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[Assistant] That was when they are at their best is when they almost have like a Raven's last year's Eagles type of attack and they have some of those plays with it. That I go, that's what you should ride home here. You do that.


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[Assistant] You know, play that style. Allen will make a few plays and it's gonna add to some people being open downfield and you're gonna start to get coverages where Josh Allen's gonna go, oh my gosh, nobody's played this coverage against me since my rookie year. And here they are.


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[Assistant] On a third and five or, you know, a second and six and I'm getting looks that I've seen other quarterbacks get the last few years that I've been jealous of, right?


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[Assistant] They can't quite stay patient enough there and bang it home to where they can quite get that. And I think if they want to make it through the AFC playoffs, they gotta do that. They gotta embrace the ugly.


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[Assistant] That's a good one. I'm more along the lines of that, okay? Like, you know, I'm partaking in this exercise too. And I think if you ask me, like, when we kind of wrote down the rundown, like, most important people for this matchup, right? I went with Dolphins stuff here. I went with...


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[Assistant] And a rushing attack that even last week's stats will tell you. They don't run the ball enough. When all your running backs are averaging seven yards per carry,


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[Assistant] You should throw them the ball more, right? Like if, if they were dashing Ty, with somebody with Tyreek all game long, right? What do they keep doing? They keep feeding Tyreek. But for some reason with the run game, they can't keep feeding that. And I don't understand it.


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[Assistant] And that will definitely help some of their problems right now. Right? Where, you know, we saw some early success of them running the ball. And I think the game became a little bit more of like, whoa, Baltimore scoring on us.


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[Assistant] They kinda lost track of running the football, where like, oh, we gotta score points, so we gotta throw the ball every play. And I wanna be like, no, when you run the ball, I just saw 8chan run down the sideline for 50 yards. You haven't thrown a ball that far yet, but yet the run wasn't good enough? Oh, here's another run for 20. You still haven't thrown a ball that far yet, but that's not good enough? Why? So that's where I said they gotta be patient.


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[Assistant] This, the Dolphins O-Line is not a great pass protecting O-Line. They're not. And they will, they will get steamrolled or collapsed.


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[Assistant] Like Tua did in some situations last week against this group, if they go too pass happy, let alone where they're letting people off the hook and where I'm saying this, when I go into the Eagles loss, the Titans loss that we broke down a few weeks ago,


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[Assistant] Last week against the Ravens, the Bills the first time. It's always the same thing. Teams play defense and they go, we're just gonna stop the pass. We don't think you'll be patient enough for the run. We're worried about stopping all these creative things you do in the pass game. Right? And we think our front


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[Assistant] Will be enough just to handle the run, and I don't think Miami's doing their due justice in calling people out when they do that, right? That's their, that's my thing, right? When we broke down the Titans game a few weeks ago, I wanna go,


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[Assistant] They're playing Tampa too and cheating this and doing this the whole game. Run the ball. Throw a five yard out route. Do this. I know we're all fixated on all these cool things that we drew up all week, but sometimes the game's simple and just make it simple and the answer's kind of revealed itself for you and I feel like they lose their way on that at times.


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[Assistant] You know, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, every play. But they can't go, they should not go through a drive or six to seven plays without running the football. To me, that's where they fall into trouble. To me, that is where


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[Assistant] These defenses call their bluff, like I'm saying, and they're playing so hard to stop the other stuff, because of course it's dangerous, but they also don't believe Miami will hang in there with a run either. And what they're doing is they're allowing people to, you know, play


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[Assistant] The areas like we talk about right now, again, you take away, like you saw last week, all of a sudden they can't throw screens outside to the receivers. And then after the first two drives, they couldn't throw down the middle. And all of a sudden it's like, well, what else is there? What else? Tell me. They don't throw the ball outside the numbers. They throw an occasional goal route.


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[Assistant] Everything is right here and here and here and here. And then the screen on the outside.


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[Assistant] Defenses have figured it out. They play defenses to kind of defend those areas. Stop the screens. Stop the throws in the middle of the field. Okay? They don't really throw deep outs or comebacks or anything like that.


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[Assistant] So, let's just do that. So they're not going to start throwing outrouts and deep comebacks. So the thing I would say is run the ball to then open up some of the things that they'll give you the screens on the outside and the pop slants and all the things I talk about.


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[Assistant] It's usually what you see from everybody. It is. I mean, again, I'll go back to the Tennessee game. Same type of thing.


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[Assistant] You know, this game was the same thing. Early on, they hit it. But once Ro Kwan Smith and Patrick Queen saw it a few times, see you later. Guess what happened? Oh, you went to the well too many times. Oh, Ro Kwan Smith. Interception. Going down the sideline.


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[Assistant] The third interception, I think it was the third one, or did he just throw it to two? The second interception, guess where it was?


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[Assistant] Down the middle. There was seven guys there. You know, he tried to loft it over three guys and drop it underneath another three guys and he threw it over his head and the safety intercepted it. Right? So it was just, it's too difficult, but they were playing for it. And that to me is like, yeah, they're not going to


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[Assistant] Totally change on offense, but what they can change is just again when you rush the ball.


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[Assistant] For 154 yards and you're averaging over 7 yards per carry with your running backs, you didn't run the ball enough. That's, that's what that tells you.


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[Assistant] That to me is where you drop the ball in the game, and that to me is where they could drop the ball in the game if they don't stay with it in this one. This is not the picks pod. You're not making your pick. No. This one's, I'm not sure where I'm going here yet. What's your feeling right now? What's your lean? My feeling is Buffalo.


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[Assistant] My feeling is Buffalo because I think Buffalo is a more tough, tougher physical football team who...


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[Assistant] You know, unlike most teams that play Miami, they've seen this offense, they know it, so they know kind of how to control it, gauge it, keep it under wraps to a degree.


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[Assistant] Right? I think it was gonna be a close football game regardless though. I think it'll be more of a defensive type of football game than an offensive explosion.


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[Assistant] I think it's gonna be more along the lines of like, almost Dolphins Cowboys a few weeks ago, where it'll be, come down to a late field goal, something like that, 23-20, 24-21, 2017, right in that range. But that's what, that's what I would expect. It's one, Buffalo's offense doesn't have enough.


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[Assistant] So Miami will be okay there. And then the other side of the story will be, Hey, Buffalo's defense knows how to defend this offense. And this offense right now, like I said, you play, you toss crack, screen.


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[Assistant] Slaying over the middle, you're stopping like 80% of their offense. And Buffalo knows how to do that.


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[Assistant] The way the Lamars throw in the ball, the aggressiveness of the offense, the talent at wide receiver, right?


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[Assistant] The fact that they can run the ball and you have to respect that a little bit. I mean, they're hard to match up against, right? They're hard. So Miami, they're worried about the run game and being bludgeon, but they want to play man to man across the board because, hey, we want somebody on Lamar and we want to, you know, want to let them have windows and all that.


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[Assistant] Like there he is one on one with, like I said, multiple guys with rockets up their ass and he's got all day, he's patting the ball and doing all that.


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[Assistant] It, it, and the way he's throwing and seeing the field, I mean, uuuh. It's gonna take a special defense to slow down the Ravens the way they're playing right now.


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[Assistant] Different teams than what they were then, right? Houston was like, still finding itself then. Still learning a system, a lot of young guys. You know, CJ Stratt, like you said, yeaah, I mean, it was still early on in his development. It was shaky early. They...


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[Assistant] Don't run the ball. They run the ball at a way different level now compared to where they were early in the early on in the football year.


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[Assistant] I mean, Texans have come along. So, that's where it's different altogether. Alright? So I think the Texans are a different football team. Colts have gotten better too. Don't get me wrong. Jonathan Taylor's back. Exactly right. Their running game is real and difficult to handle, right?


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[Assistant] Minshu is, he can pick you apart, you play zone and do all that, he can. You know, you know my thing. Again, with them is yeaah, you can pick him apart and do all that.


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[Assistant] But teams are playing him for that. That's why we see like Alec Pierce wide open running down the middle of the field because teams so overplay, they don't throw enough down the field as you've heard me say, right? So that's a big thing. But like if we get into just the conversation right off the bat of like who to watch for or who's the guys that are most important to me.


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[Assistant] Right? And I'm trying to pick a, you know, sometimes some outside the box ones here. To me is, is this. It's the middle linebackers from the Indianapolis Colts. They're the ones that I look at to go, they got their hands full. I mean, listen, we know the D lines got to play good and they need to get pressure on the quarterback and they do that anyways. They got a good D line. They get after it that way.


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[Assistant] But where I go with the linebackers of the Indianapolis Colts, like E.J. Speed, Zaire, Franklin, who are really good players and physical, but they got their work cut out for us from here. Because unlike in that week two matchup where they couldn't run the ball and it was a rookie quarterback,


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[Assistant] We know they found the groove. They were awesome at play action pass before they were even good at running the football.


