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[Assistant] The year before that, hey, I know I put Zach Wilson over Trevor Lawrence. That was a little controversial. I mean, after year one, I would've gone, oh, I'm right. I mean, Zach Wilson's been better than Trevor Lawrence in year one. Now, yeaah, it's been year two, and I'm going, oh shit, I'm wrong. You know? Uh, so, you know, the one thing I made a mistake with last year, and I told Pete this towards the end of the regular season,


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[Assistant] I don't feel like when I watch the quarterbacks, I watched enough of the full games. I watched like, let me watch all the third downs. Let me watch red zone. Let me do all that.


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[Assistant] And I think that made me get a little fixated with plays instead of going, let me see how this guy plays the game. Right?


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[Assistant] Let me see his thought process in some of these situations on first down, second down, all of that. You know, I think that's where, you know, maybe I dropped the ball myself last year. That's interesting.


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[Assistant] You know, Corral and Pickett and then Malik Willis, you know, is the way it looks right now. I clearly should have had Pickett number one. Uhm, but we'll see where it all goes.


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[Assistant] You want to do that, but I think you have to do that after you do the other stuff. That's where I think I got a little like, Oh, I got a lot of people to watch. So let me just start getting into what's he look like on third down, right? Oh yeah, that was a great third down throw. Ooh, good third down throw, good there. But you know, then you'd go, you know.


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[Assistant] Later in the process, you could watch the film and go, Oh wait, but you know, on second down, he had three.


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[Assistant] People open during third and eight because he didn't throw this guy the ball on second down or, you know, they shouldn't have been in this situation because of what he did on first down or, you know, why the hell did he make that decision here up by this many points and this point in the game and he could have had a first down here, but he tried to force a big play. So those are things that give you.


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[Assistant] No doubt, no doubt. Everybody tune in. You know we'll be here Monday. Enjoy your weekend. Keep getting at us on Twitter. Subscribe, rate, review to the podcast. Send your questions in. We'll try to hit them all. That's what we're doing. We're talking football this time of the year. Everybody be good. Ahmed Fareed, you the man.


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[Assistant] Morgan, you the woman. Everybody in the back room, you're the man and the woman because there's multiple of you back there. Peace out. Talk to you Monday. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching, homies. Hit subscribe to see all my Unbuttoned videos. You get to see me, Ahmed Fareed, all the big player breakdowns, game breakdowns, player interviews, and my film analysis. So please subscribe. Chris Sims, Unbuttoned. Peace out.


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[Assistant] It is one of my all time favorite movies. I don't know, apparently you weren't paying attention. I was not. I was doing a Mike Florio and texting right there.


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[Assistant] Earlier this morning, PFT Live, a little conversation about Hell or Hell or Water. By the way, Chris later remembered he had seen it. I have, multiple times. Alcohol and or chemical induced haze, and forgot. I've probably seen that movie.


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[Assistant] Between 10 and 15 times. Wow. Wow. Maybe more. It's just one of those I circle back around and I like to have things on while I'm working. Background noise.


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[Assistant] And if it's something I've seen before, then I can focus more on my work. It's just kinda like having music on, you have a movie on, the audio, the dialogue, whatever, you watch a little bit of it, you go back and work. I just like having something on TV while I work. I don't like, I don't like silence while I work.


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[Assistant] Well, and it's either that or re-watch all of The Office, which I'm currently doing on Peacock, the superfan episodes, which are up to 45 minutes instead of the usual 20, or re-watch Seinfeld, just have Seinfeld on his background.


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[Assistant] More Seinfeld, more Seinfeld than The Office, but I'm getting there with The Office. But yea, with Seinfeld I could just break into the dialogue at any given moment, but it's like...


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[Assistant] You know, you play music that you like, you know the music, you know the words, you know the sounds, you're familiar with it, it's just something that's on while you work to have something other than


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[Assistant] Then silence. I just like to have something on. All right. Some of you like to have us on for some reason. This is the picks podcast for week 18. It's still a weird time in the NFL. We're trying to move forward.


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[Assistant] At a time when we're primarily concerned about the health and wellbeing of Damar Hamlin, the mental health of Bills and Bengals players who have to go forward after witnessing a very traumatic


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[Assistant] Uh, event on Monday night, but the games are going to be played on Sunday, starting on Saturday for week 18. And we're here to tell you what we think about what's going to happen.


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[Assistant] You know, most weeks we really don't know. This week we definitely don't know because the teams that either have their playoff position locked in or the teams that are done, who are they gonna play.


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[Assistant] How long are starters gonna play? We just don't know. So, usually we're throwing darts anyway, Chris. We're gonna be throwing darts even more today without even being sure a dartboard's there.


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[Assistant] For a given week. It really is all season. If you had just done the opposite all season of what we recommended, best bets, you would be Scrooge McDuck in a giant room of coins right now.


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[Assistant] I never think about that though. I never think about what you're gonna pick. I never think of it that way. Like this is a chance to make up ground. I just, I think of who's gonna win. I did this year a few weeks. I just think you can't go wrong. You can't go wrong. And we both started off, we were a little struggle-y.


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[Assistant] Uh, are done, they're cooked, it's over. 52 and a half is the over, under in this one. How many points do you think the Chiefs went by, Chris?


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[Assistant] One of the things that makes this week so strange for me and so difficult to even begin to prognosticate, we don't know how players are going to react.


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[Assistant] We know how players are going to perform for a variety of reasons including


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[Assistant] Their own personal reaction to what happened to Damar Hamlin. We just don't know. And for a lot of these, I'm just...


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[Assistant] Strategically picking one team to win and the other team to cover in the hopes that I'm just right around 500 for both, because I really don't know. And a lot of the things you said I agree with. The Chief's kind of sleepwalk.


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[Assistant] They're there. They do just enough to win. But no more than that. They're not dominant. They're not blowing anyone out. They're just getting the victories, checking the box, and moving on. And I feel like that's what's gonna happen this week. 30-24 is the score that I've picked. Chiefs win. Raiders cover. Because, as with so many games, not that I ever know,


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[Assistant] I usually have a fairly strong pasta and meatballs sense for a lot of the games. This week, it's just not there. And so, just kind of, and again, Chris, you know my method.


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[Assistant] Prioritary, patent pending, high level mathematical model where I just sit down, I look at the games and a score pops into my head and I go with it. So 30 to 24 is the score that popped into my head today.


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[Assistant] I got no other analytics or high end statistics or analysis other than it just kind of feels like what it's going to be.


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[Assistant] I'll peel it back even a little farther. No power rankings were done this week. No awards were handed out at PFT. We usually do the picks post on Thursday right around noon. We decided to push it until Friday. So I hadn't even thought about these games at all until after PFT Live ended today.


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[Assistant] Cup of coffee, sit down, look at the games, pick the scores, write it down here, come up, and off we go. That's the amount of thought I've put into it. Watch, I'll go 16-0 this week with absolute minimal thought.


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[Assistant] On who I think is going to win the games. But again, with a lot of these games, we're going to get to them soon. We really don't know what's going to happen because we don't know who's going to play, how long they're going to play and what the motivation really is of the teams who are done. They may just want to get out of town. We hear all the time, you know, the eye in the sky doesn't lie and you got to go out and you got to put you the film doesn't matter. You don't get an asterisk because the game didn't count.


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[Assistant] These are still human beings dealing with the collective trauma we've all experienced with the Mar Hamlin and that is a real factor. Titans Jaguars.


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[Assistant] It went the other way and it was that game in London that they lost to the Broncos that turned it around for Trevor Lawrence. And here they are, Trevor Lawrence versus Josh Dobbs, who's still been with the Titans maybe two, two and a half weeks. Jaguar six point favorites over under a 40. Chris, I assume you're going to pick the Jaguars. The question is, do you pick them to cover?


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[Assistant] The Jaguars arrow pointing straight up. The Titans haven't won a game since the Thursday before Thanksgiving when they beat the Packers at Lambeau Field that Todd Downing


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[Assistant] Embarrassed by the Cowboys last Thursday night. No, not at all. But still, something's missing with the Titans. They need the hard reset of an offseason, and I feel like


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[Assistant] A Jaguars team that beat them handily, I think 36-22 was the score a few weeks back in Tennessee. I see the Jaguars finishing the job, getting to the playoffs, winning the division, and we'll see what they can do because if Trevor Lawrence keeps playing like he has,


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[Assistant] That five seed, whoever the five seed ends up being, they're going to have their hands full in Jacksonville in the wild card round.


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[Assistant] And as to variable, look, when we reviewed on Wednesday's PFT live, the potential hotspots in the AFC, we didn't mention Mike variable. I have a post that up.


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[Assistant] Publish at the appropriate time at PFT, looking at the hotspots as well. And Vrabel, I think at this point, you just don't know.


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[Assistant] What his future is. He was coach of the year last year, but Amy Adams Strunk, the owner of the team, already has fired John Robinson. The team hasn't won a game since then. You just don't know. I can't imagine it. I don't think it should happen. I think they should stand Pat.


