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[Assistant] Who you pickin' on your zombie apocalypse team? I'll give you one that I know you're gonna put in there already, Aaron Donald. So Aaron Donald's going in there. For sure.


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[Assistant] Two more players. You got your head coach there. You need two more players.


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[Assistant] Fletcher Cox and Quentin Nelson are all faster than me anyway. I'm, I'm reluctant to pick a speed guy because if, if push does come to shove and you gotta get out of there, they're gonna eat the slowest guy first. Like the zombies are gonna get the slowest guy. You don't wanna be the slowest out of your crew.


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[Assistant] That's my only reluctance to pick like a Saquon Barkley or some player like that because I'm like, if we're running out of there, yeaah, I want you to leave me in the dust.


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[Assistant] The only thing that I agree with a lot of those players, maybe not Michael Thomas because of the speed thing.


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[Assistant] The only thing is I might consider taking Bill Belichick off and putting, uh, Greg Williams in there. No rules for Greg. Hit the head. Hit the head. Yes, exactly. He figured out ways. No rules. You got no rules here. It's a zombie apocalypse. You just got to figure out how to survive. I feel like Greg Williams, uh, could do that. I almost thought about putting


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[Assistant] George Kittle in there too, cause he seems so crazy that he would enjoy it, just like those other players that you mentioned. Uh, good question here from MattKaden44 that says, are the top three tight ends in the league, Kittle?


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[Assistant] Would you, uh, we're not doing, we're not going to do the top 10 tight ends right now. We don't want to create any more controversy, but just off the top of your head, without thinking about it too much, we got Kittle, Kelsey, and Erts. Are those the top three in your mind?


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, let's go back to your, uh, to college days here in a, uh, a former,


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[Assistant] Was traded for a haul of picks and then what happened to him over with, uh, with Dallas after that. So yeah, what do you remember about your playing days of Roy Williams and what do you think of his, uh, his career arc there in the pros?


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[Assistant] That's interesting. Yeaah, he's listed here on Football Reference at 215. That might have been when he came into the league or midway through his career. So looking at the stats here, he had one year, only one year.


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[Assistant] I would have thought he had more, over a thousand yards. He had 1300, uh, 2006 in Detroit, played all 16 games. It was actually the only time in his career that he played every single game. Uh, the only time he went over a thousand yards as well in the last


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[Assistant] You know, two in Dallas, he was at 500 yards, both those years, final year in Chicago, 500 yards. So yeaah, wasn't the peak, uh, peak performance that we thought. No, that is good.


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[Assistant] So Roy Williams there. There's another question here too, Todd Rice, who said, who was the best wide receiver you played with in your career? And who was one you wish you played with? I feel like maybe we've gone down this road before, but


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[Assistant] Refresh me on that. You just said Roy Williams was one of the best, one of the best two players you played with at Texas. What about your entire career, your best wide receiver?


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[Assistant] Chris Dimm slams disrespects Randy Moss as the headline picks Brandon Marshall over him.


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[Assistant] That's interesting, because I'm sure some quarterbacks feel like the opposite. Like, you know what? This player might not be as talented, but he won't be a headache. You know, he won't be a headache like Randy Moss or Steve Smith. You think opposite. You think the other way around.


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[Assistant] Uh, that is the end of the pod because we're an hour and 20 in and Chris has got to recharge his pod. So there it is right there. I was like, do we do one more? We end it right there. And I was like, you know what? That's the sign. His AirPods have lost charge and he's probably delayed once again here. So we've, we've pushed the technology.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Pete says we can pause it. You know, your equipment's falling apart. We're lucky to have made it this far. That's what I always, I think, with, you know, with this system, it's lucky that we are here. Let's clap it up. Let's end on a positive note.


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[Assistant] He did, I think he corrected it. It was a little slip of the tongue and then he corrected it, but I appreciate that. It's not the first time, it will not be the last time. And in fact, I might just change it to a mod, because I feel like it might even be catchier.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what's up? Come on man, subscribe on YouTube to Chris Simms on Button Podcast. I need you, please hit the subscribe button, please!


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[Assistant] Yep, I've had lots of code words in my day. Lots of code words. No, you just say it. You don't need to hide it. You just say it. You're like, I don't need a code word. I'm just going to say it.


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[Assistant] You just remember it because it's so bright and so red. It is similar to your...


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[Assistant] Blue and black. Right, right, right. I see that one quite a bit. I feel like that's your girl. I haven't worn it since June! See? Same thing, it just sticks out in her head. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.


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[Assistant] And we lock the door, and you look at these games, some of these individual players, and tell us what the F happened with it. So we'll look at Cowboy's Falcons. I know.


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll look at Cowboys, Falcons. We'll look at Rams, Eagles. You want to look at Jared Goff. Yeah. Paul, Paul pushed you a little bit. He was like, maybe you're just a golf hater. Maybe you just will never love him no matter what he does. Uh, but we also want to look a little bit. Did you look at Carson Wentz and what's going on with their offense?


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[Assistant] Whoa, that's a little- I know, I don't think we're gonna go there.


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[Assistant] I'm not done with that, I'm only in the third quarter right now. Okay, alright. And at the end, time permitting, as always, we have our Trevor Lawrence top pick Power Rangers. Oh, well we're definitely, what do you mean, if we have time? Huge shake-up!


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[Assistant] Let's just start with the news, the passing of Gale Sayers. I'll pull up the story from Mike Florio. Former Bears running back, died at the age of 77.


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[Assistant] Took the league by storm as a rookie in 1965 in the Hall of Fame. Yep.


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[Assistant] He uh, he was the back that a lot of people credit.


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[Assistant] With changing the way we viewed a running back in the NFL. For many years it was the bruiser, you just knock people over, you run through them, you get tackled, you get back up back when that was allowed in the NFL. Gale Sayers was an artist out there. He would make moves and he was just smooth and really kind of ushered in a new type of running back in the league.


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[Assistant] He retired and he was, at the time, 46th all time.


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[Assistant] PBS, uh, uh, tonight. Yup. Just well-liked guy, well-loved guy, and, uh, died at the age of, uh, 77. So sad news in the NFL.


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[Assistant] His career was cut short because of knee injuries, bad knees. We saw a lot of that in the NFL this week. You talked about it with Paul. Last time you were here, you were knocking over all of your bobble heads. It was a brutal, brutal week.


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[Assistant] So at some point, the NFL will wise up and turn off injuries. We'll get to that point. I don't know, maybe they should do it here. But despite that, some good football that was played. Let's get into the first.


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[Assistant] There were a lot of points at least. Good thing, I don't know if there were any major injuries for Cowboys-Falcons, right? I don't remember any. So that's good. And they scored a combined 70, 79 points in the game. Cowboys came back in one.


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[Assistant] You've got CD Lamb that went off. You've got Dalton Schultz in the mix here. Over, uh, he had 88 yards on 9 catches. Uhm, so, so where do you want to start with the, with the Cowboys offense? I mean, they, it wasn't like they couldn't, you know, put up a bunch of points in, in a bunch of yards last year. Yeah. You want to do Cowboys though? Yeah, whatever.


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[Assistant] Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do Cowboy Zone and what you saw from them and what may have been different


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[Assistant] They fumbled three times early. Yes. They missed a couple fake punts that blew up on them. Exactly right. So they missed a fake punt early too. Yeaah. And ten minutes in.


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[Assistant] That wasn't by luck. It could be a long year for them. I want to give credit to Greg Zurline as well. The on-site, the slow-motion on-site kick. It's amazing. I feel like kickers are like the, I was thinking about this, they're like the mom of the NFL.


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[Assistant] It's like we take them for granted. I wish we would stop doing that, right? I know. Because they're so crucial. Yes, they are. You only notice them, it's like mom. You only, it's not, you don't notice them when mom picks you up from practice, cooks you that meal. You notice when she misses you, like doesn't pick you up from practice. Right, right. When she doesn't see you. Didn't make your lunch for school. You're like, what the f-


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[Assistant] I mean, they put Mike McCarthy and I hate when coaches do this. It was like they got into field goal range and settled for a 46 yarder to win the game at the end there. I don't like, I hate that. At that point, you've done all this to come back in the game and now we're just going to kneel on it and run Zeke up the middle. And it's like, we don't want to make it a 30 yard field. It's going to settle for a 46 yarder.


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[Assistant] I mean, very middle of the road. They tried, they gave it to him 21 times. I know. He gained 61 yards. No, I know. Longest was 8.


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[Assistant] Sounds like you think both of these teams will be in games like this multiple times this year. You think Atlanta's gonna be in shootouts? You think the Cowboys could be in shootouts?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, see if there's anything else here.


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[Assistant] So real quick here, you put this in here and this is a good idea. The totem pole of shame as we wrap this game up.


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[Assistant] Order of people who are to blame for Atlanta's collapse here. You got the defense, you got the hands team, you got Julio with that drop TD pass, and you got Dan Quinn, who went for two early on, didn't get it, which proved to be an important point.


