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[Assistant] And I hate saying that, that it's like the quarterback, the quarterback, the quarterback. But yeaah, there's something there where he doesn't feel comfortable. I don't know if he doesn't like him. Maybe he didn't invite him to a barbecue. I really have no idea. I wish I could give you the answer. But I can certainly show you some plays here where I'd go, if I was playing quarterback,


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[Assistant] Uhm, I would have Odell Beckham Jr. on my radar.


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[Assistant] Yep, first play of the drive. Brown's on the 20. Here we go. I mean, again, this is gonna be a play that everybody in football runs. Alright? Little play action fake.


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[Assistant] You see here, we got Odell and People Jones. They're in a stack alignment, right? We're gonna get the full back to come out here in the flat. Alright, here's Odell. Hopefully you're watching on YouTube. He's about four yards downfield in this picture. He's gonna run a really deep corner. He's the first read. He's the first read.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like 40 yards downfield type of corner. You're trying to be aggressive here. And Donovan People-Jones, who is outside of Odell at the snap, now comes inside, and he's gonna run a shorter corner route at like 20 yards. Okay? Somewhere in that nate, somewhere in that range. My point is, Odell's the guy you're supposed to be looking at first.


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[Assistant] Baker doesn't even give it a chance. And as the play goes, I just, again, this is going to be a completion for a huge gain.


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[Assistant] Odell's open, but I don't know if he just doesn't want to throw a tool, he doesn't feel comfortable. Either way, okay, and he's gonna throw, let me just see if I can get it just where I want it. He's gonna throw this throw right here, this is not even a smart decision.


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[Assistant] Now he makes it a perfect throw, and Asante Samuel doesn't quite break on the ball, but I can promise you, okay, and you're gonna have to take my word for it, when he was patting the ball, Baker Mayfield, this was clear outside leverage on him.


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[Assistant] Wow, you're not gonna throw that to him. And I promise you, behind this, Odell is screeching with just the safety over here, and it's, it's just


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[Assistant] Throw it in the area code somewhere over here and he's gonna get the ball and you got it. Now again, it's, it's, it's an awesome throw and you can see right there. It was a perfect throw. It was a perfect throw. Samuel kinda like stuttered. I think Samuel was like, wait, he's throwing this to me? I have outside leverage. He was a little bit like shocked, I feel like. He kinda made an awkward break on the ball.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, it all worked out. The point is it's not going to always work out like this. That's going to get picked at some point. And I just couldn't believe that the ball didn't go to Odell.


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[Assistant] Of course, I've been seeing this, so I'm looking for this now. I watch Cleveland almost every week. They're good, they're talented, I like what they do, so this is the thing.


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[Assistant] Listen, I'll even say this, like I know Big, I mean Odell misses a, a, a fourth and two pass. Yeah. For a first down early in the game.


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[Assistant] Even there, like, the look is, it's an all-out blitz, get the ball and throw it to Odell, and he's gonna run for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] That ball should have been thrown to him like five steps before that. So I think he's kind of like, he was a little thrown off by that. I'm not trying to make an excuse. He still should have caught the freaking ball. It was an easy catch. Alright, but here's another play. Oh, where I go. Where's Odell here? Odell, so I'm gonna, yep, you're right. Let me explain this. Odell's right here in the slot. You got a quarter's coverage again.


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[Assistant] And he's being covered by a safety with outside leverage. I mean, at the snap, I would be like, oh my, oh my, oh my god, oh my god, Odell's gonna be one on one with a safety. And that's Derwin James, and that's great, but you can see Odell's here, and look at here.


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[Assistant] No, so to me, he's running like, it's verticals, where if he has this type of look, he kinda goes to the post. Right, he's got an outside leveraged look here. But my point is, and again, this is gonna work out for a long touchdown. Alright, I understand that. But, I hope everybody's watching it, the pocket's perfect.


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[Assistant] He never even puts Odell on his radar. Didn't even look. Never looks, right? Looks to his left. I mean again, I don't know, I was coached by John Gruden and Josh McDaniels and if we had Brandon Marshall or Joey Galloway in this look, he would be like, strike up, John Gruden would have been, strike up the band, okay? Alright, and maybe John Gruden's not the perfect example to use for anything right now.


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[Assistant] Either way, I mean, as you can see as this plays unfolding, he's looking to the left, but look, I mean, here's Odell, you can see he's screeching, nobody's even put a hand on him, and


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[Assistant] Odell in this position? I don't care if it's Durham and James or not, he's gone. Durham and James can't run with him.


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[Assistant] It's not, oh my gosh, let me look at the tight end over here for the 5 yard game, or let me look at Njoku, who's a talented guy, but


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[Assistant] You know, been underwhelming in Cleveland world as far as a first rounder and he's, he's certainly coming on. I'm not trying to say that, but again, I'm just trying to say the bright light should be let's go to Odell.


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[Assistant] And again, it works out, alright. But for me, like here, this is like no-brainer, this ball should be thrown down here, or way out here, and it's gonna be a big play. I know it ends up being a big play. I get that. I get it, and it's a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Hey, it worked out this time. It's just, it's not gonna work out at times. And I'm gonna show you a play here in a minute where I go again, if you're looking at Odell, you're probably gonna win the game 48-47 and he does not. So I don't know if you want to pull that up or what.


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[Assistant] Second down, three. Guess what we had here.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, that's not the play we wanted. Damn, did I mess this up? Did I give you the wrong play, Pete? I might, I might have.


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[Assistant] Oh man, this is gonna kill me. It was right in that, that was second and four, hold on a second, this is gonna absolutely drive me crazy. Hold on, I gotta look at my own film now.


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[Assistant] Nope. Hold on, hold on. Where did I mess this up? You know what happened to me? You know what's gonna happen to me? What'd you do? What do you got?


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh. I think they messed up the scoreboard.


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[Assistant] So this is second and four, ugh, it doesn't, it wasn't changed yet. It's the next play, which should end up being


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[Assistant] I guess it's third and one, right? Or was it a first down? It's the next play. Oh man, this is gonna hurt me. And again, alright, I'm not gonna get to show it. You can still get it?


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[Assistant] Can you s- okay. Alright, we'll get back to it, we'll get back to it. But either way, the play I want to tell you about is...


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[Assistant] Very similar. It's the same play we just saw Mike Williams score on the Chargers.


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[Assistant] It's the same play. The slot receiver runs the corner route, and he's running a post against quarters. He's the first read. He's gone. And he's open. It's a touchdown. Yeaah, it's third and one, Pete.


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[Assistant] It is. It's 3-1, alright. And it's that play and, you know, we'll see if we can pull it up at some point. But, again,


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[Assistant] It's a play and if, you know, and hopefully I can show it and we can show it before the end of the pod where you just go.


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[Assistant] They could have won the game right here. Odell's running down the field like, I can't believe he didn't even look at me. He didn't even throw it to me. He didn't even look. He threw it right in the flat to Kareem Hunt for like a two yard gain. And again, like I said, it could have been game over type of play right there.


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[Assistant] I worry about their run defense as you would as like what we saw. They don't have enough big people. Lindell Joseph is the only big guy they really got in the middle and he's in year 12 and he's just not as good as he used to be. Been an awesome defensive tackle for a long time, not trying to take a shot. But they don't have that guy. Now they do have speed to contain Lamar and run from his running.


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[Assistant] But I do worry about them getting blown off the ball in the run game. Uhm, but I would think that, you know, if that doesn't happen, and, you know,


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[Assistant] It could be interesting. I don't want to make a game pick here or anything like that yet.


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[Assistant] Uh, but Brandon Staley, I mean, his game plans, and if he feels like he can get a good feel for, wait, I can load the box and then play these route combinations at the same time, then I give them a fighting chance. But the big thing is just gonna be, can their D-line hang in there against the Ravens' offensive line?


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[Assistant] You know, they can match up in a lot of ways. I think they will be able to contain Kyler Murray from running around and doing that type of stuff.


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[Assistant] So, that'll be interesting. The big thing is, like we talk about with Cleveland, just buttoning things up.


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[Assistant] That just, again, learning the system more, the young guys getting them up to speed, and everything of that nature to, is what to look for in that, that game.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's like Cincinnati took the approach of like...


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[Assistant] We'll let Devonte Adams beat us, we're gonna try to take away some other stuff.


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[Assistant] And Adams of course is really good, and you know, I know I'm lower on Adams than most people. I understand that. He's still really good. You know, and if I ever see him, I hope he says,


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[Assistant] What's the issue again? Like, you didn't have him in the top what? Uh, top 10 last year. Would you now? Definitely in the top 10. What'd I say? Top 5? I don't know. That's where I go back and forth with him. I do.


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[Assistant] And again, I'm into context cause nobody like treats him like he's one of the five best receivers at times. He doesn't get doubled necessarily very much.