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[Assistant] He's managed to win a lot of football games with, you know, record number of players coming in the door. So, uh, but that may be a factor for variable and he may feel a greater sense of urgency.


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[Assistant] One thing we know about the NFL, uh, after the season ends, bat-bat shit happens from time to time. So, uh, it's starting


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[Assistant] As soon as Sunday, when coaches will get their walking papers, even if we don't expect it or believe it should happen. Alright, pivoting to Sunday, Patriots Bills.


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[Assistant] Very emotional game for Buffalo, seven point favorites at home. Obviously the first game action since the Demar Hamlin tragedy, 42 and a half over under. Patriots still alive for a playoff berth. Bills, if they don't play the Bills-Bengals game, and that's the way this seems to be pointing, you'll probably know the final answer by the time you watch this or listen to it.


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[Assistant] But the bill's still trying to be the number two seed in the AFC seven point favorites. How do you see this?


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[Assistant] I've got Bill's 31, Patriots 20. This is just another close your eyes, throw a dart, and hope for the best.


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[Assistant] I think that the Bills players who have had a very difficult week will welcome this three hour respite, this break from the stress. There are encouraging signs. Every news cycle about Demar Hamlin's status, I think by Sunday they'll be feeling as if they can go out and freely play a game of football and they're going to want


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[Assistant] Final act of the regular season to be a positive one. 31 to 20. There's a chance it could get uglier than that.


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[Assistant] It was 47-17 the last time these two teams played in Buffalo. Alright, next up, Jets at the Dolphins. The Jets are one point favorites. The line opened minus three and a half Miami, but it shifted now that it's obvious Skyler Thompson will be starting with Mike Glennon backing him up over under 38 and a half.


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[Assistant] I believe in Skyler Thompson. I think he's done some good things. I'm surprised, but this is what the betting perception is. That's where the market goes and that's fine.


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[Assistant] I don't know, Chris. Dolphins are still alive. I- I can't imagine.


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[Assistant] The team that's eliminated is a one point favorite over the team that still has a chance to make it to the playoffs. That doesn't make any sense to me.


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[Assistant] I got the exact same score, 23-20, and pardon me because we all root for our narratives, and one of my narratives is the Steelers make the playoffs, and for the Steelers to make the playoffs, the Dolphins need to lose. Okay, fine.


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[Assistant] But if I don't think the Dolphins are gonna lose, that's where you have to abandon your narrative. So I think the Dolphins do win this game. It feels like the Jets are kind of teetering with everything that's happened. Like White didn't look good in Seattle last week. What are you really playing for? The Dolphins are playing for something.


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[Assistant] And I think the Dolphins win 23-20, the exact same score, it's not a cop out, I have it written here, 23-20 Miami. Alright, next up, Browns at the Steelers. Speaking of the Steelers, who need the Bills to beat the Patriots.


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[Assistant] The Jets have eaten the Dolphins, and obviously they need to take care of business against the Cleveland Browns. 2.5 point favorites of the Steelers over under a 40.5. The most hostile environment Deshaun Watson will have encountered so far this season, by far, because he didn't go to Baltimore.


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[Assistant] He is coming to Pittsburgh, and it's going to be ugly for Deshaun Watson. I'm surprised the line's only two and a half. Chris, I think you see where I'm going with this. Positive meatballs time. Steelers, I think, finished the job.


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[Assistant] To get to nine and eight after the win on Christmas Eve, emotional, following the passing of Frank O'Harris.


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[Assistant] The come from behind win down 13-3 on Sunday night. You nailed that one too, 16-13. Despite your record this year, you got a hole in one. You got the blind squirrel finds a nut. Man. Pick 16-13. Woo! It was 16-13. Silver lining. Steelers win. And it looked a long time of the game like the Ravens were going to win that game. I just don't see how the Steelers


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[Assistant] Failed to finish the job. Failed again to get above 500. Even if they don't make the playoffs. I see 9 and 8. I see Steelers win. I have a score of...


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[Assistant] Well, I have it fairly close, 17-14, cause that's how it's been. But I still think they win, and I said 2.5 seems low, but I still have the Steelers covering. But not by much.


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[Assistant] No, you don't, no, no, you don't, you don't get to have the pasta and meat. You're right, I'm not Italian. Especially when, especially when you're wrong. This is egg noodles and ketchup, like Ray Leone. How dare you? Like some schnuck. How dare you? He went into protection at the end of Goodfellas. Uhm, so, uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I just don't, Mike Thomas never had a losing season. All they have to do is beat the Browns at home. And I think, I just think they will. So hey, it's good. We disagree on something so far. We'll see what happens in that one. Ravens Bengals was potentially going to be the AFC North championship game if the Bengals had lost on Monday night.


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[Assistant] If as we expect, Bill's Bengals isn't played at all. Bengals are the default AFC North champions. Bengals are 7 point favorites. Ravens still don't have Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] Bengals playing for the possible two seed. If the Patriots would beat the Bills and the Bengals would win, Bengals are the two seed setting up a potential.


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[Assistant] Bill's Bengals divisional round game in Cincinnati. Who do you like in this one, Chris? And what's your score?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've got 3420 Bengals. I just feel like the Ravens. I mean, the Ravens aren't really playing for anything, and they still don't have Lamar Jackson, and the Bengals have a strong incentive. And I think the Bengals have... not in a negative way.


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[Assistant] But some just kind of pent up frustration where they want to get back at it. They were the better team.


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[Assistant] Based upon what it looked like, saw them on Monday night. And they're the team that I think at some level they feel like they've been forgotten in the whole chiefs, bills, what's fair, what's not fair. Hey, what about us? We could have been the one seed.


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[Assistant] And again, not in a complaining way, but just in kind of a let's go light our own fire here.


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[Assistant] Get ourselves in the mindset. Remember that mindset they had. We're not worried about anybody else. They've got to play us. We'll take on anybody. Nobody else is the measuring stick. We are. I think that gets reinforced and we see it on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's always better too to be the higher seed cause you never know how things are going to shake out down the stretch and you may wake up one day realizing you're hosting the AFC championship game if you just have that one higher spot. All right. Vikings bears. Minnesota initially was one and a half point favorite. That's bet MGM at other places. It was pick them or it was even.


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[Assistant] Uh, just a one point favorite for the Vikings when they're 12 and four and the Bears are three and 13. Then came the news that Justin Fields won't play. The Vikings now seven and a half point favorites against Nathan Peterman and company Vikings still holding out hope for the two seed if the 49ers would lose to the Cardinals. Good, good, good luck. Good luck with that. Um,


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[Assistant] Do the Vikings turn it around? Do they get a win? Do they rebuild some confidence after getting blown off the field by the Packers? Chris, what do you think?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the Vikings need a little confidence boost going into the postseason, whether it's a rematch with the Giants, whether it's the seventh seed coming to town, they need to be ready to go. And we know how this is going to go for the Vikings.


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[Assistant] Going to win in the playoffs, it's going to be by a razor thin margin. If they lose, they're going to get blown off the field. That's just kind of the way it's gone for Minnesota all year long. All right, next up, Buccaneers at the Falcons.


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[Assistant] Atlanta is a four point favorite. Tom Brady's never lost to the Falcons. Tom Brady said that he would be bothered if he doesn't play. He's gonna play, but it looks like he's not gonna play for very long. This one truly is.


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[Assistant] Flip a coin, who knows, in my mind. I have no idea. Chris, what do you think?


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[Assistant] I'll go Atlanta 24-21, just to pick the bucks to cover, the Falcons to win, cause I got nothing else on that. And, uh, uhm, people bet on preseason games. This feels like betting on a preseason game to me. Same with Panthers-Saints. Saints are three and a half point favorites. Both teams eliminated over under is 41 and a half. Chris, what do you got?


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[Assistant] I got 27-20, same idea, Saints win, Saints cover, Texans Colts. Why are they even playing this game? How dare you? The Colts are two and a half point favorites. Both teams stink. The number one overall pick is hanging in the balance. Who do you got?


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[Assistant] Lovey Smith proved in 2014 he knows how to tank, even if it meant benching half the team while up double digits over the Saints and losing the game to get the number one overall pick in 2015. They want that number one overall pick in Houston. I think the Colts win 9-6. I don't think anybody's gonna find the end zone. It's gonna be Field Golf Fest in Indy 9-6.


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[Assistant] In a game that no one will be paying any attention to. Alright, let's take a break.


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[Assistant] Four p.m. Eastern games, including the question of whether the Eagles will finally lock up the number one seed in the NFC. We'll discuss that next on this joint edition of Chris Simms on buttons.


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[Assistant] Chris Sims on button to PFTPM, 4pm games, technically 425pm eastern. They all start then, no 405 games this week. We'll start with Chargers Broncos. Chris, you mentioned it earlier as it relates to the Ravens. If the Ravens...


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[Assistant] Lose and the Chargers win, there can be a flip flop in the five and six seed. The two and a half point Broncos line, Broncos favored, seems to suggest that


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[Assistant] I originally put 20 to 17. Let me do Super Bowl 25 score here. 20 to 19. That way I can split this one between Chargers cover and Broncos win. I'm doing that over and over again this week. So 20 to 19.