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[Assistant] Now they're running the football to go along with that great play action pass. That to me, they're the ones that are going to have to be all over certain keys as far as to o-line what they do.


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[Assistant] You know, how does it look? Does it look more like a run set, a pass set? They're gonna have to be really coached up in that department because their ability to come downhill, stop Singletary, and, and, uh, Pierce, right?


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[Assistant] And then go, Oh no, they didn't give it to him. Now I got to get back because they're throwing a ball behind me because they're trying to move me with the play action pass. That is going to be a key to the football game is just how well they play, not only in the run game, but not being


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[Assistant] Too over-aggressive to always take the cheese on some of these fakes and leave the middle of the field wide open. Cause once Houston gets you going in that direction, they make linebackers look silly, and you know, look like their heads are spinning. And I look at those two to, they're gonna have to have big games if they wanna try to win this one.


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[Assistant] He's not wrong there either, right? You know, that's where I, I tried to go the linebackers there, but, and, and try to give a different look, but I mean, Indianapolis, when you talk about their team and their offense, it definitely starts with their, their run game and what they do there. So yeah, their front is going to have their hands full there and it's at a,


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[Assistant] You know, they're not a big front in Houston. They're a speed cross chaos, right? Their linebackers will be really important as well. They will, but uhm, yeaah. Them, you know, being able to stop Jonathan Taylor and that powerful offensive line is certainly going to be a big part of it.


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[Assistant] CJ's gonna win it. I think what hurts puka...


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[Assistant] Is he going to play this week? I mean, that's the big thing. This to me, the Rams, the Rams, I would be shocked. This is Sean McVeigh who usually plays nobody in the preseason. I would think they play nobody. Pooka Nakua is their best receiver.


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[Assistant] He has surpassed Cooper Cup. Now, Cooper Cup, I know might not be 100% healthy, but he's, he's their go-to guy right now. I would think we're not gonna see him. I wouldn't. I mean, if I were the Rams...


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[Assistant] Pooka Nakua and Kyron Williams and Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford would never see any red and gold near them the whole game. I wouldn't do it. So I think that hurts Pooka's chances. Let alone, this is a special year we've seen from CJ Stratt.


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[Assistant] I was, you know, wasn't sure how the injury would affect them and they missing two games and all that. But I mean, there was a period in time where we talking about MVP of football, CJ Stroud. I think that kind of says it all. I think this is one year that, yeah, he pulls it off unless Puka plays and does something absolutely extraordinary this weekend, which I don't expect.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think with the defensive side, like Will Anderson is...


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[Assistant] I think very close to Jalen Carter. Like Jalen Carter had the strong start, right? I haven't watched Eagle's film as of late and we've broken them down a few times here to go like he's popping quite to the same extent.


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[Assistant] Right? So I, it's not the same. Now he was a little banged up too and hurt and dealing with some things and he's had to play more and I think they put more on his plate schematically. I think they've been asking him to two gap a little bit more than, than maybe he should be, honestly. Right? This one's a close one. It really is. Jalen Carter is,


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[Assistant] As you heard me say during the year, already in the conversation for one of the best defensive tackles in football. That's how good he is.


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[Assistant] Will Anderson's been phenomenal and made a lot of big plays. I think I'd still go with Jalen Carter. Uhm, you know, but, but like, I think the,


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[Assistant] You know, uh, so he's been really, really damn good. Now the guy across from him, Jonathan Greenard, is their best defense on another football team, right? And he would be the guy, uh, so me sometimes I think that takes a little luster away from a Will Anderson because you go, oh yeah, he's great, but he's the second best passer on the team. The other guy's the best one. Will Anderson's been great as a


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[Assistant] Right? The, they lost the game to Green Bay. So if Green Bay wins, they lose that tiebreaker, and if, you know, the Rams lose and don't play anybody, then they go to the 7 seed, right? Where...


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[Assistant] I don't know who they feel more comfortable matching up with there, right? Uh, so that would be interesting to kind of see what they do, but to me, still the bottom, the baseline would be to me is to make sure we're healthy. We're not an incredibly deep team anyways, so who cares about 6 or 7 seed, just make sure you're ready to go for the


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[Assistant] I would say. Yeah, I will, yeah, definitely. I mean, it's kinda falling apart. They've fallen apart ever since their bi-week. Ever since the 49ers kinda put it on them. Uh, seems like things kinda went downhill after that.


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[Assistant] You know, the Tennessee offense is not good. We know that. They struggle. I don't care who it is at quarterback. I mean, and we know...


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[Assistant] All the reasons for that, right? I mean, that's well documented. Yeaah, it's, you know, young quarterback. Their offensive line had been banged up. They haven't been able to run the ball quite as good as they have in years past, right? There's nobody to be scared of at receiver. So that really leads some issues there.


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[Assistant] To me, like, when I kinda look at the game and break it down, I think the thing I look at here, you know, hey yeah, do I think Tennessee can maybe throw the ball a little bit on Jacksonville? Definitely. I mean, Jacksonville's past events is... stinks.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they're going to be able to run the ball, alright? Can I see them making this game uncomfortably close and pulling off an upset? Yea, I can. Because I think there's a chance too, and this is when the Titans become dangerous in my opinion, and we kind of hit on this a little bit already.


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[Assistant] And where if you ask me like, what's the thing to watch for, player to watch for, okay? I would just go with the Jaguars O line in this one. Because if this becomes...


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[Assistant] We have to throw the ball every play against the Tennessee Titans and we don't feel like we can run the ball.


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[Assistant] Tennessee's gonna hang in there. This offense is not creative enough to just beat a team like the Tennessee Titans in variable and how well coached they are in the defensive side of the ball, just the passing game.


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[Assistant] That, uh, going back to again, the Dolphins versus the Titans. What did they do? They basically just said, we don't think they'll run the ball enough. We're willing to give up a few runs every now and then. And we don't think we'll just get killed by that because our D line is really good anyway. So we're willing to kind of let them.


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[Assistant] Be on an island by themselves without putting too many people in to stop the run, right?


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[Assistant] And that's when they're most dangerous. That's when they can pull off the upset. Is when they start to go, oh, this team, they don't want to run it. They're just going to throw it every play.


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[Assistant] And now they have all these crazy combination zones and coverages they play, and all of a sudden you're going, damn, nobody's open, right? And that's when problems start. So they have to be able to have a little balance against the Tennessee Titans. They have to. Their O-line doesn't protect well enough, right?


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[Assistant] So if they begin throwing the ball every time too, it's gonna be, you're gonna be strip sack, you know, strip sack fumble type of stuff too, to where that's how you get upset.


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[Assistant] And that's what would scare me because, you know, again, Tennessee can rush the passer too. So that's where I went with the Jags-O line there just to go, they gotta play, you know, better than what they've been playing. And at least they got the run game started last week when the Panthers, that to me will be a big part of this one.


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[Assistant] I'd be shocked. I would expect him to play just because of who he is. But I don't know how severe that injury is. I don't have any inside info there. The magnitude of the game, uh, just lends me to believe that he'll try to do everything he can.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was, that was one of those games where you're like, oh my gosh, that's unreal. We've seen Tomlin and Pittsburgh do this before. And we've seen the Ravens do that a few times over the last few years, where you're like,


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[Assistant] They are literally kicking the crap out of this team, and that was the game, the big drops, remember? That was the game, like, the Ravens dropped, like, I'm not even underestimating, probably six catches for about 180 yards, and probably two to three of them were touchdowns, right? So it's like, the game,


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[Assistant] Should have been over with and done with. And as we know in the NFL, when you don't do that and take advantage of it, you're in trouble. Uh, incredible what the Steelers are doing, right? I watched some of that film against the Seahawks a little. Mason Rudolph, everything there.


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[Assistant] The worst defenses in football. So I think that's, that's fair to say. We have to say that, right? Because there's just a little too much out there where people are like, well, look what


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[Assistant] He's doing now. He should be the starting quarterback. And I want to go, you know, listen, he deserves a start. I get it. But he's been fortunate, right? I think Kenny Pickett would look a lot better too, if he got to play against the Bengals and the Seahawks. Uh, both horrible, you know, pass defenses and defenses in general, right?


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[Assistant] Here's the thing I think I would look at with, with Mation Ruda. I think it's not that there's like a huge...


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[Assistant] Schematical difference. There's nothing like that. Where I think they're playing weaker defenses. We've saw them running the ball a little bit better lately. Ever since they fired Canada, they have thrown, tried to throw the ball down the field a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Mason Rudolph's a good down the field thrower. Mason Rudolph hangs in the pocket more than I think the other two quarterbacks do and lets things develop down field too, right? To where he's not like, oh, the pass rush is getting on me, let me just check it down. He's like, ah, pass rush is getting on me, but I can pat it one more time and throw, throw the deep one here.