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[Assistant] Guys just let him do certain things where I go, that's stupid first of all because you know they're going to keep going. He's averaging 8 catches.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you have to do something different just for the way he's used in the offense, but he is a damn good player and there's no weakness to his game and he's a great route runner, he's got great hands and


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[Assistant] Do we want to go back to the Odell play they just got in my ear? Pete's got it, yeah. Let's go back real quick. Let's go. Can we throw it up in the machine here? We got it? Alright. I'm sorry. Blame. Alright, and we're gonna go back to Devante Adams is awesome, okay? But here we go. Third and one. Damn. Chargers screen. Alright.


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[Assistant] Gonna have to take my word a little bit here because we can't show it all, but here we go. We got him here, it's a quarter safety, alright, and Njoku's gonna run this, and Odell Beckham Jr. is gonna run the post over the top. The safety squats on Njoku running the outroute. The read of the play in any


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[Assistant] The play is one to Odell, two to Njoku, three to Kareem Hunt.


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[Assistant] I understand he wants to get the first down at certain inches. I understand.


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[Assistant] You're letting them off the hook in my opinion here. And again, I, you know, we're not gonna have an angle to show it completely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just, again, they got man coverage here. The thing about the, that they're amazing with is he's at the top of the screen here. It's three receivers, or no, it's tight end and Devonte Adams to the left, two receivers to the right, back offset to the left with Rodgers in the shotgun. Devonte Adams got man to man, yes.


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[Assistant] And the awesome thing about Devonte Adams, cause he's not like a burner. He's not like, oh man, this is Tyree Kill or DK Metcalf or Tyree McClearn or DJ Moore or, you know, I'm missing other guys where you go, man, if you bump and Jamar Chase on the other side, where you go, if I bump him,


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[Assistant] He's gonna run bias. Where he's great and where he makes up for that, cause he has good speed but not great speed. You know, Odell would be another guy, you'd go, wait, you really wanna play it that way? Right? He makes every route look the same. And he's an incredible route runner, and they abuse you with certain routes to where you have to play them. To me, like, when they get in this formation, you know, they, they do go route, back shoulder,


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[Assistant] Right? And slant route is like, they do it a lot. But they all look the same so it's hard to play it. And that's where he's really cool because he does a great job here at the top of the screen, okay, of just


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[Assistant] Again, you don't know exactly where he's gonna go. He makes it all look the same all the time, and he kinda sells the outside break and he hits that third step on his left leg, and boom, it's there, and Rodgers is a little late delivering the ball. You know, I don't know if he's worried about the underneath coverage clearing out a little bit, but either way,


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[Assistant] You know, he's beaten, uh, Chadovia Wooze there, and that's where he's really good, and they take low-hanging fruit. They have no, like, that's where I love LeFleur and Rogers. They're not like, oh, we gotta have a really cool play. They just sometimes go, no, our guy's better, and Roger's gonna put it on the money, and eat it, and deal with it. And that's where they're cool that way.


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[Assistant] Well, and this is like, this is, this goes to great game plan design here. As you see here, there's, there's four, he's, Roger's in the shotgun, there's four, four recei- four eligibles off to his right. And then I believe he just has the tight end over here to his left, right? So he's got one guy to his left, four to his right, stressing the coverage, but my point with this is just,


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[Assistant] They design all these awesome plays all the time, and they don't hide it. They go, we're going trying to get the ball to him number one. He's the first read. Anytime they come out with a cool play, it's like, Adam's the first read.


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[Assistant] And if you're just gonna give it to us, we'll take it, or you're gonna have to do something crazy to take him away, and then Rogers might find somebody else. It's like our old adage we used to talk about, you gotta be great at something to force the defense to change, and then it helps out other things. And that's where, you know, they're really cool this way, and you can see it's, it's,


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[Assistant] Yeah, so let me see if I can get this, get this the right way here. It's, it's as, it's post down the middle. It's deep corner by this guy.


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[Assistant] It's tight end, shallow cross, and then it's gonna be Devontae Adams running an in cut. Deep in wrap. Cool, yea, really cool play. I mean really cool, cool formation, definitely something they put in for this game, probably they saw on film, and you can see he's wide open. Wide open. Wide open.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. And, and they really, they take the underneath coverage away altogether. Because yeaah, he's going wait, I don't want to just let like Dylan just sit over there and I'm way back here and they just throw a check down.


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[Assistant] He's not worried about that. I think he's thinking, hey, 24 Von Bell's got the middle of the field, but because of the design of the play, he's worried about Randall Cobb running the post across, so he's gotta carry him a little bit. And that's where it just, as you can see in this picture,


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[Assistant] It's wide, wide open. I mean, it doesn't get any easier than that. Won't ever be any more open than that. No, it won't. Now, where this is where, this is where I struggle with Devonte Adams, and sometimes where you don't hear me say he's the top receiver in football.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, I can go through a handful of guys right here where I'd go, it's a touchdown. It's a touchdown. And I'm not trying, you can't have it all. You can't have it all at all. I understand that. But that's where I go, no, most of the, at least my top five is going to score, I think. That's all I'm trying to say.


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[Assistant] We got a guy running a deep out over there, and to my day, I'm just gonna run the deep cross.


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[Assistant] But they're going to take advantage of a zone defense where, hey, the Packers are a pretty good run team and they're going to hope to try to get these linebackers sucked up and then go, oh no, it's a pass and turn around and it's going to be too late.


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[Assistant] Because he's gonna be by everybody. So you can see the run fake to the left gets a little movement from the linebackers. They don't do that horrible of a job. They get back and get depth, right? He actually goes underneath them.


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[Assistant] And, cause they're looking for something deeper downfield, and by the time Rogers is throwing, they realize nothing's deeper downfield, and he catches the ball, and he's matched up on Wilson the linebacker, and it's just, it's...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's insane. You're right. Let's admire the throw one more time.


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[Assistant] Yeah. You got a post for me? Yeah, I got a post for you. Alright. And guess what coverage it is?


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[Assistant] I know, right? It's all over football right now. It's all over football because people are worried about stopping this.


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[Assistant] And this, where they're worried about, you know, uhm, play action, quick posts over the middle, you know, where this guy might run a quick post, they call it a pop post, a pop pass, and this guy just runs a curl, so they're all worried about that, let alone the run game and all that, so they wanna cheat guys, you're trying to take away a little bit of everything.


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[Assistant] I know. Well, I think what they're trying to take away more than anything is kind of what I'm talking about. It's just like, again, it's these quick posts.


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[Assistant] If New England made them really popular, Kyle Shanahan made them popular, where this guy does like a deep curl, this guy, and it takes away, let alone if they run the ball, the safeties are thinking a little bit more like downhill to take away that aspect. Or another popular play in the NFL is this guy runs a deep cross, and then this guy runs across


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[Assistant] And goes right underneath them, it's almost like a pick play. Well, now the safety is like, oh wait, you know, here's a safety, here's a safety, and they pass it off, right? So it's like, oh wait, I got him, and oh wait, I got this guy right here. So they get a little bit of the best of both worlds. But offenses are getting used to it now. They're going, wait, okay, well fine, you want to take away that.


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[Assistant] Then, we're gonna screw you. And here's, we're not, again, you're gonna have to take my word about, word for this degree. I want you to watch Devonte Adams.


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[Assistant] At the, at the bottom, or at the bottom of the screen here. See how he kinda like did a little stutter right there? Yep. Right? He played into their fear of what they think's coming. They're worried about him running that way, or maybe just curling up and doing that.


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[Assistant] So when he did that, Jesse Bates, and again, Jesse Bates I think is one of the best safeties in football. He's just out of the screen right here. When he gave the little stutter, Jesse Bates kind of stuttered too. Like, oh no, he's about to curl up or he's going to run the cross right at me. Let me stop it.


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[Assistant] And he stuttered and then turned on the afterburners and just goes straight. And so he was thinking, wait, stutter, he might just do this, stutter, he might go across, and he was worried about, he was worried about stopping that. Well, Rodgers and LaFleur, they do watch film.


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[Assistant] And there you go, now here we are, 40 yards down field. And you see the corner who was outside leverage because of the tight split, it's tough on him. And Jesse Bates who stuttered a little bit with the Devonte Adams stutter.


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[Assistant] Now it's, you know, big trouble, big pass, perfect throw, and that's where Adams does make up for his lack of speed. His craftiness, his understanding of how to set people up. He's a master at setting people up.


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[Assistant] Okay, we've had enough, it's 200 yards and whatever, how many receptions? 11, 12, what the hell was it? 11. 11, right. So, you know, every pass goes that way. And now they finally go, we're gonna double Devontae Adams. Devontae Adams on the bottom, we've got three receivers to the right, and the play is for Adams.


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[Assistant] And this goes into why Jesse Bates also stuttered on that last play because Adams is going to run 16 yards and curl up.


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[Assistant] Just like what we just talked about. Cause they go, wait, they do this all the time. But they play games with certain rads. You don't know if it's gonna be a curl, a cross, a post, whatever. We're gonna keep you on our edge. And then it's gonna be, let me see if I get this right. It's gonna be this receiver out here. I can't remember who that is. I think that's the kid from Clemson. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then it's gonna be an inside release by Randall Cobb, who's all, yeaah, Amari Rogers, and then you're gonna have the inside, in-cut, by, uh, Randall Cobb.