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[Assistant] Homage to Scott Norwood. Broncos win the game by one point.


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[Assistant] Again, who knows. That's a weird one. Will the Chargers even have any motivation whatsoever? Philadelphia Eagles have great motivation. They need a win to lock up the 1C. They are 14 point favorites against the Giants, which tells me...


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[Assistant] Any talk of the Giants going all out like they did week 17 of 2007 when they barely lost to the unbeaten Patriots and laid the foundation for beating the Patriots in the Super Bowl, that's apparently not applying here.


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[Assistant] The Giants apparently are gonna call the dogs off and it's gonna be an opportunity for the Eagles to nail down the one seed. Chris, given that background, who do you like?


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[Assistant] I got 27 17. Now wait, you got 31 14, so you're picking them to cover. That 14 is just too much for me.


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[Assistant] It's too much for me because once the Eagles get comfortably ahead, maybe they start thinking about cycling some guys out. Right? Sure. Uh, so I'll go 27 17 Eagles win, but they don't cover another.


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[Assistant] In Washington, Cowboys 7 point favorites still chasing the Eagles for the division title and possibly the 1 seed if the 49ers would lose to the Cardinals. Again, good luck with that.


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[Assistant] Do the Cowboys get the win and do they cover Chris? The over-under by the way, 41.


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[Assistant] A year of owner dysfunction, 23 years of owner dysfunction, going on 24. So yeah, I got the exact same score. Again, I have the proof here, 2713. Don't worry. You don't have to tell me.


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[Assistant] Cardinals 49ers. 49ers need the win to nail down the number two seed. Still have a chance to get the one seed if the Eagles should stumble. Cardinals trotting out David Blau once again.


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[Assistant] 49ers, uh, barely beat the Raiders. Chris, let me just take this one first because I've been thinking about that. This is one of the few that I feel confident about.


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[Assistant] I think the 49ers are going to kick the shit out of the Cardinals because they want to reestablish themselves after having a close call against the Raiders. They need to go into the playoffs firing on all cylinders and that means they are going to dismantle


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[Assistant] The cardinals. It's gonna be ugly. It's gonna be over by halftime. 38 to 13 is the score that I have for the 49ers to win this one and win it easily.


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[Assistant] All right, uh, next one, last one in the 425 PM window. Seahawks hosting.


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[Assistant] The Rams. Sean McVay called the season a professional failure and for good reason. Most losses ever by a defending Super Bowl champion. It fell apart early and it stayed that way. Seahawks need a win to keep their playoff hopes alive and then they need to hope the Lions beat the Packers. That's the only path in for Seattle. They're six and a half point favorites.


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[Assistant] Do the Seahawks win? Do the Seahawks cover?


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[Assistant] You know, it's funny, I had 27-20 Seattle. Seahawks covering and winning. And as you were explaining that...


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[Assistant] I felt a little, I felt a little something. I don't know whether it was gut, whether it was brain, or somewhere in between. I'm gonna pick the Rams win by the same score you picked. 24-20.


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[Assistant] 24-20. The Rams win. Here's another fact. I saw a report today from FrontOfficeSports.com that Sean McVeigh is going to be pursued again by the networks. Now I don't know that there's a chair out there for him.


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[Assistant] I believe he regrets not taking the Bezos money when he had the chance and getting out of dodge. If there's any chance that he leaves after this season, he's gonna wanna leave with a win. That's just an extra little incentive on top of everything else. Bobby Wagner playing in Seattle.


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[Assistant] Not just facing the Seahawks like he did earlier this year in LA. This is going back to the place where he played for a decade. That to me is enough to crank everyone up. And you do have Baker Mayfield. This is his closing argument for a contract.


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[Assistant] I, it's dangerous for Seattle. I think it's dangerous too. You know, just this, this, this whole idea that we're gonna win the game and then we're gonna go watch the Packers beat the Lions. So we're gonna have that playoff spot kind of dangled in front of us and yanked away. I, I think the Rams win making


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[Assistant] Sunday Night Football, a true playoff play-in game. Lions win and they're in. Packers win and they're in. Loser goes home. If the Rams win, I think the Rams win. And you change my mind.


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[Assistant] You changed my mind. Oh, by the way, before we go to break.


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[Assistant] The reason you beat me against the spread last week by a game, was I let you go back.


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[Assistant] And change your position on Giants Colts. You have the Colts covering, and I convinced you the Giants were gonna cover, and what did the Giants do? The Giants kicked the crap out of the Colts.


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[Assistant] Sunday Night Football, the final game of the regular season. The Detroit Lions playing their way into prime time in the final prime time game at Lambeau Field.


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[Assistant] Place where the Lions have had a difficult time winning pretty much forever, but especially the last 30, 35 years. Packers of 4.5 point favorites. For the Packers, we know what's winning in.


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[Assistant] For the Lions, it depends upon whether or not the Seahawks win or lose. Seahawks win, Lions are done, Seahawks lose, Lions are alive. Either way, it's gonna be kneecap biting time. The Lions see this in my estimation as an opportunity to lay the foundation for next year. An opportunity to


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[Assistant] Flex their muscle and let everyone see what they're going to have to deal with in the NFL come 2023. So Chris, against that backdrop, do you like the Packers to win?


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[Assistant] Pressure's on them. Do you like them to win? Do you like them to cover 4.5 with an over-under of 49?


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[Assistant] Uh, 25 and 30 degrees of kickoff. Weather's always a factor in January at Lambeau Field, but it looks like it won't be a major issue.


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[Assistant] I'm amazed you've taken the Packers by 4. I've got 27-23. And again, this is another one of those, pick one team to win, the other team to cover, because then the Lions would cover by a half point. I really do think the Lions are more dangerous if they're eliminated. And I think the Packers will be more


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[Assistant] Nervous, more tight, if the lions are eliminated. Because... Yeaah.


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[Assistant] It's that whole, when they have nothing to lose, they play well. They finally have something to lose after all these weeks of digging out.


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[Assistant] The Packers are finally in the driver's seat. It's one thing to say, we're just going out and cutting it loose. We're done. Nobody expects us to be anything. Now you're expected to win. You're expected to make it to the playoffs. If it does come down to a true playoff game,


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[Assistant] I, I, I, either, I just, either way, I think the package is gonna be a little tight here. I think it's, I think the Lions could win. I almost picked the Lions to win.


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[Assistant] But I do think it's more dangerous for the Packers if they know the Lions are done, because then it's even more embarrassing to blow your opportunity to get to the playoffs when you lost to a team that was done. That's what I was trying to articulate. Either way, we agree.


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[Assistant] Packers win, but I won't be surprised if the Lions pull it off.


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[Assistant] Best bets aka do the opposite when we wrap up this joint edition of Chris Sin's Unbuttoned BFDPM Red Outfits.


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[Assistant] Best bets, or as the case may be, worst bets this year. Neither of us are doing very well. And that's an understatement. We were combined one and five last week. So against that backdrop, and with the recommendation to bet the opposite of what we suggest, Chris, you're up first.


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[Assistant] I love it when you pick one team to win and the underdog as a best bet to cover even though you think they're going to lose. That is gutsy. I'm gonna go with the 49ers.


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[Assistant] Screwed me last week against the Raiders. Thanks for nothing, Jared Stidham. But I just think the 49ers are absolutely going to destroy the Cardinals with that number two seed in hand and the possibility of vaulting to number one.


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[Assistant] And the Cardinals, or the 49ers, excuse me, wanting to get it together for the playoffs, I think they win big, 38-13. Give me the 49ers, giving whatever it is, uh, to the Cardinals. Yeah, 14 points.


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[Assistant] You know, they need a reset. They need to, they need to get out and play hard for themselves. Right. To give themselves the confidence going into the postseason after everything that happened on Monday. Bengals cover that spread. That's my second one.


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[Assistant] Last one for me, and obviously this is all on tape, but the good news about Demar Hamlin's condition broke while we were doing this, and that makes me feel even more confident. The bills are going to cover the spread. It's going to be a very emotional and uplifting day in Buffalo, and the bills are going to take care of business against the Patriots and cover


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[Assistant] She performed, she was great. It was Super Bowl 57 in the books. That was Ahmed Fareed you heard. You might not have recognized that raspy voice. He was not on the stage with Rihanna last night. That was from last week when he was fighting through laryngitis. He's here, but Super Bowl 57 in the books.


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[Assistant] Awesome game, awesome halftime show. It was good. I thought it was an unbelievable, I don't even really like country music, the singing of the national anthem. I thought it was phenomenal, right, with that little country music twist, right? It was great. I didn't know a lot about him, so either way, it was a great show, and I think it was


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[Assistant] It's up there for one of the most pleasurable viewing Super Bowls in the history, right? That was an instant classic. One of the best Super Bowls I think, you know, I certainly would put it up there that I can remember.


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[Assistant] Loved everything about the look of the stadium, the, you know, the, the teams, all of it. It was great other than the field. I didn't love the field because it slipped too much, but we'll get into that later.


