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[Assistant] Give me the ball, right? And you're like, wait, that was a layup. Like it wasn't a big deal. You're like, no, 30 feet away. Boom. Right. And it's the same thing for a quarterback at times. You get a few throws here or there. It doesn't matter how difficult they are. You walk away. And even if you threw three screens and you go, damn, I'm three for three for 55 yards. Okay. It takes a little pressure. It takes a little edge, makes things feel better for you.


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[Assistant] That never happened. The run game never happened. So then there, the play action pass was not nearly as effective as we've seen in years past, or games past with them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think the thing is with Brock Pardee, he's still really good. We know that.


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[Assistant] There was comparisons this all week to him and Tom Brady. Like calm the f*** down everybody. Like come on. Okay. He's a good player. There's no doubt about that. Record wise. Right. He's a good player. But by no stretch of the imagination is he ready to carry the team.


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[Assistant] You know, it's still, he's good at getting out of the pocket usually and all that too, but this, with this pass rush, they, they were around him today. And then I do think the last thing here, and this is the most important, the elements bothered him.


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[Assistant] You know, and the elements I think bothered both quarterbacks for a little while, so I'm not trying to point him out here.


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[Assistant] You know, this is where people gotta get like used to the NFL.


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[Assistant] You get a bunch of grown men who already think they're the shit, right? Like, I'm the man, I can do anything, right?


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[Assistant] And you rally them together for the week and, hey, we gotta play good. You can get the group to believe when especially the talent gap in the NFL is never that different, right? And I think the Browns just put an unbelievable effort and I was shocked even with their offense running the ball to the capacity it did today too.


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[Assistant] Little size and depth on their D line. Those have been our two concerns. And as the game started out today, I was a little bit like, ah man, the Browns are gonna get worn down here.


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[Assistant] But they hung in there. They really did. And I think Schwartz, I'm excited to watch that film.


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[Assistant] They had some creative things in his game plan that took away, I think, some of the bread and butter plays that Shanahan did. And the 49ers were sloppy. They weren't good on third downs. We talked about Purdy missing the ball. They had a ton of penalties, right? And uhm, yeaah, they had the fight, I think, brought to them for the first time all year.


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[Assistant] But I can live with that. Uhm, you know, either way, big win for the Browns and they're 3-2 and watch out for them. There's no doubt. If Watson gets back and their pass game gets going, they got a lot of pieces to be a dangerous team in the AFC.


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[Assistant] I mean, it kind of felt like it was teetering on, like they're living dangerously. They're living dangerously, but they're about to control the game. That's where it kind of kept going and going.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, it's 14-3. Oh, okay, yep, they'll do something, you know, they'll stop and put it together. Oh, they held the jest to a field goal, it's 14-6. Well, they're gonna go down the score before the half. Right? I mean, it was, it was, it kind of felt like that.


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[Assistant] Mistakes, turnovers, and an Eagles football team, that, you know, we know is super talented.


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[Assistant] We also know they won some games where we've gone, they didn't play their best football.


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[Assistant] And today, you know, they didn't play their best football and they played a team that's crazy on defense, got speed, opportunistic.


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[Assistant] And they didn't play their best football and they turned into, whoa, big plays for the Jets on the defensive side of the ball, turnovers, right? And I think that was the big thing of the day, no doubt about it, when you look at like, how the game unfolded. Uh, the Jets, D, stopping the run.


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[Assistant] And making it a one dimensional, no, you're going to have to throw the ball to beat us, uh, I think was kind of the shocker of the day to me.


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[Assistant] Best of all of them, I think except for Dak Prescott. Dak Prescott won 31 of 38 for like 260-something yards and two touchdowns. Seven in completions. Embarrassing.


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[Assistant] I think other than that, he could say that. I mean, Mahomes with the three interceptions, it was outplayed by Zach Wilson. Yea, we didn't expect that.


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[Assistant] They're a handful, like we've seen. And to me, when watching the game, the thing that jumped out to me, of course the team's speed they have, they're opportunistic.


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[Assistant] Uh, so there were some missed opportunities there. They throw a screen pass to Dallas Goddard. Uh, he catches it as he's catching it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, we've seen Hurts be in some of these moments here early in the year and come through. And we've gone, man, they don't always have to run the ball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's doing great throws, great plays, right? Whatever. The Jets still stuck to the game plan of though.


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[Assistant] We're gonna show people by the line of scrimmage, and then we're gonna drop out. That to me was what they looked like early on.


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[Assistant] And early on in the football game, they blitzed a few times, so the Eagles had to respect that. Like, wait, we don't know if they're gonna drop out or blitz or we're not sure here, right? But that to me was the big thing. It looked like...


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[Assistant] Oh hey, we got, you know, seven guys to block. They had eight in the box. And then, of course, they would end up only rushing four.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that's right. Well, now you just need the Jetsy line, you need Lane Johnson to get her to right tackle, and then you go from there.


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[Assistant] They got the Eagles into a one-dimensional game. I think that's the, that's rare. We haven't seen that a lot. Yes. Where it's like, wait, forget the run, we're just gonna keep dropping back to throw.


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[Assistant] And the Jets are comfortable with that because they're going, damn, we got six, seven, eight pass rushers that we feel like can get out to the quarterback at all times.


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[Assistant] Those are all things that always play into the favor of the Eagles in these matchups, and they didn't have that in their favor in this one today.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. They have freaky athletes all over the place. That's exact. Like it said, Jermaine Johnson was awesome in the football game. He caused the fumble on Dallas Goddard. He also hit Jalen Hurts that knocked the ball up in the air, hit his arm when Bryce Huff got the interception. But then it's the


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[Assistant] It's the under the radar guys that the national media or fan doesn't know about, right? We all know Sauce Gardener. Yea, who didn't play. We all know C.J. Mosley, right? We know those guys. But like you're saying, it's Bryce Hutter, we know Quinnen Williams.


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[Assistant] They stayed on the field a few times throughout the game.


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[Assistant] To where it wasn't like, hey the eagles, it's fourth play, eagles are back on here, just smash your face into the ground again here.


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[Assistant] I mean, that would be, I bet you they knew, if we could just stay in that ballpark.


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[Assistant] Jets three and three with Aaron Rodgers before the year and their first six games, which you could argue is the toughest first six games of football. If Aaron Rodgers is healthy, we're going, if they can get to the by and be three and three, that's, that's perfect.


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[Assistant] And here they are without Aaron Rodgers being three and three. So it's more than perfect. It's like, yeaah, now they got something to build on and, you know.


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[Assistant] It would take a good 20 minute conversation, but I think it's pressure of the position he was in, the coaching staff cultivating, you know,


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[Assistant] And now they play an offense that fits him and he feels comfortable and he's confident now and he's fearless. That's the big thing. I mean...


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[Assistant] I'm blown away by your Lions. The Lions are like, you know, I said it on Football Night in America tonight. The legit Super Bowl contender. Legit. They're like, we talk about with the Eagles a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, we've talked about, like, they can win different ways. Oh, couldn't run today. The, the Bucks played stopped the run. They said, okay, we're, we're gonna lose, you're gonna lose to Jared Goff there on the ball. And he said, fine, you're gonna lose then.


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[Assistant] And our defense will be damn good too. You can't run the ball against your defense. You don't let out very many big plays in the pass game. You guys harass the quarterback and get around him a lot.


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[Assistant] Absolutely right in their class. I just want everybody to know that.


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[Assistant] No, it's exciting to watch the versatility of the football team.


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[Assistant] I, I really, uh, I am excited for that football team and the way the defense played


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[Assistant] I don't think there's any doubt, right? The defense was...


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[Assistant] Of course, better at the end of the year. They were better than their 32 or 31 ranking, however they ended, right? Uh, but still, was a major issue for their football team. Uh, you know, they got depth up front.


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[Assistant] You know, Aaron Glenn found the way he wanted to play that made sense for the football team itself. And you're probably right. We probably do have to break down their defense a little bit and do something like that just to speak of it. But today, like,


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[Assistant] Bucks on third down, negative ghost rider. Bucks couldn't run the ball. It became about can Baker Mayfield throw big passes down the field. Now, Evans dropped one that I saw for sure. Another one where Evans was open.


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[Assistant] And Baker Mayfield got hit and the ball went in the air and got intercepted, right? So it wasn't perfect, I know that. But either way, it was really damn good. And there's not a lot of weak spots to look at on this Lions defense.


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[Assistant] It's like associated with losing though. That's the problem. And that's why they can't do it. They went to pewter and won the super bowl and became a team.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it was, yeah, it was 31-13 in the fourth quarter, right? Uh, it was 31-6 actually in the fourth quarter at one point.


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[Assistant] Well, it's actually funny that it's been put this way. I wanted to say this tonight on Football Night in America a little bit, but to me the Jaguars are the ASC version of the Lions. That's kinda what I look at them like, right?