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[Assistant] And he's looking, Rogers is looking at Adams running this curl route the whole time.


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[Assistant] But, there's gonna be Chidobie Wuze, and I believe it's Jesse Bates right here, as he comes up, it is gonna be total double team, and you're gonna see in a second as we get to the end of the play here, to where you'll, you'll see what I'm talking about. Now first off, I mean, Rodgers buying time and making this throw, off the back of his foot, is insanity in the membranity.


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[Assistant] Hopefully you're watching on YouTube. As you can see, look what happened. Here's Jesse Bates. Here's Owuze. They were all over Devonte Adams in the Maryland. They doubled them.


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[Assistant] Alright, they doubled them, and here comes Randall Cobb, who has single coverage over here, and Rodgers off his back foot to make this throw.


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[Assistant] More than 25 yards down the field, you know, that's insane in itself, alright? And boom.


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[Assistant] You can see he makes the throw. You can see Jesse Bates is trying to get off of Devante Adams. And he hits him just as he catches it. But he gets the first down and that was game.


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[Assistant] I think I messed up the routes on the, it wasn't double in-cut, it was one guy went on the go, and then Randall Cobb ran the in-cut, I'm sorry about that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're, I mean, they're a good football team and they got the speed and athletes on defense. Vance Joseph understands, I think the Shanahan run defense, uh, run offense to a degree. You know, they, you know, Shanahan's always special. Don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] They don't just get absolutely gashed by it. I know they got gashed at the end of last year when season was coming to an end, but to me it always looks like they make the proper adjustments.


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[Assistant] You know, for the most part, kicking linebackers over after a motion, a shift, uh, and then, hey, this is, there's a toughness to them in these kind of close games this year where they're just like, okay, it's 17-10, whatever, we're gonna, we're gonna gut it out. The 49ers defense is really awesome.


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[Assistant] So they got the scheme and personnel to kind of slow down and they understand how Arizona and Clif Kingsbury want to, you know, attack and they did a great job all game long. They really did. They gave them a chance to win. The offense did some good things too, uh, but just wasn't enough to win the football game.


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[Assistant] Well, it's like, it really hasn't changed from like what we talked about in training camp or anything. There's some wow and there's just some whoa. There's some wow and some whoa.


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[Assistant] Wohlers just at points of like, what are you looking at? This is a staple of your offense and you got a guy coming on a slant. The play, I watch the 49ers run this play all the time. You got him in the fourth quarter a bunch of times for big gains and he's just looking down the middle of the field. I want to go, what? What's going on there?


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[Assistant] Why are we leaving the pocket right now? The pocket's perfect. You know, why are we...


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[Assistant] You know, throwing the ball so hard with the guy right there. And then of course he loses control of football too. So there's some wow because you see great physical talent. But I say wow because I see a guy that doesn't necessarily know how to play quarterback yet. And that's where, you know, Shanahan and Company got their work cut out for them.


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[Assistant] I do right now because I think he maximizes their team and their offense. I think they're running the ball good, but it's not like it was two years ago, the Super Bowl year, where they were just killing people week after week. You know, they're missing their, they're missing Raheem Mostert. That hurts them because 20 yard gains for everybody else or 80 yard touchdowns for Raheem Mostert.


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[Assistant] That hurts them. They need the pass game a little bit right now.


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[Assistant] To alleviate some of the pressure from defenses overplaying their run game. And that's where Trey Lance...


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[Assistant] You know, doesn't necessarily help them right now at this moment. Now again, if he gets some more playing and everything like that, I understand it can all go in the right direction and he'll be a, an SOB to deal with as far as quarterback in that offense.


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[Assistant] Interception, miss throw, all the way here, play action pass, you know, this is gonna tie in perfectly to like, well I was just trying to tell you why teams are playing quarters, right?


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[Assistant] Here we go. Play action pass. Weak side. You can see that they're running a little bit of a, like, uh, curl.


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[Assistant] Wheel route with Debo Samuel up the sideline, right? So if he gets the right coverage, he's gonna look to Debo. Like I think they were maybe hoping to get man to man to where they can get him up on the side there. But it's a zone. It's a Tampa 2 zone here.


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[Assistant] And, you can see there's corner over here, so I mean, you're not gonna throw this, and look, he's not even looking, cause he's like, wait, they don't throw to me on cover too, this isn't gonna happen. Now, you know, good, good fake by Trey Lance, okay? First thing I wanna say is just, protection's perfect.


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[Assistant] Stay there. Stay there. That's the first mistake he makes. But as we're gonna see, he runs up in the pocket and doesn't need to. He could have just shuffled up the pocket, right?


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[Assistant] Shuffle up, stay in the throwing position, and boom, you're gonna hit it.


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[Assistant] But he throws it so hard, first off. I mean it's so hard. And like, I know, listen, I love people who throw the ball hard.


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[Assistant] There's just, there's an appropriate time. And let me just tell you, it's so hard and there's more examples of this where I know it's so hard because there's receivers who can't even get up there, get their hands up in time. Like they can't even react to it. And he barely reacts to this in time as well. But the point is, of course, it's, it's


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[Assistant] You know, a few feet over his head and it's Travis Benjamin and he can't reach up and get it. It's an Aaron Thoreau and it's an easy interception for Buddha Baker.


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[Assistant] The Aaron throws. That's all we're trying to say here. You know, but they got this play in a perfect spot. I mean, it's Deebo Samuel.


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[Assistant] But, you know, ball's hard. If you saw the TV copy where they show a slow motion replay, of course it's wobbling at a very big extent. And I think we do have that clip here. So you see, yeaah, it ends up being an incomplete pass. It wasn't a lateral. But, you know, here, you could see here, you know,


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[Assistant] Again, it's not the worst. I don't want to pile on. We probably are piling on a little bit.


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[Assistant] I don't mean that, but this is just to those people out there who just think like, oh, Treland should be the starter and should just start right now. No, I don't know if he can execute the offense quite to that capacity yet. And yeah, that was an opportunity to maybe score a touchdown because you know what happened.


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[Assistant] Fourth and one, they didn't score. And he got hurt. And I believe that's where he hurt his knee. If you watch that play back, when he's on the ground, he gets up and he grabs his knee and then gets up and he kinda walks away funny and I'm pretty sure that's the play he did hurt his knee.


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[Assistant] Just little opportunities here where they get a blitz. It's what they would call like, it's an inside slant. It's probably, the play is probably Y, stick, looky, where the slot receiver has the option to go three different ways. On this way, it's easy. You just go inside and go to the slant, right?


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[Assistant] So you see here, I mean, Lance's eyes are in the right spot. He's looking at him. There's no doubt about that. But, ball way off target, again.


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[Assistant] Ball is way too hard. I mean, Brandon Iuke is a phenomenal athlete. He can barely get his hands up in time to get a touch on the ball. He touches the back point as it goes by.


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[Assistant] And of course that's an incompletion. And the point is, it's 10-7, it started in 4, and that would have been a first down. And of course,


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[Assistant] Not just an incompletion, it's a throw that, you know, again, if I went over to my high school, I'd go, that needs to be completed. You just, you can't miss that. Not in the NFL. Life's too hard to think you're going to be able to, you know, get away with winning a football game when you miss throws like that.


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[Assistant] Oh, we don't have another one. We're good. Okay, we did, we decided not to do that one. You're right. So again, it's just a little all over the place. My biggest concern was just the way he played in general. Way too many hits. I'm not surprised he was hurt. It was just a little too reckless to where when you watch the game back, you just go, man, if he had a play,


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[Assistant] You know, a 17 game season, there's just no way he's gonna last, and that's the thing you gotta be worried about, and I'm sure Shanahan knows that too, and that's probably why he's a little reluctant to start him or make him the guy right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. Let's, uh, let's look at it. They did their best job running the football, you know, which caused them, you know, of course to get some one-on-one matchups. That's what Ben likes. You can't cover Pittsburgh man-to-man. Claypool and Deontay Johnson will beat anybody in football. They can fly, and Big Ben can still push the ball down the field.


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[Assistant] But this was, this was the play of the day, uh, as far as Pittsburgh. And what I mean by that is just the, the, the run they are choosing to


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[Assistant] To call and beat the Denver Broncos with, alright? And really what they want to do is, you know, they want doubles. That's what they're trying to do. Now, it's, it's gonna look different in all these plays, but you gotta trust me, it's all the same play, it's just the defense plays a different way so they can't block it exactly the same every time.


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[Assistant] You know, in the perfect world, they'd love this guy to be here so they could double him, and double him, and then someone goes to him. But because of his alignment, they can't mess with that, because if he doubles him, he might just shoot the gap, and then you go, oh crap, he's screwed, so he's head up.


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[Assistant] You know? So that gets taken away in this alignment. They're trying to do the same thing over here. It's double, it's double, and let's get to number 40 on the second level and of course he's gonna kick out. It was this play that gashed Denver all game long.