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[Assistant] Uh, and another collapse here. What's the totem pole of shame for the Felc-


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[Assistant] Uh, Rams feeling pretty good about how they've started the season so far. You wanna start out Rams O, Eagles D? I think so. Okay, so let's do that. We'll go positive first, cause I know you're gonna crush the Eagles offense.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the Rams look pretty good. Jared Goff again, 20 of 27, 267 yards, three touchdowns. His passer rating, Chris, and I know you buy into passer rating, 100%, 142.1. That was his passer rating. Yeah, it's impressive. He's done a game since 2014 for him.


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[Assistant] Here's what Jared Goff needs to do. He needs to leave Sean McVay, he needs to go hook up with Gary Kubiak, he needs to dominate, and then finally then will he get the Chris Simms seal of fame.


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[Assistant] And it, it's tough. Honestly, watching the tape, it, he does make it easy. I mean like not easy, like it's gotta still be executed, but they're rolling them out, they're play action, so many deceptions, so many deceptions.


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[Assistant] I was watching golf and after seeing him do all these bootlegs and rolls and play actions and stuff like that, there were a couple where he would just play action, drop back in the pocket and they'd hit a cross to Woods, Cooper Cup.


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[Assistant] Over the middle. I was like, man, that kind of looks like Tom Brady. In a weird way. It was like, it was like he's hitting these crossing routes with receivers that are very New England, too. Yeah, right. Just like right now.


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[Assistant] And you can come back. There's no rule that says you can't make a note about the Rams off after you come back. No. It's good. It's good. We're good. I think we hit it all. We hit it all.


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[Assistant] This is what, and I wrote this down when I was watching the game. You know, golf, the rolling them out, play action, receivers are open. McFay is making it easy for him.


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[Assistant] It looks completely the opposite for Carson Wentz. It was like, hey, Carson Wentz, drop back, try to make something happen here, try, try to fit it into a tight window there. It just seemed like for, for Carson, what he was asked to do was at a such a higher level, such a different level than what they were asking Jared Goff to do. It was, it was striking when I was watching the game.


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[Assistant] They had a drive and it did look a little easier for them. I don't know if they made adjustments or what they did at that point. And so Went started out on fire in the third quarter. Right. And then it ends with him trying to thread the needle with the fastball into double cover. And that was stupid. Right.


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[Assistant] They need playmakers, figure out a way to get Deshaun Jackson open down the field. They got a guy, they drafted, they obviously think highly of. Yeaah. Jalen Hurts, is there anything you think they can do with him to make life easier for Doug Peterson, to make life easier for Carson Wentz? Sure, I mean, I'm all for trick plays.


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[Assistant] Carson Wentz snapped a streak of 20 straight games with a touchdown, which was the longest active streak in the NFL thrown to his tight ends a bunch. Cause yeah, just not a lot of other options out there. 30 targets to tight ends this season. Nine more than any other quarterback. So it's just, it was short, tight end, erts, godert.


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[Assistant] Yes, yeaah. Because I want to hear it. He had a touchdown pass, 20 straight games. Gotcha, yeaah, right. Uh, 30 targets to tight ends this season. Yeaah. That's nine more than any other quarterback. So no other quarterback is throwing to his tight ends more. They got two good ones. They do. They can be part of a productive offense. Yes.


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[Assistant] From your guy, Oh Aaron Ra, Oh Aaron Rogers. Wow, good harmony right there, right? It was good harmony, yes. Okay, so he crushed the Lions, so they have a huge caveat there. It was against Detroit, huge caveat. Yep. I don't know if you're going to talk that much about the Lions, but they look not very good at all.


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[Assistant] Uh, but Rogers looks good. He looks rejuvenated. You said he was like 2014.


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[Assistant] Aaron Rodgers, Vintage, A-Rod. So you wanted to watch this game just because you wanted to, like you needed a break from life's realities and go back and be like, wow, Aaron Rodgers is doing it. He is crushing it.


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[Assistant] That's interesting too, though, because both of those teams drafted a running back rather high, which kind of indicates to you they were thinking about the running game, and they were thinking about how they could help their team.


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[Assistant] If you're Aaron Rodgers to get, to go against the first week, the Minnesota Vikings with the secondary, very inexperienced that's maybe in shambles. And then the second week Detroit Lions, not to say that they haven't been great and that made some significant changes, but that is like a tailor made first two weeks to get your offense going. No doubt.


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[Assistant] First touchdown, the Lions dropped seven into coverage, looked like they were mostly in man to man and Aaron Jones, the linebacker that was on him just got picked and he was wide open, walked into the end zone.


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[Assistant] I don't know if by the end of this year we're going to be talking about him as being a top 5 running back. Because he had, not only did he have 168 yards in this game and broke the long one of course to start the second half.


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[Assistant] But the, what he can do is a pass catcher on the wheel routes. And not just wheel routes five yards down the field, like 30 yards down the field. No, I know. And make catches. I wonder if we've been, I know you haven't been, but if we've been sleeping on Aaron Jones.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's. Pass rush, the, no. Uh, they, Rogers has been blitzed. Pete put this in here. Yeah. Per PFF. Right. On 17% of his drop backs. Lowest in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Let's move on to another one here. It's my boy blue, my boy blue, my boy blue. Josh Allen and the Bills beat the Dolphins 31-28.


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[Assistant] Josh Allen credited with a career high 471 yards. Is that, uh, combines his passing and running in the game? Is that what, uh, yeaah. 417 passing. 417 passing.


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[Assistant] What do you have running? 18. So it's 4-17 passing. Four touchdowns.


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[Assistant] A week after throwing, uh, for 300 yards for the first time in his career, uh, he, he is a different, you've always liked him. Yeaah. But he's, he's proving you right this year.


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[Assistant] First thing is this. Yeah, so what are they doing? Are they making life easier for him? Has he really started to refine some parts of his game? The talent, he has refined it.


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[Assistant] There's still some, there's still some ugly plays in there. Yeaah. There are a couple, there was almost, uh, beginning of the third quarter, I think, he almost threw a pick in his own end, uhm, to 53, I forget who that was.


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[Assistant] That, that, that, it's almost like, is, is he like a, like a Brett Favre who can run better and is just more imposed, physically imposing. He's going to make these awesome, great plays, downfield, huge arm, but you're going to have some of those plays where you're like, man, what was he doing?


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[Assistant] It is getting there. Can we look at another player on the offense that I think has helped them a lot. We're going to highlight another player.


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[Assistant] Who starred for the Bills offense. Time to take it up to 100. Presented by Head & Shoulders.


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[Assistant] And it's a player that... He's taken it to 100. He's taken it to 100. Yes. And has helped, uh, Josh Allen immensely. What player is that?


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[Assistant] capital to add to your team. Now is the time to do it. You got 13 targets for digs, 8 catches, 153 yards and a touchdown.


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[Assistant] It made me, uhm, think back to my days playing varsity baseball. Right. And, uh, I don't, I can't compare myself to a lot of these professional athletes, but I think this does, is that


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[Assistant] I was playing shortstop and I could get to any ball, but I had a hard time getting it to first base accurately. It'd be in the dirt or whatever. And when I was playing JV, it was like, ah, those are errors. And it's like, Ahmed, what are you doing?


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[Assistant] I got called up to Varsity, and the first baseman's better. He's like picking those plays, and all of a sudden it's like, wow, Amid's getting to everything, he's making plays, like,


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[Assistant] Some parts of it, he maybe hasn't changed a whole bunch, but it's like Stephon Diggs makes him look good. And some of those errant passes, like I saw it a couple times, there was one that I thought, oh that looks like a pick towards the sideline. And Diggs jumped up and caught it. He just went, yea, he jumped up and caught it. I know what you're talking about. In front of the defensive back, and it's just like how much he can help Josh Allen get over some of those.


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[Assistant] They believe in him. He's got Stefan Diggs to help him out too. That was Take It Up to 100 presented by Head & Shoulders.


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[Assistant] Or as I like to say, hunded. Hun, hundo, hundi. Hundo. I think hundo's more old. That's more like old school. We got a hundo. Let's go, let's move on. We got Tom Brady, we got Drew Brees. We're gonna get through those two, okay? The two old, old quarterbacks. The old timers. The old fogies. Let's go Brady first.


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[Assistant] Uh, which we skipped them accidentally in the Monday pod, Bucks and Panthers.


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[Assistant] Inexcusable. It is inexcusable. I hold myself accountable. Uh, okay, so let's go, uhm, we got a couple comments on Brady here. Yeah, go ahead. Let me hear them all. Bradley Clem, three.


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[Assistant] Brady looks like he's gonna have an aneurysm with the penalties and drops. Arian said they left 125 yards and three touchdowns and drops on the field. There were some bad ones.


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[Assistant] Football focus note that it could have been swamp ass on the ball.


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[Assistant] We should write him an email maybe. Uh, okay, uh, da-da-da-da. What's your next comment? Yeah, PFF has charted Brady with seven drop passes, speaking of them. Matches the highest of any quarterback in a game the last two seasons, so that hasn't been good for him. But I think overall he looks, he looks fine, right?


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[Assistant] Really good early. I almost wonder if they took the foot off the gas as the game went on.


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[Assistant] One of the questions coming into the season was how they were going to protect Tom Brady if they were going to be able to do it effectively. Wolfman182 asks you, wondering what your thoughts are on Tristan Worth.