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[Assistant] Like, I literally, like, I can be on a balcony that's fully secure and get to the edge. And your brain's going, not again. I will, I just- I'm not gonna let this happen again. Not again. Not, not in, not in this lifetime. Uh, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] Well, I put a little too much weight on that metal thing in the back, right?


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[Assistant] That was supposed to be kind of like a guardrail, not something you're supposed to put your foot on. And I broke that section of the guardrail off.


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[Assistant] Uh, what's even more concerning after that is I have four women walk by me, none of them say a word or do anything other than just look at me and continue to walk like I am just shit on the street, right?


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[Assistant] He ain't moving so well. The way he looked in pregame, I just went to, like, my wife and kids, I just went, ah.


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[Assistant] He's not as healthy as I thought he was gonna be. Just from some of the...


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, how can you not start there? I don't know what else to say. I mean, they're built through him.


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[Assistant] You know, the success they have on offense, again,


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[Assistant] It might not always go to his numbers, but it's all through, predicated through him.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Eagles couldn't play their five man front. The Eagles had to play coverage.


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[Assistant] So that led to, yea, underneath throws and their running game being effective because, oh no, we can't rush five against the greatest blitz quarterback in the history of football, right?


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[Assistant] So that's all the Mahomes effect. Let alone, yes, here he is in the third Super Bowl. And I'm going to say this is his three Super Bowls where he's on the lesser team and he's won two out of three. Okay. They were the lesser team yesterday. I don't think anybody could watch that game and not think that.


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[Assistant] Now we'll dive into some of the things that help them become the Super Bowl champ.


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[Assistant] I mean, they, the deck, the deck was more stacked against them than the other way around. I think we can, anybody reasonable can think about, can agree with that.


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[Assistant] But then just everything off it. Not only second Super Bowl, second Super Bowl in four years, being there three out of four years, the five year thing like we talked about, AFC Championship game. This one,


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[Assistant] Guess to play a quarter, healthy, the whole playoffs. Oh, you just got to beat the hot Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence. Oh, you just got to beat the Kryptonite of your team, the Bengals and Joe Burrow on half a leg.


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[Assistant] You gotta beat the best pass rush in the history of football other than the 85 Bears. And you know, as I said last week and the week before that, the pass rush is a little overrated and that offensive line is really damn good and we'll talk about that too. But that, and then added on to


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[Assistant] The long list of what he, he accomplished things in this season that most great quarterbacks, it takes them the whole, it's the greatest, it might be the greatest season in the history of quarterback in the NFL. Really? Well, when you really unpack it.


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[Assistant] I mean, when you really look at it, no guy that's led the NFL and passing yards has ever won the Super Bowl. Well, he did it in the same year. You know, led touchdowns, right? Led passing yards, won the MVP, won the Super Bowl, won the Super Bowl MVP.


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[Assistant] Like these are things, again, he accomplished in one year that I think that we look at and would go, Oh yeah, well Peyton Manning accomplished this and Tom Brady accomplished this. Yeah, but it took him like 12, 15 years to put all those together. He did this all in one season.


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[Assistant] You know? And again, it's without Tyree Kill!


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[Assistant] He wasn't supposed to be, he was supposed to be all Tyreke apparently. So, that to me, it's just, and, and, and, okay, I'm sorry, you got me going here, and, like,


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[Assistant] Kind of in the re-tool, re-process mode of the team and you win the Super Bowl. Like we talked about a few weeks ago. It's a totally different team than the team that lost in the AFC Championship game last year. Hey, we're gonna get younger and kind of re-tool the team. Oh, and in the process of rebuilding, we're gonna just win the Super Bowl. Kind of amazing.


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[Assistant] Damn, this last one, hold on a second now. It's an obvious one, obviously, right? I mean,


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[Assistant] You'll be upset, Pete says. I will, I will be upset. Uhm, gosh, Barb didn't do that. Is it Montana?


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[Assistant] I'm an idiot, I don't know why. I kinda thought that. I guess I don't know where I missed out on that one. I'm shocked I missed out on that one. But either way, that's amazing. As you mentioned, Patrick Ball.


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[Assistant] Nine teams in a row who won the coin toss lose, he won that. That's how great he is. Hasn't, a regular season MVP hasn't won the Super Bowl since 99, Kurt Warner broke that, right? Madden?


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[Assistant] The Eagles, Madden by the way, the game, alright, they have to re-evaluate, they've had five of the last six Super Bowls wrong, right? Something's wrong with your rating of players. You're over-rating some people, I think. We've seen that. So, I just had to throw that there too. But either way, like, special, and like, just overall big picture before we unpack it.


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[Assistant] I picked the Chiefs to win. I picked them.


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[Assistant] And also, for me, you know me, I'm a team, team's better, I'm gonna pick the team usually. Yeah. Right?


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[Assistant] But it is like the ultimate weight, even though one team's better in totality, matchup league a little bit, and the ultimate just get it done football team.


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[Assistant] And that's what was funny during the week, where like people were like, how do you think, and then it's just like, it's almost hard to verbalize. Well, I just think they'll get it done. They just have a way of big moments, big plays. That's what's special about this dynasty. It's not that machine we saw in New England. It's an officially a dynasty here.


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[Assistant] You know, we'll see how great of one it is, but it's done a different way. It's a little bit more...


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[Assistant] Let's start, you know, okay, let's start to unpack it. Right? I mean, we see that-


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[Assistant] Well, you know, specifically, but you're right. You know, I mean, first off, great first drive of the game by the Eagles, right? You know, it was, it wasn't easy. 11th place, 75 yard drive. Chiefs get the ball back. Well, hold on, on that one too.


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[Assistant] They're great. You know, they can just physically...


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[Assistant] That first drive was kind of surgical, you're right. I mean it wasn't big plays, but it was a lot of...


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[Assistant] Easy 5 and 8 yard gains it seemed like for the most part. Chief's answer right back, it actually kind of make it look easier. Yea. Right? 5 plays I think it was, 75 yards, or 6 plays it was.


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[Assistant] You know, some big plays in that and you went, oh, okay, here we go. Right. And you thought, all right, here we go. And, um, so it was a very even start to the football game, everything you wanted there. And you saw like routes or areas of success for either one where you go, okay, wait, there's some things that are positive here to build on.


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[Assistant] Right? But then, Eagles get the big touchdown pass to AJ Brown to go up 14-7. Right? I mean, uh, Hurts, deep ball, big thing, right? Again, really, this is the moment where I went for the first time and went uh-oh. I went uh-oh. Cause I went


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[Assistant] That was like, the perfect defense was called. It wasn't exactly the best read in the world, nor was it the best throw in the world. It was a little bit of just...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna throw up to my guy cause I think he's super talented. And there's nothing wrong with that. He was aw- and that was a great adjustment. It was a- right, right. But that was one of those moments where I went, damn, I mean...


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[Assistant] At that moment, we'd had the Chiefs jump off sides on third downs a few times. They were making some mistakes, right? Yep. And then you're going, damn, Spags kind of called like the perfect coverage and play and they still got a touchdown. And I was starting to go, uh-oh, right? Uh-oh, man, they're in trouble. And then the Chiefs, I think go,


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[Assistant] Three and out or five and out, something like that. Three and out. It was three and out, right? So now the Eagles got the ball. It's 14-7. You're going, wow, they're kind of controlling. Third and one at midfield. Right, right. This is to me, one of the, this is the start of the sequence of


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[Assistant] And you're just going, well third and one, they're gonna get the first down. In fact, they're so rolling, it looked like third and one, they might throw a bomb and then just say the hell with it on fourth and one, we'll get the first down when we need to. That's how good they are on offense. That's how overpowering they are. So it becomes third and six, they're still in, this is where they're great.


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[Assistant] They're still in four down territory. Cause they're, they call a quarterback design run. Cause they're going to go, we're going to get, maybe we'll get the first down cause they're going to worry about pass. They did a lot.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yeah. And that was another key to the game as we go through here too. The Chiefs did, at least as the game went on, got them into second and third and longs, which of course got them off the field a few times. But here it is in third and six.


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[Assistant] They're running a quarterback draw because I think, one, they think, hey, they're gonna try to stop the screens and everything else. You can't stop everything on Philadelphia, so that's usually the, like, oh crap, right?


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[Assistant] A cool front, designed by Spagnolo, kinda has a linebacker standing up in the, we talked about this, like with Burrow and the Bengals, we gotta change coverages. Well, with the Eagles in that front, you gotta change looks up front, cause they'll get too comfortable.


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[Assistant] So they do that and I think they're still thinking like either we get the first down or we get to like fourth and two or fourth and one and we run it and we get the first down and we go down and do it. Yep.


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[Assistant] All the sudden, he keeps the ball, and there's an unblocked guy. Bolton's uh, Nick Bolton untouched. Untouched. I went back and looked at it. No one, no one touched him. He's unblocked. And that's again, to me, is the spags there. He, he found a, wait, this is gonna put their scheme in a little bit of an issue.