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[Assistant] And as you see here, I mean, he's Le'Veon Bell 2.0. That's the first thing that he is. That's his Le'Veon Bell 2.0, incredible vision, incredible ability to read the play and cut on a whim and make the appropriate cut. And as you see, they don't even block it quite right here. I mean, they, they missed the block.


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[Assistant] And really, from the way this looks right here, I mean, you could argue, hey, maybe you should just go straight.


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[Assistant] Okay, but he might see this guy kinda coming off the edge there and he's a little worried about that.


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[Assistant] Either way, Harris gets out and they got enough of these two guys to where it just gave him enough of an advantage to where it's okay, sorry 40, I'll see you later, but I'm Najee Harris and uh, I came from Alabama and you're not gonna tackle me. But that was the run of the day that we saw here.


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[Assistant] And again, I wanna, it's a different look, it's the same play.


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[Assistant] It is the exact same play. They want to go there to there to one of them comes up.


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[Assistant] They're going to go there and there till one of them comes up. This tackle goes man to man and this tight end is going to go here.


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[Assistant] This receiver here, and why you see this other circle with the arrow here, because 15 is gonna insert, cause he's worried about Kareem Jackson if he comes down in here, he has to block him, okay?


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[Assistant] So that's just the rule of the play, but it's the same play we just talked about, except they have a little bit of a different personnel set, a different formation, and of course the Broncos are playing it a different way.


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[Assistant] But as you can tell, like, right, I drew it up the right way.


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[Assistant] You see, they got the two doubles. The two doubles.


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[Assistant] One of them's gonna go up. One of them's gonna go up. We can see boom and boom. And 15's gonna be looking for Kareem Jackson right around here. Right? And it's just basically, get off the ball.


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[Assistant] We're gonna get bodies on bodies, and this guy right here has got great ability to cut any way he wants, and he's got great vision, and with that, like, you almost can't be wrong. Or like, you can't be right if you're the defense. That's what I wanna say. And as you can see, they got a body on a body for everybody.


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[Assistant] For the most part, he makes the right read, the right cut, and he's off to the races and does a great job of making something happen. And like I said, he's Leveon Bell 2.0. He really is. The way he runs routes, the way he can read the line of scrimmage, it's all really awesome.


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[Assistant] Good to see. Way to go, Pittsburgh. Way to go. And they can survive if they can play this way. They can survive.


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[Assistant] They can be something. They got a Super Bowl defense, they got two stars at receiver, and at Big Ben, he had his one play again where he was unrealistic and got hit and fumbled where you just want to go, come on man, it's not 2012, but a good, but a good start and something to build on. I think they can maybe give them some confidence.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we did it. We did do it. We did do it. I need an IV.


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[Assistant] I mean, these are the exhausting podcasts. Uh, I really appreciate you though, man. Asking the right questions, driving the ship. I really do. Hopefully we taught some people some things today. 300. You know, 300. Man oh man. Yes. Uh, what are they like, uh, I'm blanking on that movie cause I really like it, but what was the, you know, they used- Bernie Mac?


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[Assistant] Hoo-ha, or you know, they used to do that like, uh, they had a saying and then that's how they answered it.


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[Assistant] Okay. We'll put him on the next graphic. We're 3-0-1, we're gonna put Bernie Mac in there.


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[Assistant] That's a good one to end on. Alright everybody, that's a podcast. That's Chris Sims on Button presented by Under Armour.


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[Assistant] Tomorrow, Thursday, PFTPM, Chris Sims on button collaboration is the picks podcast. Yup. I gotta get them right. I'm not picking my betting ones right. Like I had some good under the cover picks last week. I went one for two on my best bet. But you know, I picked like the Bears to beat the Raiders.


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[Assistant] What was my other upset, you know? I did. I thought Pittsburgh would beat Denver. I knew that. I said Cincinnati would keep it close in that football game.


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[Assistant] Uh, I just, man, I just gotta pick the right ones. That's what a, cause I knew,


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[Assistant] I thought the Colts would say close to Baltimore. That was one of the things I tried to stress, but yeah, I didn't pick the right one. So, uh, check this out. Thursday podcast, PFTPM, Chris Sims on button collaboration. Hope everybody's good. Keep sending the questions. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Everybody, Paulie, you the man. Well done, Mr. 300. Peace out. Peace out everybody. We'll see you.


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[Assistant] Alright, the hell with that guy. The hell with that. Under armor, the only way is through. The only way to go


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[Assistant] I couldn't, I couldn't remember what your loss was. And you know, you know, and screw my buddy Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers for making me one and two. I mean they were up 38 to 10. I mean what the hell Kyle? Hold the freaking lead. Geez. I mean that was a heartbreaker. I was sitting there going like, man, I'm looking good. I feel good.


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[Assistant] And then, I mean, just a disaster there. So, you know, that's why I don't gamble right there. That says it all.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think first off, I do expect it to be a low scoring defensive struggle type of football game. That's right off the bat. I think at a base level conversation, Washington's the more talented football team for sure. You know, even last year, I know the giants beat them twice.


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[Assistant] But you go back and really look at that. The Washington football team really screwed up both games, really handed some bad turnovers to the Giants, 11 short fields, and they got some cheap points off of it that way. You know, I just worry, you know, we talked about this on PFT a little bit. I worry about the Giants off of offensive line.


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[Assistant] Not only pass protecting against that group in Washington, which wasn't good last week against the Chargers. They didn't get around Justin Herbert very much at all. So I think they're going to be pissed off and ready to go. Giants O-line not good in the run game either. Saquon, you know, I think the Giants will keep this close because I think Tyler, Taylor Heinecke


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[Assistant] You know, he's gonna be getting his feet underneath him too, and I don't expect him to be just hitting on all cylinders. I'm gonna go Washington 2017. Mike, how about you?


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[Assistant] Thursday night just always seems to be like opposite night. That's where it's like, that's where I really, there was a part of me that was like, you know what, screw the evaluation, whatever you're thinking, maybe it's the opposite, but I'm going with the team that I think just a little bit better and you laid it out pretty perfect too. So, all right, we're on the same page to a degree.


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[Assistant] Well, I do like a lot of what we saw from the Panthers last week. And you know what? I'm a, I'm a Panthers fan. I'm a little bit on that bandwagon right now for the team to watch out for.


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[Assistant] You know, they, they won 1914 against the Jets. It should have been more than that. They let the Jets hang around. The Panthers blew some opportunities themselves early in the football game.


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[Assistant] Ultimately, the saints look too good last week and the saints are still elite on the offensive line and the defensive line. And I can't say that about Carolina yet. Maybe they're defensive line elite. I'm not sure if I'm ready to go there with their offensive line. Also it's Sean Payton's offense on the other side of the ball too.


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[Assistant] You know, and that like, I gotta think that Dennis Allen, Sean Pate are gonna have a good feel for Joe Brady and what he likes to do and attack from that standpoint. And I think the biggest thing to me with the Saints is, you know,


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[Assistant] Sean Payton's not gonna just air it out, I don't think, with Jameis Winston, especially not here yet. He's gonna let him get confident. I think he's gonna want himself, Sean Payton, to get confident in Jameis Winston that he can trust him to air it out. So I still think he'll stay balanced and try to run the ball and play defense.


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[Assistant] But have those few calculated big shots down the field. And that's where the saints.


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[Assistant] Are gonna be more of a pain in the butt this year than maybe with Drew Brees. Yea, Drew Brees might have been ding boom boom boom and I could throw a lot of quick passes and get it out of our hands and be surgical that way. But we've discussed this a little. The Saints, I think you gotta defend more of the field maybe than the last few years with Jameis Winston. I think it's a tough physical football game. Saints 24-20.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't be shocked. You're right. Sean Payton is the ultimate motivator. Probably going, Oh, telling the team, Oh, wait, we got no chance guys. Our coaches got COVID, you know, either way, or he's going, maybe we got to buckle down because we got COVID. I think the Saints are a little bit of a team on the mission, on a mission. I'm with you there. And you know, we basically have the same thing going on. You just think the Saints will score one more touchdown.


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[Assistant] I think the Panthers are a team on the rise, but not ready for primetime Saints top of the NFC type football quite yet.


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[Assistant] You know I picked the Bengals to keep it close last week. I wanted to pick them to win. I'm just scared of what Joe Burrow would look like. I'm not scared anymore. I'm picking the Bengals. I am. I think they match up really good with Chicago. The Bengals as a roster. O-line is better.


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[Assistant] Weapons on the outside. Burrow looks healthy enough.


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[Assistant] Joe Mixon's a superstar running back. I know Jamar Chase, he's rolling now. Here we go. And then the other aspect I look at it, and I know I said this to you last week when it came to the Bengals versus Vikings, and I think it's another good advantage for them this week. The Bengals are big up front.


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[Assistant] I do think they'll be able to slow down the run game of the Chicago Bears and


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[Assistant] Honestly, the Bengals have one of the more underrated secondaries in all of football. When you talk about Chadovia, Wuze, Trey Waynes, Jesse Bates in the back end, uh, uh, Von Bell, that's, that's a pretty damn good secondary against what you'd know, I think is a really ordinary pass game. It really is. I think they.