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[Assistant] It ain't about these two. No more. I mean, this is opposites day, I guess, here a little bit. But I feel the same way about the Jaguars as I do the Lions a little bit.


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[Assistant] Can beat you a lot of different ways. There's balance on offense, right? Trevor Lawrence didn't have his best day, but made a few plays. They got in the end zone. They can run the football.


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[Assistant] Right? Uh, and then yea, you add that on a day where, hey, we harassed Gardner Minshew, we're around him, he threw, had some stupid decisions, you know, I think a


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[Assistant] One point, you know, in like the second quarter, Jonathan, or at halftime, I want to even say.


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[Assistant] Jaguars capitalize, oh, they can make big plays, right, they can turn it over and they can flip the field in a hurry, uhm, and, and what were you gonna say? Go ahead. It's the other side.


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[Assistant] He's a huge bummer. I mean, he's the future. We know that. And not only, like, the year, his, our expectations were already surpassed by how he looked. He looked better.


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[Assistant] And you were going to go, yeah, it's a learning year and they're going to be in every football game and maybe surprise us and hang around the playoff picture with a rookie quarterback. That's what was exciting. And Jonathan Taylor just got back and we're starting going, Hey, wait, they're showing signs of running the ball and you couple him with Anthony Richardson's ability to run. Like they're going to be able to do some dangerous things here.


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[Assistant] No doubt. I mean, two goal line stands at the end of the football game where the Seattle Seahawks come away with no points, right? Seattle Seahawks with that type of weaponry, you know, having that many red zone failures, one touchdown out of five red zone trips, I mean, yeaah, that's kind of embarrassing. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's a Bengals defense that we know and you and I have talked about in previous podcasts where they haven't been at their best. They've let up big plays, but I think the big thing was, you know, one, yeah, the Seahawks couldn't run the ball, but two, more importantly,


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[Assistant] Like you said, the pressure around Geno Smith and then Lou Anarumo, the D coordinator of the Bengals and the defensive secondary, they must have had


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[Assistant] A great feel for how the Seahawks wanna play. Because even the plays where Gino had time,


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[Assistant] You went, damn, he doesn't like what he's seeing. He's looking here, he's looking here, he's going across the field. And then it was like, oh crap, nobody's open. And then, of course, by that time he was, you know, running around and trying to avoid Henderson and Hubbard and that group there. Not a pretty day on the offensive side of the ball for really either football team, right? You know, the game started off with,


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[Assistant] A nice drive by the Seahawks. It started off with...


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[Assistant] But then, something changed, and I don't know exactly, it looked like maybe Seattle played more man to man, and they finally just said, alright, wait, we gotta feel for what routes you're running today and all that, we're not gonna just let you sit here and dink and dunk us down the field the whole day. And that to me is what looked like it changed a little bit. Uh, but either way, it was, you know, the Bengals would, the Bengals defense with the big plays and the big moments that really


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[Assistant] That's an interesting quirk. It is really quirky, right? They're still a scary football team. I know that. Still not playing their best.


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[Assistant] But they're making do, right? I mean, not a lot of big plays in the pass game at all today. Uhm, I think, you know, either way though, the defense with


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[Assistant] Not only the, what, interception that set up the field goal late in the football game to give them the four point lead.


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[Assistant] You know, the Mike Hilton interception, Seahawks make a big play, they're kinda down there in the red zone.


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[Assistant] They got a slot fade, he makes a great interception, kind of seeing what's coming.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's like the Seahawks got a feel early on, okay, this is what we're gonna do, and they squashed the Bengals after that. I mean, the Bengals, if it isn't for the Cam Taylor interception return,


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[Assistant] Four play, zero yard drive for a field goal, right? I mean, there's, they got nothing to speak of in the second half on the offensive side of the ball. And that's, that's unacceptable. I know Seattle's creative and got some talent on the defensive side of the ball. Seattle needs their right tackle back.


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[Assistant] Right? That's the big thing. They got crossed back, he's playing.


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[Assistant] No, I don't know if it's like they take the gas- the foot off the gas pedal.


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[Assistant] It's just, they're not consistent on that side of the ball yet.


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[Assistant] You know, they're close. That's where I, I come away with the day to day and, and, and like,


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[Assistant] The way their defense can shut you down for a period of time, right? I mean, they can get after the quarterback, they're extremely well coached in the secondary.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, usually they stop the run really well. I know Derek Henry broke some big ones today.


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[Assistant] You know, they can play man coverage when they got it. They got some creative blitzes to go along with it. We see the run game is coming along in Baltimore. The pass game is two. It's close.


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[Assistant] You know, I still look at the Ravens here and go, yea, they're 4 and 2. They could be 6 and 0.


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[Assistant] And I still think they're kind of a work in progress, but I think their potential as a football team is one of the best in the game.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's any team that Ravens are going to play all year that are going to be overmatched by. They're big up front on both sides of the ball. You know, I do think it's going to be consistency and can they get, you know, consistent big plays in the pass game.


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[Assistant] You know, our listener Eric DePasta is talking about too. It's not taking your foot off the gas pedal.


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[Assistant] No, it always felt like Baltimore had control of the football game, right? I think that's the big thing. I think the thing that I'd maybe look at more than anything is


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[Assistant] The point where Tennessee had a chance to maybe get control of the game in their own way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they, they got the field goal, then they got the interception from Lamar, right, if I got this right, and then they got a one play 25 yard


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[Assistant] It was a three-play. There were some penalties there. But a one-play, 25-yard rush by Derrick Henry to make it 18-13. They stopped Baltimore. They got the ball back. Okay. And it was third and one at midfield basically.


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[Assistant] And Ryan Tannehill tried to force the ball downfield, like that's where Tannehill's been frustrating this year. We know their offense isn't good. It's not on Tannehill. The receivers aren't special, but we know that.


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[Assistant] And made it 21-13 and that's kind of where you felt like, oh man, it's going to be tough sledding for Tennessee. Especially when you saw Ryan Tannen, he'll go out after that interception. That was it for his day.


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[Assistant] They lost 1917! That was last week against Pittsburgh. Well, okay, but don't like-


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[Assistant] So just so everybody knows, and you'll know this anyways, but, uh, Buffalo- Let's live it together. They'll see how we lived this moment. Buffalo missed a field goal. Ooh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was wide right, which is a very familiar thing to Buffalo Giants fans.


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[Assistant] That's what I would look for. So right now they're in an empty set. Oh, another timeout. Buffalo's gonna call timeout again.


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[Assistant] That's right. You know, they've accumulated great talent, they've accumulated great speed, and Mozart's staying healthy. Like you said, Mozart's always been super talented. It's been health has been his whole issue.


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[Assistant] He runs a little, like, acted like he was gonna, like, try to run a post over the top of the linebacker. I mean, Bernard held him the whole time. The whole time, right?


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[Assistant] Yes. That was a great play call. They knew they were gonna get quarters and have the middle linebacker. They can run or pass, but they're gonna pass it play action.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, it was a little, like a little bit of a token play action, which they had to still respect the run there, right? They're on the one-yard line.


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[Assistant] And, you know, Tyron Johnson on the coverage. There was definitely some bumping and some holding again there. But no, I have no problem with that play call. I don't think there's anything wrong with that there. Giants' valiant effort. Giants... Well, we'll talk about it in a few minutes. No, talk about it right now. Alright, we'll talk about it right now. Let's finish it right now. You know, one...


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[Assistant] Great game plan. Saquon Barkley makes it different for the Giants offense, right?


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[Assistant] You know, Tyrod takes care of the ball. They caught the Bills in man to man a few times through the night. He made some nice plays on that.


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[Assistant] And then the other thing here, you know, which is,


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[Assistant] I don't know what to think of Buffalo, like we're seeing with Buffalo, we see some good games this year of a little balance, but here we are tonight back to a game of, no, it's gotta be Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Wink Martindale is an awesome defensive coordinator. And the way he plays, you have to protect against the blitz. Cause he always blitzes. But, like tonight,


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[Assistant] He went, I'm gonna show the blitz a lot, and never really blitz, or not gonna blitz a lot.


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[Assistant] And, you know, so therefore you're calling plays, like, hey, we gotta block this and block this and block this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he had 3 catches for 17 yards. Yeah. Right? We had Gabe Davis with 4 targets, he had 3 receptions for 21 yards.


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[Assistant] Josh Allen on the tip pass by Okariki, uh, Okariki, who played awesome. He was all over the field for the Giants tonight.


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[Assistant] It was. It was legit and impressive. It really was. Yeah, I've questioned Bryce Young and how he looks. And there's still moments in this game where I went, man, when the pocket collapses, it's a little scary for Bryce Young.


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[Assistant] Uhm, are they gonna be a defense that lets up a lot of yards and just relies on making plays or are they gonna be a team here at some point that starts to really shut down teams?