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[Assistant] He showed a video of Tristan Wurfs pedaling backwards. Uhm, it was insane. Well, his legs are unreal. He's moving like a running battle. I was like, how is he doing that?


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[Assistant] What? No. He should have had 150 yards and not hit 103. And not hit 103 off of 12 carries, right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] One last one about this game in Tomb Raider. Wolf. No, no, no, no. Go fish Steve. Go fish Steve. Curious your thoughts on Gronk being non-existent thus far. Yes. One target.


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[Assistant] Has only three passes, 20 or more yards downfield this season. He was 0 for 1 on Monday night.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so they're not throwing the ball downfield. And here's the problem.


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[Assistant] He wasn't throwing the ball that accurately short, either, in this game. And I will note...


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[Assistant] that your top 40 quarterback rankings for 2020 had drew breeze 16.


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[Assistant] And Derek Carr 19 closer together than most people probably thought was appropriate. And probably in five weeks from now, people are going to go.


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[Assistant] We should do a whole quarterback, Kristen's top 40 victory lap. Yeaah. Like all the different things where you're like, hey, remember when you thought this was dumb? Yeaah. Well guess what? It wasn't.


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[Assistant] Only offensive weapon. Yeah. At times in that game. Yes. It's like if it's not Elvin Kamara, uh, trick one Smith. Yes. Had a few moments. Yep. But it's like Elvin Kamara is the offense, at least in that game.


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[Assistant] But the Raiders did the opposite. I mean a lot of times we talk about Derek Carr in the same way we talk about Drew Brees. Yeaah. John Gruden's being careful with him, short passes, gotta make it 10 plays, 80 yards down the field.


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[Assistant] No, they were letting, at least in the second half, it seemed like they were letting Derek Carver bring it. They did.


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[Assistant] Anybody. Anybody. Before the season, credit to you again, we were talking about Kelsey, we were talking about Kittle, we were like, who's third? And you said, it might be Darren Waller.


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[Assistant] They threw to him 16 times. He caught 12 of them. Uh, it just seemed like wherever he was on the field, they're like, yep, he's got that matchup. He's the mismatch.


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[Assistant] Gotta figure it out. Saints, uh, gonna struggle perhaps to score some points. They're gonna lean on that defense. Good defense to do that with. Uhm, so we'll see if they can, they can do that. Alright, you ready? Ready. Finally, the last part of the podcast.


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[Assistant] The Trevor Lawrence top pick power rankings. Oh, yeaah. And I want to note that these are the picks for what we think is the teams most likely to get Trevor Lawrence. Not that they will draft Trevor Lawrence.


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[Assistant] So, uh, three teams have fallen out of my top five. The Bengals were at four, the Browns were at two. They played too competitive of a game. It was too competitive. They showed too much promise on offense, both of those teams, where I didn't feel comfortable keeping them in the top five. So I'm sorry, Bengals, Browns, you're out.


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[Assistant] Jaguars, I'm sorry too. They were five. And they're out. They're blowing it. It almost looks like...


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[Assistant] They might be good or something. Maybe they've found a franchise quarterback in Gardner Minshew, right? I mean, it's just, so, so they're out of it, and they're way out of it too. I don't know if I'll be putting them back in anytime soon. Right. Uh, so our, our, we got three new teams in here then. Number five, Falcons.


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[Assistant] Coming on strong. Coming on strong. With a defense that looks like will keep them in the conversation. Right. Like the offense scares me. The offense can beat some people. But this defense, I feel like will keep them in the conversation most of the year. I can, yes they will. You're right. Number four.


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[Assistant] The Vikings. I did not think, when this season started, that the Vikings would be in the top five, but they've really shown some things, uh, offensively thrown for 95 yards. That right there is indicating to your


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[Assistant] Owner to your fanbase that we need a guy like Trevor Lawrence.


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[Assistant] Number three is a, uh, a new addition to the list. Two years, Pete says. Two years for Kurt Cobb.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Damn. I don't know then. You gotta go like a mafia style and make those years disappear somehow. Like, gone. Uhm. You're gonna whack him? No, not him. Uh, contract. Uh, number three, Panthers. Yeah. They were not ranked last week, but they lost to the Bucs and without Christian McCaffrey.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because I think that that's going to hurt them. It is going to hurt them.


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[Assistant] I was watching them play, uh, in their tape. I was like, wow. I was like, Sean Payton went 5-0 with Teddy Bridgewater. Not that he had Teddy Bridgewater, but you talk about Drew Brees not having the arm strength. It appears that Teddy Bridgewater is in that same vein there. He is, he is. So there are three, uh, but the top two, I will say.


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[Assistant] I have put themselves in a tier by themselves. They're in a tier by themselves. They're an elite company right now. Number two is the Detroit Lions.


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[Assistant] Uh, could've got a win in week number one, blew it against the Bears. I was like, alright, that was kinda weird. Uh, I put him number three in the rankings last week. But then to get absolutely dominated by the Packers in a game where you jumped out to a 14-3 lead.


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[Assistant] I was like, that's, that's showing me something. That is showing you, that's showing you they want Trevor bad. They want him. They want him badly. Uhm, but number one is the same team that was number one last week, the New York Jets, after their loss to the Fortiers, I call them the Fortiers because they were missing nine guys.


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[Assistant] I mean, they still lost 31 to 13. Uhm, so they're solidly number one. They should be. Lions solidly number two. Everyone else kind of jockeying for position there, but we've got two elite teams as of right now in the Trevor Top Pickpocket.


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[Assistant] You're in the building. Yeah, I'm here. It was good though. You ditched your family. It was awesome to see football. It is. It's always sad to leave that first Sunday though. I'm so used to being there. You know, Sunday's such a family day and you're like, ah damn, okay kids, see you later. I'll see you later tonight and whatever. Say good night. And then they go to bed.


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[Assistant] Awesome day of football. I don't care. It was a little weird at first, just like Thursday night without any fans in the crowd, anything like that. But man, oh man, we saw some good QB play.


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[Assistant] I think a little bit of what I said on the podcast last week, proven commodities, top tier quarterbacks, teams that had less change. I think you saw for the most part that kind of held true. You know, maybe other than the Cardinals 49ers game.


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[Assistant] Well, which was a shocker in a lot of ways, but, uh, it was a good day. Where do you want to start, Big?


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[Assistant] Yeah. What'd you think? Well, I mean, yeah, when you just look at the results of the game, his stat line, you'll sit there and go, oh, it wasn't that special. And it wasn't. I'm not going to try to sugarcoat it in any way, but I do think we need to be a little realistic about the situation. It is a new team. It is a lot of new moving parts. The best player on offense in Mike Evans wasn't 100%.


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[Assistant] You know, you mentioned, it's a Seattle, I mean, a New Orleans Saints defense, that's the real deal, especially up front.


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[Assistant] So, you know, from that aspect, when you have no running game to go along with it, and then, not that the pass protection was horrible, but I wouldn't sit there and say after watching the game back on film that it was great, to


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[Assistant] Okay, there was some issues there that were greater than Tom Brady, I guess is what I'm saying. But I think here's the thing that jumps out to me more than anything. I thought right away, almost as soon as I started the film,


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[Assistant] I could see like, oh, they're trying to run some Tom Brady New England type plays to get him in rhythm. Shorter passes.


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[Assistant] Similar concepts to what I always saw in New England to kind of get him going. So you're seeing the try to like the infusion of


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[Assistant] Okay, here's what Brady likes and then Bruce Arians and Byron Lefwich and what they do and how that works together. I think some of that is still probably new to Bruce Arians and Byron Lefwich, some of that aspect of like Tom Brady's game. So they have to get used to that.


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[Assistant] You can see they're still trying to work on blending that together. Alright, so I think that's the first thing that jumped off to me. The other thing that jumped off to me, just purely from Brady's play, again,


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[Assistant] They took, the Saints were aware of who they were playing a quarterback. I'll say this.


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[Assistant] Again, early on in the game, you could tell there was moments that the Saints were like, no, you're not gonna throw over the middle. You're not gonna go to Gronk over the middle. We're not gonna let you throw to Chris Godman for six yards over the middle.


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[Assistant] You're gonna have to find somewhere else to go with the football. And I think that caught, uh, uh, Tampa Bay's offense off guard a few times where the Saints did some, some different things. They doubled Gronk or doubled Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. And I don't know if the Bucks were,


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[Assistant] Sure, that was going to happen. So I think that threw a little wrinkle into some of Brady's go-to plays and things he thought maybe would be there and the Bucks thought would be there throughout the day. I think that's the biggest thing that jumped out to me more than anything.


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[Assistant] I mean, the way I looked yesterday, I would totally agree with you. I know we'll hit on the Saints offense and all that too, but you're, I mean, you're right in a lot of ways. Brady physically, the way the ball comes out of his hands.


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[Assistant] And the amount of force he can still put on the ball with people around him and maybe he can't really get his body into it, it's still very impressive. It really is. Now...