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[Assistant] Uh, are gonna surprise some people, the Bengals, and not saying they're a playoff team or anything like that, but they're gonna hang around against some of these better teams. I think I even underestimated them in the preseason.


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[Assistant] You know, because there was questions and I just had to see it a little bit. I'm going bangles, pulling off the upset. The Bears fans going crazy, ready to like pillage the field and the team because they want Justin Fields. Bangles 23-20, Michael Floria.


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[Assistant] I just, I'm not going to get obsessed with the names, Bears, Bengals. Oh, the Bears are going to win. From what I've seen through the preseason and the last week, the Bears haven't showed me anything good really yet. On the defensive side of the ball, especially, I think that's the biggest disappointment. I kind of knew what the offense would look like. So that's where, yeah, I just can't buy in yet. I got to see it to believe it before I go there.


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[Assistant] I'm going, of course, Browns. No, no doubt. I didn't, you know, listen, I didn't look at the spreads before I did this. I just, I wanted to pick my games and.


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[Assistant] Not be affected by it. I thought I was picking the Browns to cover. I really did. I have Browns 31-21. I didn't realize, I didn't think it would be quite that high, the spread at 12 and a half. But to me, the Browns are elite. They really are, you know, all the way through. And I think like.


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[Assistant] You know, really I expect their offense to have their way with the Houston Texans. There was more plays there to be had last week by the Jaguars offense than what they capitalized on.


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[Assistant] You know, Trevor Lawrence missed some throws that certainly could have maybe changed the game and he made some rookie mistakes. The Browns are not going to do that. I think they're going to be pissed off with the way they played last week. Uh, so I got the Texans covering, but I think the Browns win by 10.


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[Assistant] The Colts, the way they played last week, is a little concerning. You know, I think everything I thought about the Colts, and we talked about it a lot in training camp, like, there might, there's one star missing on each side of the ball. One difference maker.


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[Assistant] But also the concerning thing was just the way they protected last week for Carson Wentz, the way the offensive line looked. I think that's the most disappointing thing about what I saw.


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[Assistant] You know, Seattle's good, the Rams are every bit as good. We know that.


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[Assistant] And I think they don't have to necessarily compromise their secondary as much as Seattle. Seattle just put a lot of people in the line of scrimmage. They kind of confuse the Colts. They kind of just put numbers there to stop the run. You know, I just have too much faith.


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[Assistant] And this Rams defense for one under Raheem Morris, who's a hell of a good coach. You know, they got some pawns to play with and be a little extra creative than, than other teams because of Jalen Ramsey and he can match up and that allows them to do different things, you know, with the rest of the secondary. And then ultimately, you know, I just think Stafford.


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[Assistant] And the offensive McBay, we saw what Shane Waldron did to the Colts last week.


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[Assistant] You know, and I, I don't think it's gonna be a whole lot different. McBay, to me, is a little more creative than Shane Waldron. And I go back to like,


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[Assistant] When Ebervloos was with the Dallas Cowboys as his defensive coordinator, man, the Rams had their way with that Cowboys defense. I think he cracked the code on it. And I think that's kind of stuck in my head too. So I think the Colts give like a last ditch effort because they're, you know, at home and they might lose two games in a row, but I'm still going Rams 28-24.


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[Assistant] I can't, there's no way I can do that. You know, first off, Teddy Bridgewater looked good last week. That's the first thing you talk about. The Broncos own line is good. It's good. They can run the ball. If you can run the ball in the Giants, you're probably going to be able to run the ball in just about anybody. Giants got the biggest D line in football. You know that. We talk about it all the time.


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[Assistant] Shermer does a really good job of marrying the play action pass with the run game.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I just don't think the Jaguars are ready for prime time, nor do I think the Jaguars offense is ready for this Broncos defense.


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[Assistant] You know, I know Bradley Chubb, he's got some injury issues. It doesn't matter. They still got two good edge guys. You know, Von Miller looked good last week and they're good in the secondary, you know, and I think with Vic Fangio and the Jaguars kind of being


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[Assistant] I don't think the Jaguars can run the ball, really. That just plays more into the Denver, Denver's hand. I go Broncos 27-17 here, Michael.


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[Assistant] Big game, big game. I mean, of course, you know, the Bills kind of laid an egg last week on the offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] And after watching Dolphins versus Patriots, the Patriots were the better team on the field during that game, at least in my opinion. They, they kind of blew the game.


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[Assistant] Two turnovers with the running backs fumbled. Uh, I believe it was both running backs that fumbled. Uh, either way, there was two turnovers, a lot of mistakes. You know, we're in positions to win the football game. And still, I don't know about the Dolphins offense. I don't know. It's not that I don't know about the offense, but I'm still gonna know about Tua. They have to manage Tua.


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[Assistant] Tua is incapable of really throwing the ball outside the numbers, unless it's just a, hey, Devontae Parker's one on one, let me throw a jump ball. Hey, Jalen Wattles one on one, let me throw a jump ball.


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[Assistant] I just think between that and I don't think the Dolphins run game is a real force yet. That plays into Sean McDermott's hands to make things happen and


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[Assistant] Uh, the last thing is I have a lot of respect for the Dolphins defense and Flores.


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[Assistant] But the one thing that I think jumps out is they weren't really able to pressure Josh Allen last year without blitzing or taking chances and putting people at the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] And that's just a no-no. Like Allen is like my homes that way. If you blitz them, you're screwed. You're going to screwed. He's going to, he's going to throw a rocket for a touchdown. So I think it's a close football game. Uh, but I think ultimately I'm going to go with the bills here at 30 to 24.


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[Assistant] I like both. I really do. You know, again, you just heard me say the Patriots outplayed the Dolphins last week. They're not going to screw it up two weeks in a row. I think that's the first thing I look at. You know, I just don't think the Jets we saw protection issues.


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[Assistant] You know, against the Carolina Panthers, you know, there's, there, this is a good front for the, for the New England Patriots. They're really good in the secondary. I think life will be even harder for Zach Wilson and company. And I worry about the Jets ability to stop the run game.


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[Assistant] Uh, of the New England Patriots who can almost run it at will against any look, even when they stack the box, they still do so well coached and they're so dominant in the run game that they can do that. And I expect them to have a lot of success with that. And then comes off the Josh McDaniels play action pasts, uh, uh, you know, attack.


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[Assistant] Also, no team has better knowledge of the Seattle scheme really than the New England Patriots. They know how to attack it. There's a weakness at corner with the New York Jets. I think the Patriots win this 27-14.


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[Assistant] You know, you heard me a little bit before last week that I think I, uh, before week one even underestimated the Eagles as I kind of dove in for my last preseason. Let's do playoffs and watch the preseason football. I mean, the Eagles are elite on both offensive and defensive line.


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[Assistant] They pose real problems for a defense and what they did to the Falcons. Now I know the Falcons defense is not the San Francisco 49ers, but you still got the, you have to respect.


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[Assistant] The Eagles ability to run the ball. I mean, there are so many plays last week where the Eagles run the ball and I'm telling you the running back doesn't get touched until he's seven or eight yards down the field. Nothing, nothing, no touch. And even when he's getting touched there, it's like a hand sticking out, something like that. And then when you overplay the run game.


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[Assistant] Of course that leads, they can do things where bubble screen to Rieger, you know, uh, the first round pick. What the hell is his name?


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[Assistant] Devante Smith, excuse me, I wanted to say Devon for some reason. And, you know, so they, they, they have a good little formula. Jalen Hurts, am I sold on his ability to


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[Assistant] Shanahan, you know, with that offense, without Mozart or whatever, I still think they're going to be able to run the ball. They got weapons in the pass game. We saw that last week and what they can do there. I think this is going to be a tough pipe one.


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[Assistant] The last factor I'll say, a lot of plays in the pass game last week were Jalen Hurts scrambling and especially scrambling to his right. There's no way Shanahan and the 49ers and D'Amico Ryans don't see that. They will have a better plan to contain him in the pocket. And I'm gonna go 49ers 24-20 here, just barely covering.


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[Assistant] The Raiders and the Steelers. Uh, of course the Raiders, hey, they did a lot of impressive things. That, this is a better defense though, the Steelers are, than the Ravens. I mean, hands down. They will be able to get after Derek Carr with a front four. Not half the Blitz and all out Blitz and lead guys just on an island with no free safety. Having said that, I mean, as a whole,


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[Assistant] I still think Pittsburgh was a little bit outplayed last week and a little fortunate.


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[Assistant] You know, a dumb fourth and one call by Buffalo right around midfield. And of course the block punt were the difference of the game. I mean, it was that right there. Bills had a few opportunities to kind of take control of that game.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, but I have a feeling we'll probably be saying that on a lot of teams that play that Steelers defense this year. The thing that I think concerns me and keeps us close, I'm gonna pick the Steelers to win.


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[Assistant] I gotta still see more from that Steelers offense. You know, that was not pretty last week by any stretch of the imagination. So I do think it stays close. I think the Steelers find a way to win 23-21.