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[Assistant] To me, one of the surprises of the year, uh, I know we talk about them a lot with Stafford.


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[Assistant] He's impressive. Today was impressive with big plays.


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[Assistant] You know, it was ugly early on in the football game. I mean it was ugly.


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[Assistant] Definitely pushed back against their own goal line, and I don't know the exact time here, I know I'm in the ballpark. He hits, they leave Cooper Cup one on one, down the right sideline with their rookie corner, who we've talked about, who does a good job, 13, Clark.


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[Assistant] They ca- huge bomb, sets up a field goal, they go into the half 9-6 with momentum, right? They were losing 9-3, now it's, oh hey, hey, 9-6, yeah, let's go, we didn't even play our best football. They come out in the second half and


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[Assistant] You know what showed up? A run game. The Rams all the sudden, the second half, right from the get-go, Kyron Williams and the run game started gashing.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Arizona Cardinals, and then you sprinkle in a few big throws from Matthew Stafford here and there, and that was the football game, uh, along with some, you know, Dobbs mistakes and an inconsistent Arizona Cardinals offense here in the second half.


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[Assistant] Offensive coach, but a guy that advises. What do they call that? There's a word they have. Advisor. An advisor. Yeah, consultant. Consultant. That's what I was thinking. Offensive consultant. Yeah. Right. So, yeah, he was doing a little bit of that. I hear you. Uh, but yeah, the Rams.


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[Assistant] The Rams sitting at 3-3, I'm still not sitting here going, they're gonna go to the playoffs, right? But they're gonna be a pain in the butt with every team they play.


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[Assistant] They're fast on defense, Raheem Morris, they're well, you know, they're well coached, they're very creative.


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[Assistant] And they still have a front four that can F the play up a little bit, right? So you couple that with a quarterback like Stafford.


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[Assistant] And the way they can kind of pick you apart in the passing game.


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[Assistant] You know, and they're tough, we know that. It's got a battle-tested culture there. To where, yeaah, I still don't look at it and go, oh man, the Rams shocked me. The Rams have shocked me that they're 3 and 3.


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[Assistant] Well, I know you don't like the bears. I don't. You don't like the bears, right? I don't like the Vikings.


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[Assistant] Not much, but I like him more than the bears. Yeah, I mean, I'm with you. I like, I like to kick up for Kirk, stick up for Kirk Cousins. Me too. I like when the Vikings don't do good though, cause it makes my other work partner, Mike Florio, angry and in a bad mood and he gets pissy. Yeah. So I do like, like, watching them struggle, cause I like watching him squirm a little bit. But my headline for the Vikings defeating the bears


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[Assistant] I mean, it was an ugly football game. It really was. I think from any standpoint, team view, whatever you want to talk about there, not a lot of consistent, good offensive play by either football team.


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[Assistant] You look pretty good, yes. He did. He played really well. Uhm, in this game, not so much. No. Got, got, you know, put into a tough spot, right? He got, got strip sacked, if I remember right. He got strip sacked one time. Alright, that was big. And then,


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[Assistant] He does the thing you see all young quarterbacks do. Throws interception late in the game, thinks he's got more room and space in the pocket than he does because he hasn't played and he certainly isn't used to the NFL starter.


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[Assistant] Like, pace, right? Like, it's cool when you play against the third stringers in the preseason. And you're like, woah, the pocket's collapsing, I can still get it off. You know? And the regular season, week six, when you go, oh, the pocket's collapsing, I, brrrr, you know, you don't get it off. You don't. They're there already. Okay?


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[Assistant] So, and that's what you kind of saw on the late interception that I believe that was, uh, Byron Murphy that got.


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[Assistant] Thought he had more time, ends up the guy gets right in his way as he's throwing the ball. Ball's under thrown, intercepted that way. But yea, ugly football game throughout. I mean, it was...


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, the, the, the, the, the Patriots and the way they play, I mean,


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[Assistant] It's just, it's astonishing right now what we're seeing from the Patriots. It's sloppy, uh, the offense is pitiful, okay. Uh, the defense is, is good.


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[Assistant] And the Raiders kind of did that throughout the day and got a lot of ugly field goal drives off of that.


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[Assistant] I think that's fair, you know, right? I mean, I think that


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[Assistant] Our listener here in John Isaac 55 knows he's, you know, there's an injury history here.


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[Assistant] And with Jimmy Garoppolo, right, they're saying back, I don't know what that is. You know, so I don't think we have to, like, is it back spasms? Does he have a bone chip, or herniated disc, whatever? Those are the things you think of when it's back injury related. Uhm, but yeaah, I think that's a, it's a fair question.


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[Assistant] Thinking that they were going to be in a spot to get one of the quarterbacks they want is still in the top ten.


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[Assistant] And I think through the evaluation process and then wait, Stroud did end up going number two and all that, that they were kind of stuck in a spot of like,


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[Assistant] Bad interception when they're driving. I mean, bad. Like, you're like, what? How could a Patriots quarterback do that?


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[Assistant] Like, Mac Jones doesn't have two seconds to throw the football.


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[Assistant] I don't see any bright spot on the offensive side of the ball. I see nothing to look at and go.


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[Assistant] It's just so much work. I mean, even like, you know, you talk about the third quarter drive, the fourth quarter drive, 17 plays, 75 yards.


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[Assistant] I mean, jeez. It's like watching molasses grow. Does it do that? I don't think it does. Uh, mold. Mold. Mold grows, moss grows. Have you used that one before?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're, they know who they are. I think that's the cool thing about the Texans. And then not only do they know who they are,


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[Assistant] Their defense is fast, aggressive, it's well coached, okay? And, like we've seen the 49ers under D'Amico rise before, they're stingy in the red zone, so you can drive down, but it's hard to go down and score touchdowns with the way they play. And then, off of that, the Texans are like,


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[Assistant] The Texans are kind of the opposite. They might go, oh, we don't look good, we don't look good. And then all of a sudden it's like, whoa, they ripped off a run for 20. Whoa, CJ Stroud just threw a ball down the middle for 25. They're in field goal position. Are they going to score a touchdown here? Are they going to get a field goal? So, I don't, that's kind of how I feel. I feel like their yards and plays get


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[Assistant] Used in a better way maybe than the Saints. The Saints are still disappointing to me on the offensive side of the ball. It's just, you know, 50 times?


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[Assistant] We're gonna drop back 50 times? Really? There was no big plays in the past game until late in the game.


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[Assistant] The good thing is, there was two turnovers on the same play. He threw an interception, and they fumbled it, and the Texans recovered it.


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[Assistant] So, that was pretty amazing, right? Uh, it actually ended up not hurting the Texans. And CJ Stroud, uh, the way it traditionally would. Uhm, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] You, you should, you played to, that's like a beginner mistake or you just don't do that there. Right? And I think that's what's gotta be a little concerning by them.


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[Assistant] Like how you started off this conversation, definitely is how I felt watching the football game. It felt like the Falcons were...


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[Assistant] The better team on the field. It felt like the Falcons kind of just kept making mistakes in moments. And to Washington's credit, you know, they made it happen.


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[Assistant] They gonna get the ball back, they fumble the punt return, the Atlanta Falcons. They give the ball short field to the Washington, to the Washington commanders, who then score a touchdown, okay.


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[Assistant] Then what's that followed up by? It's followed up by Atlanta going for it on 4th and 2 at midfield and not getting it.


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[Assistant] Giving Washington the short field, and all of a sudden the game where you're going, again, they were kind of controlling, now they fumbled upon and gave them the short field, and they're losing 17 to 7.


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[Assistant] Right? And then you couple that with the second half mistakes of Desmond Ritter and some of the interceptions there. And that's how you lose a game where the stat line is what you're saying, where they out, they out yardage game them by 2 to 1.


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[Assistant] And converted double the third downs and had almost double the first downs in the football game. And had 13 more minutes in, in possession time. And yeaah, they ended up losing by 8 points. And that was because of the mistakes and the things you talked about in the red zone and the failures of the Falcons and Desmond Ritter.


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[Assistant] Atlanta, I just look at it and go, wait, we got a top 10 running offense, we got a top 10 defense in football, and what's the thing we can't do?


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[Assistant] We got a good field goal kicker. We can't rely on our passing game or our quarterback at all, other than one game, which was last week.


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[Assistant] You know, motivation by the Chiefs, right? I mean, you know, they're, they're the ultimate.


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[Assistant] I kinda think I said this on the Thursday show last week. They'll get bored. They'll let the Broncos hang around. That's, that's kinda what they do. You know, but...