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[Assistant] You hit on Gronk. Gronk did not look good. I'll just say that. And I know it's week one and he's getting back into things too. So I'm not trying to judge, but I'm just telling you, for a guy that sits here and watches film all the time,


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[Assistant] Man that he looked slow, man that he looked like he couldn't lift his legs off the ground or do anything from that aspect, and man that it looked like he lost a little power in the run block game too. So that's something I'm gonna watch out for.


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[Assistant] I would go, man, Tom, just stand there and throw the ball. The guy's open down the field. In fact, one of the first plays right after his first interception,


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[Assistant] They come out and they have a concept that's like two under routes and Gronk on a corner route. The coverage would tell you to alert yourself to the Gronk on the corner route. They don't cover him. He's wide open. I mean it's gonna be a 40 yard gain before somebody even touches him.


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[Assistant] And Brady was already getting the ball out of his hand. So I saw a few of those moments. There was another play even later on, about maybe 10, 12 plays later, similar concept, same type of thing. So again, I know this is early on, I'm not trying to over judge you, I over judge, I'm just trying to give a broad look of things that I saw.


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[Assistant] That uhm, I think we're concerning as far as just what I saw on that side of the ball. Now, are there positives? Of course there was. You said it. Brady, Brady's arm looked great.


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[Assistant] I do think that the offensive line, pass protection wise, was probably better than I thought it was going to be. Uhm, the run blocking and the run game itself. Yea, what did you think of that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there wasn't much there. Exactly right. And it was. It was basically down to that one carry, but it's hard to really tell what Ronald Jones or Leonard Fournette were, because their offensive line was pushed around in the run game. I think quite honestly that's just the simp, that's if you break it down.


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[Assistant] I'm not shocked by that. The Buccaneers are not famous for their running attack. Now I think it's something they're gonna have to get better at, especially with a quarterback who's not mobile. And if you want the play action pass to work and Brady's so good at that, they're gonna have to continue to kind of knock their head on the wall there. So let me throw this in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it was a little less aggressive. I think it was a little bit more of like, let's try to be surgical, let's try to get a lot, you know, let's get Tom get us into second and fours.


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[Assistant] He came out of the gates and that first drive I was like wow. No doubt, I mean he hits that corner route to Godwin, he sits in the pocket, makes a great throw there, the pace, everything, it looked great, it really did.


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[Assistant] But I think there is, you know, maybe a lack of, uh, just a little less aggressive. I think a little bit more of like, hey, I think we can go on sustained drives with Brady and company. And they were off their game a little bit, let alone...


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[Assistant] Again, this is where I like the Saints defense. I don't always sit there and just go, oh my gosh, it's so talented. They're big in physical up front so they can stop the run. But where I really like defensive coordinator Dennis Allen is when they play big games, he'll do shit you don't, you're not ready for.


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[Assistant] And, you know, they were smart in not over blitzing Brady, not letting him have opportunities to go, ooh, here's the blitz, now we're outnumbered in the secondary and he's gonna find the right guy or the right hole in the zone blitz coverage. They kinda did the opposite.


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[Assistant] Blitzed every now and then, but for the most part, it was rush four, rush three, take away some of the passing lanes where we know Brady likes to attack. And I thought that caused some hiccups for the Tampa Bay offense in general. And again, we can't


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[Assistant] Underestimate the fact that Mike, Michael Evans was not 100%. And that's why I think we gotta.


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[Assistant] That offense when he's totally healthy first, because again, the success of that offense, the value, you can't quantify what Mike Evans does for it just on stats. He opens up a lot of things, he changes the way defenses have to play.


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[Assistant] And he was out there, you know, only here and there in spotty play all together. And of course that was a big, you know, uh, big guy missing for that offense.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't think so either. Now, what's gonna happen to Brady is, and this would be, and again, you know, I know people are probably gonna think I sound like a hater. Brady's gonna be asked to be like, hey,


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[Assistant] We're not going to scheme everything up for you and you're just going to be so smart and read defenses and know where to go with the ball that


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[Assistant] There's always going to be somebody open to dissect the ball. That's not the way Bruce Arians and, and, you know, Jameis Winston or Bruce Arians offenses ever work. Sometimes it's just like, hey, that guy's one on one, you need to throw a laser in there. And he's going to be asked to do that more than he's ever been asked to ever before in his life. Now that's pick six play. Let's talk about both picks, uh, interceptions.


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[Assistant] He's gotta be shaking. He's gotta be freaking out right now. It's a little different, okay? But the play you're talking about, the pick six, let's hit on that right away. First off, it's a screen to the left. You heard Bruce Arians already say it was a bad read, let alone a bad throw that you mentioned.


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[Assistant] I do think it was a bad read. You know, what happens sometimes in the screen game, a lot of the smart offenses have like, okay, we're gonna throw a screen to left.


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[Assistant] But they doubt numbers is over there before the snap and you know it doesn't look good for the screen, right? Just like the bunch of f**kers room. Damn, there's a bunch of f**kers over there. Doesn't look like we should go over there, okay? I mean that's sometimes how you just have to break it down. This was not one of those. And yea, they had these get out of jail, like hey, there's a bunch of f**kers over there.


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[Assistant] Throw this single route over here one on one with this guy. Now, he had the screen to the left.


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[Assistant] He also had the look to throw that outroute to the right side. He did. He did. He had it. I don't think he was coached to throw that outroute into that look, but nonetheless it was there. It wasn't like it was this egregious like dumb thing, but he was a little late.


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[Assistant] He took a little extra gather step before he threw it. And this should be a three step drop. When you're in the shotgun, it should be one step and throw it. Because you're in the shotgun.


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[Assistant] So by the time the ball gets to you, if you run underneath the center, that would be two steps, right? So when you're in the shotgun, everything has to happen quicker. He is late getting the ball there, and then he throws the ball four feet behind him. Interception, pick six.


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[Assistant] Other interception, you wanna break that down? That was a- Mike Evans over the middle. Mike Evans over the middle. Mike Evans stopped. Right. And I wanna, I wanna know this one here, like, because Arians again said Mike Evans was right. I- Mike Evans read the right read. He wish he bent it in more.


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[Assistant] I'm interested to see what Bruce Arians says today after they watch the film a little bit. Because to me, uh, regardless, let's just talk about the route itself.


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[Assistant] It looked like it was a tough defensive look. I don't know if Brady and Mike Evans were on the same page of is it two safeties or one safety. You saw where he was running that, they call it like a pop slant, a pop post.


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[Assistant] Play action, come up, instead of a three step slam, it's a five step slam, right? So you just get a little more depth behind those linebackers hoping they come up into the run fake, right? So, if there's too deep,


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[Assistant] I would think you would go and split the middle. If there's one safety there, you're not gonna split the middle, right? Cause the one safety's there. So then you bend it in to try to find a hole underneath the linebackers, right? In between the linebackers with the linebackers underneath. They gave a weird defensive look.


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[Assistant] I think Brady was right in his read. We'll see. I want to hear Bruce because Bruce will probably tell us today in the coaching, uh, uh, press conference because he just, that's what he does. He tells the truth. Uhm, but regardless,


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[Assistant] Whether it was the right read or not, Brady just threw the ball and the Saints weren't fooled by it. The weak side linebacker never came up with the run fake. He kinda went with the receiver from the get go. The safety on that side never got real wide.


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[Assistant] Whether Evans stopped or not, yeaah, it wasn't good, but it wasn't going to be completed no matter what. Maybe Mike Evans would have got a hand on the ball and the ball popped in the air and it didn't get intercepted or something like that.


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[Assistant] I think them being off page there and then Brady feeling a little bit pressure and


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[Assistant] Again, he's in a new offense. I think in New England, he might feel that pressure and be like, oh, wait, here's a guy to get the ball out. Oh, I got it. You know, I got, I got hit, but I got the ball out and we didn't lose any yards. I think with this one, he just went, oh, there's Mike Evans. Let me just try to throw it up and give him a chance intercept and bad thing happened. Just unfortunate that way. That's a part of them, them working out the kinks.


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[Assistant] Right. They got 14 points from their defense, basically, right? I mean, you know, both interceptions that led to 14 points. And again, I don't care how, like,


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[Assistant] Wasn't pretty by the Saints. It really was not. The offense was concerning. Let me just say, the Bucs did a lot of what the Saints did to the Bucs. The Bucs did it to the Saints. They basically, in a lot of, a lot of scenarios were like, oh no, no, no, you're gonna go right over the middle to Michael Thomas. Oh, you're gonna go short to Alvin Kamara. And they took that shit away. And you could see.


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[Assistant] Then it became, okay, now where are you going to go with the ball? Are you going to make a big throw outside the numbers down the field? They don't have that element. I think it's a little scary that we're talking about that week one. I'm a little concerned with it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, all you had to do was watch the game. There's only two passes that went down the field. They were both to Jared Cook. One was a busted coverage. Another one was like a corner route he threw. It was a good play design versus the perfect coverage. But that to me is concerning that we're already talking about that.


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[Assistant] Well I know, Taysom Hill, just to add that in, he had a rushing attempt at one point where he dropped back to throw the ball. He had it.