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[Assistant] Mike, just to hit on too, like I know we hit on this, but I think it's worth bringing up to your point here too. Yeah, they'll short week.


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[Assistant] Mike Tomlin knows the John Gruden offense. He knows it really well. John Gruden doesn't know the Mike Tomlin defense because this is not the Mike Tomlin defense. This is the Pittsburgh defense. And I do think that plays in the advantage too. So, you know, you got me thinking about that one a little bit, but I just wanted to add that into our listeners.


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[Assistant] I want to, like, this is interesting. I want to lay the floor to you because this is your favorite team versus your favorite player. What are you going to do? Do you love him not or do you love him today? Or is it going to be Kyler Murray? So go ahead. Let me, I'll, you lead off on this one just because, uh, these are your two favorite people, Kirk Cousins and Kyler Murray.


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[Assistant] To overpower their defense. No, no doubt. And to your point with the Kyler Murray thing and the Russell Wilson thing, there's just, there's more moving parts in this Arizona offense as compared to...


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[Assistant] You know, what we saw, we've seen in Seattle. I mean, they're, they've been pretty standard status quo, run the ball, straight play action, straight drop back through Russell Wilson's career. We saw last week some variety from the Cliff Kingsbury offense, a lot of different formations, people flying everywhere.


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[Assistant] They're hard to match up with Rondale Moore, Christian Kirk, DeAndre Hopkins, and then, oh, if we want to bring a fourth one in, we got AJ Green. That's pretty damn good. Two-headed monster running back.


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[Assistant] You know, the only way I see the Vikings winning this game is they will have to absolutely slaughter the Cardinals in the run game. Dalvin Cook and company. And I don't see that happening because of what you said and added to that.


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[Assistant] You know, if it didn't become, oh, we're not running the ball that good, but we're going to try to still be effective off of play action.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's going to work against this crew as much in Arizona. First off, Vance Jones is a good coach, but the guys in the middle of the field for Arizona, like we talked about all week are special. Isaiah Simmons, Zaven Collins.


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[Assistant] Hicks, Buddha, Baker, and I think they're going to be all over the play action pass game. So I'm, I'm going Cardinals 28-20 as well. And you're right. There's a part of me that thinks maybe it could be another touchdown or so worse than that.


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[Assistant] I don't see it. I think the Falcons are going to be one of the worst teams in football. I'm just, I'm going to throw it out there. You know, I've kind of been saying that. I just, I don't, you know, I think we, everyone got like, whoa, they got Calvin Ridley and Matt Ryan and they're going to be good. No, they're not offensive line. Not good. Nothing special and running back.


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[Assistant] I know they got Kyle Pitts, everyone who wants to just look at fantasy and go, whoa, Matt Ryan, Kyle Pitts, Calvin, really, they could be good. Okay, who on defense? Who on defense is really worth a damn? Grady Jarrett? Yes.


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[Assistant] I mean, after that, AJ Terrell may be a corner, but there's just not enough there. Like no way. Buccaneers are gonna whoop that ass. Whoop that ass. I picked 35, 20. I wouldn't be surprised if it's 35, 14, 35, 13, 40 to 10. Who knows? But the Falcons ain't winning. I know that.


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[Assistant] I like the Chargers, plain and simple. I mean, there, there's, of course the Cowboys are dangerous. I'm not going to sit here and try to be like disrespectful, but I think, you know, ultimately the Chargers are the better football team throughout.


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[Assistant] The one thing I wasn't sure about the Chargers is just I wanted to see the offensive line. They were amazing last week.


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[Assistant] Herbert, you know, right where he left off last year, just throwing dimes and lasers all over the field. So that's great to see. You know, and, you know, I really am a big Brandon Staley fan. You know that from last year. I mean, he, he is very creative on the defensive side of the ball. He's, you know,


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[Assistant] Disguise as well, does things, thinks outside the box, you know, takes away, you know, what you want to do at a very high level. It's almost built a chicken that way that I respect. You know, I, I, I think the Cowboys of course are going to make some plays, but hey, this is a good Chargers pass rush.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're talented on the defensive side of the ball, and I think ultimately just the way the offense looked, and Demarcus Lawrence not playing, Joel Lombardi, the offensive coordinator for the Chargers, just came from the Saints.


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[Assistant] He's gonna know Dan Quinn, who came from the Falcons, really well, and how, how to attack that defense. So, I'm going Chargers, and a close one now. I'm gonna go 30 to 27.


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[Assistant] Living dangerously with some of these.


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[Assistant] I'm going with the Seattle Seahawks. I mean, how the hell can you pick the Titans with the way they looked last week? I mean, you gotta be crazy to think that.


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[Assistant] You know, the one thing I was impressed with with the Seahawks last week was their defense. I had questions about that. This is where I love the Seahawks. They just force your hand. That's where I just, I mean, I'm just, I'm, I'm mad I didn't pick them to win last week. I mean, they just play so hard. They're physical. They're not gonna let Derrick Henry get off. I would be shocked.


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[Assistant] You know, they do have some size and some power up run on the defensive line. And they just, they're not afraid to crowd the line of scrimmage and scare you out of the run game.


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[Assistant] And then you check to a pass or do something like that and then they drop out. They have a good feel of like when to overplay the run and when to looks like we might overplay the run, but we're going to drop out and play pass coverage.


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[Assistant] Titans looked horrible last week. Offensive line looked like S-H-I-T. Sorry. I don't know what to say. That one. Why didn't you spell it? Okay. They looked like...


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[Assistant] I don't know. I just want to emphasize it with the, just wanted to spell it out for you. And of course the defense didn't look great either. There wasn't, there was no pass rush there.


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[Assistant] And I think, you know, the balance of that Seahawks offense and then, okay, they're running the ball good. The Titans are going to get down there. They're going to be worried about pressure and Russell Wilson and they don't got the guys yet to match up with DK Metcalfe and Tyler Lockett. So I'm going Seahawks 34-28.


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[Assistant] The Ravens, I just don't expect, I went into the year not expecting to see the same Ravens team. They don't match up well with the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] You know, I think Wink Martindale is going to have to reinvent what he wants to do on defense because of the injuries, because of the lack of pass rush. They're going to have to find a new formula. It's scary. It is.


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[Assistant] I don't know how they can pull this off. I mean, to get to, they're not going to get there with their front four. Like this is where the stats lie. You know, there's like stats out there. Oh, Kaleus Campbell had all these pressures last week and like he didn't do it when it was a four man rush.


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[Assistant] He did it because they blitz eight guys sometimes and he happened to be the guy that got free or, you know, there's, there's just a mosh pit of people and he gets to squeak through. I don't see it with their pass rush and, and you know, Marlon Humphrey is the only real elite secondary guy they have there.


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[Assistant] That's just not a good formula for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. And on the flip side, Mike, you know, the Chiefs...


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[Assistant] They have, they have a big front. I know the Browns ran on them last week. The Ravens offensive line is not the Browns offensive line, nor is it as versatile in their running attack. Yeah, they have Lamar Jackson, but here's the difference too.


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[Assistant] The, uh, Spagnolo, the defensive coordinator for the Chiefs. You know, I think this is where the Ravens


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[Assistant] Lack of creativity and versatility in their pass game comes to hurt them in this kind of matchup.


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[Assistant] Bags has been able to find ways to get people at the line of scrimmage to start, stop Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] But yet, having a good feel in those formations of what they're doing in the pass game. So he can put people at the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] To stop the run, but then drop people in zone to still stop the Greg Roman pass game. And it's a little predictable that way. You know, I think the Ravens give a last ditch, tough effort. They never give up, but ultimately the Chiefs, I just think are a really tough matchup. And I'm going Chiefs 35-24.


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[Assistant] But I'm not gonna pick them to cover. I'm not. You know, the Packers are just one of those teams. Again, I gotta just, there's a feel of just like, they're not hitting on all cylinders. It just doesn't seem like it's there.


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[Assistant] They didn't do anything. Oh, it was shocker. Wait, wait, the Packers didn't do anything to improve their football team this off season. Really surprised, really surprised. Oh, that's right. Just ride number 12 again and make them make magic happen as usual. I mean, the Packers are freaking annoying to me. They really are. Um,


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[Assistant] You know, I think I look at the Lions and go, I think the offense has got a little more talent than maybe I gave it credit for. They got a pretty good offensive line. T.J. Hockinson's real good. Has a tight end. Uhm, I-I-I'm s-I'm feeling Packers, but I think the Lions are gonna be a pain in the butt and at least hang around. I'm gonna go Packers 28-21.


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[Assistant] Let's not forget this point too. You made a lot of good points and, you know, who'd the Packers play last week? The Saints. Who's the defensive coordinator for the Lions? Uh, Aaron Glenn.


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[Assistant] Alright, so he's gonna be able to take some things from their game plan and figure it out. Now they're not as talented as the Saints, so he's gonna be compromised in some ways, but I would think there's some carryover to like him having some feel for how the Packers attack, but yeah, I'm with you.


