guy where...


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[Assistant] You know, had the knee injury, showed some things, whatever. If he doesn't have the knee injury, he might have made a few more millions with his recent contract, but he's a superstar edge player. He is. And I think you were right to give him the ball, right? I mean, he had...


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[Assistant] You know, was it two strip sacks or just the one strip sack? He was close on two. I think he got two. Um, but yeah, he's awesome in all aspects of the game and he's a Jersey guy. So I love that. I mean, he was a,


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[Assistant] Defense of tackle, right? At the same high school that Jabril Peppers went to.


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[Assistant] 300 pound number one recruit defensive tackle, right? He got to college and they've slowly made him slender and slender and slender to now where he's 268 edge rusher. That's one of the best in football and good for him and you know, good for him getting paid. But yeah, he was amazing. He was like maybe the reason.


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[Assistant] The Packers ruined your Thanksgiving, which I'm all for, so good job, uh, Rashawn Gary. Way to ruin Ahmaud's Thanksgiving.


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[Assistant] That was a good one. I think we got it all, got it all out there. I mean, I didn't even feel like I was like, oh man, I missed something or whatever. No, there was no more, one more thing. There may be one, two things. You're kind of good. You're like, uh, you know, driving Miss Daisy. I'm Miss Daisy and you're Morgan Freeman, right? You're just along for the ride and I point you in the right direction. You point me in the right direction. You take it. So way to go. Pete gets in my ear all the way.


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[Assistant] Uh, hope I can keep it going, I'm kinda hot lately. But usually when I say that, I jinx myself and get cold. So hopefully I don't. Um, and thanks for always driving the ship.


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[Assistant] Alright everybody, be good, enjoy the weekend of football. Week 13 should be awesome. Of course that 49ers Eagles game will be the showcase. Peace out, be good, clap it up.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what up homies, thanks for watching. Remember, subscribe to Chris Sims on Button.


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[Assistant] You know what you do? Yeah, what? With those receipts. Yeah. Fold them up and fold them again and fold them one more time and shove them straight up your ear.


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[Assistant] God, we say way worse during the joint collaboration of Chris Sims Unbuttoned and PFTPM, the joint MegaPix podcast. We do it every Thursday during football season, except that one week in November.


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[Assistant] It's the week when you put 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag when we have to do everything between Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday because the Thanksgiving games shut everything down. I'm already dreading that week where we have to pick all the games on Wednesday. It's hard enough to pick them on Thursday. That should be our excuse. That's why we suck. We have to lock in our picks days before the games. Oh well.


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[Assistant] They lost by two. It's a push. It's a tie. You get your money back. That's how it works. Sorry, Charlie.


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[Assistant] By the way, you're lucky the Raiders bailed you out with that heinous, palpably unfair act by Marcus Peters that kept Christian Watson from scoring. Otherwise, I would have been up three more on you instead of one more on you. I do have a two game lead straight up. You're kicking my ass against the spread. I don't care about the spread. I care about straight up.


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[Assistant] Especially because that's where I'm clinging to a slim two game lead through five weeks.


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[Assistant] Just like us, you must enter all of your picks before kickoff in the Thursday night game. We had a season high.


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[Assistant] Hey, first of all, kiss my ass. Second of all, I sleep five hours at night and one hour in the afternoon. That's how I get my six hours of sleep. I bet you sleep eight hours straight every night until your roosters start crowing, you sleep.


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[Assistant] First of all, you just told me the other day you took a nap on Monday. I did, I did take a nap on Monday. We had to stay up late. I did. Yea, and you took a nap on Tuesday. Yea, well I had to do.


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[Assistant] Broncos and the Chiefs. Chiefs are 11 point favorites over under a 47. Various injuries. The big one is Travis Kelsey, questionable with an ankle. We'll find out later today whether or not he's going to play.


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[Assistant] Regardless, does it change the outcome for you? Maybe it does against the spread. We're both going to pick the Chiefs to win this game. I'm certain. Chris, give me your final score.


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[Assistant] Close game. I know that is within the spread. That's even closer than the game on Sunday at Minnesota. I still think the chiefs are going to win this game and they're going to win it easily.


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[Assistant] They're just too much for the Broncos, and as much as the Broncos want to try to will their way to some new history, Russell Wilson said that earlier this week, he wants to write a new history against the Chiefs. It's the Chiefs, and they're at home.


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[Assistant] And they understand that they need to win games and win games and win games if they want to be at home in the postseason. Right now, they're in good shape. They just need to keep winning and they can't afford to lose.


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[Assistant] To a team that they have owned every year since 2016 and definitely every year.


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[Assistant] Since Patrick Mahomes became the starting quarterback. So, Chiefs win, and with or without Travis Kelce, I think they cover


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[Assistant] 34 to 20. I don't feel strongly enough about it to make it a best bet, but I do think they will win and cover. Sunday morning, third straight week, 9.30 a.m. Eastern, you sound like you're from London, the Baltimore Ravens versus against the Tennessee, versus against, versus the Tennessee Titans.