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[Assistant] It hurts, I think because of like, wait, holy crap, usually I have this play that's wide open, kinda panics, doesn't know what to do with the football, loses, hold to the football, fumble, touchdown.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's, you know, he's in the all-pro first and second team discussion. I think he was my second team all-pro linebacker. I had him part of the group. He kinda got forgotten about a little bit maybe there.


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[Assistant] Coins and dollar bills and everything. Yeah, birds everywhere high-fiving after this one. But uhm, yeah, he's a phenomenal football player.


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[Assistant] Well, I think we thought, hey, we talked about the Chiefs defense and they said they were going to have to


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[Assistant] You know, take some tactical chances to stop the run game. They're going to have to sell out to stop the run game. It was one thing I kind of said all week. I had a hard time, especially last week because I had discussed it a lot. I just went, I don't think the Chiefs are going to go down with letting them run the ball on them.


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[Assistant] They're gonna go, if they get beat in the pass game by Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown, then they're gonna go, okay, then we lost. But they weren't gonna go down that way. And they showed us that. And they showed us they had enough size.


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[Assistant] And creativity to hang in there. That was another thing. When the game started, you talk about Mahomes, I watched him and I went, oh, he's not as 100% as I would have liked, right? The other thing that was a big moment for me.


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[Assistant] Cause this has happened a lot is when I, I'm, oh, this defense is pretty good. And then I see them line up to the Eagles and I go, Oh my gosh, they look a lot smaller. Uh-oh, they're in trouble. And just the eye test, even though it still wasn't like, you know, apples, apples, I went, Oh, okay. They don't look totally overwhelmed there.


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[Assistant] But either way, that was a huge moment in the football game. Right? It's 14-7, one team has total control, total momentum. It sways it back their way. Who knows? Yea, 10 point swing, 14 point swing.


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[Assistant] I don't know, uh, but you know, something we had not seen Jalen Hurts or the Eagles do really all year was unforced self-inflicted turnover and that was one of the worst they had all year and one of the biggest moments all year.


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[Assistant] What were you gonna say? Well, I just wanted to say like, so the fumble was of course a huge moment. Ties the game.


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[Assistant] Because here's a chance for the Eagles to go down, if they score a touchdown, like I'm at home going,


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[Assistant] Right? And that to me was, that was the drive that we had the Devontae Smith catch that again,


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[Assistant] Yeah, who knows. But either way, that's all I'm just saying. It was crucial to be able to go in and go, wait, we got like, we got severely outplayed.


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[Assistant] They ran the ball on us pretty good, they threw the ball on us pretty good, and our defense, and their defense kinda slowed down my homes and everything there. Right? And, woah, they controlled time of possession, and we're only down 10?


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[Assistant] So see, this was a team you have to put your foot on their throat. We all thought that if you just let them hang around that he's gonna make magic and keep it going. So, yeaah, that was really...


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[Assistant] Kind of unbelievable to go in and go...


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[Assistant] Wait, we're only down 10. And, of course, the second half, adjustments at halftime, calming down a little bit, you know, all of that, uhm.


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[Assistant] Of course played, played into their favor, but I did think those were the two big moments. And you know, this is what I want to say, the turnover even too, where I worried about the turnover touchdown return. Hey, that's great for the chiefs of ba ba ba.


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[Assistant] But in a lot of ways, the football guy in me was going, well damn, now their, their defense is really getting worn out. Right? Cause now they're right back on the field and then the Eagles went down on a long drive and scored a touchdown. You're going, damn.


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[Assistant] I mean, so it's been forever since Mahomes been on the field. It's 23 minutes, I think. Oh my gosh. And then the Chiefs defense is on the field a lot and is being physically worn down where I just went, oh man, it's a double whammy here and they're in trouble, but man, it could be worse. Thank God they're only down 10 at half. So let's take


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[Assistant] It is one of those where if you tweak it or whatever...


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[Assistant] It's incredibly painful for a few minutes, like one of those where you're like, oh my gosh, I'm miserable, right? And then about five, six minutes after you start to go, okay, wait, all right, wait, wait, it's not that bad. It just.


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[Assistant] The shock reverberations from the injury, I just, you feel them all over your leg, right? Yeaah. But, so, I think once he got through that,


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[Assistant] I'm guessing Advil, I'm guessing if he got any sort of like anti-inflammatory, it was done before the game as far as shots concerned. Doing it at half time is not gonna really do anything more to it. Unless they were just putting straight Novocaine into it, which I would, is a really no-no. Like it's a no-no. So I would think,


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[Assistant] Tyler, like for Advil, this is my experience. Limit the swelling a little bit. Let's do that. Maybe take the tape job off.


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[Assistant] Maybe even do a few little exercises to get things moving and feeling good again. Get all the muscles activated again around it. Cause that's what you have to do. A lot of the times when you've had that high ankle sprain, everything's been stretched and twisted, right? So the muscles aren't quite as strengthened, strong and responsive. Maybe doing a few exercises and then re-tape it.


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[Assistant] Well, 30 minutes at the Super Bowl halftime played in favor for a guy like Patrick Mahomes with this for sure. That's interesting. Right.


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[Assistant] So that was, you know, like you said, a dominant first half by the Eagles.


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[Assistant] They're gonna look back at it and I think we'll look back at it when we do what the f*** happened Wednesday podcast and we're gonna go, I, you know, I have a feeling we're gonna look back and go, man, yeah, the Eagles are gonna be mad at the first half. They, they probably should have been up 14 or 20 or whatever and they blew that chance and they let the magic man have some hope in the second half.


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[Assistant] The, to me, the drive of the game was... The first one out of halftime. It was. It was crucial. Right? It was like, I know it was only the start of the third quarter.


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[Assistant] Let your defense rest a little bit. Keep their defense on the field for a little.


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[Assistant] So that to me, yes, was the tone setter for the second half. Like, hey, we ain't going nowhere. We're here.


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[Assistant] We figured out, we're, we can block you guys. And we saw not only good pass protection on our first drive, but we saw them run the ball a little bit too. To where it wasn't, you know, again, it wasn't,


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[Assistant] They couldn't just say we're gonna drop back and throw it all game against this crew. They couldn't. They weren't gonna be open enough.


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[Assistant] You're right, Ariel. It's a great question. And the two areas that most, you know, again, this is one, I gotta pat us on the back, we thought this would be even. I mean, this is one where I tried to tell people all last week, Kansas City can block Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] They can block him. I'm not saying they're gonna dominate him, but I would have been shocked if Philly's D-line ruined the game.


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[Assistant] And then also, you know, Dr. Ariel Goldberg, we could also argue your offensive line kind of lost that battle to a degree too. To a degree that the Chiefs were able to contain the run game as the game went on. But, yes. But see, this is to me, good ol' line.


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[Assistant] Andy Reid, Eric Bianami, but ultimately it's the Mahomes factor for me. That's, you know, how we started this out. The Eagles like, as we've pointed out on social media a few times over the last few weeks, they like to play five-band fronts. This is really where they become good.


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[Assistant] They get five one on one matchups and they go, one of our guys is going to win against your five. Well, the Mahomes factor doesn't allow you to do that. Well, what are you going to send one extra guy? And one, they have a good system.


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[Assistant] Uh, that to me was the big, you know, the big thing. And we talked about, hey, they were susceptible to the run. We knew that the Eagles is another thing we said on the podcast, you know, when we broke it down and even last week when I was out there with Florio.


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[Assistant] Hey, I thought Pacheco and them would have some success. Eagles, that's been their one issue on defense and, uh, so that, that hopefully


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[Assistant] But like, Ligeria Snead and Brian Cook, they, they did good job. They weren't out of position. They kinda anticipated it. It was a perfect throw, beat good coverage. That's exactly what it was. But. But. But.


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[Assistant] They only got a field goal. And see, this was the start of the moments where I started to go, man, in these gotta havin' moments.


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[Assistant] Late in the second quarter, third, all of a sudden Kansas City started to make the, wait, it's a big gotta have it play, and Kansas City started coming out on top a little bit more than Philly, and I started to go, oh man, okay, okay, wait, whoa, they're gonna get a field goal.


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[Assistant] You know, here's another chance to kinda go up double digits again, and you're gonna go up only six.


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[Assistant] Two things underlying, like what you're saying, we hit on it a little. I thought the Chiefs did a really good job of at least getting the Eagles into some positions we haven't seen other teams do to them, right? They got them into second 11 and


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[Assistant] Third and long a few times, which is rare for the Eagles. Cause the Eagles are usually in third and four and they go, we can run or pass or throw a screen. Everything's available. Right? And you're like, you're screwed.


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[Assistant] So that was one little thing, and just as we continue here too, the fact that the Chiefs only had eight third downs in the whole game, that says something to you about how they were doing on first and second.


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[Assistant] You know, I think those are two little just, you know, stats within the game that are kind of interesting, but let's keep going. Let's keep, so it's 27-21. We move our way into the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is where it started to come together, where you're like, whoa, okay, wait, the defense made a stand and stopped them at a field goal, they just had a long drive, and now they kind of surgically went down the field once again.