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[Assistant] I think the real thing is, is like, yeaah, it's disappointing that they even let them hang around or be in the football game, and they should have, that game should have been over way earlier, so we all could have gone to sleep, right? But, you know, like, the, the Broncos, I mean, Sean Payden,


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[Assistant] A year out of football? I mean, just, I don't know. The offense looks like it's going in the wrong direction as compared to where it was early in the year. I mean, I'm dead serious. Other than the Bears game and the second half,


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[Assistant] Man, the last eight quarters of football are not good on the Broncos offense. And they weren't that great before that Bears game.


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, Sean Payton calling a timeout before the half. It's like he's lost his mojo with his year out of football. I don't even know what to say, but it almost seems


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[Assistant] And a guy like Drew Brees, the offense was set up. He had a culture in the coaches where, hey, everybody believes in Sean and all that. And now he's having to restart that. He's hit some bumps in the road and you got some coaches and guys in locker room going, damn, is this guy really as good as everybody thinks he is? I don't know, right? I think there's a little of that going on there right now, let alone, damn.


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[Assistant] Our coach has said way dumber things to the media this year than we have. That's not even close. We're actually, we need to teach him and the team meeting what to say to the media.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, it's added to a look of dysfunction there with Denver. Their defense should be happy. As shitty as their defense has been all year, the fact that they, you know, hung in there at only 19 points to the Chiefs, and again, with the Chiefs...


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[Assistant] This is a scary game for the Cowboys, right? Like if there was games I looked at where I was like, ah, man, there's always every week you look at a few games where you go, this could be the upset. This one can jump out to you. You don't think they're angry from what happened, the embarrassment from last week? They will be angry. It's why I'm picking them to win the game. Okay.


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[Assistant] Here's some things that I look at. I go, alright, one, the Chargers haven't been good at stopping the pass, right? Well, this is a simple passing game to stop.


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[Assistant] You know, now the run defense for the Chargers has not been horrible.


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[Assistant] So that's gonna be one of the keys to the game. Can the Cowboys run the ball to open up some things in the pass game? And on the flip side, the Chargers can really protect the passer.


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[Assistant] They know how to pick up blitzes, that if it's a four man rush, they're really good that way. And we know that Dallas will play some aggressive defenses and do some things to get after the quarterback to where


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[Assistant] Justin Herbert will stand there and go, okay, so what, people are around me.


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[Assistant] So, there's one of my receivers way down yonder, open for a 45-yard gain. Let me just stand there, rawr, and throw it down.


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[Assistant] And a little bit like you said, the motivating factor from last week, the way it went down, all of that. But I think this will be a scary football game for them.


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[Assistant] Right. Well, defenses are, they're, there's some good ones out there and I think they're


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[Assistant] You know, for the most part, week 6, they start to learn, oh wait, this team does this, this team does that, we've accumulated some things.


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[Assistant] That's where we're going with Ahmed Fareed. But you know where to find us. Subscribe, rate, and review. I hope you enjoy this podcast as you wake up on a Monday morning. Have a good day at work.


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[Assistant] Have a good few days of work. You know where to find us Wednesday. Ahmed, thanks as always for driving the ship.


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[Assistant] Peace out homies. Enjoy Monday Night Football. Cowboys Chargers. Clack it up.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what up homies, thanks for watching. Remember, subscribe to Chris Sims on Button. Right now we got Sunday Pod.


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[Assistant] Right, so you can have it Monday morning. We recap all the action. Wednesday is the What the F*** Happened podcast. We're gonna get deep in the weeds on the key matchups of the week. And then Thursday, I'm picking games with that jerk, Floria. So you know where to find us, homies. Keep watching. Peace out. We'll see ya.


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[Assistant] You can't spell and you can't count, so you're off to a good start here.


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[Assistant] Oh yea baby, what's up, it's Chris Sims, it's Chris Sims Unbuttoned, Ahmed Farid is here, he has an extra button unbuttoned today to counter my top button button-ness. I do, you're right. Right? He can't count, he's just figuring out.


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[Assistant] How to spell as we go. Did you realize literally though, I kind of wanted to like, you know, did you really realize like two things with the t-shirt that I wore the other night? Illegal gambling. Yes. Illegal gambling. Great gift you gave me. Thank you.


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[Assistant] You were questioning the spelling to start. I was. Yea, right. Richard's is like, valid question. So when you did it the first time and then you didn't really realize maybe you spelled it the wrong way or the way you wanted to. I printed one out.


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[Assistant] It's debatable. It's debatable. It's certainly debatable. Definitely debatable, yes. And then the other thing I noticed as I was putting it on the other day, which I'm going to continue to wear from time to time, is uhm, I was a little off-centered.


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[Assistant] I had a hard time falling asleep that night. I mean, you know me, I'm a psycho once we start talking. I got home and, you know, take a shower and then I'm like, okay.


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[Assistant] Then we had Monday Night Football and, you know, of course stayed up through that.


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[Assistant] Multiple times yesterday watching film and my wife would walk by, you know, I might get up for a second to take a break or drink some water or whatever and I'd go.


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[Assistant] I take a deep breath and go, man, I just still can't believe it. I really can't.


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[Assistant] A very weird spot all together. We'll see. I know they were very happy with Zach Wilson all through spring.


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[Assistant] So we're being robbed of that a little. They're still really good. I'm not counting the Jets out here. You saw that defense. They won. They're in the, they are in the category of...


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[Assistant] Most talented defense. We saw that. And, you know, what we saw on Monday night too is...


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[Assistant] Understand, he usually understands the scope of the game. It's a field goal, tough defense type game.


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[Assistant] You know, why are we throwing a ball down the middle with a double coverage? A field goal, I think at that time could have put them up by 10 or something like that.


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[Assistant] They can't protect forever cause it's one of the best pass rushers in football.


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[Assistant] You know, when you're simple and you don't have a ton of defenses, they know what offenses are always trying to do to screw them over, right? They're very aware of that. I've had these conversations with them.


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[Assistant] The Jets have the advantage on the, on the Buffalo Bills. I mean there's only one guy that can really go as a one-on-one weapon for the Bills, and that's Stefan Diggs.


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[Assistant] And again, it's not like he's, you know, Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase or Tyree Kill, too. And especially if it's a soft gardener matching up with him. So, uh, yeaah, there's all the things we worried about with Buffalo, I'm still


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[Assistant] Yes, right. I don't get to dig in deep. I don't know some of the nuances and, uh, I will, we'll bring some of the nuances to life here on, on the pod here.


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[Assistant] So, you have to be careful. And, the Dolphins, here is the most amazing thing, I mean, I mean, McDaniel, banner statement.


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[Assistant] I think he's the most creative offensive coordinator in football, not named Kyle Shanahan. I would throw him right there in that list. He's the first one I've seen from Kyle, from that coaching tree where I go, he got a lot of Kyle in him. And then because of some of the toys he's got, he's added some things that I don't even see Kyle do, right? He's added his own splash and flavor to it. I love it.


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[Assistant] Pre-snap, motions, and shift. So it's, you know, it's a tight end and receiver over here. And then it's blue 45, shift!


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[Assistant] So they tune, now they line up, right? And then it starts blue, 45, blue, and all of a sudden,


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[Assistant] Different way, right? So that to me is the biggest thing they did a little bit early on, where the shifts, the motions, the pre and post that moment and the diversion is unreal.


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[Assistant] And then what I mean by the post snap, so there we go, that was all pre-snap stuff. Then they say set hut, and okay, so Tyree kills, flown over this way, they say set hut, the running back runs across the formation, he fakes it to him, there's two pulling linemen going that way, and then he pulls the ball and drops back, and then throws the ball somewhere else.


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[Assistant] So, and then, linebackers are all over the place, they're following the run game and the pulling linebackers, and then, oh no, they turn around and they're like, what? Tyreek Hill, the fastest human on earth just ran behind me, right? And that's, that's the first just baseline thing that they are brilliant at. Brilliant.


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[Assistant] They didn't, they didn't, there was a, you know, I think a false start or two here or there. Tua did fumble a few little exchanges and had a fumble.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for the most part, they were clean with it. You can tell they've been working on it. It's something that is going to be a part of their DNA. So that would be the first thing that I would tell you that made things hard on them.


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[Assistant] And then the Dolphins brought the receivers in closer to the line of scrimmage. It's hard to play two man like that, right? Two man's basic rules are the corners aren't supposed to let the receivers go inside.


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[Assistant] Protection wise, and a lot of it's because of what we talked about, the pre and post stat motion, and then those coverages that worked last year really well for the chargers,


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[Assistant] And a lot of that was like, like I said, if there was three receivers to the right, they'd play cover two over there.


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[Assistant] Well, the one thing is, hey, they tried to double Hill and Waddle in some big moments. They did.


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[Assistant] Go simple? Well, yea, simple's not gonna work against them. It's gotta be, you know...


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[Assistant] It's hard for me to tell you, yea, you're gonna have to come up with disguises late, late, get into a coverage, they don't know what it is, like we showed this, it's Boo 45, Boo 45 said, huh, and then we shift to another coverage.