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[Assistant] He had a post for a touchdown if he wanted. I don't know what he saw. Now there you go. You get lack of reps. Sometimes you see ghosts and things like that. He ended up running and scrambling for a bunch of yards, but he did have it from that aspect. But yeah, I think that's something that jumped out to me. The Bucs are a tough matchup for the Saints.


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[Assistant] In his prime anymore, it is based around their ability to beat you up in the run game and physically dominate you up front.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna do that to the Bucs. So the Bucs were able to go, we'll play safe coverages. We don't need to put an extra guy down there. Our front seven's big as shit here. We're not gonna like, just be intimidated by this great New Orleans offensive line.


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[Assistant] And they start to put it together and Sean Payton will find the right formula for the year that works for them. But, you know, all in all, the Bucs team, it does have potential. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] You know, it's just gonna be, yeaah, can they continue to find ways to kinda make that Brady-Aryans offense cohesive? And they gotta run the football a little bit too. They really do. That's gonna be big for them. The Saints, I'm not as concerned about them, but I just think after watching yesterday, that was my last thing I would say.


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[Assistant] They gotta play Deontay Harris more. That would be the first, they gotta get him the ball. They don't, they need, they need another home run hitter on the offense.


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[Assistant] When they were great with the Ted Ginn, right, and some of those guys, like, they need that type of guy to take a little pressure off the offense every now and then.


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[Assistant] And right now, like, Emmanuel Sanders is a really good, well-rounded receiver, but he's got a deep threat at this point in his career. You know, he's really the only guy I look at to go, he could catch a screen or a slant or run by somebody and it could just be one play where everybody else is part of the system and the culture and how they built the team.


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[Assistant] Okay, but there's one problem. That other area you're talking about where he fumbled it, that's...


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[Assistant] Like, my territory. And you've lost the ball in my territory. Therefore, it's mine. No, if you're past the 50, you're technically in the other team's territory. No, no. That end zone is purely mine. I'm defending you not to get into that end zone. That is like, that's North Korea. Alright?


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[Assistant] And you lost the ball there, then Kim Jong Un gets it, and now it's their ball. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Yes, you can't, well, under two minutes that'll happen. Yeah. Uh, in, or if you recover your own fumble, you can advance it that way. Right.


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[Assistant] You know, I know they like Tom Brady and all that too. It's just a different energy with Cam Noon. But it's something I've always said.


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[Assistant] When Cam Newton's in your locker room, the whole team sticks their chest out and they're like, we're good. You see that guy? He's our quarterback. The Patriots have been impressed with his leadership. Yes, it's all they talk about. It's his work ethic, his energy, his leadership. He's special that way. Anybody I've ever talked to


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[Assistant] Or is it just different? I think he's more relatable right now, probably in the locker room to a guy like Tom. What I was always told is like here the last few years, Tom would really only, it was like, he talked to Julian Edelman and Gronk and that was it. Everybody else, I mean not that he was like a jerk or, he's, Tom's a very nice person and always like welcoming.


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[Assistant] But I don't think he was like... Going out of his way. Yea, I don't think he was like, hey, Jacoby Myers, what are you doing tonight on a Friday night? You know, it was really only going to Julian and Gronk. Cam, from everything I've heard, like...


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[Assistant] Everybody's involved, you know, and he just, he's can be, he can come in the locker room and be young and silly and, and you know, dance to some music like you saw in the pregame and they're not used to that kind of culture up there. So it's different for them, especially to the quarterback position. But just to hit on the game, right off the bat.


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[Assistant] They did a lot of that, right? You saw the quarterback keep it, the guards pull, the running back follow up in the hole, you saw the fake speed sweeps a bunch, right, with guys going different ways. Now was it- Josh McDaniels took out the Tim Tebow playbook. Well yea, right, that's what everybody says. But this is where they're gonna be dangerous, you know.


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[Assistant] Like I've been saying all along, their personnel set really fits this offense. It does. They want their offensive lines healthy. That looks good. So they played really well. But I think overall, this is where they become master Jedi's up there in New England.


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[Assistant] They, the personnel sets, the formations, the movements before the snaps are all so confusing, let alone, oh no, now we have Cam Newton and he can do four different things on this play out of this formation and the defense is going, oh no, what do we do?


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[Assistant] What do we defend? And that's what's scary about New England. Cause New England, like a Kyle Shanahan,


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[Assistant] They expose rules of defense. And if they start to get in the feel of, oh, you're going to play this against this formation all the time.


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[Assistant] Oh well, watch this. Oh, Cam runs to the right and nobody touches him. He just walks in for a touchdown. Because...


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[Assistant] They knew. Oh, you're gonna line up in this. We've seen it already a few times this game. We gotta play for that. Oh, great. Yeah, you wanna over commit to somewhere we can't throw the ball over here or you think you're gonna play man to man.


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[Assistant] And have two extra guys to spy Cam Newton. You don't think fucking New England is ready for that. So they had run game and run concepts ready to stop those type of defenses. And that's where they're, I think just the first thing right off the bat was the amount of formations, personnel sets.


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[Assistant] And then the pre snap movement with Cam Newton, let alone, okay, now we'll start to dive into what Cam Newton did.


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[Assistant] Yes, that I will say. Deadly, I was not expecting all that running from Cam right off the day. One thing we saw yesterday is quarterbacks running a lot though. We did. I mean Lamar, Cam. Kyler. Kyler.


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[Assistant] Russell Wilson, Josh Allen, all five guys led their team in rushing. All five. So, I mean, I would have never guessed that.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, I would not have guessed New England would have run that many times. If I was just going to make sense of that right there, I would say it's week one. They knew this was their great advantage. They knew that Miami could not possibly prepare for what they were going to do with Cam.


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[Assistant] And I think it was just a good way to like, let's catch everybody off guard, let's get off the schneid, get the week one victory, do what we gotta do. Hey, Cam, protect yourself, protect your throwing shoulder, don't take on hitters, things like that. And now, they're gonna have all the plays off of it.


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[Assistant] Wait, so Seattle's gonna see us do this, they're gonna do this to stop it, and now we gotta have, what are we gonna do off of that to compre- you know, uh, what do I wanna say? Compound? Not compound, uh, no. Nah, I don't know what I'm saying. Compensate for it? Compensate maybe for it, that's what I was trying to go with there, I don't even know if that makes sense to you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I do think so, because again, here's the, here's the, the quantification of Cam Newton. You know, okay, yeah, the run game's not working. You're gonna have to play defenses that are gonna be so egregiously to stop the run game. You're gonna get like,


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[Assistant] Like, beginner's level coverages in the pass game. And, you saw yesterday, I mean, just about every throw he made was, like, even the incompletions, he went, mmm, that was in a good spot. It was a safe throw.


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[Assistant] Smart, other than one maybe where he got hit as he was throwing that almost got intercepted. I think everything other than that, I looked at it and went, appropriate ball. You know, ooh, he saw the all out blitz, threw it off his back foot. So he found Julian Edelman over the middle like New England does because they put you in the bind with that run game. And then,


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[Assistant] You know, uh, and Keel Harry, you saw him jump up. Little tight end play here and there.


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[Assistant] But it's really about the bind that Cam Newton and Josh McDaniels have combined.


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[Assistant] We gotta worry about Cam Newton getting on the edge, and then tossing the ball on the option. We gotta worry about Cam Newton giving the ball on the speed sweep, so they can spread you wide, spread you wide, spread you wide, and then it's, oh bam, Cam up the middle, Cam up the middle, other running back up the middle.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, he didn't run up the middle. It's a play action pass. Julian Edelman's behind us. I mean, that's where he really stresses you out, let alone New England knows the right concepts to always figure it out there.


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[Assistant] Most teams wanna play man to man against these types of offenses. And most of the time you can get away with it. Because like I said before, let's just match up man to man. We'll have our front four, and then our two linebackers are kinda, they'll spy cam. One will take the running back, the other one's got cam, right?


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[Assistant] When you're playing man to man like that, all the sudden a shift and a motion happens, and the back switches to you, you were the guy that was supposed to cover cam, now the back came over to you, and you got the back, and the other linebacker's got cam, and now there's a speed sweep going on, and you're going, oh go, I can go this way, and then, oh no.


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[Assistant] But then the other element of this is, so they can screw you up in the run game because of all the movement and things you're doing, you're supposed to have the D gap, but you're supposed to cover the tight end. Oh wait, this wide receiver knocked me down and now, you know, the tight end went around me and blocked the linebacker. They have so many creative ways, but this is the biggest thing, I'm sorry I'm blabbering, is,


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[Assistant] New England now, and this is where they're special, they have all the Tom Brady man-to-man beaters in their pass game too. So, oh, you wanna play man-to-man and outnumber the box and do this? Okay, well we're New England. We have 97,000 ways to pick you in man-to-man.


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[Assistant] Every ball I saw really came out of his hand clean, you know. And one of those incompletions was Julian Edelman right in his chest, way down the middle and Edelman got hit after he caught the ball and the ball popped up and it was incomplete. But yeaah, I thought I saw the same motion I've always seen. If it looks any different,


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[Assistant] From what we saw before the labrum surgery from two years ago, it's a little like I said last year before he was hurt again with the foot injury. It's a hair tighter with his arm. You know, he really keeps it real tight and a little closer to his body as compared to maybe it got out here back in the day.