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[Assistant] I'm not feeling the Packers either. I'm not. And there's just something there that's missing and it's a little concerning with the way they looked, the way they acted after the game, Roger saying no energy, uh, everything that goes along with it. So yeah, I think they win, but I don't think it's going to be pretty.


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[Assistant] It's like a weird week cause I, I have like, I feel like five or six options and it's just like, man, I hope I pick the right ones.


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[Assistant] Because there's some, I feel good about all of them. Alright, well the first one I'm going to go with is the Bucs. Over the yucky, yucky Falcons. I mean, yeaah, 12 and a half, I don't care. I think it could be 20. I got them winning by 15. I just think they're going to dominate the Falcons football team. So that's the first one. I'm riding the points with the Bucs.


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[Assistant] You know, good, but Carolina should have controlled that game more. They left some opportunities out there. And I, the Patriots outplayed the Dolphins. So I'm going Patriots as my next best bet.


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[Assistant] Last one, I'm going with the Broncos. I am. I liked everything. I liked everything about their game last week. Really good defense. Offense is explosive. You know, I don't even think they played their best ball. There was, there was some mistakes they made.


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[Assistant] But the Jaguars, you know, lack of great pass protection, lack of a run game, I just don't see it. So I'm taking the Broncos as my, uh, my third one.


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[Assistant] That's the Bucks. That's an easy one this week. I mean, I just, I, I can't, I mean, can't shy away from that one. So Buccaneers all the way, uh, to, to whoop that ass of the Atlanta Falcons. Swamp ass since they're playing in Tampa.


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


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[Assistant] I'm doing, I'm doing well. You know, I took my youngest to the most recent James Bond. So we've been watching all the James Bond. It's not the Django-ish, but you know, James is going to sleep with the beautiful woman. Of course, there are going to be people getting shot non-stop.


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[Assistant] Is through. The ad-libbing and the personal connection and the energy. Thank you. Throughout this whole thing. Right. I think they're getting more than they bargained for.


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[Assistant] As soon as you get home, do you turn it on or is it as soon as you get in the car that comes on?


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[Assistant] I find it affects more the listening than the talking. It's hard to be completely engaged when you have a big day coming up and then everybody's aware of it. Things have been said for five minutes and they're looking at you like, do you have any idea?


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[Assistant] We had like a 10 minute walk to school, to middle school, my wife and I, with our youngest. And like today, the second we walked out the door, I'm thinking about, God, my homes was really bad.


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[Assistant] It's been, it's been bad for a while. What are the best ways I can frame it to Chris? And holy cow the bangles were good. Let's talk about Joe Burrow three days later in a smart way. And we're like three quarters of the way to school by now. And my wife and my son have been talking the whole time.


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[Assistant] And there was a silence, I'm like, hey buddy, you got any tests today? And then the look is like, we've been talking about this the last five minutes. Like what's wrong with you?


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[Assistant] Still, on Sunday, and Patrick Mahomes was playing the whole game. I think we have to start there. So I did spend some time thinking about how to frame this. My best shot is, how the hell did the Chiefs have three points and Patrick Mahomes was playing?


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[Assistant] And also, I think we can't act like this thing lives in a vacuum, like it's just one. We have to pay attention to the entire first few weeks of the season. And even though it was their fewest points in nine seasons under Andy Reid,


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[Assistant] They've had more, more misses than hits in terms of like living up to their standard. No doubt. This year. And so three points in one game, you can be like, God, that's, that's amazing. Tennessee's defense must've been incredible. Right. I think was it's, uhm, last year.


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[Assistant] That Rogers and Green Bay went to Tampa Bay and just sucked the entire game. It was one game. It was one game. There were ones before and after that were good. This has to be pointed out because it's been, this was the low point, but it's been kind of going this way all season.


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[Assistant] Two months ago and said, who are the five best offenses? Who are the five best defenses? And now you kind of take a look around and say which one of those ten groups is the furthest below what we thought they'd be.


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[Assistant] And they've also improved a little this year. Yes. And I think that matters with the judgment. The Kansas City's has gone the other way. That's exactly right. Okay. How about some visual evidence here? Let's do it. You ready for it? Yeah. All right. Uh, let's go Kansas City here. The offense first quarter 7 46 left. Uh, still a game. Kansas City down seven. Nothing. Right. I think we're going to see second down nine.


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[Assistant] If he steps up and hits the open crosser there, maybe they score and it's 7-7.


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[Assistant] There you go. Great point. A great visual there about pocket feel. Pocket feel. And stepping up.


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[Assistant] Okay, so as you mentioned, Tennessee went down and scored, so next drive, late in the first quarter, Chiefs now down 14-0, first and 10 on their own 36.


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[Assistant] And we have one more play to get to, but before we do, a lot of these things that we show and slow down and stop make it look easy and it's not. One of the easiest things a quarterback can do is have his best receiver, soft corner, nobody underneath, to just stand up and hit him. It's like, don't miss the layups when you're struggling, and that was a potential quarterback layup.


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[Assistant] So I'm a home six consecutive game with at least one pick. He had six all the last year. This is an interception on the next drive halfway through second quarter. It's now 17 to nothing. First and 10 on their own 25.


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[Assistant] That was, yeah, plenty of examples of that. I was talking with Peter on his podcast yesterday and I said, after thinking about the Chiefs and watching them some, it's gotta be one of two things with the fact that their offense has come back to earth a little bit here and then really struggled Sunday.


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[Assistant] Either all these defenses and the coordinators had spent so much time because they knew, okay, if we're going to get further in the AFC, we've got to find a way to beat Kansas City, which means we have to find a way to slow the offense. They've either developed a scheme that's working much better, or Mahomes truly has regressed a little bit, at least in this little chunk of the season.


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[Assistant] Based off of the plays you picked there, it seems to be a little bit more on what Patrick is doing or not.


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[Assistant] If the Chiefs could fix one thing, prioritize one thing where this was bad last week and it's gonna be better this week, what would that one thing be?


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[Assistant] Okay, so that was one AFC team with what happened.


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[Assistant] That really ended with a question mark. Let's move to one that's kind of like an exclamation point or two with the Bengals. Oh my gosh. They're kind of hitting around that they were pretty good all season. And then they go to Baltimore and just put on a clinic in that second half. How to rack up big plays and score points.


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[Assistant] Let's get a peek. Before we get a peek, what's your impression on why the Bengals are not only winning, but why that offense is producing big play after big play?


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[Assistant] One number here before we get started. 43 plays of 20 yards or more last season. Second fewest in the NFL. They already have 32 this season. Top 5 in the NFL. So you make the decision to go receiver instead of left tackle in the draft because you want to be more explosive. Hey, it's only 7 games.


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[Assistant] Okay, you just mentioned that there were a lot of examples of Mahomes and the Chiefs probably not playing very well last weekend. I'm going to guess there were a lot of examples of Burrow and the offense playing very well in this game. So let's get to the first one you picked out. And don't forget, this was a close game early. I mean, the end score was a blowout, but this is


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[Assistant] The game's tied at three, first down in ten in the second quarter. It will eventually end up in a fifty-five yard touchdown.


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[Assistant] I'm glad you pointed out how Bro kind of slid instead of ran out of pocket because we just saw an example of a very good quarterback who ran out of pocket instead of stepped up. We see the results just on that tiny little thing. And a little bit of self-scouting myself too that they normally, maybe they knew, hey, we always run.


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[Assistant] Okay, Jamar Chase goes over 200 yards. We've talked about him already. I need a little Jamar Chase. I think we find it. Late second quarter, tight at 10. Second and 10 on the Raven 45.


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[Assistant] Not just leaving 7 in, but having that 7th guy, if we can count the tight end as the 7th guy, kind of there just like waiting and watching where you can see the whole thing.


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[Assistant] So, just like I said about Mahomes, that performance didn't live in a vacuum because you have to look at what they did before.


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[Assistant] That doesn't live in a vacuum either because I think we have to consider what Justin Herbert did and didn't do.


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[Assistant] On that same field against that same defense last week against the Ravens. I think you said, and I'm paraphrasing, they disguise and trick and kind of make you wonder what's going on in line of scrimmage better than anybody. Let's look at what Herbert did last week against the Blitz. Really struggled, understandably, and then it makes it look, it makes it


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[Assistant] Look like what Burrow did, it makes it look even better, considering what Herbert didn't do last week.


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[Assistant] Let's look at the other side of this matchup. Lamar Jackson had an off day, the offense had an off day, especially in the second half. If you look at the last six quarters that Ravens played before this, that second half against Indy where they really came alive and scored a bunch of points, they were really good against the Chargers and then it just really came to a halt.


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[Assistant] And that's where things changed. They stopped the run. Good job explaining that. So then when they got to the portion of the game where it was our Blitz against your Blitz pickup, that was when Bengals were still the game.


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[Assistant] So situation here, third quarter, Baltimore down 2017, they've got third and eight, I think on their own 34.


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[Assistant] Sometimes too, I think it's good to throw out and remind people, you and I both did it. He might just not have seen him. He had two linemen in front of him. We can see it here. He might not have seen anything. It's just the way it goes sometimes.