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[Assistant] And they found ways to kind of like, hey, that safety wants to get that high and wide. Let's sit some people down shallow and then throw somebody


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[Assistant] Behind them, but underneath that deep safety, and there was nobody in those areas. So they really found the voided areas through creative game plan, past design, and the Dolphins are, I mean just unbelievably f***ing fast and fun to watch. Well that's a dangerous thing, right?


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[Assistant] Now you have a scheme. That's when greatness happens, is when you have talent plus an offensive coordinator who's acting like, we're not that talented, I need to help these guys out, right?


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[Assistant] This is something we all gotta watch for. They should be embarrassed, like we talked about. They're too talented. They didn't get a, you know, they're not getting...


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[Assistant] You gotta take some unsound chances when you play teams like Miami. You heard me say this when we played the Eagles last year. The Dolphins are the same thing when we talked about teams.


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[Assistant] And of course, they all need to play a little bit better. The secondary kind of got, you know, ripped up too. J.C. Jackson, I know people want to jump on him and all that.


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[Assistant] One, they're a better coach on the defensive side of the ball, right?


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[Assistant] They have, to me, this is one of the keys. You gotta have some big people against these teams because it frees other people up, right?


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[Assistant] Like the two-gapping you've heard us talk about so much, right? Those big people allow, okay, you got two gaps now, now this guy can kinda, he's watching your back, but he's also can watch over here too, cause we can trust that you big fuckers up front will mosh pit it up a little bit.


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[Assistant] So that's where they have an advantage, let alone, yeah, their scheme and their attack is better than the Chargers. And that's where I do give them a chance on that side of the ball to


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[Assistant] Yeaah, the ones that didn't play, it showed. It looked like, you know, you watched Joe Burrow, you watched Lamar Jackson, those offensives. You go, yeaah, looks like a team that didn't play much, right? They look rusty. So, for real, same with the Eagles. I think I know the player you're talking about.


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[Assistant] I think he's talking about, they had a bullets cover zero play.


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[Assistant] Where, you know, usually when everybody blitzes, okay, and this is gonna be a thing for the Eagles. This is what the Chiefs showed everybody last year.


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[Assistant] Blitz the eagles a little bit. The eagles do, Jalen Hurts, they don't have the greatest plan to stop the blitz. That showed up again in this. They were blitzed and


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[Assistant] I think that, you know, the Patriots, after a few times doing it, go, they don't have a great plan. Let's keep doing it. We'll tactically, every now and then, sprinkle this in and give them problems. But I think the play he's talking about, and I think I actually heard him say this, it was cover zero and he threw a shallow cross.


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[Assistant] They usually cover zero, is man to man across the board, right? With no free safety. You know that. The listeners of our podcast, the homies, you know that. But,


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[Assistant] They have some rules where it's like, wait, if my guy, I'm man to man, and he just flies across the middle, I'm not gonna try to chase him, we'll pass it off. Cause that means somebody else is coming into my area.


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[Assistant] And that's where I'm telling you the Patriots are very well coached in some things like that. Alright, so this is interesting.


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[Assistant] Okay, there we go, Sam Flood has made his prediction known. He shouldn't be saying that, he should know we're neutral here as a news organization.


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[Assistant] Not everybody has the talent on D that the Chiefs and the Patriots have, but yes, I think there's some things there. I do.


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[Assistant] You know, would I say the offense seemed to flow, you know, and the one thing I want to see going forward is the, the, the Shane Steichen effect here too. I think it's something to watch. The offense, it certainly didn't flow the same way.


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[Assistant] That's where Sirianni Special, and in Shane Steichen, where it would be like, oh, here's this play, and here's this play, and then, oh, here's this play, no, it's not that play, it's something that looks just like that, but it's a little different, and now we've gashed you for 25 yards. There wasn't a flow in that sense to me, in the offensive game plan. Now, was that rust? Was it the weather a little bit? Sure.


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[Assistant] So then they go, okay, well now we're going to throw it. You're going to try to out numbers in the box.


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[Assistant] New England was very good at toying with that. Where, it's too deep, it's too deep, said HUT!


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[Assistant] The ball's being snapped. Oh, it's single safety. So now they're in a 2D play, but it's a single safety play on defense. And now, okay, they thought they were going to be running the ball with advantage in the numbers, and now they don't have the advantage. And it's, oh man, now we don't, the run game doesn't work. Or, or it was the opposite, right? Single safety, let's get to the pass play. Oh, now it's too deep.


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[Assistant] Right, so there was some of that. Then also, what they did too, a great job of, is played single safety, showed it,


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[Assistant] Knowing they were going to go into a pass, would that?


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[Assistant] Fill into the hole so strong. Let's, let's quick, let's, Suzy says Hut, it's cover three, but we want to get out into a certain area. So that's where they did really well too. They played with,


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[Assistant] The Eagles that way. And then on top of that, like I just said about, you know, them playing the Dolphins, they have some big people that allow them to, again, mess with the fronts.


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[Assistant] And to the other thing they did, like the, we talked about the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, like, they just, you gotta create some chaos against them.


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[Assistant] If it's like chalkboard stuff, the Eagles are gonna win. They're too good. So you gotta do some things to go, wait,


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[Assistant] They might not have prepared for this and this is going to make things hard. So oh, oh wait, let's put two guys in the A gap. One guy drops back. Oh, they tried to pull and do this, but our guy in the A gap kind of messed up the puller. Now he's deeper in the backfield. He doesn't get to the right guy and we get a one yard run gain instead of like it being, you know, 15 yards like we see the Eagles do.


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[Assistant] They got good corners, they played off for the most part, off with various techniques, right? And so sometimes they might, it's three deep, but they might say, let's say lock the back corner.


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[Assistant] So it's three deep, so now the safety knows I can cheat to the front corner. That corner plays off with his back to the sideline, so he sees the quarterback, and now he's backing off, so you can't make a big throw down the field or anything like that. The safety's cheating over that way. And then the corner on the other side,


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[Assistant] He all of a sudden gets inside, and now it's like, okay, you can't really go inside on me, so if you don't have a go route or an out route, you're gonna be in trouble here trying to get open.


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[Assistant] There's still some things there that need work and that's what all teams are trying to do with the Eagles.


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[Assistant] The quarterback run game and the run game start to work, you're just totally screwed.


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[Assistant] Is, they're gonna need some new wrinkles, is what I'm saying. I wonder if that, we're gonna see that as we go forward. I don't know if that's gonna matter.


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[Assistant] They do have Swift, but he got one carry for three years. I do. I still think it's, it's gonna be a damn, damn good running game. Like I said, I think they played a really good defense there. They're, they're, they're pretty stacked and they got a little bit of everything.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I still expect it to be one of the best in football. Uhm, yeaah, I was surprised Swift didn't get a few more carries and everything there.


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[Assistant] One of the things I wrote in my thing, you know, the Patriots are good at defending RPOs, so that was kind of taken away during the game. That's one thing they love to do, right? You know, and they're good at the RPOs, why? Because they play Josh Allen and the Bills who do a ton of it, and of course the Dolphins, who were the kings of the RPOs. So they know how to kind of defend that. And the other thing,


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[Assistant] I just, I wrote, the Pats kinda scared the Eagles away from the run game, with some of those looks I talked about.


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[Assistant] You know, the one thing I'll say is, be flow.


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[Assistant] So he's gonna look at the film and go, wait, I know these calls. I know how they're coaching this. This is what they're doing. But of course, because of that,


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[Assistant] So they're gonna be a little ready for that as well. And the Vikings are not nearly as talented as the Patriots on defense.


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[Assistant] You know, will they have some good schematical things? Sure, but I think that the Eagles will get back on track. I think so. I mean, well, we talked about it, you know, it was a miracle last year, and I think you and I both agree that they were


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[Assistant] The third best roster in their division. I'm certainly not going to put them in front of your Lions or the Packers. I'm not. Not the roster. No way. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, I really actually ended up watching both sides of the ball here in this game. I did. There was a few where I went above and beyond.


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[Assistant] They blew the game with the two turnovers. They outplayed Philly. They outplayed Philly. They really did. You know, I'm not saying they're better than Philly, but on week one, they outplayed them. And if they don't make those mistakes there,


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[Assistant] The thing I will say, they're going to be more of a 12, I mean a 12 team, which they kind of were last year, but they, you know, between Dagura and you know, Musgrave and Kraft, like they want to do that. They have more runs.


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[Assistant] I like the design of what they did, and they gave some looks to where I went, ooh, that's gonna make some defenses think, and everything else. And then where else it's different, I think, is...


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[Assistant] You know, they were smart early on, they were very careful with Jordan Love, ran the ball, you know, screams. They weren't going to let him get off to a bad start and that be the reason they were in the hole, right? Right. But the thing that I look at it differently is they're going to attack down the field more.