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[Assistant] Overall, man, I just thought his placement of the football was, uh, very fun to watch. I was very excited watching them. Yeah. To me, I mean, I think you could tell in my voice, but. They're fun. They're fun.


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[Assistant] He is, and they're gonna, not that he's Lamar Jackson, and not as dangerous as that.


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[Assistant] New England genius, right, in the pass game and what they can do in the run game. I think you're going to see a lot of the same effects that Baltimore gets from other defenses. Again, you get defenses that sometimes you just go, I can't believe this defense is, they're playing this defense against an NFL football team.


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[Assistant] Like they really, but, but you're, you're in a bind cause you go, we gotta stop something. Right. Or we're not gonna stop anything. And that leads to, okay, we gotta put a little, one more egg into the stop the run game basket. But that means we're taking the egg out from the pass game.


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[Assistant] Damn, there goes a wide open receiver or whatever it may be. So, uh, they have a much tougher challenge ahead of them this week. Miami defense though is not a joke.


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[Assistant] Shouldn't be, I mean the secondary should be one of the best in the league. Man, they were good for the most part. You know, they didn't let up anything like, egregious.


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[Assistant] You know, they had to play some defenses again and got picked a few times because of the Cam Newton factor and what McDaniels orchestrated on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think it's only a matter of time, you know. And, you know, again, Fitzpatrick, we know what he is.


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[Assistant] Uh, the offense itself, I mean, why, it's part of the reason I picked New England to win the game. They, they know Shanghili's offense.


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[Assistant] I just, I gotta see more from this Dolphins offense. To me, that's the big thing too. It's not all that creative. Yeaah, we know Fitzpatrick can make plays, but he can do what he did there. And again, if we're gonna be totally honest about this too.


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[Assistant] I don't give a shit that Patrick Shun and Dante Hightower aren't there. I'm not trying to say that to disrespect them. This, they got, they got a lot of, this is the best secondary in football. It's, it's no doubt about it. When you start to go across and go, whoa, J.C. Jackson and Gilmore.


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[Assistant] You could argue the best duo in football. J.C. Jackson's gonna get paid to be one of the five highest paid corners after this year. You just mark that down, okay? He is going to be, I don't know if New England will be able to keep him because he's gonna get paid like a superstar. Jonathan Jones at nickel, one of the better nickels in all of football. You talk about McCordy at safety who could also hike corner.


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[Assistant] And then, you bring in this JoJuan Williams, the second year out of Vanderbilt, who covers tight ends and is a long freak. So, yeaah, their front seven doesn't have household names.


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[Assistant] Belichick has started another trend. He's gonna go, no, we're gonna play through our secondary. Who the hell cares about my front seven? We'll lock you up.


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[Assistant] I'll do some different things in the backend every now and then, but then my front seven, we're gonna have more guys moving around and doing shit, and you don't know who's a linebacker and who's, and that's where he confuses you. So yea, it might not be the most talented group, but schematically, he's Bill F***ing Belichick. And as long as he has that secondary, he can make things interesting with that front seven.


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[Assistant] There's, I can, I wouldn't be mad if somebody had him in the top 10, and yeaah, the way it looked yesterday, you're right, I'm wrong. Okay, that's all I could say. He's phenomenal that way. Now, I mean, let's also take into account what we saw too. I mean, okay, the first touchdown pass.


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[Assistant] You know, it was a good catch, but I was more impressed with the scramble and 40 yard laser.


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[Assistant] That was four feet off the ground that hit him in the chest for the touchdown. Yeaah. You know, so, let's take that into account too. Let alone, hey, I just like what I saw from Green Bay yesterday. Being aggressive, throwing the football. My big thing with Devonte Adams, again, is just a, I,


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[Assistant] And we'll watch this going forward. Everybody out there, anybody listening, and we'll have this dialogue. I don't care, we can talk about this, and I'll shit on myself when this is all said and done, if I'm wrong. Yards after catch is my issue with him.


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[Assistant] And even 50-50 balls. Listen, I'm not gonna be like, oh my gosh, there's a guy running and the ball falls in his two hands and then you're gonna go, oh, no receiver could do that.


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[Assistant] That's where I just think it's a hair overrated. But yesterday was awesome.


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[Assistant] If they can have a second receiver like Valdez Scanling do what he did yesterday, Devante Adams is gonna go off this year because it's gonna take pressure off of him.


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[Assistant] I would say that's probably pretty good for him, really. He's got a yards after the catch type of receiver. And I, again, I like Devonte Adams.


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[Assistant] No, it looked different than yesterday. Arm looked back to leg. I went, ooh man, it's popping out of his hand. Other thing that I was impressed with


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[Assistant] The way Rogers looked. I know last year he looked a little thin, and a little less pop in his legs. Yesterday- He had the quarantine 10 or 15 or something like that. Well he got into that yoga and I'm gonna be like stretch and do all that. I thought I saw a little more muscle on his body yesterday. If I could talk to Aaron Rodgers I would say please keep that because your movement's so paramount to your game.


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[Assistant] Don't get into like, ooh, I'm just going to get thin and lose weight and do that way. What happens to guys like that at that age, in my experience in the NFL and around, you lose your muscle mass, you start to lose your explosiveness too, and then it really starts to


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[Assistant] No doubt. It's not going to be the same dominant Vikings defense. It is new parts. I think they're trying to play a few new different defenses. Roger's just too smart.


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[Assistant] Uhm, too smart, too great of a thrower, and I think Green Bay having a more aggressive approach in the passing game is gonna change their team a little bit. I do. But on that surface, okay, and now no crowd noise, and you're missing a Daniil Hunter,


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[Assistant] Those are the games Rogers can take over. There's just, there's just not enough guys that can contain them in the front four. And now they don't have a Lin-Vell Joseph, or they don't have, you know, Michael Pierce, who they were supposed to get, but he opted out. So, they're less than there.


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[Assistant] I mean, Pete, you go back and look at the, hold on, I'll pull them. At the halftime at one point, I mean, they were like he had completed six passes, or he'd only thrown six, he was three for five at halftime.


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[Assistant] We went off late. All of it was late. All of it was late. And that's where, you know, again, the context matters. Yea, you're gonna look at it and go, oh yea, Kirk Cousins was 19 for 25, 259, he must have played pretty well.


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[Assistant] None of it was in the competitive part of the football game. The game was over by the time they already started putting stats together. And that'll be something to look at going forward.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Gary Kubiak, when he was head coach of the Broncos, that was my concern there. They had a Super Bowl defense.


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[Assistant] And it was a special Super Bowl defense to where they could get it done. They don't have that here. I don't think they can play this style of football and think they're going to be successful. I have a real question about that.


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[Assistant] All-time great performance versus the Lions. It was. It was great. I mean, great performance. Good for him. I mean, way to get off the Schneid there. Uh, it was ugly. You know, as you said, the first three quarters. And, you know, of course, your Detroit Lions found ways to shoot themselves in the foot and do stupid stuff.


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[Assistant] I know. And what were they up last year in week one? Do you remember that? Against Arizona. 24 to 6.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I think Matt Patricia getting a, it was a tough spot with whether to go to that field goal for Prider where he missed it, but it ultimately gave the Bears the short field to let them go down and score too. That was a tough one. You know, cause you're in between there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Crater is a really good distance field goal kicker. Yeaah. So you wanna get those points on the board.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, you got away and go, oh, their offense hasn't been doing much lately. Maybe we're just better off on that. So I don't, not mad there. That's just a tough one. And then, of course, Matthew Stafford's interception. That hurt. Yes, you guys were still in the lead and that led to them


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. It just wasn't the moment to try to jam something in there at that point. But I didn't, my rant on the Lions obscured the fact that Mitchell Trubisky did it. He did do it. And I haven't watched the film of that yet. I really am interested to see kind of what they did in the fourth quarter. Now Detroit secondary got


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[Assistant] No, I mean, again, the one thing I liked is Trubisky let it go and he made some high level throws there in the fourth quarter. You know, whether it's Miller, even the one he's running to the left. I mean, that wasn't an easy throw into the back left corner of the end zone. He does have talent. Uh, to me, I know I'm going to watch that game.


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[Assistant] And look at an underwhelming first few quarters, and it's not going to be about Trubisky anyways. It's going to be their offense not being able to find a rhythm, still lack of a running game, those type of things. But Wednesday when we do the pod then, I'll give you some more answers about what I saw. But I'm happy for Mitch Trubisky. That certainly will get everybody off his back for a little while here.


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[Assistant] I just, it's amazing, I know. And like really, he's nowhere near as explosive as he used to be, but because he used to be off the charts explosive. But still, it just tells you, I mean, at this age, he's still able to stop, start, run through arm tackles, you know, explode to get, you know, 8 and 12 yard runs.


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[Assistant] Adrian Peterson would be in that Chris Simms in-person Hall of Fame in my eight years in the NFL. What does that mean? Like, just like...