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[Assistant] There's value in that, of course, because they got some weapons to strike down the field.


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[Assistant] What also he does that way, and you kind of seen this in both games, is once he hits you downfield a little bit, of course he softens coverages up. And in the fact that he's not so quick to check it down, and this is where you always get, hear me going crazy about check Don Charlie's or conservative guys, right? Hey, you got a down the field concept.


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[Assistant] Okay, I know there's plays where you call it and as you drop back, you go, oh, this coverage, we don't like this play against this coverage. Nothing's going to be open downfield.


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[Assistant] To the last possible second, he goes, okay, it's not there. And then he checks it down. But what he's done with checking it down now.


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[Assistant] As the defense got back because they were like, damn, he was sitting there and patting the ball and his eyes were down the field and his shoulders were tilted up. And we thought he was, we had to go back. We had to go back. So now he throws it underneath the worn or some of the receiver and all of a sudden they're running for a 20 yard gain.


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[Assistant] And it's because he's willing to stand in there and be a little patient with that. The other guys weren't like that, especially Pickett. Pickett would have been...


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[Assistant] This tells me that they have a formula going a little bit right now of like making you defend the whole field even though it might be kind of ugliness in how they do it but we know they're gonna stay patient with the run game and they're one of those teams like we talked about with like


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[Assistant] Miami a few minutes ago, like, right, where it just like adjusts, like, hey, they're playing the Titans, they're gonna let you throw an outroute the whole game. Start throwing the outroute. Don't just go all week, I worked on this motion in this play and I gotta run it no matter what, cause this is what I did all week.


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[Assistant] Sometimes they're just going, hey, we're letting you throw the ball here, throw the ball there. Pittsburgh is one of those teams that goes, you're going to let us throw the 10 yard out? Well, we'll just keep throwing the 10 yard out all day long until you stop it. Oh, 10 yard out, 10 yard out. That's, that's what I do like about them. And that's what he will do.


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[Assistant] Right? So that to me is the thing they got working there. It's just that, yeaah, run the ball, smash mouth concepts in between the tackle.


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[Assistant] People bunched in the box right in the middle trying to stop it. We have numbers advantages outside the hashes now when we drop back to pass. Cause you gotta, you gotta everybody in there to stop the run and do that. I think that's the big thing. And then the occasional, hey, shot down the field or whatever. And that's all she wrote.


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[Assistant] You know, simple way of just going, hey, this is how you're gonna have to defend the whole field against us. And with those two receivers they have on the outside, it ends up being in some big plays because of their talent.


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[Assistant] No, I don't. I don't. I mean, if they're in, you know, I'm like mad respect for them. No doubt about it. But yeah, as we sit here right now,


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[Assistant] I like the six teams that are in other than the Colts. I want Houston in at seven. That's nothing personal. That's just purely for me watching football. Sorry Colts fans or anybody out there. I won't be mad if the Colts get in. Uh, but yea, just CJ Stroud and that story I think is cool for the AFC


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[Assistant] It will. I mean, you know, one, great job by the Packers the other night in our game, right? Who had looked like crap the three weeks before. So crap that I was like, even with Jaren Hall, I was like,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna pick the Vikings. I just don't even trust Green Bay, right? So they played great on both sides of the ball. Kudos to them, right? And this last performance was more like the good streak we saw, you know, in early December, late November from the Green Bay Packers.


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[Assistant] Is one of the better teams in football right now. I mean, I told Florio today, he had to do his PFT power rankings, right? And I was like, I would have Chicago in front of Tampa, Green Bay,


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm, you know, Seattle, some of these teams, New Orleans, I would, first off, because we think Chicago, oh yeaah, it's not a great year, why would you do that? They're one game behind all those teams I just mentioned. It's one. I know they're out of the playoffs.


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[Assistant] You know, it's one game, it's not that big of a difference. Let alone they won five out of their last seven. And really, could have won seven out of their last seven. Lost to Squeaker to the Browns, right? And lost to your Lions that we brought up a few times in Detroit where they controlled the football game.


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[Assistant] Right? So, they're playing awesome. They really are. This game's scary. Right? I mean, the Bears, the Bears, Field's playing awesome. Uh, they can run the ball.


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[Assistant] That's where, like, when you ask me about guys that I think are important to this football game, it's the Packers receivers. That's what I'd go to. Christian Watson, his health, where's he gonna be?


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[Assistant] Right? Because the Bears play man to man almost every play. They have literally, like, they're like the Browns where they just go, screw you, bump man to man, try it, let's see what you got.


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[Assistant] And so they challenge everything. And a guy like Christian Watson would maybe, not would maybe, would back them off a little bit. It would definitely make them think twice about being a little too aggressive. If he's not on the field for Green Bay,


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[Assistant] Hey, Jayden Reed, who I know also is banged up, they're really good, but they're not the guys that always instill fear in you, like, oh my gosh, he could go for 80, right? Watson's the guy to do that in Green Bay. They need him, but these receivers, yeaah, this is going to be a big game for them to separate, because I don't think they're going to be able to run on Chicago. Nobody's run on Chicago here the last five


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[Assistant] It might be more pass game oriented that he goes off in this one, right? That's where I can see it going. The Bears...


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[Assistant] The Bears have the number one run defense in football. Did you know that? Like most people, I don't think most people know that. Right? That's, that's, they're, they're real. And they're just not gonna let you run, let alone they trust their corners. And, you know, they got Stevenson, the rookie from Miami who's really good.


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[Assistant] And then they have a guy that I'm gonna vote for as all pro and Jalen Johnson at Corner of the Bears. So they're like, bring it. They don't care.


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[Assistant] So like to your point, those receivers, that status, that group right there to what our guy just said, you know, they need to be ready to go if they want to win this one. This is not going to be easy. Chicago has been competing, playing tough. Fields is playing tough. Chicago should not ruin anything here. Stay with Justin Fields, Matt Eberfluss.


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[Assistant] Luke Getzi, the offense is awesome. The defense is playing great. And they got all these picks. Don't waste one on another quarterback. Stay with Justin Fields. Draft one more receiver. Get another pass rusher.


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[Assistant] You got the number one pick in a year where a lot of teams need a quarterback and you don't really need one. You could come out of this draft going, we have three first round picks and another two next year. Right? Somebody wants Caleb Williams that bad. Okay, here you go. So they're sitting pretty.


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[Assistant] And I would stick with what they got, and I'm really impressed with Justin Fields, I really am. It's a fierce debate with Justin Fields.


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[Assistant] And like a Lamar Jackson, it's not about this overall number sometimes. It's like the, the point in the game, the situation he's been coming through. I didn't mean to cut you off.


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[Assistant] Remember at one point we had like all these people telling me, oh, the Bears coaches are doing a disservice to Justin Fields. And I'm like.


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[Assistant] As they were saying, as they were talking to the highlights, people were roping everywhere. And I'm going, what? Right? He didn't see the field well, they were afraid to call plays, you heard me saying that, that showed me they didn't trust him. Right? I would watch them a year ago, early this year, and go, two out of every three throws, I'd go, ehh.


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[Assistant] You might have completed it, but the guy had to fall to the ground or whatever, right? Now it's like, every now and then I go, ehh. It's like, oh well, there's five good throws in a row. The sixth one, you go, ehh. Okay, okay, I could deal with that. That's, that's fine. You're, you're, that's definitely above the line for being a damn good quarterback. Let alone, this ain't dinkin' dunk crap here.


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[Assistant] Right? They are, like, as you saw in my notes, they throw the ball outside the numbers and down the fields. Passing game is down field. Throw it outside a lot. He's staying in the pocket, letting plays develop. Seeing the field really well.


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[Assistant] O-line, overpowering. Teams have to respect their run game. Then you gotta worry about fields running the ball. It's like a double whammy. The boots, the play actions, the screens, they're all good within this offense. They do a really good job there.


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[Assistant] They're system. They do a lot. I love it. You know, and then you saw the, you know, the rest of my notes to just view the bullet points I wrote down there for him. But yeah, I'm impressed with the Bears and the Bears have a chance here to go into the off season, almost like your Lions did last year. The similarity is here.


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[Assistant] Chiefs, Chargers, I don't give a shit about that either. There's nothing that really matters. So those are games that I compartmentalize and just go, let me get a little feel, but I'm not gonna watch, oh, second and seven with seven minutes left in the first quarter. Eagles, Giants, yeaah, I don't imagine having to keep an eye on that too closely. So there's a few that you just gotta like,


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[Assistant] You know what game he bet on cause he's going like some random thing he's going crazy about. Why is he worried about Colcomet's receptions today? Locked in on every play on Saints and Bears.


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[Assistant] That's when they got it going. That might have been the play that did it. Well, it definitely was part of it. Who's your player to watch in this game?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with the running back and Rashid White. I am here.