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[Assistant] Nice segue there to the NFC. Let's flip over there and go down to Tampa, your old town. Uh, Bears and the Buccaneers. I gotta tell you Chris, like I was, this game was on all afternoon at our house. I was excited to watch it, to see what Brady does. Sure. See if Fields is coming along. Right. It got to a point where it was so non-competitive.


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[Assistant] It's kind of a boring game unless you're really into watching Brady stand back there and basically have 7 on 7.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is one of those scores that does reflect how lopsided it was. 38-3 Buccaneers. Justin Fields, 5 turnovers. How much of that fact and the Bears struggles are you putting on him and how much on other parts of the office?


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[Assistant] None, and there are a number of ways to look at it. I think we've got three selected. Let's go first quarter, Chicago down 7-0, facing what we call a manageable third down, third and five.


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[Assistant] Things starting to come apart at this point. Late first quarter, it's now 14-nothing bucks. Another third and five.


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[Assistant] You've got a back in perfect position.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, right? It's a lot of the route concepts that leave you being like, gosh, I don't know, it's not much help for the quarterback that you had with Trabisky, but now you have a quarterback who can give you a little bit more. Maybe he can't read it quite as well, the early part of his career yet, but at least he can move around and they're not even taking advantage of that.


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[Assistant] So kind of, uh, putting a bow on this and, uh, fast forwarding.


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[Assistant] Putting a period on the end of it, but before we move on to the next game, a lot of season left. Justin Fields is going to be their guy. You've thrown out, okay, maybe run him a little bit more. More aggressive schemes in the passing game. You think about the word fix in improving. What else comes to mind for this offense?


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[Assistant] I always love it when we can find something that we can just kind of connect to the show and to Chris and this certainly counts. Uh, let's go to the athletic, uh, a mailbag on Shanahan and Sims.


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[Assistant] Is Shanahan trying to get Lynch fired so Chris Sims can be GM? Ben D would like to know. And then he adds this, but then Shanahan would have to hear incessantly how good Mack Jones is and how he should have picked Jones. Could he stand that? I think that is a fair.


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[Assistant] And I think also some people want to turn the page to Trey Lance because of all the potential. But if you pull out there and look at the NFC right now, there are more playoff spots available than there are teams with.


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[Assistant] Okay, so even though they're not where they want to be. They're not out of this. They've seen Jimmy Grapple play pretty well a lot of time. They know that that last playoff spot or the second to last one is within their reach. Yes. So I mean the veteran quarterback is the better play right now. I agree. One person's opinion, but to me that seems fairly clear.


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[Assistant] I think you mentioned Carolina there a little bit. It's the last team I want to hit here. Third team that only scored three points this weekend that were hitting. We had the Chiefs where I talked about, the Bears we discussed, and now Carolina got beat by the Giants 25-3.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you can find a quarterback in a team where like the first three games like, hey, they're pretty good. Better than they were last year. And then since then it's just been like, wow, what happened? So what is the deal?


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[Assistant] With the turnaround, why the drastic change in the Panthers here recently?


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[Assistant] I want to get to the Joe Brady and his scheme and what's not happening there. Let's see a couple of plays here that we're checking in with Sam Darnold this past weekend and see what's not happening.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's Sam, some of his struggles. You mentioned Joe Brady's scheme that in his last month teams are catching up to him a little bit. What do you have here?


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[Assistant] Carolina in Atlanta this weekend. Do you think Darnold and the Panthers get well?


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[Assistant] And we're not even through the October games, Mike. I mean, we're not even halfway through the season. A lot of football left to be played. And you're right. Players want to play. Baker's a tough guy. But that aside, do you see a scenario here where he makes it through the season without having surgery first?


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[Assistant] There will be a test after the pod on how the lower extremities come together.


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[Assistant] What's happening with the calf? We've talked quite a bit about Patrick Mahomes and some of the struggles he's had on the field here recently, Mike. I'd like to get your thoughts on just kind of what we saw late in the game. You know, he went down.


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[Assistant] Checked for a concussion, needed help getting off the field. Uhm, he was not put in concussion protocol. I think a lot of fans look at that scene and thought, huh, that's, that's strange. What did you think?


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[Assistant] Wonderful example, Mike, of how like, we as fans, maybe educated fans, we don't know what we don't know. All I know is that didn't look very good, and that explanation...


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[Assistant] Help clear it up a lot. Yeaah. So very well done. Thank you. No doubt. No doubt. I think we have one more. Yeaah, let's go. Hit it. Russell Wilson's got the, uh, fracture dislocation on his finger. I believe it's the, it's the middle finger there. On his throwing hand.


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[Assistant] I don't want you to guess on when he might be back, knowing him will probably be back sometime soon. What would you be doing to help him get out there, to help a quarterback get out there who's got that part of a finger that's very important, who needs to throw the ball? How do you help him get back out there?


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[Assistant] I'm grabbing the football here. That middle finger is crucial. It is bent there at the top. Like your, this finger here, which I think is the most important one,


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[Assistant] That one is more straight. That middle finger bends at that top knuckle. So I mean, there's really no way around that.


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[Assistant] Middle fingers, humorous bones, how the calf comes together, I mean, we, we, we've covered a lot of ground there. Yea, we did.


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[Assistant] Alright man, we'll talk to you soon. See you pal. Have a great week. You too buddy.


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[Assistant] Truly, no BS and truly learn multiple things every time that guy comes on. Every time Mike comes on. Uh, Mike's the man. He's the man.


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[Assistant] First of all, I don't think it's that pathetic either way. I'm not going to take that shit from you even if you are talking about yourself too. And we're still above 500 with best bets and a thing where I would go, I wouldn't even bet some of these best bets.


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[Assistant] Like I, if you made me pick one, I bet you my record would be a lot better. Let me just pick one, but it was torture last week. That's what I could say. I mean, gosh, were there some bad beats or some rough losses? I mean, you winning the Dolphins Buffalo, best bet.


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[Assistant] I mean seven shinrocks up your ass on that one. Holy crapola. Oh my gosh. I mean there were just so many instances last week.


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[Assistant] I mean, of course, Carson Wentz throwing the ball with his left hand at the end of the game. I mean, that just killed me. There was some ones that really, really killed me and it just emphasizes the point of, again, like we always say, be careful about betting.


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[Assistant] All I know is my mom watched the show on Friday with PFT commenter.


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[Assistant] And of course, you know, she's not in that world. So don't hold dirty Diana responsible. She was like, I don't know who that was. Was he wearing a costume? Is that, was that a Halloween costume? She was completely confused about PFT commenter. So I had to explain that to her.


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[Assistant] It just explains everything in our world right now, in the sporting world. Last week, the Jets were being killed for that Mike White was the backup quarterback and they're the dumbest organization in football for having him as a backup. This week,


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[Assistant] He's the franchise. So that's how fickle America has become in the sports, uh, watchers have become. I, no, I don't envision that again. I don't first off.


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[Assistant] I think the Colts defense is better than the Bengals. Their scheme is just different than the Bengals. And I think it matches up to take away some of the things Mike White did last week. The Colts play more people at the line of scrimmage. I'd have a hard time thinking they're going to give the easy completions, you know, that we saw last week again.


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[Assistant] It was a dink and dunk fest by Mike white. He never threw a pass over 20 yards. It was one of the shortest passing performances of the year. I don't know what the bangles were doing, so I don't expect that same success. And again, I'm not going to just abandon the Colts.


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[Assistant] Totally here because, you know, they lost to a good Titans team last week who's playing really good defense and understands them.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I think I'm still gonna go with the hole here and that Carson Wentz has had a pretty good year. I want Frank Reich to run the ball more. The Jets' defense is solid, nothing special. They play hard, they're coached well, but there's not a lot of overwhelming talent. I'm going with the Colts here, 24-13.


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[Assistant] Baltimore Ravens. Uh, you know, I, I look at it this way a lot with the Vikings. You've heard this and you know this. I mean, we talk about this. If the Vikings can't run the ball, just like we saw last week, it's a very ordinary offense. It's just period.


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[Assistant] And I know you can go like, so a lot of, you know, there's people who go, well, I mean, a lot of teams aren't good once they can't run the ball. No, they're not. There's other teams that have.


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[Assistant] Plenty other avenues when they can't run the ball, they can drop back in the pass game and still throw the ball for 300 yards and make a lot of explosive plays. The Vikings are like truly handicapped that way. It's so Dalvin Cook dependent. I don't think that happens against the Ravens defense. I don't.


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[Assistant] You know, the Ravens defense certainly has struggled a little bit. You know, gave up a lot of big yards early in the year. But for the most part...


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[Assistant] Has been better. I know the bangles game, you know, burrow and chase made some plays, no doubt. I get it. But also what I would add to it is, yeah, I don't think the Vikings are going to be able to run the ball in the Ravens. I think the Vikings then their pass game too simple. So even if the Ravens passed the events, isn't what it was.


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[Assistant] It's an easy team to break down that way. I got the faith in the Ravens, demons of coaches that they'll do that.