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[Assistant] I was on the sidelines watching Minnesota, Adrian Peterson's second year going, okay, we're all pros, but he's something above that. Like we're all pros, but he's a hall of famer or an all, all, all pro or whatever. But we're, he's moving at a different speed and is quicker and twitchier than the rest of us.


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[Assistant] Just like Matt Stafford struck for your Lions at the end of that game by throwing a stupid Matt Stafford interception.


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[Assistant] Listen, there's no other way to say it. The Colts lost it and Philip Rivers did his best to help them lose it along the way. He really did. They were clearly the better team on the football field.


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[Assistant] The Jaguars were kind of incapable of doing a whole lot. He set them up with the short fields. He let them kind of get going. And, you know, to Gardner Minshew's credit,


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[Assistant] He never tried to force the issue or be stupid when they were being outplayed to where it compounded to where, oh now we're down by more. He was very efficient.


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[Assistant] You know, he moves around in the pocket well, and then as you see with 19 for 20, when the people are open, he just, he doesn't miss. So he's, he's a slam dunk thrower that way. I, I really, uh, I really like that, but it doesn't really change my thoughts overall.


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[Assistant] When you see a stat line like that, it tells you one team did something wrong to let the other team back in the game, or be in the game, or whatever it may be.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, this is part of the Colts, new team, new, new parts, got a few younger receivers and running back, you lose Marlin Mack, you know, that stinks. Marlin, that does stink, but I'll tell you what,


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[Assistant] You know, guys like him, I know we'll talk about the Ravens and, you know, J.K. Dobbins. I don't even think you've seen it all yet. There's still nerves. You know, I'm in the NFL. You got jello legs and nervous legs and all that. But, uh, yeaah, they're gonna be fine without Marlon Mack. But, you know, the Colts are gonna be sick with that one. Totally sick.


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[Assistant] They outplayed the Jaguars. They were the better football team. But you turn the ball over, uh, and you miss field goals and then you miss a fourth and foot.


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[Assistant] Which, that would be when I question, like, you got Jonathan Taylor, I like Nahim Hines, he's really good, but like, Jonathan Taylor's 230, run him up the middle, why are we running the guy that's 195 up the middle, and Nahim Hines?


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[Assistant] I don't get that, but either way, I don't know if my thoughts are changed on these two teams yet.


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[Assistant] He was everywhere. He really, I mean, he's just uhm, he's one of the best defense suppliers in football.


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[Assistant] I watched Seattle's offense on film versus Atlanta, so I'll be able to speak more truly to everything we saw there, but I didn't watch the defensive side yet.


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[Assistant] Just looking on TV and of course I was keeping a pretty close eye on this game because I, you know, I think Atlanta's talented and there was familiarity with the coaching staffs and of course I want to see Russell Wilson in Seattle.


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[Assistant] It does, it did look like Seattle did a few more things on defense. A few more things based around Jamal Adams and his talent where, you know, you hear me complain about, oh, it's always the Seattle scheme, the Seattle scheme, Seattle scheme. It seemed like they went out the box just a little bit and they don't need much.


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[Assistant] Non outside linebacker defense and rushers in football. He really is. Because he's got great understanding of timing and rhythm of the snap count, right?


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[Assistant] He'll be sitting here and you think, oh, he's just coverage, it's coverage, and the quarterback going, blue 85.


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[Assistant] And he's still sitting in coverage and he knows right at the right time of when to like, set, and he starts to go. So he's got a great feel for that, which is instinctive and smart and you study film.


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[Assistant] I mean, he, he can accelerate in one's two steps. I mean, he can literally go from zero to sixty in the second step.


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[Assistant] And that surprises blitzers, or think about it, you're like a, an offensive tackle, right? And, okay, I gotta get out here to get my defense to end, cause he's coming with a speed rush. But my rule is, if somebody comes in underneath me, I gotta get there to block him.


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[Assistant] Well, you take that first step because you're going, oh, here comes a pass rusher and then you look over and you go, oh man, Jamal Adams is coming and it's too late because he's just that explosive. That's where he's special that way. He's going to change their defense, change their defense. Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] They just come about with me being stupid. Can't be predetermined, right? They gotta just happen. No. They gotta come out of your mouth. No. And you know, I just, I heard someone say dangerous and I just, I kinda went with that. For Russell Wilson? Yea, because there's this old


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[Assistant] Uhm, Flip Mode Squad, Buster Rhymes, so dangerous, so dangerous. I think I gotta start doing that.


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[Assistant] So that's what you'll do now. But I don't feel right when his wife is a singer. I don't know. There's a part of me that also thinks like, maybe he should be Lionel Richie, and she's a backup singer, and I can't emulate that. So that's what I envision sometimes. Just text her. Just text her.


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[Assistant] That's right, him, you know, Pete Carroll, Brian Schottenheimer, the offensive coordinator. Pete Carroll and Brian Schottenheimer, let's give them credit. They want to run the ball. Pete Carroll wants to run the ball and play defense. Brian Schottenheimer, that's his MO. He's a great run game designer.


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[Assistant] I'm proud that they took a different approach and you saw it right away. It really like popped off the screen when you watched the film. It was a more aggressive


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[Assistant] Pass first offense. And then you talk about, you know, people being open. Certainly. They had some great game plan plays, had a few screens that were great. Also, nobody understands that defense as well as they do. I mean, it's their defense. Shit, it started in Seattle. Atlanta just brought it there.


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[Assistant] They had a few cute ways to expose it. Greg Olson's touchdown. If anybody saw that, that was just a great, uh, we know the rules of your defense and your rule can't stop this. You're in trouble. And bam, touchdown.


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[Assistant] I think it's changed their football team if they can continue to play that way. I still wish they would have a few more schemes in the pass game that I like.


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[Assistant] With their talent, and then Russ's talent, and the talent at receiver.


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[Assistant] And if you just have an aggressive frame of mind and are willing to throw the ball more on first down, that might make up for their lack of like, just crazy schemes. And, uh, it put them in the driver's seat from pretty much get go yesterday. Atlanta fought back, but then Seattle closed the door pretty quick.


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[Assistant] It showed. It really did. And had some good play action passes. You know, they were aggressive what they thought of going down the field. Had some good play action screens off of it. And, you know, honestly,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just think this is gonna make their team better. I think it's gonna actually make their run game better too. Because everybody goes into playing Seattle going, okay, we gotta get ready for a physical in between the tackles slugfest.


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[Assistant] And they kinda, they usually appease you and just go, yup, you're right, here you go. And then we'll ask Russ to make the play later. Uh, this was the other way, other way around. And, you know, we'd lock it and... Metcalf. Metcalf, right.


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[Assistant] You know, they pose problems. You want to put eight people in the box like Atlanta was doing all the time? Well, fine. You're going to have guys one on one out there. And they found Isaiah Oliver a number of times. They did. Who can't really run. You know, that's a, they had Isaiah Oliver.


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[Assistant] No chance. Exactly right. DK Metcalf is in another stratosphere.


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[Assistant] Uh, as far as speed, size, all that's concerned. Isaiah Oliver is a good system zone corner.


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[Assistant] He can't match up and play man to man. And really that was his own coverage, but when you're playing bump like that and you don't get back in time, you're, you're going to be in trouble. And that was the fourth down. It was the fourth and five. It was 14 to 12. You felt like Seattle was controlling the game, but Ooh man, Atlanta's kind of hanging around there and


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[Assistant] Then he hits that play, and that was it. That was game set match, really. Because the next, the next drive, Atlanta faked the punt.


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[Assistant] And they got the first down, and the guy fumbled the punt. He fumbled the fake.


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[Assistant] Seattle got the ball in the short field. They scored another touchdown a few plays after that and that was night-night.


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[Assistant] They're not. I mean, that was a huge win. And, uh, as I, I said this a little this morning, Kyler Murray is, he's, he's kind of the kryptonite for this 49ers defense. In fact, the way the Cardinals play in general.


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[Assistant] I think it really causes problems for the 49ers. That's the one thing that jumped out to me after watching yesterday. You know, what's the greatness of the 49ers? That pass rush doesn't really matter when you're playing Kyler Murray or Cliff Kingsbury because he's got so many ways to throw the ball quick and get the ball out of his hands.


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[Assistant] The greatest asset the 49ers have kinda gets negated against Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals. And then plus when you do get there,


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[Assistant] Or if you do fly upfield and get close, it leaves yourself vulnerable to pass, you know, running lanes to where, oh, there he goes up the middle, zing zong zong zong, and it's like, oh, 25 yard touchdown run by the video game quarterback, Kyler Murray.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that's where they really pose problems for them. And it goes into also to a little bit of where we've talked about this before, lack of real man-to-man corners.


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[Assistant] In San Francisco, that gives them issues here, because now you have a good spread out system.


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[Assistant] You know, the quarterback can run and we don't really play man to man all that well. So we're going to play our zone, but this quarterback and play caller have a lot of plays to find five and six yard completions and move the ball that way. Either way, the 49ers blew this game still too. They did.


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[Assistant] I mean, whether you want to talk about having a punt blocked, okay? I mean, again, in the NFL, you make some of these mistakes, I don't care who you are. You can be the best team against the worst team in football.