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[Assistant] You know, listen, we know Carolina's offense is nothing special. I would think Tampa's defense could, can hang in there, okay? You heard me talk about before, it was a little bit like, you know, taking like what you saw with Jacksonville in Carolina last week. Carolina, if you get into,


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[Assistant] We can only throw the ball, right? And we can't run the ball. You're, you're, you're going to be in trouble. They're really creative, right? They got talent in the secondary. They got good linebackers. Of course they got Brian Burns and some guys that can annoy you past Russian and doing that. That to me is when Carolina becomes


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[Assistant] A pain in the ass is when they can play teams a little bit that are like, Hey, we don't have to worry about their run that much, right? They're throwing the ball and we're going to give them issues. When, when, when you're a little one, another team that I just go, yeah, they're one dimensional. They're smart enough to kind of.


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[Assistant] Go wall in on that area and stop that area that's not the dimension or however I'm trying to explain that.


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[Assistant] That, that to me, they're, if they think they're gonna drop back and throw the ball, then make big plays all game long, you know, Mike Evans, Chris Godman and all that, they're gonna be playing with fire.


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[Assistant] Uh, they gotta run the ball. Running the ball will be the key to this one. Uh, just again, to not make it Baker sticking the ball in the tight windows, keep a little pressure off their passing game.


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[Assistant] You know, Antoine Winfield is a guy that I look at to be, hey, he's kind of all pro candidate for me at safety, right? They got some guys that can get out through the passer a little bit and then their offense is fun to watch. I think that's the reason I kind of look at them and yeah, I'd like to see them in the playoffs and the Baker Mayfield story is always cool.


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[Assistant] No, right. Should be plenty good though, to beat this, to win this game. Yeah. This is a game where...


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[Assistant] Like, I wanna, I would go like Dan Quinn. This is on Dan Quinn. That's where they can lose the game. If they get a little too...


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[Assistant] We're the Cowboys. We're in your face. We're going to get sacks. We're going to pressure the quarterback. We're going to play man to man. Like if they do that against this crew, you better watch out. I mean, just like we saw the 49ers last week, right? Yup. 49ers.


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[Assistant] Increasing your sack numbers. What I, what I'm saying is, you know, don't try to give the death blow in the first quarter. You know, just kill them slowly.


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[Assistant] If you gotta let them have a 10 yard completion every now and then, so what? But don't let it be, oh no, McCorn got a 60 yard gain and now they're on the five. Oh, Curtis Samuel was one on one and just got 70 yards and now they're on the two, right? That to me is how you lose the game and it becomes an upset.


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[Assistant] As if they do sh- do shit like that. So that's where I would say just- just be careful. I would think their offense can-


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[Assistant] Definitely. You know, it's, it's, the guys that are playing, even though they're playing for nothing, they're still like playing football. It's still their job. They still want to do good. It's the last time they're going to do it in a long time. And it's the last time you're doing it all year, right? And you do get motivated without pressure of going, let's f*** this team's year up, right? There's definitely that. So you can go out there and you just feel like,


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[Assistant] You know, hey, it's pressureless football, yet I'm loving it, I'm playing hard.


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[Assistant] Right? And our, and our coach is kinda, he doesn't give a shit either, he's taking a few chances in this one, right? So that's where that team has any advantage, and if they get a little hope or momentum, all of a sudden they start to feed off of it, and the other team starts to go, oh my gosh, they're playing us close, and they start to feel the pressure, and it all starts to go in different directions, and that's when that kinda crap happens right there.


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[Assistant] I don't think so, but I do think the Eagles have a disease right now of letting anybody they play make the game closer than they should, right? Really, almost all year. The whole year. The whole year, you know?


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[Assistant] It's, it's, again, it's one of those things of the year I'm proud of that we were early on in the year going, hey, there's things about the Eagles to be scared of. There's things that don't look good. I know they're winning, but we were trying to say there's some issues that are concerning, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, you know, I, I, again, I expect them to win this football game, uhm, you know, but the Giants...


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[Assistant] Wink Martindale, I mean, he's never scared of anything. They're gonna be aggressive on the defensive side of the ball. And, you know, day ball. Creative. Crappy Eagles defense right now. Tyrod throwing it good.


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[Assistant] Jalen Hyatt and Darius Slayton attacking downfield a little bit more? Like, I think they can make this game scarier than Philadelphia would like, but I certainly would think Philadelphia wins with, you know, the importance of the game, the importance of the situation overall.


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[Assistant] They need to just win and play well to feel good going into the playoffs. Cause if they go in kinda the way they are right now as we sit here, they're gonna go into that wild card game like,


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[Assistant] Confidence is going to be about as low as it's ever been for Philadelphia and wondering, can we win? Can we really pull this together? You know, in a one and done situation, can we rise to the occasion? They're going to have a lot of self doubt.


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[Assistant] They got no rallying call right now. It does seem like there's some civil war going on there in Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] Offense, not as explosive and as dominant as we've seen it be. Defensively, right? It's all over the place. I mean, that was embarrassing. I watched that yesterday too. You did. Watching Arizona? I mean, Arizona just put on a clinic of like, pulling guards and pulling tackles and


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[Assistant] They ran for 200 yards and I'm gonna pull it up here. I don't know if there was a run ever past 20 yards, right? That's when you know you're getting your ass whooped. When you let up 200 yards rushing,


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[Assistant] And, alright, there was a 22 yard run. Because every run, the whole game was like 8 yards, 6 yards, 8 yards, 10 yards, 8 yards, 6 yards. I mean, totally blown off the ball, right? So Philadelphia, physically on both sides of the ball, not nearly as impressive, uh, and, and, and, like, not


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[Assistant] Not nearly as creative on the offensive side of the ball to match some of the firepower they're seeing right now.


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[Assistant] Like, I wasn't great, but I did pretty good. Uh, I had the 49ers over Washington, right? I did that, and then I did, uhm... And they covered, right? They covered. And then my go-to for the last, like, six weeks has been the Bears. And they came through again.


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[Assistant] No, I would agree. You know, he's another guy that I think has probably entered the


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[Assistant] Best defensive tackles in football conversation, right? And then just like, not only stout against the run, but has that athletic ability to win one-on-ones inside that's kind of unique at his size. Uh, damn good player. I think it's a contract year for him too. Good year to have that.


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[Assistant] I thought, I don't know where the betting favorite was. That's where it was getting me, right? You know, again, cause I'm too skewed by, well, the betting favor is going to go to the guy who has the most sacks. So I thought,


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[Assistant] You know, but maybe, maybe the public's being smarter, right?


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[Assistant] You know, I, I, I love Trey Hendrickson and I love T.J. Watt. I do. But I don't see the effect on the game to the same capacity that Michael Parsons or Miles Garrett have. Just when, when I can't keep my eyes off of them when I'm watching them. So there it is. Justin Matabouk.


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[Assistant] I mean, I know there's a lot of Alabama tackles. I'm all freaked out right now. Hold on a second. Give me a second. Uh, what else did you say about what he did that day? Anything else?


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[Assistant] This third year former backup now starts as a bookend to a pro bowler with 13 and a half sacks. Damn, there's a lot of language in that thing there.


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[Assistant] I would have thought it would have been, like, Michael Parsons, but he's got more than nine sacks, right? I'm looking at the teams here. Hold on one more second, let me just read. Nine and a half sacks, thirty... Oh my god. I think this is Aiden Hutchinson.


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[Assistant] Alright, and then who's first? Micah is first. See?


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[Assistant] See? So, it's not all about the sax, right? When you play, see when people play, like,


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[Assistant] The 49ers or the Cowboys too, you know, that's the other thing you got to think about. You know, your whole week as a quarterback, they're literally going, don't hold the balls long, don't hold the balls long, don't hold the balls long, don't hold the ball. So literally, you know, their effect on the game, they might be in the sacks, they're getting pressures and they're making the quarterback


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[Assistant] Probably a handful of times every game throw the ball and you go, ah, he could have held onto that a little longer. That guy's about to come open. But they're going, the whole week what they've been told and they've been hit once or twice by the guy already. And they have a gauge in their head that they're just don't feel comfortable with. And that's a great effect. And I love stuff like that.


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[Assistant] But damn, I don't know, what's better? To kill him or to dig the hole for him? I don't know. I mean, digging and killing him might be the easier part. Digging the hole is harder. I wouldn't know exactly, but, uh, you're right. You know, I look at like good fellas, the guy just shot him in the head and he's dead. That was easy. When they had to go dig the hole, that was worth it. It's emotionally hard though. Emotionally hard to actually


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[Assistant] You got some tough ones there. You might not, you might not be standing that pretty.


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[Assistant] Maybe that one hit a little close to home. Yea, he hasn't been doing that. I think he heard that. You're right. I think, that is a good point. I think he heard enough people...