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[Assistant] Eight yard pass, eight yard run, ten yard pass, eight yard run, kind of balanced again where you're going, what? Like, Andy Reed and Biennami are kind of sticking with the run. And then this play, and again,


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[Assistant] You know, let's just stop it for a second right here, if you don't mind guys. Can we even do that? I think we can. We've done it before. Okay. Just so I can explain it. So again, stop it right there if you can. Um, or one of these times. Okay. I'll ask one more time. He says he can. There we go. We can do it. He's done it before, but either way. So this is where again,


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[Assistant] One of the worst third and short teams in all of football this year were the Kansas City Chiefs. They were either the second worst or the worst in football on third and short. Right? It's crazy to think that.


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[Assistant] So, here is a problem with their team all year long, and in their biggest moment, they were good in these situations all game long yesterday. Third and shorts, fourth and shorts. And again, it goes into coaching, game planning, and yes,


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[Assistant] The knowing, you know, of course, if I saw it, you know they saw it. I'm not trying to say like, hey, I'm good at what I do, but obviously they're damn coaches and they're watching a ton more film and breaking things down more than I am.


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[Assistant] So as we talked about in this breakdown of the motions and these shifts that give the Eagles issues, cause it happened more than just these touchdowns at the end of the game. There was a few plays in the regular field where we can go back and go, look, this gave them issues. There's a reason Kelsey was open in the middle, right?


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[Assistant] They're going, they go for the kill like we've talked about, right? They wanna squash whatever pie you're running.


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[Assistant] And they were expecting Tony to go across the formation.


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[Assistant] The emotion, how quickly and aggressive Tony takes off. They have to do it in a hurry. They're communicating.


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[Assistant] And they overplay their correction to where now, let's let it play guys and watch two and you'll see 23 on the top. See, he's starting to go down and then it's too late because they're going to switch roles because they're going to wait. We have the extra guy over there. They're crossing across the formation, but the chief self scouted thyself, right? And they went, wait,


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[Assistant] They think we're gonna zig and they're gonna do this and we're gonna do this and we're gonna do this so we're gonna zag when they do that and they won't have anybody there and that's just great game planning and knowing your opponent and


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[Assistant] Whoa! They're up 28-27. It was a third and two where the Eagles threw the ball. They threw the ball three straight downs.


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[Assistant] Third and two, right? They flushed him out of the pocket to the left, right? And he had to kind of throw the ball away out of bounds, like to the left side, right? If I'm remembering correctly. I could be wrong. There was a lot of liquor that was going in my veins and I'm trying to keep track of a lot of plays and everything.


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[Assistant] They threw the ball. Right. I think it was a play where he had to go to the left and kind of throw it away awkwardly. Okay. But either way,


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[Assistant] I'm sitting there now at this moment going, because again, we're watching, let's just put this into perspective, the great, one of the greatest momentum teams in the history of football, right? Like we've compared them to the Golden State Warriors. They're down by 10 and all of a sudden you look up and they're up by 22. How did that happen?


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[Assistant] And like, and like, and mind you, like 30 minutes before this, we're going, I hope they can hang on. They're getting their asses kicked. They're getting killed. Are they going to get blown out? Right. And all of a sudden we're going, what? They're going to get the ball back and they got all the mojo.


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[Assistant] And this is where they're special too. Cause they're, like we have talked about, they're never blink in the big situations. They love the big situations. That's the kind of personalities they have. And even guys who just are learning that personality in the last


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[Assistant] That was the first thing. Super Bowl history, right? I was like, oh, that's crazy. I know, right. My wife's like, how can that be? And I was like, well, usually teams in the Super Bowl are good at these things. They don't let guys run around free like this or a Big Pun return.


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[Assistant] This was, I think you said it right, the low punt, right? When it came out low and you kind of heard Burke, Burke, uh, Burkhart kind of go, Oh, low punt. And then you could kind of see Tony in the screen. You're like, wait, I don't see any Eagles in the screen. He didn't have a chance here. And then I was literally going, just go down.


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[Assistant] Go down! You know, I don't want anything bad to happen. I'm just like, give Mahomes the ball and he'll do the rest. And he makes the one guy miss and cuts across the field and all of a sudden, you know, me and my son, who's the biggest Mahomes fan ever, we're like, go, go, go! I'm sorry Eagles fans, you know, I'm sorry, I don't mean to


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[Assistant] They're expecting one when they see 24 and go in motion, speed sweep, reverse, or like,


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[Assistant] On the right side of the screen here, you got Kelsey and Juju Smith. They'll run shallow crosses and kind of muddle the linebacker safety area, right? To where he'll come out the back door and kind of be like a pick play, right? That's what they're really thinking. That's what they're playing for. But the Eagles and what has made them great.


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[Assistant] Got used against them once again. They're over-aggressive. Like, we're gonna go for the kill, even though it's...


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[Assistant] Third and goal from the four yard line. We're going to go to, I don't know, we're going to blitz and what? Make you lose five more yards. So it's a chip shot field goal instead of a.


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[Assistant] That's where, this is some of the things we can certainly question about, I think the game plan and all, or at least give the Chiefs credit for maybe out-coaching the Eagles in the second half too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're thinking that, and it's back to what you thought. They think, we think, they're gonna do this, cause we think, and that, and very similar concept.


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[Assistant] But instead, this time, he comes off of Valdez scaling, and the Eagles with 24 and 29, with Bradbury and Avanti-Maddox, right? They wanna switch this off, if the, if 11 and 24 switch.


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[Assistant] 11 runs inside and you can let it play now, right? To where see now 24 has 11 and 29 was getting ready to switch off and go across the formation and he puts the brakes on and comes back out and it's wide open. And again, that's why being over aggressive,


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[Assistant] Or being too predictable against a guy like Andy Reid and the Chiefs is dangerous. And my other thing is just like, why? Why not drop seven in coverage?


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[Assistant] Why blitz the greatest blitz quarterback in the history of football when he's on the four yard line in the Super Bowl? That to me, those are, I don't question much about what the Eagles did in the game or anything, but that's a moment I do go, why are we trying to cut off their head when it's not really necessary right now?


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[Assistant] To coach your team and go, wait, this is a real flaw of our team, these third and short situations. We have to get better in two weeks against one of the best defenses we've seen in football.


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[Assistant] That's what they're, that's what's, that's what's amazing. And, you're right, it was great game planning. Uh, and yeaah, I guess I just question a little of the over-aggressive nature of the Eagles right there in that department.


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[Assistant] It's kind of amazing. We're going to go through another cycle of a guy who was an architect of one of the.


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[Assistant] Rarest offenses, young quarterback who nobody thought was capable of doing this when he came out on the draft.


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[Assistant] And now we're just like, oh yea, you're right, yea, oh yea, he's coaching on those AFC champs, Super Bowls, no big deal. And just, oh that's alright, don't give him a job. Give it to some other guy. Yea. It's just weird. It's weird.


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[Assistant] And I know there's other guys that are deserving out there. It's just amazing that, you know, we're here again, three Super Bowls in four years, two out of the last four years you've won. And the guy, the offensive coordinator,


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[Assistant] I can't get a job. I just, as a head coach, I'm a little shocked by that still.


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[Assistant] I don't know what he was doing there. I don't know what that was. It was a total bust in coverage and for some reason...


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[Assistant] He went and ran with the slot receiver going up the seam, and it's like, I have a feeling he thought it might have been cover three. Here's the play. And yeaah, let's see it again, cause I haven't even seen this. This is interesting. I have a feeling


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[Assistant] He was late getting over there too. Yeah, he is. He was late getting over. I'm guessing he doesn't know the call there. I really don't know what he's doing here.


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[Assistant] Uh, either way, he played it way too aggressive. He did not need to jump, you know, Pascal number three on the seam because Thornhill is kind of there and ready to take it over. Uh, but either way, that was a huge moment and, you know.


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[Assistant] That's when you went, oh man, we're going down to an epic finish here. Cause you knew once they got that close, they were going to punch it in with that group blocking and him driving the pile.


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[Assistant] He's aw- I don't know why the saints let him go, you know?


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[Assistant] He's, he's phenomenal, as you saw. What, I mean- Lions make it happen. The third and one run by Pacheco off the left edge, I mean-


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[Assistant] You have a running back who runs 4-4 and it's you versus him, one on one on the field, and you just take him down matter of fact. Like that was like one of the best open field tackles of the night right there. That was phenomenal, but it was that run, that play, and then


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[Assistant] We're sick of seeing them run the ball a little bit with success, right? They were doing that.


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[Assistant] And I think they were going, wait, he's just gonna, if we rush four, he's just gonna have enough time to find a seven or eight yard completion every time. That's kind of what they were doing in the second half, right? Wasn't big plays, it was just a lot of smart, good,


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[Assistant] Containing, uh, mah homes. Like we talk about with all good running quarterbacks. I mean, they have five rushers. Four of them went by him.


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[Assistant] So he has to go, what, he has to get by Jordan Davis, number 90?