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[Assistant] They're not gonna ask him to be Rogers, and you know we always talk about like, oh, quick game, right? Quick game, fast passes, all that. Fast, quick passes can be really hard for a young quarterback. Because it's like, you gotta make the decision now! And the window's like, it was there and it's gone!


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[Assistant] It was, he was there, it was gone, right? And that takes a skill thing. Like, Tom Brady hated the 3-step drop 8 game. The Patriots didn't run the 3-step drop pass game, because he didn't like it. He thought it took two quick decisions and the 6-yard jamming in there wasn't worth the riskiness of it, right?


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[Assistant] All slants, or everybody's slanting one guy in the flat, and Buffalo's like, we saw this on the first day of OTAs, like, we're good against this play, right? So those plays can be tough, is my point. So they did...


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[Assistant] More, hey, let's, let's run the ball, let's play action, and when we throw the ball, let's spread the field out a little bit. Somebody going deep, somebody in the intermediate, somebody short, and let it, you know, spread itself out so Jordan Love can see.


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[Assistant] I like their corner, uh, the kid 29 a lot, Stevenson, the rookie from Miami. But yeah, they're a team that's, I, I still think on that side of the ball, they're not built all the way they want to be built.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that's the thing, but r- love's patience, and, and here's the other thing too. You know, to our question.


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[Assistant] People are gonna look open and everything like that when you have the, you know, Jordan Love had great pockets for the most part. And he was patient, he wasn't jumpy.


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[Assistant] Uh, in that department, let alone the other aspect of this. LaFleur was great at calling some trick bullshit plays that made it, you know, the long screen down the sideline to Aaron Jones, right? The big fourth down in seven, okay?


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[Assistant] There's Rashaun Gary. He looks good. Okay. So, they're deep.


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[Assistant] His throwing is, it's better. It is. He made some nice throws in the game. But where it gets me sometimes is one, I can tell by the plays they're calling, they don't trust them all the way. And then two,


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[Assistant] You have an inkling of what's gonna be open in certain plays against certain coverages, right? Where you go like, hey, we practiced, you know, all spring and all summer and we called this play and they played that coverage. This guy's open. A lot.


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[Assistant] That they're gonna get frustrated. They got some dudes in Moony and Claypool.


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[Assistant] I think these guys are going to get a little frustrated as the year goes on. Like we always talk about like receivers don't want to play, you know, with Lamar and all that.


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[Assistant] Well, this offense is having some struggles-ville in the pass game. And guys like Chase Claypool are like, what the f***, I'm a freaking nature and I can't get the ball.


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[Assistant] And yea, Justin feels it's still more patience in the pocket, more of a feel for what might be open. And when he does scramble,


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[Assistant] Keep your eyes open a little, up a little bit. That's the other thing too. You know, we see a lot of great scramblers like Jalen Hurts. He's an amazing scrambler. He keeps his eyes down the field.


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[Assistant] And he misses some opportunities for some guys down the field a little bit within that too.


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[Assistant] I didn't watch that game on film, but you know I like that Falcons D. They got a little bit of everything for sure. They made life hard on Bryce Young and the Panthers. That's a sneaky


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[Assistant] That Bucks D, you know, like you're saying, it's real. The D line's good, the linebackers are good, they got some good damn corners and good safeties. They got it all, so that's going to be a tough test for them.


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[Assistant] With the Patriots, when people are always like, oh, Tom Brady did it with all these, you know, without a superstar receiver. And I would go, well, the numbers say they were the most wide open receivers in football, like his whole career. Cause they know what plays and how to coach and ooh, they're going to play this and we're going to call that play. And it's great if they run that coverage the way it's supposed to be run. Cause this play that up, right?


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[Assistant] That's not what, you've heard me complain about the bangles in this department. This is not where they are the best at. Let alone,


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[Assistant] Basic football premises, you know this, your dad was a high school football coach. One team was hungrier and playing harder. That was off, jumped off the film from the get go.


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[Assistant] Browns played with a chip, and were like, screw you, we're gonna win this game. The Bengals came into the game like, hey, we're cool with the Bengals, we've been in the AFC Championship two games in a row, this'll just work out our way.


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[Assistant] The Bengals D was not bad, don't get me wrong. They played hard and they were everywhere. You know, but what I would say on that side of the ball is the Browns offense matched that intensity.


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[Assistant] On the other side, with the Bangles O against the Browns D, absolutely not. First off, Bangles O line wasn't good. That's the first thing. Okay? They were not. I mean, Burrow was under pressure, they couldn't run the ball.


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[Assistant] See, in week, it's just too basic. It's too basic. I wish we could show film of what they did. Like, here we go. Tight end, two receivers to the right.


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[Assistant] You know, whatever, why stick? Depends what system you're in. Right? It's like, come on.


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[Assistant] The Browns have seen that nine million times through OTAs, let alone the first two weeks. And every time the second and third string offense got in, they ran that play in training camp, right? I mean, so some of these plays,


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[Assistant] And Jim Schwartz, who's been around forever, knows the west coast offense. He's going, they're going to run the basic west coast shit, they might as well make me the old coordinator. I can drop, I can do this.


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[Assistant] So if they play like that and that D-line plays like that, J-O-K in the middle looked really good. See, where we always talk about the bangles, right?


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[Assistant] But it's also why I go, it's why you don't f*** win week one. It's just too basic and simple for a team that's got talent.


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[Assistant] Any other thing they did really well? And I saw this throughout the league and I'm gonna be interested to see this go on. DB's really played back shoulders really well.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, simple routes plus good corners in the wet rain, that's hard to do. And they knew what to expect a little bit, so those were some of the issues with the bangos altogether.


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[Assistant] Like, Joe, the throwing and all that, he's a machine mechanically, right? So he's perfect.


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[Assistant] It's hard to gauge the movement just because it was sloppy and wet and he had people around him and he took way too many hits for your franchise. He did.


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[Assistant] I don't think it affected him. I think where it affected him is just not seeing the field as well and not being on his A-game through lack of reps, right? But I didn't, this was more about Bangle's simpleness


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[Assistant] But it goes back to, there's not a lot to figure out. And if you got some jimmies in the joes, you can figure out the X's and O's with them.


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[Assistant] And that's where they're tough. And then they could go, wait, the way your old lines plan, we don't need to put extra people in the box and start worrying about that. And we can help out. And like I said,


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I felt like they all took turns getting their ass whooped.


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[Assistant] Like the three guys in the middle were more of a problem. Not that the tackles played great, like you're saying. I think you're right. But the three guys in the middle, it was constant getting beat or getting pushed back into Joe's face. Uhm, so that's another one though, you know.


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[Assistant] I don't know about that. Again, what's scary to me is, like I said, they gotta find a few things to just jump start the offense. It can't just be go, we're gonna run our stuff and we'll figure out how they're playing us as the game goes on and then we'll do that. It's just, it's too tough that way. Their defense to hit on that side of the ball, they played really good. They did. They just got worn down.


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[Assistant] That, that, as we saw, that Brownsville line's good, and Nick Chubb is still one of the best, if not the best running back in football.


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[Assistant] Right? Watson adds a few runs to that. I'll say this too. Here's my other thing that I definitely...


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[Assistant] Like, I didn't watch this side of the ball as closely as the other side of the ball, right? I just watched it to get a feel for what happened. Uhm. The Sean Watson.


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[Assistant] I don't know if this was because of the rain, but he was throwing the ball like a baseball, which concerned me.


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[Assistant] What, if you go back and watch the game and watch some clips, watch the highlights. He is throwing the ball and bending at the waist like a pitcher.


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[Assistant] Literally throwing the ball and like after the pitcher releases, right, and is bent over, he's like that on a number of throws. So totally off on his mechanics and that's why he threw some balls into the ground against them and lost control of the ball. His motion was so


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[Assistant] Now I don't know if that was because he couldn't hold the ball and it was wet a little bit and he was just trying to figure it out there.


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[Assistant] He goes back to my theory of, I gotta stop over-evaluating the, oh, he didn't, you know, is at not quite great feet. He's just a giant man that now learned a little technique in the NFL and nobody can get around him. And he moves people. He's Mackay Bechtin. It's f***ing insane.


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[Assistant] Kendricks? No, not Kendricks, uhm, uh, I'm blanking all, I got so many damn, Hubbard and, and Hendrickson, sorry, Hendrickson, I knew it was a Drix some there. Hendrickson, I, I'm telling you, they hit him a few times and they were, they looked at him like, fuck this, you're too big, like literally.


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[Assistant] No, I don't know any of them. I haven't met any of them. You passed me up. I mean, you're at home researching it now. So you're the leader. You're the leader.


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[Assistant] Right, is, cause who else? They had somebody else on their team that had a few sacks on the Steelers.