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[Assistant] Alright, well done, well done. I think, uh, for next week's, teams in the playoffs, I mean, teams that are not, you play them to rest, right? We'll dig the hole. Also,


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[Assistant] One was Michigan, the other one was Washington. So I got to see them up close in person. Uh, so I feel- You got to talk to their guys? I did. Did you talk to Michael Pennix? I didn't get to talk to Michael Pennix, no. Why not? They didn't let him talk to us. He was- there was kind of a thing in the Pac-12 this year. It was like Pennix and Caleb Williams were not made


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[Assistant] Like, available to the TV crews, which I wanna be like, what? They pay you how many billions? We can't have your best player? Like that shouldn't be allowed. So they gotta figure that out. But either way, yea, I mean, totally two impressive football teams that I'm excited to watch that. Who do you think is gonna win then?


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[Assistant] Oof, it's hard, I gotta think about it more. Pennix and that offense, I don't know, I haven't seen anybody really slow them down the whole year. And he threw the ball great the other night. So, that'll be


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, I think I'd probably go with Michigan if you made me bet money. Alright, I may be wearing this again on Monday. Alright, please do. We like it. Alright everybody, I hope you enjoyed it. Tomorrow I got the week 18 picks with Florio. Please check us out there. We'll break down the games even further.


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[Assistant] It's always a good listen. We have a lot of fun. We swear a lot. So that's always good too. A lot more swears on that one than this one. Especially because we have two hosts that swear on that one. Only one on this one. He just lets it fly now. Oh, he lets it fly. Right.


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[Assistant] Well, and now it'll literally like, he'll say shit four times in the first 20 minutes and then I'll break out one like an hour later and be like, whoa, he'll go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And I want to be like, Mike, you said the same word seven times in the first segment. It was, I say it on this idea. Yeah, exactly. So, alright, you know where to find us. Keep sending them the questions. We appreciate all the homies chiming in, you know, you.


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[Assistant] Partaking and, and being a part of this podcast, we really do appreciate that. Ahmed, you the man. Thanks for wearing your Michigan color. Screw you. Yep. Alright. Alright everybody, peace out. Have a good rest of your week. Enjoy the week 18 games. Check us out tomorrow with Oreo. Clap it up. Clap it up.


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


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[Assistant] And knowing you too, it's like they're probably often times where it's like you're maybe a little late on getting to where you need to get to. Exactly right.


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[Assistant] And no one, and the people on the road are not helping you in that situation. I'm like, I want to go 100, why are you doing the speed limit? Get out of the way. Uh, I think mine, I'm pretty good on the road. I think mine is going to be less phone time. Oh, okay. Somehow. You know, it's like either less or no Twitter. I don't know how I'm going to do it exactly because we got to use it for our business.


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[Assistant] I know, I know. I feel like we're running a grand experiment with our kids to see how much screen time will actually affect a kid down the road. We're doing this control experiment for everyone else out there. Alright, we are in our suits if you're just listening and not watching. Uhm, I wonder if we'll be able to have the same vibe on the pod. Of course we can.


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[Assistant] Our, uh, promise to you the homie as always is going through each and every game, uh, week 17. So many games have playoff implications. I feel like we have more teams in the playoff conversation now than in most years. I don't know. Maybe that's just anecdotal.


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[Assistant] I mean, there are seven teams that are still alive for two final playoff spots in the NFC, including the Chicago Bears that need a tie in our Sunday night game right now. It doesn't look likely. No, it doesn't look likely.


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[Assistant] We'll tell you how the final hours of uh, 2023 go. Alright, let's start at the top of the AFC because the one seeds in both conferences are locked up right now and I actually didn't think that we'd


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[Assistant] Be able to say that in both of the conferences, but it just fell that way and they were a couple of dominant performances. None more so than the Baltimore Ravens. Let's start there. The Baltimore Ravens have the one seed. They're 13 and three.


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[Assistant] They not only beat the Dolphins, they destroyed them. 56-19. They got the number one seed for the second time in franchise history. They've got a six game winning streak now.


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[Assistant] Uh, this was one of those games where, what was it, two weeks ago, you and I came to the conclusion that the Miami Dolphins were the team to beat in the AFC. And I think that we were wrong.


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[Assistant] So that play, right, I'm glad you brought that play up, because often times on this podcast we do bring up the fourth down plays that don't work, but I do think that one, and that was quite aggressive, right? It was. They were up at the time, they felt in control, obviously. Yes, they did. But it was fourth and seven, they could have kicked a long field goal, the best


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[Assistant] Field well kicker maybe in the history. Probably like a 53, 54 yard jump already. He's struggled a little bit on those 50 yards this year, but uhm, but still they definitely could have tried it.


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[Assistant] Cause I feel like that play broke the Dolphins. Like after that play, this game was basically over.


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[Assistant] They are the best team in their conference. So Tyreek Hill, 248 yards from breaking Kelvin Johnson's NFL record. He's the first player in NFL history with 1700 receiving yards in multiple seasons though. He was your MVP guy for a long time, but now I think.


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[Assistant] It's over. It is now the Mars. Coach Mills says damn okay. La MVP. Perfect passer rating. Five touchdowns. Put a stamp on the MVP race. Looking awfully quarterback-y out there.


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[Assistant] So Pete, do we have the locker room celebration for the Ravens in there? John Harbaugh was going crazy. And I mean, what a, what a coaching year. He's not going to win coach of the, he's not going to win coach of the year. Um, but like talk about, we, we, we have Bill Belichick in the conversation of who's the best coach in the, in the NFL. I mean, look at those moves.


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[Assistant] And at Still Hines, I'm sorry, this is a tweet from many moons ago, this was pre-season when you picked the Ravens. Right, right. To be the one seed. Yes. This was in the pre-season.


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[Assistant] And we remember, we remember this, Pete remembers as well, this tweet to you, goes, I will literally shave all my hair off if the ravens finish with the one seed. Get real. And I noticed today, you and Pete retweeted this today just so people could take a look at this.


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[Assistant] And you did say all of your hair too, which means all of your hair, not even just your head.


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[Assistant] There's a while there we thought the Dolphins might be the one seed in the AFC, now they might not even win their division because the Buffalo Bills have that opportunity after taking care of business against the New England Patriots. 27-21, kind of an ugly game, at least for the offense for the Bills, I guess for the defense it's a game that they're probably going to enjoy looking at the tape from.


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[Assistant] 127 yards on the ground, they kind of grinded that out on 37 carries. Yeaah, it was, everything was hard, uh, for the Buffalo Bills. But, you just mentioned the injuries for the Miami Dolphins. They're playing for the division title next week, maybe on NBC, you probably know this before we do.


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[Assistant] I don't know. You've got two teams that have their weaknesses, and I guess that's kind of like what it is in the AFC, right? It's like you look at these teams and there are so many incomplete teams that don't have it all. And the Buffalo Bills seem like that. Did you take anything positive from the defensive side of things?


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[Assistant] 12 losses for the first time in the Patriots franchise since 1992. Yea. And I did hear you and Mike talking on the Pickspot a little bit about, I don't know if the Patriots win the last two games here and there's a little, maybe it's not the end for Bill Belichick. I don't have any inside info there.


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[Assistant] They have won the AFC West for the 8th straight season. Here we're sounding the alarms, and of course, offensively, they don't look like what they've looked in the past. What was it, 6 field goals in this game? Harrison Butker was basically their offensive MVP over Patrick Mahomes. Clean game though for Mahomes, was not intercepted. They're 5-0 this year when he's not intercepted.


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[Assistant] And that's what you've been preaching for the Chiefs. Play clean offense, rely on your defense.


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[Assistant] They've gone from the Chiefs, don't settle for field goals, to the Chiefs like, let's just get some field goals here. Let's just get some field goals. Let's just get some field goals, play the field position game here.


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[Assistant] 50 yards rushing over expected. The most yards over expected by a Chiefs running back in a game since 2019.


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[Assistant] Had the majority of his production come against light boxes too, getting 117 yards on 12 carries, so they didn't, they didn't stack, they're still scared of Patrick Mahomes and what that passing game can be.


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[Assistant] Let me give you a bonus inside the numbers powered by AWS here. Uh, Patrick Mahomes throwing deep. He had the 67 yarder to Rishi Rice. Uh, here are the dots for that play. Now, according to next gen stats and get this, this was kind of surprising.


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[Assistant] Uh, Cowboys beat the Lions. I thought we weren't going to talk about this today. Oh no, we got a deep dive here. Deep dive. I was laying in bed, trying to fall asleep. Cause I want to get a good night's sleep before doing football night in America. I want to be well rested. I don't want bags into my eyes. I don't want them to have to spend a lot of time like dark or like lightening up my dark circles under my eyes.