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[Assistant] Well, my, my defense would be, it's a product of the COVID that a coworker gave me, and the kidney stone that was created by the COVID that the coworker gave me. Damn, you shouldn't sit next to Jason Garrett this time around. Raven's at the Titans.


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[Assistant] Ravens are four and a half point favorites. Titans, we don't know which team is going to show up. It's ping pong every week for the Tennessee Titans. What do you like? Who do you like this Sunday in London?


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm gonna do the same thing you are. I'm gonna hedge here. Ravens2421 giving the titans the cover just in the event that the good titans happen to make the trip to London.


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[Assistant] Another interesting angle here, Raven's going early, Titan's going late, Body Acclamation was an issue for the Jaguars last week in their upset win over the Bills. TravisATN told me that after the 25-20 victory.


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[Assistant] I like the Ravens to get their act together. They got the warning. They got the wake up call last week. The Titans had a chance to beat the Colts, but there's just something there that is off. And I don't rule out them winning. I think they'll cover.


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[Assistant] They're just too unpredictable to rely upon really any week this year. All right. The one o'clock Eastern games on Sunday. We begin with the Washington commanders taking on the Atlanta Falcons. Falcons ended up beating.


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[Assistant] The Texans at home last week, commanders embarrassed on Thursday night football by the Bears, 40 to 20. The Falcons are two and a half point favorites over under a 42 and a half. Chris, who do you like in this one?


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[Assistant] You know, I've gone back and forth on this when I started with my gut feeling Washington and then I thought about it. I went to the Falcons. I didn't have faith in them last week against the Texans. I was wrong.


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[Assistant] I'm still going back to my first instinct and my first instinct was Washington 2320. No real reason for it. Greater sense of urgency in Washington right now.


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[Assistant] Bad outcome on that Thursday night. Got called out by Magic Johnson for not having energy. They had a few extra days to get ready for this one. Eric Biennemy fine-tuning the offense. Ron Rivera maybe getting more involved on the defensive side. Who knows? But I think they'll, they'll find a way


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[Assistant] On Sunday, even though this one is pretty close and the Falcons may be the better team right now, but I think Washington pulls it off. All right. Vikings and Bears, both teams one and four Vikings favored by two and a half points over under 44 and a half. The loser is done. The winner is probably done. It just delays the execution. Who ends up winning this one? Well, go ahead.


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[Assistant] I feel like the Bears probably will win. I feel like the Bears probably should win now that they found their groove. The Vikings kind of have the wheels coming off and.


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[Assistant] You know, they're going to be 1-6 if they lose on Sunday because the 49ers are coming to town for a Monday night game. At what point do they kind of break and throw in the towel? Is it a pride game?


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[Assistant] It's a lot to process. It's a lot going on. I think the Vikings are the better team though, I think. I'm not sure right now because we thought the Bears were horrible not that long ago and they end up surprising the commanders after building a big lead against the Broncos. I am going to go with the Vikings though. The Vikings really need this one. They kind of will their way to a win.


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[Assistant] To stave off what's coming, 49ers will beat them and then the Vikings try to find the gas pedal after that and try to pull their way back into the mix.


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[Assistant] They need this one desperately. 30 to 20. I think Jordan Addison, who was limited in practice on Wednesday, could go off in that offense now that Justin Jefferson is injured. Alexander Madison's been running better. Cam Akers is the guy they need to use a little bit more. I think that, that the Vikings


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[Assistant] Again, not that this is gonna save the season for them, but I think that they pull it together for one day. For one day, because there's gonna be some days coming up where they're not gonna pull it together, this is one of the rare opportunities for this team to pull off a victory.


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[Assistant] They're calling for rain, but like a quarter of an inch throughout the course of the day. So it's not like it's going to be horrible weather in Chicago on Sunday. Alright, Seahawks at the Bengals. Bengals hosting Seattle. Seattle coming off of the bye. Bengals three point favorites in this one against a Seahawks team that is one of the better in the NFC.


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[Assistant] Over under a 45, do you like the Bengals to win straight up? Do you like the Bengals to cover, Chris?


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[Assistant] I have the Seahawks winning this one as well. I'm surprised that they are underdogs. I think that they are the better team. They were great.


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[Assistant] On that Monday night against the New York Giants, the defense suffocating and the defense possibly in position to make Joe Burrow's life miserable on Sunday, especially with Devin Witherspoon and all the things he can do, the versatility he has, the ball instincts he has, he's getting better and better all the time. The bye came at a very good time.


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[Assistant] They're not going to wait until Saturday. They get their bodies acclimated. They get ready for those 10 AM body clock games and they do well. You give Pete Carroll the extra time. The Seahawks know they need to keep winning to keep pace with the San Francisco 49ers who are also playing in Ohio at the same time. I like the Seahawks 27.