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[Assistant] Who was the other guy? Uhm, I gotta pull up the stats. But either way, the one thing I think to watch out for the 49ers is that.


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[Assistant] You know, the O-line pass protection on, on downs like that. Uhm, no, you, you were right. It, it was all three of him. I'm getting confused with another game. There was nobody else. I'm, I'm down there. But yea, that's something to watch for the 49ers. But man, TJ, wow.


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[Assistant] He has popped all preseason, like to the point where I know, I know we laughed one week when they, like, he played three plays because two of them he got in the backfield and they were like, that's good, get him out of the game, that's it, he's awesome.


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[Assistant] He's one of these rare guys that's just gonna come into the league and be awesome. Like it doesn't happen always, right? Especially a de-tackle.


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[Assistant] And I think we laughed because I've said like, you know, this is the best defensive player I've, uh, Dina's a tackle, I've seen, I think I said that like three out of the last four years, right?


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[Assistant] But we, we said at the time, he was the number one pick in the draft. He was the number one pick in the draft. The off the field...


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[Assistant] Car accident, all that kind of stuff, really hurt him, and then he was a little out of shape for his pro day, right, because he had been dealing with a bunch of crap, and that scared everybody.


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[Assistant] And then there was one or two stories that, you know, he might have done this at college or whatever, like stuff that I don't even give a damn. The guy's gonna be a superstar. If he stays healthy, he's a superstar. It's amazing. It's amazing.


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[Assistant] It was like, wait, wait, hold on, am I, did I click on like, good plays by Jalen Corder, or am I watching? Nope, nope, this is the real game, this is the first ten plays, and he's just everywhere. He's, he's the new age Warren Sapp, that's what I've told people.


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[Assistant] He's the new, he's evolution of Warren Sapp, like 30 years later into evolution, where it's this, I'm explosive.


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[Assistant] There it is, there it is, there it is. Colombo. Yep, that's right. Look, he's got his hand on his head. He's like this fucking guy. He's got one more thing again. I thought we were wrapping up. The one more thing is just that, you know, the Ravens offense didn't look like they were.


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[Assistant] Now, they're hurt up front. Right? That's gonna be scary. And with J.K. Dobbins, now they're hurt. Exactly right. And Tyra Linderbaum got hurt. And Ronnie Stanley got hurt. So they got some little issues there. That stinks. Because they did look good.


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[Assistant] But they need to continue to play through that as this pass game develops. Okay? I didn't- the offense had more looks. It did. It did have a different look altogether. Alright, as far as the passing game.


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[Assistant] Phenomenal off that. Him and Jonathan Greenard, the other DN they have, they're beasts. They're quietly a very good combo. And then, this is the other thing too, as far as the pass offense, and we hit on it on Sunday, Zay Flowers was phenomenal. I mean,


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[Assistant] The best offensive player in that game was Zay Flowers. He's, he's borderline untackable. It's, it's kinda like he's like to the point where I'm like, dude, just go down.


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[Assistant] He thinks he's gonna like get out of every jam and break a tackle and I'm gonna break this guy's ankle and then re-accelerate and stop and spin and then just a few times where I'm gonna go, you're gonna get hurt, just go down sometimes.


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[Assistant] The Texans, where I really respect D'Amico Ryans, they're so good at playing their little match zones. And, you know, it's a tough test for an offense when you haven't seen that. And, you know, it is. So, you know, I think they called some plays and they were like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yes, I was very encouraged with those two guys on the edge and my man, Will Anderson, who I know I took plaque for, but damn, he looked good.


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[Assistant] First off, the fact that they threw the ball 40 times tells you he's the most pro ready right now. He made a ton of good throws and good decisions in that game. They couldn't run the ball. That's a good defense they played against. Their old line's not great at pass protecting right now.


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[Assistant] And they don't have anybody that scares you to receive it. So it's never going to look pretty.


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[Assistant] They need some more firepower. There's no doubt about that. Nico Collins is a good player. He is. In your perfect world, you want Nico Collins to be your number two.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, it is crazy. I'm crazy to see, I'm interested to see what direction this whole Rams season goes, and you know, how they're gonna kinda rebuild themselves here over the next two years.


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[Assistant] You f**king lambasted me on the f- on the field on Thursday night. Oh, really? Oh, before the game, I had so many of them, like... You f**king took the Packers! Go out of the vision! You're f**king...


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[Assistant] I talked about him. I talked about him. He's the man, first of all, you can see his energy in warm-ups.


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[Assistant] But I talked to Dre Bligh, the D coordinator, or the D defensive back coach there. Yeaah. And he was just like yeaah, CJ is the guy that gets the locker room stirred up every day.


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[Assistant] Because they were the second choice to come out of the A&C. By kind of a significant amount, remember? We were saying, we were going, damn, I can't believe it's by that much. Right. Right? So, yeaah, I, you know. I wonder.


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[Assistant] And you know, it kind of stops there. And that's tough. And we're talking about a lot of teams in that conference got a lot better. Dolphins are like a pick'em right now with the Bills.


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[Assistant] Kaderius Tony, like Andy Reid said early in the week, the only way he's gonna get better is he's gonna play. He's another guy that didn't play in the preseason, didn't do anything, he was injured. I don't give a shit who you are, it's really rare to not do anything and be able to just go in the game and be like, I'm awesome, right? So, so, you know, yeaah, he has to. He is, those other guys are good there.


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[Assistant] The way defenses play now, DBs lean on receivers, they beat them up in the line of scrimmage, these jitterbug smaller type receivers,


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[Assistant] So, that's what I worry. And then, you know, if you're that, if you're small like a Skymore or a Richie James or, I'm missing somebody else on there, raster, you gotta be...


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[Assistant] Exceptionally quick or fast. It has to be one or the other, right? It has to be. Jalen Watto.


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[Assistant] You know, and, and, you know, it was funny Monday night, cause did you see him?


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[Assistant] Talk about stress coming into the game. I looked at him in the, in the helmet and I was like, oh my gosh. He was the last guy that thought he was gonna play. Yeah. Especially that night.


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[Assistant] Uh, and hopefully the jets, even though their pass protection wasn't good, their run blocking was phenomenal.


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[Assistant] NBC, me and Ahmed Fareed locking it down. Locking it down.


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[Assistant] Saturday night, okay? Some people have referred to it as other things. But I won't go there. Okay? There's a sign behind me and Tariqo. You know what? Big turd cock. I mean, you gotta watch out for that. You know what?


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[Assistant] Sunday night. Sunday night. Damn, just what you wanted to do. Work all day and then have to deal with me that night. Okay.


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[Assistant] You know where to find it. It's right here. Chris Sims on button. Please subscribe. Thanks again for watching. Peace out homies. See you soon.


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[Assistant] One of them was Godfather and he was like, eh, it's just okay. And it's like, okay, sorry, you're not allowed to talk about movies anymore. Uh, but we are here on a Wednesday. I'm in a fog. Uh, it's like, I was like, I'm really starting to question our person who was like, are you sure you're going to make it? Right? I have everybody saying that to me right now where they're like,


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[Assistant] I was, we were texting towards the end of the night, right? A few little things and you know, you were telling me good job with the notes, which I appreciate and all that.


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[Assistant] But I was, uh, sitting there, and I was kinda watching the Lakers dynasty move show, which is really good. I don't know if you watch shows. Sometimes. Sometimes he watches shows. Sometimes he watches TV. It's actually really good though. Okay, second season. It's gonna be the last season actually.


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[Assistant] Well, it's true, you know, it's not true in all the bad parts that these guys don't like being told about, but that's the thing they're fighting against. It's amazing, it really is, but like, went to bed at like 9.45, 9.50 last night.


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[Assistant] Woke up at like nine o'clock this morning. Right. And you know, it's like one of those when your body gets like sleep and catches up, it's like, Oh, sleep more. So like,


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[Assistant] Monday and Tuesday is like an exhausted tire fog. And then today is like I caught up and my body wants to still sleep type of fog. Do you know that? Do you know that feeling a little? Right? So like I feel like I haven't woken up today and I'm trying to shove coffee down my throat here to wake it up.


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[Assistant] No, it definitely was not the case. What we've seen in three weeks in a row from Arizona is that the game plans are pretty damn good, right? On both sides of the ball.


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[Assistant] I mean, Jonathan Gannon and what they got going on that side of the ball as far as defense, you know, Nick Rallis, the defensive coordinator there, I like what they do offensively.


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[Assistant] Listen, there's still more you want from the quarterback and Dobbs, but there's two things that, you know, he's done a pretty good job of. He takes care of the football. He does, he keeps them out of bad situations for the most part.


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[Assistant] And, you know, can run a little bit. That helps out. Design, run, or scramble. Alright? And then, for the most part, he's being efficient in the pass game. Are there a few plays that I go, ooh man, if they had another quarterback there that he could throw that in there, that's a big play? Sure.