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[Assistant] But I was like depressed. I bet you were. Because the referees just did not let my guy, Taylor Decker, report eligible. And if they had, if they got that right, my Lions would have won the game, most likely. Still 23 seconds left. So I don't even know, I don't want to go back to that dark place.


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[Assistant] It's very similar to the thing too that I was talking about with Lamar Jackson when he was scrambling around and then a ref fell down. I was like, sometimes when you scramble back 20 yards, that's gonna happen. I think the same applies for the Lions. You try to...


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[Assistant] So if you get rid of that one, I definitely want to get rid of mine. If we're making new rules here. So Dallas can clinch the NFC East with a win at Washington next week. And so if they do that, are they ahead of the Lions then or no? Would they be, yeah, they'd be, they'd be tied. So they're tied now.


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[Assistant] We'll get to the rams. They didn't look as scary today, so maybe I don't hate that as much as I would have 24 hours ago. I know who doesn't look as scary right now either. The Philadelphia Eagles.


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[Assistant] They lost to the Arizona Cardinals 35-31. So now Philly needs Dallas to lose next week to win the AFC East. They have lost four of their last five games. Yes. How about that?


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[Assistant] And it's been an offense that hasn't been as good as it was last year, but really, I mean, the story is on the defensive side too. They allowed the Cardinals to score four touchdowns on their final four possessions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Tanner Morris says damn okay for the Cardinals run game over 200 yards on the elite defensive line. Got the win for Gannon versus his old team, the revenge game for the old defensive coordinator for the Eagles. Kyler was lights out, he says, in the second half as well. What does a win like this do for a young team moving forward?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, so much at this time of the year, especially with these teams is about draft position and, oh, we want our team to lose to get that better draft pick. But this is a, this just shows you like what a win can do for you. Like for the reasons you mentioned, right? It's like, who cares whether you have the fifth pick or the seventh pick.


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[Assistant] So you say the Chiefs have to win ugly, play through their run, play through their defense mostly. How do the Eagles have to play? Lockdown Corner says, why do the Eagles call such predictable plays? Quarterback run, quarterback run, screen when you can close out the game in the red zone. Why don't we attack the middle of the field ever? Happy New Year game. I'm frustrated.


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[Assistant] Was it like four weeks ago? We were like, they've got the inside track to the one seed because they had the easiest schedule of any team in the NFL, not just the playoff team, but any team in the NFL. And now that number one seed is going to the San Francisco 49ers.


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[Assistant] They took care of business against the Washington commanders, 27 to 10, the final score. So they clinched that number one seed. They got 12 or more wins in consecutive years for the first time since the late 90s.


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[Assistant] They had three straight back then. Uh, 11th win this season by 10 points or more, and that's a franchise record. They have never done that before in the history of the 49ers. Uhm, this one wasn't like, they didn't look,


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[Assistant] Like a world beater in this one, but they knew what they... They handled their business. Exactly. Right, right. What do you make of the 49ers clearly looking like the class of the NFC?


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[Assistant] It's going to be tough because you have that debate for both of the one-seeds now. They have it locked up. You're not going to play, you get the bye week, so you know you get a week off there. It's like the roster versus rest debate and how much do you play the guys? And if a guy, God forbid, gets hurt in this week 18 game that meant nothing, it's just like, oh, why'd we do that?


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[Assistant] That's gonna be, you know. Good for the guys who are dinged up. Yes. Like you mentioned. Right, right. Might be a tougher call for the guys who are not.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Four interceptions against the Baltimore Ravens. None versus the Washington Commanders in those two touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Christian McCaffrey did leave in the third quarter with a calf injury. Kyle Shanahan is saying that he had something wrong with his calf, possible calf strain. We'll see tomorrow. So the first round by, very good in that situation with Christian McCaffrey giving a maximum time to come back. Let's move on to the AFC South. Still up for grabs. Only one team has been eliminated here.


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[Assistant] But we don't know who's going to win the division because Jacksonville, the Colts, and the Houston Texans are all 9-7. They did bounce back though. The Texans beat the Titans 26-3. They would clinch a playoff berth with a win next week. Would clinch the AFC South with a win and a Jaguars loss. CJ Stroud was back.


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[Assistant] He was uh, efficient, nothing that really stood out, but it was a, it was an easy Texans win that maybe coming into this year, you didn't think they'd have any easy wins, and now they're a team that is on the doorstep of a potential playoff spot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, you saw by the passing chart right there, CJ Stroud averaged a career low 5.3 air yards per attempt. His second career game averaging under 8 yards. So it's like, that is the one concern with them. They lost Tank Dell. I know, lost the big play threats, right? Still got Nico Collins there, but yeah, that speed to stretch the field. You don't have that anymore.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Tennessee without, we had Will Levis who left in the second quarter just...


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[Assistant] Houston gets a win next week. They are in the playoffs, but they got to beat the Indianapolis Colts who would clinch a playoff berth themselves if they get a win versus the Houston Texans. They would also win the South if they can win and then


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[Assistant] Jacksonville loses at Tennessee. That is less likely. Uh, but this is basically a playoff game because the Colts took care of business against the Las Vegas Raiders just by three points here.


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[Assistant] You look at the score and you're like, oh, they, they were lucky to get out with a win in this.


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[Assistant] Davante Adams, 23rd career game with 10 or more receptions tying Antonio Brown's NFL record. That's going to be very interesting next year. I mean, the Raiders have now been officially eliminated from the postseason in 2023. Uh, they got an interim head coach right now.


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[Assistant] Devonte Adams, who knows, right? Under contract, but I don't know. It's like, I wonder where some of these at Josh Jacobs. What's gonna happen with this team next year?


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[Assistant] He's capable of running the ball here the last two weeks, too. Yeah, 20 carries, 71 yards for White. Devontae Adams had 21 targets in the game, too. They just kept throwing the ball over his way. Uh, so the Colts, they could be scared. They could win a game. Jonathan Taylor, 96 yards for him. So through the air, on the ground, balanced team can make some plays on defense.


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[Assistant] Who's gonna win the AFC South? Could be the Jacksonville Jaguars. They would clinch the AFC South with a win at Tennessee next week. They took care of business easily against the Carolina Panthers. 26 to nothing. Uh, snapped a four game losing streak. Boy, it has really been a slog.


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[Assistant] For the Jacksonville Jaguars. So I guess maybe this is a get right game. Although the offense wasn't like necessarily awesome. Carolina's got a pretty good defense. Let's give a shout out though to Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Three sacks in the game, set a Jacksonville single season record with 16 and a half sacks this season.


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[Assistant] That was too much for Carolina to overcome. That'd be a positive development for them. If ETM can be that big play guy again.


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[Assistant] Good news for Carolina, they do secure the number one pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. The bad news is it belongs to the Bears. But as Mike Florio brought up, the good news is that they do have the number one pick in every other round too. So I guess that's good too. Uhm, yeaah. It has not been a year to remember for Carolina, including


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[Assistant] Their owner 49er701 says damn okay, David Temper. You see that? I mean Tepper.


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[Assistant] We didn't think we'd see any owners as bad as Dan Snyder so soon. So here's a video if you're watching on Peacock and YouTube. So basically he's at the game and he just takes his drink.


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[Assistant] And he just chucks it out the window on top of Jaguar's fans.


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[Assistant] Doesn't it look like a kid? Could be a short man too, but yea, it could be. I think it is like a kid. In a Jaguars jersey. So here's, here's what I'm kind of getting the feeling. Like maybe, maybe David, uh, Tepper does not have what it takes to be an NFL owner. Maybe he just can't handle the situation.


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[Assistant] Two and fourteen for the Carolina Panthers. Boy, a year to forget for every fan of that team. I feel sorry for you. Let's go to the NFC South now, down to the wire.


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[Assistant] Could have been clinched by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but, uh, the New Orleans Saints, 23-13, get the win. And now they would clinch the NFC South with a win versus Atlanta and a Tampa Bay loss at Carolina next week. So Tampa Bay is still in the driver's seat.


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[Assistant] Of winning this division. Baker Mayfield, we gotta look on his, uh, I think he's gonna be okay, but took a shot to the left shoulder and ribs area. I feel like we have a blind spot with the Saints.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Derek Carr, eight touchdowns, one interception his last three games. Had those two touchdowns, no interceptions in this one. Yeah, and like the, the Buccaneers offense of what? They had a four game win streak. Rashad White had been running really well. And I think his longest run was the one where Davis got the fumble, just ripped it out. Right, Jonathan Abraham, right.


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[Assistant] And so it was like they were kind of on the verge of being this offensive. You're like, man, maybe they're the scary team that you don't want to play in the playoffs. I agree. It didn't look like that today, but credit to the Saints.


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[Assistant] Uh, let's save that for cause there's one minute to go in that one. We'll do that one next. You're Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings. Uh, let's talk about their NFC North division rivals. The Chicago Bears beat the Atlanta Falcons not only beat on 37-17.