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[Assistant] It was early, but it was 10-0, and they were up. 10-0, and you're looking like, uh-oh, they look like they might blow them out of the gym. Now it's 10-7, you know, 49ers get the ball, go all the way down the field, you think they're going to score a touchdown, they're fourth and one on the one, this great offensive line, there's nobody, they get stopped, get no points there. So here's a game where you've controlled


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[Assistant] And you're only up 10-7? That's when life gets dangerous.


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[Assistant] He looked really good early. In the plays that he had early. Well, definitely. You're exactly right. I mean, he popped off. You were like, oh man. And, and. They can't stop him. No. And he's the only option. They still can't stop him. Exactly. That, that's the other thing too that I think we gotta remember is, you know, the receivers were banged up going into the game.


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[Assistant] You know, we're still trying to find the Emmanuel Sanders, you know, replacement or whatever else. So let me give a few extra game plan plays to Kittle. And when he got out, I mean, he went, ooh, wow, let alone their run game didn't work quite the way we usually expected to. And what did that do?


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[Assistant] It went back to Jimmy Garoppolo again. And you know, again, it's going to be the same type of questions. It really is. Hey, first off, I could sit here and go, I mean,


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[Assistant] You got Kittle hurt. It's a screen pass. You can't throw the ball 10 feet in the air. It's, it's behind the line of scrimmage. So he exposed Kittle there. And then there was a number of missed throws and missed moments, uh, throughout the game. And again, I need to go back and watch the film so I can really pin it down because I'm watching other games.


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[Assistant] But there was some moments even before the last drive where I went, Oh, I mean, what's he doing? He should have hit that or he had that guy or what's he looking at? Let alone at the very end of the game. I mean, those last two throws.


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[Assistant] It's like Super Bowl repeat. The one down the right side on the back of the end side, that's gotta be a slam dunk touchdown. It's an out and up. He had Patrick Peterson beat by 10 yards. He threw a, he tried to throw it. You gotta be, just let it, you know when you hear me say let it rip, right? You know, throw it to his chest.


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[Assistant] But pretend you're gonna drive it through his chest. Don't like, oh, I'm gonna loft it up there, and it's gonna go 20 feet in the air, and then just fall perfectly in his chest. I mean, Patrick Peterson runs 4-3. He's, that's too much time. So that, and then a crappy out-route throw on 4th down, and then they're where they were. They're in trouble, and that's game.


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[Assistant] I'm glad you brought up that play, because that just accentuates the bigger picture of what we just said though. When you take away that play, and again...


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[Assistant] It's a nice play by Jimmy. He read the play the right way. But that, as far as football and quarterbacks are concerned, that was one of the easier reads you're ever going to have. Sure. That play was made for that. And then of course you saw the throw. It was a seven yard throw and Raheem Monser ran, you know, the other 69 yards or whatever that was.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I think that just kind of says it. So there's work to be done in that drop back pass offense. I think that's the big question I got with the 49ers. It's just if that run game and Shanahan's magic's not working, can their drop back pass offense, you know, make up for it? And I think that's, that's a real question for them going forward.


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[Assistant] It just shows you what a beast of a specimen he is. Uh, and if you ever saw him in person, you'd understand it. I mean, he really is. He's, he's got a...


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[Assistant] You know, a Julius Peppers type look where you go in the field and you're like, man, that's Alden Smith. Okay, okay, now I understand why nobody can block him. I mean, he has that kind of body. It just tells you to be able to do that, not play football that long, be able to be that physically dominant and still move the way he moved. He had Hall of Fame talent.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. Listen, again, if they're not gonna call that on the offensive players, then defense is never gonna stop anybody at football. I agree.


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[Assistant] And there was a clear this. I mean, again, that's the type of like, I know it doesn't look egregious and people want more of like, but these are very strong pound for pound human beings. I mean, very strong.


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[Assistant] So there they are, they're both running 4-3. One guy puts his arm into another guy's chest, that guy just went to 4-5. And why he did that, he catapulted himself to go faster and go 4-2.


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[Assistant] No, that was pass interference all day long. I thought it was in real time when I saw the ball go in the air. I went, ooh, he pushed off. When I saw the flag, as soon as the flag came out, I go, they're gonna call offensive pass interference here.


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[Assistant] You know, if it all stayed with just hand fighting, hand fighting, hand fighting, then he caught it, I don't think anything gets caught. But it was hand fighting, hand fighting, extend arm into your shoulder, push away, to me that's PI.


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[Assistant] They did, I think you saw more two tight end sets, more of a, whether it was a full back or the tight end acting as a full back, gotten some different formations.


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[Assistant] To your point, Sean McVeigh won the game. He won the game. I mean, I think he could sit there and go, Dallas probably was the more talented team on the football field. But Sean McVeigh's, what'd you just say?


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[Assistant] Golf didn't throw the ball down the field. I mean, really, other than one or two throws, everything was Sean McVeigh special. Oh, there's a guy open. Oh, here's a screen. Oh, there's another screen. Oh, here's a fake screen, screen over here.


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[Assistant] Here's a pick play to get the ball four yards. I mean, it was just all Sean McVeigh specials that way. So between that, the pace of what they call the plays, everything like that, yea Dallas was handicapped. And Sean, and the one thing I'll say about Sean, he stays patient with that run. He ain't gonna give up on it. And I really give him credit.


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[Assistant] It does, because it sets up everything for their offense off of it. Those screens, the play action passes, the bootlegs.


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[Assistant] You know, he is, looks like he's found a new little method. I will break that game down too, to get a little more nuance, but it looked like they got away from so much 11th personnel, they saw a few different run schemes, and I thought I saw a few different


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[Assistant] Play action, bootleg schemes like that too to go along with it where I went alright, they don't need much, they just need a little something more just to give them some other


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[Assistant] You saw it, right? I mean, you saw it. I mean, definitely. Extra gear, you know, hitting the hole, I think, at a different speed than what I saw last year. But the big thing is, when he got out in space, he was angry. And it was like, put the pedal to the metal as soon as I get the ball. And that's where he's at his best, because, first off, DB's


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[Assistant] Small linebackers, man, you don't wanna tackle Ezekiel. He brings it. I mean, he really does. And so when he starts running with that kind of ferociousness and intensity, what it does too is it makes him a better open field runner because they always brace themselves like, oh, I gotta get ready, he's gonna hit me, and then it's, oh, he made a move and I barely, oh, he's gone, oh god darn it.


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[Assistant] And I just thought there were some moments last night where I, I thought he made some runs out of nothing or got more yards than he should have, like the status saying. And I, I noticed it. I really did.


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[Assistant] More like the guy I wanted to see than the guy last year who I felt like left yards on the field.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wasn't impressed with the offense either in Dallas, just overall.


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[Assistant] You know, insane defensive line. Five first round picks. You see, I mean, you could see Chase Young in his presence right away.


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[Assistant] You know, Kerrigan, of course, yes, we know what type of football player he is. I mean, it's just amazing the depth and talent they have right there. It's a special, special front they have. And, you know, if they can make teams one-dimensional,


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[Assistant] Which I don't know if I'll sit here and tell you they made Philadelphia one dimensional. Philadelphia just decided to go back to like, let's just throw it every play. And Carson wins, Carson wins, Carson wins, Carson wins. And at some point like, they gotta save themselves for that.


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[Assistant] This is another game, like Jacksonville, I would just tell you. And again, I haven't watched the film, but just watching, they had no business winning this game. None! None!


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[Assistant] If, if, if Philadelphia would have just been content and going, okay, we're up 17, nothing, we got it, we're gonna manage the game now just to win.


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[Assistant] Something like that. But instead it was still, oh, aggressive, aggressive. That's what frustrates me about Philadelphia Times.


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[Assistant] It's always aggressive. It's always go for it on fourth down. It's always, you know,


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[Assistant] It's always that. And it comes back to bite them in the ass. I mean, they went for it on a fourth down one time, gave Washington the short field.


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[Assistant] You know, and then of course, Carson Wentz interceptions, like Phillip Rivers too. You just, you gotta have a feel for the game and the team you're playing against. You know, that's something John Gruden really used to teach me a lot too. You know, see the big picture of the game. Yeah, we went in here thinking we were gonna throw for 400 yards and do all those things.


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[Assistant] It's been a quarter now, and you're realizing, whoa, that team can't move the ball that well. And, whoa, we might not get 400 yards thrown today. This defense is a little bit better. You have to reevaluate the game on the fly. It's part of being a quarterback to go,


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[Assistant] Wait, if I take care of the ball, I don't know if that offense can really go down the field 80 yards on our team all day long. And what did they do? They never made them do it!


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[Assistant] Two interceptions set up short fields. You know, the fake, the missed fourth down set up another short field for them to get in field goal range. So, uh, really, Philadelphia's gonna have themselves to blame. And when you don't have a healthy offensive line,


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[Assistant] They're like, let's, hey, we're gonna increase your chances to maybe come back and win. We're gonna throw it every time. I mean, does that, that doesn't make, like, New England wouldn't do that. New England would be like, okay, we're gonna run the ball, you know, Tom's gonna throw the ball three feet, and we're never gonna, we're not gonna let the strong part of their team win the game for them.