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[Assistant] 21 over the Bengals. Again, I'm surprised the Bengals are favored and it could end up being a best bet, which probably means it'll...


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[Assistant] I showed it earlier, it was the score underneath the Vikings 30-20 that you called me a liar about. Alright, 49ers at the Browns, as mentioned, another West Coast team playing in Ohio at the same time as the Seahawks.


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[Assistant] 49ers are favored by seven. It's the lowest over under of the week at 37.5 and according to DraftKings, 94% of the spread money is on the 49ers. We don't know.


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[Assistant] What's going to happen with Deshaun Watson? We spent a lot of time talking about his shoulder, his


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[Assistant] I've got 24, 14, 49ers, and as to your prediction, there's gonna be a monsoon. Let me go ahead and play part-time weatherman again, as aided by the app on my phone.


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[Assistant] Maybe not. Wind? Yes. 49ers victory, I believe. 24-14. They are just unstoppable right now. They can only beat themselves. And the big factor for them is,


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[Assistant] These guys that roll out of bed and run through a wall, will somebody get hurt? Will multiple players get hurt? Will they have next man up that can come in and get it done? It's inevitable.


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[Assistant] I got 2422 and two things. We now have five games of film of CJ Stroud that Dennis Allen, the head coach and the defacto defensive coordinator can break down and also


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[Assistant] You can kind of jab at the defensive players about how great CJ Stroud is, and everybody's saying how great he is, and he's so great, and he's so great, and maybe you get the guys a little extra motivation to be the ones to finally maybe intercept one of his passes. He's set the record for


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[Assistant] Number of passes thrown to start a career without an interception and find a way to win. And it could be the same thing as what we saw


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[Assistant] On Sunday, maybe the Texans take a late lead and their defense just can't stop Derrick Carr and company from driving down the field to kick the field goal that ultimately wins the game or score the touchdown that pulls out the victory. So we're on the same page with that one as well.


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[Assistant] Next up in that one o'clock window, Gardner Mint Shoe.


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[Assistant] Going back to Jacksonville as the quarterback of the Colts for the next one to two months, depending upon how long Anthony Richardson misses with that AC joint sprain in his shoulder. The Jaguars coming off of two straight wins in London. They're 0-2 in Jacksonville, and here's another


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[Assistant] They have beaten the Ravens in Baltimore with Gardner Minshew at quarterback. When Minshew came in against the Texans after Anthony Richardson suffered a concussion.


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[Assistant] Minshew led them to victory last week. Richardson leaves with the shoulder injury. Minshew leads them to victory. Extra juice, extra momentum, extra incentive for him going back to Jacksonville. The place that, that really did give up on him. Now they earned the first overall pick in the draft. They took the no-brainer in Trevor Lawrence, but they gave him away for a sixth round pick.


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[Assistant] I think that gives him a little extra edge and they love him. They respond to him. Jonathan Taylor is going to get more opportunities this week now that he's more ensconced in the offense. I, I just, this is, this is kind of positive.


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[Assistant] Panthers at Dolphins. Dolphins are favored by 13 and a half. Draft Kings has 90% of the spread money on Miami. The Panthers have yet to win a game. The Dolphins firing on all cylinders even though they don't have


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[Assistant] This is at a time when the talent gap supposedly is not supposed to be great between the best and the worst teams in the NFL.


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[Assistant] It is, and the dolphins are clearly better at every position than the Carolina Panthers and Miami.


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[Assistant] Continuing its winning ways, 41 to 13. Let's go ahead and take a break. When we return, the late afternoon games for the sixth Sunday of the 2023 regular season, including Josh McDaniels taking on his embattled mentor, Bill Belichick, as the Patriots and the Raiders get together in Las Vegas. That and more.


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[Assistant] When this joint elaboration of Chris Sims Unbuttoned and PFTPN continues right after this. We'll start over after this.


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[Assistant] Don't forget on DraftKings Sportsbook this season, new customers can bet $5 and pocket $200 in bonus bets instantly. Plus all customers can get a no sweat, same game parlay every single day. Download the app and use the promo code PFTLIVE when you sign up. DraftKings Sportsbook, the crown is yours. The crown may be coming off of the king's head in


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[Assistant] New England, Bill Belichick has been there since the year 2000. He's in the midst of his worst season since then. They finished last in the division back in 2000, his first year. They haven't been last in the division.


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[Assistant] Since then. Right now, they are looking like the worst team in football. Outscored 72-3 the last two weeks. They're going to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders. They had that epic game last year with the what the hell is happening and the, the lateral and Chandler Jones running over Mack Jones to end the game. It was just craziness. Lot of attention on this one. Patriots reeling.


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[Assistant] Raiders buoyed by their Monday night win over the Packers. Raiders favored by three over under 41.5. Chris, who do you like? I like the Raiders.


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[Assistant] I got 2117 Raiders. You know, I started into this thinking the Patriots will win because they have to win.