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[Assistant] Uh, it was what? DJ Moore over 150 yards. He and Justin Fields. That's becoming very funny. That combination there. Justin Fields had a touchdown run in the game.


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[Assistant] Uh, Chicago now, like this is the crazy thing, now it's over, they have now been eliminated because the Packers and Vikings did not tie. Yes. But the fact that they stayed in it this long after the start that they had, props to everyone in that organization.


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[Assistant] If Kurt Cousins was healthy right now, and we didn't think this coming into the year, NFC North


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[Assistant] By the end of the year, like if Kurt Cousins was playing, and still the Vikings are in the hunt, or they were, for a playoff spot, like top to bottom, strongest division in football?


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[Assistant] Top to bottom, like if you're talking about Chicago being the worst team in this division, that's a pretty good division.


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[Assistant] You're right, Green Bay is not out of it because it has now gone final. I'm watching Melissa Stark on the field with Champagne Bottles and Jordan Love.


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[Assistant] Love you and the crew. Love you too, Corey. Happy New Year. Jordan loves TD. Was the off-platform type of throw to Reid. Have you seen him get that more under control as his play has improved? Or is it luck? So, we have just finished watching this game. You probably saw more of the second half than I did.


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[Assistant] Couple back foot throws, maybe you should have used the front foot a little bit more on those. Uh, but yea, what do you think of the Packers overall and Jordan Love and his maturation this year?


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[Assistant] So Pete, do we know what the situation is for the Packers here? So currently they are the 7 seed. And who do they have the last, uh, last game?


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[Assistant] The Chicago Bears though would relish the opportunity. It would be the second year in a row that the Green Bay Packers could be eliminated from the postseason by a rival NFC North team that is not in the playoff.


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[Assistant] So that game is going to be at 425. We got the schedule out?


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[Assistant] The schedule's out. Okay. That's uh, Sunday 425. Our game?


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[Assistant] It is time. This leads to give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. We've got two games. The printing press is going the Rams. They won. They're in the playoffs. They beat the Giants by a point. Your headline for this one is just Ram it in, baby.


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[Assistant] Pete's getting more nervous by the second. I can hear. Uhm, so yeaah, the Rams have clinched a playoff berth. They have won six of their last seven games, including three straight. They've been in the playoffs now five of the last seven years. Right. Last time they were in the playoffs, they brought this up on football night. They won the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Tyron Williams is a weapon, as you mentioned, first ram with a hundred or more scrimmage yards in seven straight games since Steven Jackson. Wow. In 2009 and now Pooka Nakua, their other playmaker, needs just four catches in 29 receiving yards next week to set an NFL


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[Assistant] But this is a historic year. I know. Like, I think that really should trump. And I know, it's like, the Deron Bland thing, the pick sixes, you know, but I do think there's something special about your big awards going to guys that have done something that has never been done before in the game.


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[Assistant] I blame you. Top 40 quarterback list. All that stuff. Former quarterback talking about it. Uh, the quarterback for the Steelers was once again Mason Rudolph. His magic did not wear off around Christmas time. They were still able to do some things and the Steelers beat the Seahawks. 30 to 23. Your headline for this one is...


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[Assistant] That's amazing. It is. The third coach ever with non-losing record in 17 or more straight seasons. So you got Tom Landry, Bill Belichick, and now Mike Tomlin has done it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a 37-yard pass play to George Pickens, a 42-yarder to Deontay Johnson, Fryermuth had a 25-yarder, and they had some big ones in the run game too. Najee Harris ends up going over 100 yards, 122, but Warren was right there with 75. 200 yards rushing as a team. I've got a question from Samuel Taysire. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Seahawks can still make the playoffs, but they need to win at Arizona. That might be difficult. And they need Green Bay to lose versus the Chicago Bears. They need some help to get into the postseason. And that was, give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. Time for one more game on this Sunday, New Year's Eve.


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[Assistant] And it's the Broncos beating the Chargers in the section that we call Let Stidham Cook. And they did exactly that. 20 of 32. 240 or 224 yards and one touchdown. 16 to 9. The Denver Broncos get the win and then immediately found out they were eliminated from the postseason.


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[Assistant] How crazy is it gonna be next year, Russell Wilson in Washington being coached by Bill Belichick? Won't that be weird? Won't that be crazy?


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[Assistant] One more game we don't want to forget about. Your man crush. Your men crush on the defensive side. The Cleveland Browns won Thursday Night Football. The final game on Amazon this year. Beat the Jets 37-20. Joe Flacco was going crazy again. They're not managing them. They're going, we throw an interception. They don't manage anything. We don't care. Just do what you do.


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[Assistant] Vago K tweets us and said, that is sick. New Year's Eve, Chris, Ahmed, Pete taping the pod for the homies and Morgan and Gabby. Gabby, get out of the building. We are done right now. Gabby wants to get out of here. Her New Year's party is five minutes away.


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[Assistant] She has. She's a partier. Yeah, in a good way. A hosting of a, a host, a good host. Matthew Barry got that bottle of champagne for the Unbuttoned Pod.


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[Assistant] Well, he gave it to me last week. Oh, okay. And I really appreciated it, and now I've regifted it to the Unbuttoned.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, what's up? It's Wednesday, December 20th. It's Chris Simms unbuttoned and after that clip that you just heard, Ahmed Fareed will not be here hosting the show anymore. We're looking for a new host. Currently, he's done. I've had it with him. How dare he disrespect the big


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[Assistant] We're all excited for you, and you know, and Devon McCordy, he was asking questions about you a few weeks ago, cause he doesn't know you all that well, right? And we were, of course, saying good things about you, and you know, just, you're funny, and you gotta, I told him, I was like, you gotta pay attention when Ahmed speaks, cause he'll say a really funny joke in the normal serious tone,


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[Assistant] And it'll be like a minute later and you'll be like, Oh man, that was funny. I didn't catch it when he said it. And then all of a sudden it hits you. So I prepared him for that for sure.


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[Assistant] You know, but I kind of wanted to just go around and maybe watch some other units that I found like, hey, I haven't watched them in a while. Let me just kind of zoom through it and enjoy watch what I call. Not always like grind through every detail and do all that. So I, uh, I had fun doing that with my Tuesday yesterday.


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[Assistant] It was a fun exercise. We got all of these. It actually, like, you, this is your idea, so let's just throw that out there. Amin loves to throw work on my table. He loves to throw it on my plate. I didn't feel bad about that. No, it's okay. But it was. You know, it's one of those, when you said it at first, I was like, oh yea, that'll be easy.


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[Assistant] You know me, as I start to get into it, I start to go, well, wait, I can't half-ass this. Hold on, there's some real, what are we gonna, how do you fix this team? What's the thing we could wish for? Uh, and it made me think a little bit too. I actually enjoyed it. It makes me a smarter football evaluator when you do these things.


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[Assistant] Yep, you put the bucks at the bottom. Oh great. Uh, alright, so uh.


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[Assistant] Yup, I did watch this game, right? You know, I'm a fan of what they're doing right now on the offensive side of the ball. Dave Canales, Baker, they've hit their stride. I feel like they've found what Baker likes. I think they finally realized what they are as a team.


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[Assistant] Baker made a comment about a month ago, like, I don't think we're a run first team. And really ever since he's made that they've made him more of an effort to throw the ball.


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[Assistant] And they're one of the most explosive teams throwing the football in the NFL over the last few weeks, and Baker can toss it, we know that, and he's got some weapons on the outside, so credit to that. And they're O-lines pass protecting. To me, when you get into Buccaneers wishes, it's all about the defense. It's 100%.


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[Assistant] A little underwhelming. Now where I give them credit is, you know, they bend a lot, they're pretty good at forcing you to field goals, you don't score a ton of touchdowns, like their points, you know, per game average on that side of the ball is good. But my biggest issue, and you heard me say this in other games with them, right? I really made fun of them in the C.J. Stroud Texans game, where I went,


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[Assistant] They're throwing at every play. They're gashing you. Let's stop playing like it's the 92 Cowboys with Emmett Smith and we're worried about the run game. Like at some point, get off of it. So if I had to make one thing for them, it would be stop going all in on run defense. That would be what it is. Trust your front a little bit. They got some big physical people up there.


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[Assistant] That, that to me is a fault they have. They overplayed the run too much, and even as you saw with Jordan Love and other games as well, they let up too many big plays in the pass game because they're just too favorable a pass look for the opposing team's quarterback, and that's to me where an area they can certainly adjust a little bit.


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[Assistant] So they're very well prepared to pick up all the blitzes because they're going, damn it's Todd Balls, he's gonna do it, right? I take it back to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] You know, the Super Bowl, how they beat the Chiefs, right? If they play it the same way, the Chiefs are gonna win that Super Bowl, as they did in the regular season matchup, when Mahomes and them put up like 38 or 39 points on them, right? He adjusts, he plays a little more conservative, keeps safeties back,


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[Assistant] All of a sudden life became hard on Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs offense, right? I just wish he would take a little of that approach here right now.