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[Assistant] That's the last land defense, right? So that to me was not great pass lane integrity. Plus, now you're rushing five against the greatest blitz quarterback we've ever seen in the history of football. And again, is the Mahomes factor there that it won't be a huge statistical thing, but a huge moment in the game because of his great ability.


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[Assistant] That's where he's, that's what I mean. He's, he can do, we're watching.


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[Assistant] And we're watching one of the greatest ever play. The greatest!


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[Assistant] This is like, we're watching a Michael Jordan-ish, I know Brady's the man and the goat and has all the accomplishments and all that, but we're watching a guy do it a different way here. As I've always said, I said this to Mike today, Brady was more Jeter, right?


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[Assistant] Great captain, leader, gonna do everything right, awesome player, don't get me wrong, but clutch, right, just clutch and clutch moments. This is a guy that literally, to me, is more like Michael.


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[Assistant] Jump on my back. I got it. Don't worry. Well, I'll figure it out here. It doesn't matter. They're dropping nine in the coverage. I'll run. They're blitzing everybody. Don't worry. I'll avoid the blitz and throw a big pass. It just doesn't matter. And that's where to me he's in a pantheon of


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, so that to me is like, I don't know, here's the problem with this whole conversation.


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[Assistant] To me, too much, yeah, okay, I know the call, big moment, all that. Too much of it was predicated on people, what I watched after the game was just feeling they cheated, they didn't get to see the greatest viewing experience in the history of their lives.


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[Assistant] Maybe it was, maybe it was. So here's the second part of this problem. And you see if you agree with me.


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[Assistant] Do you think you would even question this? Do you think you would even question this call? This would have called 100 out of 100 times. The problem is we get in the playoffs and refs don't call the game the same way.


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[Assistant] I would agree. I don't disagree with any of that. I know. That's where it confuses the situation when you don't have consistency. Right? Again, if this is week 10, nobody's even questioning this. This is called. It's already been called and you're right.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, in this moment, the magnitude of that moment, the game itself, yeaah, that's where. And it does seem like it was a game where they were letting people play.


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[Assistant] Right? So, again, I would love, I'm gonna watch the film, you know, I'm gonna be looking for these things. I'll certainly come back and go, yeah, I mean, yeah, you're right. They were holding all game. And then for them to call that, I'll let you know. But at the same point, you know, that has to be called.


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[Assistant] You're, you're, if you're just gonna let like, okay, they, again, they're going for an over aggressive. I think they were trying to double Kelsey.


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[Assistant] And now they're using that motion or we're going to run a shallow cross or something across the formation, right? And unfortunately, James Bradbury was in the most vulnerable spot of their defense. He was in the spot where you go.


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[Assistant] They put him in the, they call like these two or three plays spot, right? That's what they did. And they faked that shallow cross. It's a double move. He's going to fake like he's running that shallow cross because they do it all the time. And he was going to come back out.


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[Assistant] And to me where they kind of messed up on the telecast a little bit was they kept showing the second tiki-tack.


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[Assistant] The, the, the original hold was the biggest thing. When he was starting to now come out of his break, that's when you saw the jersey pull. That's true. And again, that's where a guy who runs 4.5 runs 4.8 now, and let alone you're running faster because you've slingshotted yourself there.


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[Assistant] You know, and, and that's where, again, I know it's tough, but none of us wanted to see it end that way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think when you add all that together, I don't think that ball was going to be uncatchable at all. I mean, if you made me bet money with that guy, that was going to fall in his pocket. I mean, that's what I would have bet. It would have been a smart hold. Yeah, I mean, yeah, so, uh, credit to him for owning up to it.


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[Assistant] I mean, the NFL should send them a bouquet of flowers today to go thank you for defusing what everybody was going to try to make a big issue because they didn't like it or because they felt cheated as a viewer and didn't get all the drama they wanted. But yea, that was a big moment.


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[Assistant] I just, you know, obviously they make the field all, just can't say enough about the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, I, I, I agreed. I mean, my homes and what they did, and then I, I, I'm gonna also put, I'm gonna flip the other side around.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is the most unstoppable offense in football. They had to settle for a field goal before the half. They had to settle for a field goal to start the third quarter after a long touchdown drive. They went three and out, and then they put a drive together.


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[Assistant] And they got the best offensive line. Listen, this is where, this is, this is where I want, the magnitude of the Chiefs is real. I mean, Peter King didn't write a column last week about the Eagles offensive line because he's some great scout himself. He's being told by people all around football, it's the best offensive line they've seen in 10 years, if not longer.


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[Assistant] So, they did that with a guy that was second-team all-pro quarterback, MVP discussion.


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[Assistant] You know, arguably the best receiving duo in football, really good tight end play and they slowed down their attack and held them to 11 points and they couldn't run the ball in the second half.


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[Assistant] I mean, between the Mahomes and what he did to what you said to move the ball on that defense, and then for their defense again,


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[Assistant] Two out of three Super Bowls where they play a great running team like the 49ers and that. And...


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[Assistant] They kinda go, eh, we're gonna squash your best thing. And we're gonna make the second best thing about you beat us, and we'll see if you can beat us. Oh, Jimmy Garoppolo, you're not gonna beat us with your right arm, okay? Hurts, you played really good, and you almost beat us with your right arm.


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[Assistant] We were right, we weren't gonna let the run game beat us, we didn't think the right arm could do it, and they didn't. And that's, I'm not trying to say that's a slight on Jalen Hurts, cause I know that's probably how it sounded, I'm just saying, the number one thing was they had to control that run game. And they did do that in the second half, and that's where,


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[Assistant] I'm just amazed with what they did. End of second quarter from on was just valiant effort.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Against the Patriots. Well, well, this is the double-digit, oh, half-time lead. Right. Half-time lead. Cause I was gonna say, I mean, Mahomes also came from a double-digit fourth quarter lead. That's true.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Brady vs. Seahawks was down 10 in the 4th quarter. Yeah. Right? And they did that, which was also in Arizona. What is it with Arizona and Great Superbowl? That's true, yeah. Well, we should have it there, except for the


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[Assistant] Norm. They went something with some special golf grass. Okay. Right? So, there's that. And then...


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, maybe sometimes it doesn't always have to be about them looking the absolute best. It's gotta be a little bit about the quality and safety of our players. And yeah, to me it just looked like a grass that was just not...


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[Assistant] You know, strong enough, rooted enough. That would be the big thing. It looked like it was all for the optics.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's perfectly green and it's like a fair way to hit a nice seven iron off of. Great. But is it made for a guy that's 320 pounds to be able to dig his cleat in the ground and cut? Or even a 150 pound kicker. Or even that. Exactly, cause we saw the Eagles kicker, right? He even slipped at one point.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, that, that stunk. We don't want to see that in our biggest games or biggest


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[Assistant] Well, I always feel like these kind of things hurt the team that's probably the more physically gifted team, the team that has a little more power and speed on it, which was the Eagles.


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[Assistant] You know, not that I didn't see both teams slipping, we know that, it stunk, but, you know, I saw Hasan Reddick, he said after the game, there was a few times he felt like he was about to turn the corner.


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[Assistant] I'll, I'll, I'll look at on the, uh, on the film and try to get a better gauge of, but, uh, yeaah, that just stunk that that was kind of a part of the game and you heard both teams talk. It was a distraction. They were having to talk about it on the sidelines throughout the football game.


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[Assistant] That's where they're special. That's where Andy Reed and Veach, they have a great eye for talent. The culture of their players to, like we talked about a few weeks ago, to indoctrinate the young guys and get them up to speed and get them up to the chief's way of life is, uh, that's special. They have some special personalities there, you know, and they got some,


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[Assistant] Kelsey's in that section. Shit, Chris Jones might even be in that section here before we know it. Chris Jones was fired up. He was mad. Early on. Oh, they were doing some dumb crap and getting pushed around and again, they're a team that


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[Assistant] You know, they, they're, they pride, even though they're all about passing in my homes, as we've just tried to tell people a lot, they're a team that prides themselves on their physicality. They don't got all those big people to play patty cakes. They're, they're trying to, to hit you too. And I think they reminded everybody that once again, you know, that they, they can play big boy football.


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[Assistant] But yea, I'm interested to see his game too. Like I have a feeling like his stats weren't great, but I have a feeling like there was a lot of like, oh, we couldn't move him. We were trying to run here and we couldn't do it because he was clogging it up. Spagnolo's defensive game plan.


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[Assistant] You know, taking the tactical chances that we talked about, run game, blitzes, different looks.


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[Assistant] Like, to me, off the charts good. You know, they slayed the beast here.


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[Assistant] Spagnolo was a defensive coordinator who's here like the 2007 Patriots. He beat a team that like their unit was better, but because of your coaching and your scheme,


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[Assistant] You helped even the scales there. And that allowed your offense then to now come back into play to where they could play a game they wanted. And yeah, I just, you know, again.


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[Assistant] Should I just pick the Chiefs just to, so we don't do this? He should've. Yeah, he wanted to. Yeah. And he went, well, I'm taking the Eagles, but I don't want to now. That's what he said.