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[Assistant] So, but nonetheless, he's doing a good job. But a little bit like we're going to talk about a little in the Miami Dolphins game here in a minute.


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[Assistant] Is, you know, Drew Petsing, what he does on the offensive side of the ball, yeaah, yeaah, they kind of brought the fight to the Cowboys, to like what you're saying, and it wasn't just, you know, the Cowboys' sleep at the wheel, but they


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[Assistant] They truly schematically gave them issues with some of the formations and things they did and the movement and motion that we talk about so much right now that you see any really good offense in football


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[Assistant] You know, we saw a graphic yesterday, and we'll hit on that I think later, of how the good offenses move people. They create advantage. They create miscommunication on the other side of the ball.


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[Assistant] They create defenses going, whoa, wait, we didn't study for that shift and now they're in another formation have done something and we haven't gone over how we're supposed to adjust to that yet. Can we go over to the sideline and talk to the coach? Right? So they, without me getting too in the weeds.


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[Assistant] Cause some problems with these formations and motions to where some of these run plays we saw.


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[Assistant] Right? And, and, you know, whether it was O'Connor, uh, I mean, or James Connor, or, um, uh, or Dobbs, I would sit back and go, oh wow, okay, that was a good run, right? And then, you know me, I'm sitting there watching the film and I'm going, wait, I mean, they really got them here. Like, they don't have enough people for the gaps.


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[Assistant] They've, they've exposed them with the motion and the, how the Cowboys were shifting. They didn't on some of these runs.


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[Assistant] There's no way they could have stopped it. It was gonna take somebody to do something miraculous, but like schematically X's and O's on a chalkboard type of thing, you'd go, no, there's nobody here for this gap.


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[Assistant] Or no, you've shifted the linebacker so far over that now the center and the guard can block one guy and then the other guy can go up and cut the linebacker off from getting to the weak side run, right?


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[Assistant] So that was really kind of the overall theme of the football game more than anything and why we saw this really good Dallas Cowboy defense.


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[Assistant] Um, get gashed, especially in the run game. The pass game was just about being efficient and, and you know, they did smart things there, but the run game is really where, you know, they, they made their bread and butter.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. They knew how to block all that movement up front, right? They had a beat on, wait if we line up like this, they'll slant this way, right? So they were very well coached, okay, in kind of having a feel for


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[Assistant] Like what they do at certain formations and how they slunt and, you know, slant and stunt, right? We talk about the Cowboys all the time. This is our first game too. You come back and you go, the Cowboys still have a size issue up front. They do.


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[Assistant] More, on just about every defensive scheme in football, there's a guy that's like, wait, you're, nobody can go outside of you. You have to make sure you force it back inside, right? And what they did, and this is again, this is a Shanahan-ish


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[Assistant] Of course, Mike McDaniel-ish, and we're gonna get into that too, to where...


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[Assistant] They, with these formations and some of these shifts in motions, change the burden on who was gonna be the edge guy, right? And, or the edge guy who thinks, wait, I got the edge.


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[Assistant] Now you got a guy outside of you. Like, they shifted. You, you got, like, the coach has got to tell you to move out so you can still be the edge guy, right? You know, there was too much of that.


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[Assistant] I mean, blocked by tight splits, got, you know, the tight end, two tight ends, and okay, now I'm on the edge, but the two tight ends come over, and now they can just block me down, and I'm supposed to set the edge. And now who's there to do the edge? The corner. Right. And every offense is trying to make the corner the main guy that has to tackle somebody in the run game.


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[Assistant] So that was really where they dropped the ball, let alone, you know, like I said, Vander Esch, uh, not very good in the middle.


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[Assistant] Clark, 33, way too over aggressive and still young and, you know, green between the ears there a little bit or, you know, as far as in his ways. And those were, you know, some of the things that really, really hurt them, let alone some splash plays here and there in the pass game that, that helped them.


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[Assistant] Uh, especially that last one with Michael Wilson from Stanford, a guy we talked about in the draft coming up.


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[Assistant] Well, I can't, for some reason I can't remember the specifics of why or how that went down there and I'm gonna pull it up as we sit here just because I'm going, wait, what the heck did happen there? What am I missing here? So I'm gonna get


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[Assistant] It was, it was the, wait, here they come, Dallas, they're gonna make this a game, and of course that didn't happen, so here we go, I got it now, here we go, I'm sorry everybody.


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[Assistant] Well, so here it is, and, and it is, it's tough. It looks like it's a zone coverage, okay?


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[Assistant] And Gilmore doesn't come off of his guy and pass it off. And he's playing man. Exactly right. So good job by you there. Yea, that's gotta be passed off. But they got them messed up all together. Again, with the formation and motion here.


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[Assistant] They're in a tough spot to where it's like somebody was going to be open. There was no way they were going to cover. And that goes back to the point we've kind of talked about here with some of these shifts and motions. It really messed up the Cowboys and how do they want to adjust and be sound on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of it is, it is hard. It adds verbiage, right? It's more in the free agency era of like, wait, these guys are, you know, they just got here, we don't have time to do that. And then I think a lot of them


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[Assistant] There's some teams that do it. A lot of them don't know why they do it either. They don't really understand it. They're not really grasping it. They're going, oh, that's cool shift in formation. You'll see somebody steal it the next week and it's going, yeah, but they had a reason for it.


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[Assistant] Like they noticed on film that they did this when they did these shifts in motions, and it caused these problems. And yeaah, so few, like our point we talk about, really understand defensive rules, like some of these good offensive coordinators do, to where they can, you know, take advantage of it and stress it that way.


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[Assistant] On the Cowboys anyways, but yeaah, the, the, now the, let's test how they line up, if they can figure out what they're doing and adjust properly to some of these shifts and formations, they're gonna be tested on that. And that's where they're, that's where a Monday walkthrough, you go over the things you messed up to go, wait,


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[Assistant] Hey guys, we gotta fix this right now because the teams are gonna do this until we show we did fix it.


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[Assistant] You know, unlike the Cowboys guys, right? You know, to me, lack of aggressive or physicality by the Cowboys linebackers shows up. Especially when you compare, you watch the Cardinals linebackers and you go, damn, look at them.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're shooting holes and just, you know my phrase, no hesitation at all, and they just bring it. And, you know, they made a difference in the football game. They did. And of course, you know,


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[Assistant] And a lot of that was because of those middle linebackers. And of course they got a pretty good secondary behind that too. And they're well coached. They played five man fronts at first. They said, wait, you're going to have to, you're going to have to throw the ball a little to beat us here. And then they got some good zone coverages that they played behind it that they were over, you know, all over some of the cowboy stuff.


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[Assistant] Yes, what I don't like is the opposite of what we just talked about with Arizona. You know, if you and me sat here and watched plays together, we'd go, you'd go, man, the first 30 plays, they just line up in the formation and say, set hut.


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[Assistant] And of course too, it's basic formations. And yea, Schottenheimer's a part of it. It's McCarthy too. He's the one calling the play.


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[Assistant] He sets the agenda and you know, he comes from a school of thought of like, he doesn't like to motion and shift, but that to me is outdated and you're dropping the ball if you don't do some of that. So yeah, that's what hurts. And it comes back to the same thing of like, you know, the Cowboys we know got talented and are talented and all that.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where just saying, hey, we're going to line up and beat you because we're more talented. Like that's just too hard to do in the NFL. And then especially when you got a guy in Jonathan Cannon who came from your division, has a little bit feel for the offense in general anyways, right? The offense isn't drastically different from what it was last year.


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[Assistant] And so he had a beat on it and understood some of their tendencies and what they did. And that, that of course made it, you know, tough on them. But yeah, they have some.


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[Assistant] They played a little man to man, and then had combination zone coverages that you talked about. You know, you hear me talk about, my quarter's on this side, but it's cover two over here. And all fitting within like how they must have broke them down and feeling like, hey, if we do this combination, it's going to give them problems. And yeah, they made Dak Prescott and company uncomfortable all day long.


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[Assistant] Yes. Many, many times. Many times, right? That's my, my little phrase. Like when you drop back and all of a sudden they go, wait, they're trying to throw over here to the left.


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[Assistant] And the Cardinals have everybody dropped over there to the left. Like they knew what was kinda coming or expected certain route combinations out of personnel sets or formations. And that's always a telltale sign to me that a D coordinator's got a really good feel for what the offense is trying to do to them in certain formations.


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[Assistant] To help out, and then what's that lead to? A throwaway? A sack?


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[Assistant] And then we go, what's wrong with the cowboy offense? And why isn't Dak look as sharp? And it's like, well, it's not really Dak. It's that bullshit ass play they just ran on second down that now put them behind the chains or he got sacked because of it or whatever. And it's just like, you know, it's kindergarten stuff that that's, that's what I say to that. And that's where I'd go like, yeah, I, I didn't see that.