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[Assistant] They think the bangles would beat the eagles. The bangles would be a good match over the eagles. Oh, I see. So if the bangles can somehow get there. But the bills to beat the eagles? The bills and eagles are the same. They're the same odds. Which shouldn't be. With the 49ers.


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[Assistant] The Eagles and the 49ers should be above the Bills. I, I think. You know, the Bills have to show you, do they have to do something with their roster before you're gonna put, they're not in the class.


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[Assistant] The bills yesterday, if they had to play that team, what? They would have got steamrolled.


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[Assistant] We saw the bangles steamroll with them. What do you think the eagles would have done?


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[Assistant] You know, that's where, it's being overrated there a little bit, but gosh, I'd still Chiefs and Eagles would be, you know, despite what Jerry Jones egregiously said wrong.


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[Assistant] So that's gonna disrupt the formula a little bit. They're gonna have to finally like be like in, you know, my homes in Kansas Cityville where they're gonna be like, oh shit, we got to like start balancing check books here and we might have to let go of a guy or two we don't want to, but those are good problems to have. And, um, yeah, but I'm, I mean, I'm still


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[Assistant] Like, uh, I'm still picking the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl next year. So when we do it- It's already done. It's already done. When we do the preseason picking- We already know. Because I think the Chiefs are one of those teams where...


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[Assistant] I know, I guess. I guess people I just thought went too far. You know, like Keenan Allen, when he saw the trade happen, they showed a tweet at him on social media where he was like, this is going to expose some people.


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[Assistant] And I honestly think the Chiefs didn't. Well they didn't because they have a big play quarterback. Yea. And they have a big play offensive coordinator and head coach who can come up with it in a way. And really at the end of the day


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[Assistant] It was a crazy year, it was a crazy year, uh, and, you know, like in a lot of ways, you know, my homes and...


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[Assistant] You know, the referees being involved in the last play, a little bit of the microcosm of the year in general, right? And we talk about refereeing a lot, right? So yea, there's a lot of things, but it was an unbelievable year. It really was. And we saw a clash of the titans.


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[Assistant] You know, in the Super Bowl. And this is why football is great.


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[Assistant] Because I think more than any other sport, in these matchups, the lesser team can win.


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[Assistant] You know, with great game planning and executing and doing all the right things the right way, right? Even though, okay, we might not be quite as good, but if we listen to our coaches, and their game plan's good, and we don't make mistakes, and maybe just make a play here and there,


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[Assistant] We could actually beat a team that's better than us. And that's what happened yesterday. And that's why, you know, the action never stops at BenMG.


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[Assistant] On the lions to win the Superbowl next season. Damn, you'll be rich if they win. You win, you'll get $2,500, but if you lose, you'll still get a hundred dollars


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[Assistant] I know. That is the worst. Darn. Darn it is. That's rough. That is rough. That is the worst. They have a lot to be proud of. They are a really good football team. Jalen Hurts proved a lot of people wrong this year. Me included. Did some great things. There's no doubt about that. And I think they're going to be hanging around for a long time.


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[Assistant] This is really interesting here, right? I think they'll be able to keep, like Chauncey Gardner Johnson, they're gonna keep him. Why?


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[Assistant] I'd be shocked. I can't remember what they gave up for him, Pete. Maybe you could look up. I want to say a second rounder. Was it that much? I didn't think it was that much. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they chose Honey Badger over him. That's basically what happened, which was kind of shocking, because he's, to me, a notch above Honey Badger right now.


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[Assistant] Fifth and a sixth. Fifth and a sixth, damn. They gave back a seventh, right. So that means it was like Chauncey basically was like, I don't want to be here anymore, you're not going to pay me. And they knew they weren't going to be able to hold him for much more ransom than that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Detroit Lions. So that, I just look at like, they need, like, James Bradbury, I'd be interested to see where that goes, right? He might command a pretty good penny, still a good player. You know, they are gonna have to pay the quarterback, I think, this offseason, like we talked about.


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[Assistant] You know, Chauncey Gardner Johnson to me is one you want to keep. Both linebackers being free. TJ Edwards of course is the better one.


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[Assistant] You know, Robert Quinn, you know, Pete texted me last night, like, you know, we, you know, I was one that thought Robert Quinn thing would be good. I think he played like one or two games and then like disappeared. I don't know if I ever saw him on the field again. I don't know what happened there. So he won't be back. Now here's another interesting part.


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[Assistant] Fletcher Cox is like part of their DNA, right? Right. He's a homegrown...


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[Assistant] Was, he's a Hall of Fame defensive tackle for me, Fletcher Cox. But he's not, like, dominant anymore. You have a Jovan Hargrave, who's three years younger.


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[Assistant] Who's a better player than he is right now. So that's kind of like, I think Fletcher, hopefully they can figure out a deal that makes sense for both of them, because I think they're going to have to pay Hargrave a pretty little penny there. And then, Miles Sanders, I could see him being,


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[Assistant] You know, commanding more money than then they want to give to him, and they're probably going to look at it and go, wait, running backs here, like, we got holes the size of a truck, like, we don't need to have the best one, right? That's an area they could save money. You know, and then Isaac Suomulo, the right guard, he's a real damn good run blocker and everything.


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[Assistant] I think they got a chance to keep around half the guys on this list, right? They just gotta prioritize who they wanna keep the most and see if guys like Fletcher Cox will give them a little bit of a hometown, homegrown deal where they can both feel respected.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're pretty good. Well, you know, they're actually, again, I'm calling this off the top of my head, but they have two first rounders this year? Because they traded one of them to the Saints last year, remember? That's right. Right? So they have two first rounders.


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[Assistant] 31st pick, or the 30th pick now, because Miami loses there, there's only 31 picks in the first round this year. So the 10th and the 30th pick, for the team that won the Super Bowl, or lost the Super Bowl. The team that's the best roster, that didn't win the Super Bowl, but they have two first round picks. Holy shit is right. That'll help. Yeah. Dan, I wouldn't be shocked to see them get


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[Assistant] Now that I'm thinking about it, like, pick 30, they're gonna pick a running back, and we're gonna go, this is the best, this is an all-star offense. Yeah, you're screwed. Yeah. You're screwed. That's what's gonna happen here.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean 10, they're gonna be able to do, they're gonna be able to get a blue chip player, big time cover corner, maybe that makes James Bradbury, this is, you know, you know, maybe another pass rusher. Yeaah. This, you know, gosh, they're gonna have some flexibility, so watch out for that.


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[Assistant] My month of, uh, March and April can, that's what they do. You hate it, but you love it. I do. I hate it. I love it. I usually, it's just a stress cause it's always like, wait, there's, there's somebody else I haven't seen. I got to see the next guy. I got to see the next guy. You don't want to see enough of this guy. Did I spend enough time on this position group?


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[Assistant] You know, cause I do have a job and have to talk about other things where I can't. First thing I'm gonna do though is we'll look at film a big time free agents. That's always the first thing I'd do.


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[Assistant] Just to get a little feel so when teams, people start to ask me about, you know, what this guy should do or where he should be or how much he should be paid.


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[Assistant] I can gauge it a little bit better, so that'll be my first order of business and then I'll start getting into that draft stuff. Be a fun off season. You know it. You and me, kid. Let's do it. We're here, all off season. Hope everybody enjoyed Super Bowl 57. How could you not have?


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[Assistant] Precipice, the start of a dynasty, I think officially here, uh, pretty damn special. And we're watching one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the sport, still at a very young part of his career. Should be awesome for us into the future. Hope everybody enjoys the next two days. Check us out on Wednesday. Subscribe, rate, review. Ahmed, you the man. Thanks for driving the ship as always. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching, homies. Hit subscribe to see all my Unbuttoned videos. You get to see me, Ahmed Fareed, all the big player breakdowns, game breakdowns, player interviews, and my film analysis. So please subscribe. Chris Sims, Unbuttoned. Peace out.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, what's up baby, that's right, that was last Saturday, and I will be doing the same this Saturday, that's right, yeaah baby, that's right, it will be Christmas Eve, I'll have more family around. Yeaah. Uhm, I have not had the best track record on Christmas Eve the last few years. Uh oh. Yeaah, it's been uhm,


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[Assistant] I haven't been Santa's helper, that's for sure. When it comes time to, hey, kids go to bed, you know, so the wife and I can start to put the gifts out and do all that.


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[Assistant] I have found to be passed out a few times the last few years and have been unable to help my wife. So I've been feeling guilty about that. I'm going to try not to do that this week. Okay. Okay. You say try. I know. I know. But it's just, it's, it's hard for me. All right. I'm a, I'm a battle of the metal kind of guy. I think you know that enough about me, whether it's work, life, whatever, I go hard and, uh,


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[Assistant] When it's time to play, I play hard. I'm a little worried between, yes, a full day of family, you know, a bar there the whole day, my own, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my dad will be there. My dad is not going to be there because it's the NFL Saturday, you know, Sunday on the Saturday, so he won't be there. The rest of my family, yeah, my brother, my brother-in-law, my sister, my sister-in-law, their family, so yes, everybody will be a bigger event.