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[Assistant] You know, I think he's doing a little bit of a disservice to his own defense with how aggressive they are.


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[Assistant] That's what I mean, speaking to the gaps they are. It's either one on one, we're on an island, and if that guy misses the tackle, we're off to the races, or it's a six man zone blitz where you go, okay, yea, if they throw the ball here, there's a big void here, he's got space.


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[Assistant] And you know, it's hard for defenders to bring you down on the first attempt when there's that much space and it's a good ball carrier receiver with the ball like that.


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[Assistant] They attack, you know, you know me, this is, we're out of the era of like, you know, mid 2000s, Brady Breeze, 2009, you know, we're going to be efficient, throw for 75%.


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[Assistant] We're gonna be, you know, 22 for 24, right? Every throw is gonna be seven yards. Like, that stuff doesn't win games anymore. It doesn't.


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[Assistant] You know, you can if you got the right team around you. I understand it's not in totality, but I think you know what I'm saying is a gist.


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[Assistant] It's not as big a deal as people are making it out to be, right? So, that's what I like about them. They really put the pressure on you that way. Put the pressure on you to such a degree,


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[Assistant] And make you play such pass defense that now they're starting to run the ball a little bit. But the other thing that they do off of it is, and you've heard me say this, they throw the ball down the field and then they have a good screen game to the receivers and the running backs, let alone throw the ball down the field and Baker's doing the right thing as far as


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[Assistant] Being aggressive, but not reckless. And instead of being reckless, he's going, wait, this Rashid White is pretty good underneath. If they're all going to get deep and cover Godwin and Evans, here you go. And he makes some people miss and they've infused him into the past game as well. So that's what I really like. And Baker's throwing the ball as good as I've ever seen him throw it.


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[Assistant] That's the other thing. Remember like in years past where I'd go, he, he overthrows at times. Like he's got an incredibly strong arm. And it's like 105 miles per hour wasn't hard enough. I gotta throw it 108 miles per hour.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you're missing targets, right? And like, he would dig back, and his head would whip, and the arm would whip. Right now, it's smooth, it's poetry in motion, and they got something working there a little bit with their new offer.


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[Assistant] I think they can be scary. There's no doubt. I think when you couple that together, and again, I think with some of the playmakers they got on D, you know, I'm not expecting it to be a world breeding D, but I think they can be a, you know, stout pain in your ass D come playoff time, but when you talk about Evans, Godwin,


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[Assistant] Right, Kay Dotton, David Moore, Rasheed White, that's a pretty good group as far as, uh, you know, uh, PlayMakers.


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[Assistant] And, you know, that added to, like I said, the formula of aggressive screens and RPOs. That's kind of how they keep you honest in defending the whole field right now. It's working and kudos to the Bucs.


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[Assistant] Cleveland Browns. My man crush on defense right now are the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] The whole team. You have a man crush on many men. A man crush. A man crush, right. A plethora of men. I really do. But you know me, I love an old school defense that, as I was saying kind of Sunday night, they go for the kill every play. They're like,


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[Assistant] It's, it's third and four. They're not worried about like, let's stop them for the first down. They're literally like, let's make it fourth and ten. Right?


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[Assistant] Nope, they are good there. There's no defensive problems. What gift are you giving them? My only gift to them is, and this is not going to surprise you,


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[Assistant] Is manage Joe Flacco a little bit, okay? He's not a rookie, I get that, we're not managing him. But you do gotta be careful about what plays you call in certain situations. As you heard me say, you know, if you call a deep throw, he's gonna throw a deep. You just gotta know, that's Joe Flacco, that's what he's been.


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[Assistant] So be careful. If you're going, uhm, we can't afford an interception or something bad happened here right now, don't call those type of plays, right? That's where I'd be careful with him.


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[Assistant] You know, or, hey, if he's starting to be in one of his modes of holding the ball too long, patting the ball 74 times because he's looking for somebody downfield and then he gets strip sacked or anything like that, those are other things. Again,


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[Assistant] Be careful in those moments. They gotta stay on Joe Flacco. It's not like a rookie, but they gotta keep staying on him to go, hey Joe, remember, you know, remember how those teams were when you were with the Ravens? Remember when you were with the Ravens? Like, you hand it off, you hand it off, oh you hand it off, oh you throw a laser at Anquan Bolden, you hand it off.


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[Assistant] Oh, we punted, oh, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed played defense, and you get the ball, and we hand it off, and you throw another laser to Anquan Bolin, touchdown! I mean, that's what he's gotta keep in mind.


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[Assistant] He's got a team here where he can make a run in the AFC playoffs in a big way because of this defense, but don't forget who brought you here. It's the defense, and they gotta play through the D a little bit more, and within that they gotta manage Flacco just a little.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a crazy good. It's crazy amazing. And I can see Stefanski and the organization going, hey, our defense is that good, maybe we can take those chances. My point would be,


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[Assistant] You're not gonna do that in the playoffs against the best teams in football. You're not gonna get away with that consistently. You might get away with it against the Bears, who are a young, talented team on the up, up and up.


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[Assistant] You know, still not primed and polished quite yet for playoff type football, right? That is the big thing. You know, you're not going to beat the Ravens if Joe Flacco throws three interceptions. You're not.


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[Assistant] And you're not gonna, you know, beat some of the other teams. You're not gonna beat the Dolphins or the Chiefs if they throw three interceptions. Now if he throws zero interceptions, right?


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[Assistant] I would go, you're gonna have a chance to play with anybody in any game, cause your defense is that special. And, AKA, we saw them beat the 49ers at home, when they just take care of the football. Well, in fact, even that day, they didn't take care of it. They threw two interceptions on that day too. Which is crazy. It's crazy. It really is.


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[Assistant] They could stay a hair more patient. They're beat up on the O-line, you know, I don't think they're totally, you know, sold on their running back situation, so they're playing through the pass a little bit more, but yeaah. I think you, uh, you, uh, you and me living like Lay, uh, we're on the same page in that one.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, uh, amazing. Now, of course they have a little pass rush, right, that helps them out. Yeah. So that's a good thing. But let me just say this.


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[Assistant] Emerson, Jalen Johnson, Newsom, and Denzel Ward, right? And then we have Joey Porter. But the top four names on there, Emerson, Johnson, Newsom, and Ward, you know, to me this is where stats can lie a little bit, right? The top four


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[Assistant] Cleveland, that you just, you know, you just heard me talking about it. I joke about it. I was joking on Sunday. I'm going, look at this!


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[Assistant] They're all bump and run. It's second and seven and they're just going, go ahead, throw it deep. We'd like to see you try. Right? So that's where they're impressive. You know, Joey Porter, good player, good start to his career, but they're more of a zone team. They don't want him to be in that type of situation quite as much.


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[Assistant] So that's where they're phenomenal, and that's where, hey!


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[Assistant] Like, if there's any defense in football that matches up best with the 49ers, it's, it's them. There's no doubt about that. There's no doubt. Now, their offense versus that 49ers defense and the way the Niners defense is playing now compared to then, that would scare me a little bit. But their defense certainly can hang in there with the 49ers.


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[Assistant] It's historic. It's incredible. It really is. It is and the pressure they apply to you on that side of the ball with pass rush, creative blitzes, in your face coverage, and then their zones are pretty good too. I mean there's nothing that's a weak point on that Cleveland Brown defense.


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[Assistant] Wait, what is that? The bills! Wow, it was right on the line between the bills and dolphins.


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[Assistant] Take the pressure off of Josh Allen. That's what, that's, that's the thing, that's all they need to keep doing. Along the lines of what we saw last week.


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[Assistant] Now I know that was a little drastic, right? I don't expect the Josh Allen and the Bills to win a lot of games with him throwing for 90 yards, but you know what I'm saying. You know, as we said the other day, it's the first time I can ever remember the Bills actually won a game


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[Assistant] You know, in spite of Josh Allen being just average that day, right? And that's what the, that's what it called for and they did the right thing. But yes, that's what's exciting about them.


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[Assistant] Is that maybe they've turned a leaf here with a new attitude. There's definitely a little more creativity in the run game.


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[Assistant] And a little bit more persistence with it. Let alone the using of, of Cooks. Where I think James Cook, where they looked at it and they went, wait, he's definitely one of our most explosive players. We need to give him the ball more anyways. So, uh, that's where I'll say, and hopefully they can continue that.


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[Assistant] It's pretty damn remarkable what he's done. Uh, I think when you just, you know, again, he's, I think simplified the offense a little bit and not, not that I want to say the plays are simpler, but just maybe the thought process a little bit of like,


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[Assistant] You know, you know, getting in Josh Allen's head. Hey, if it's open downfield, take it. But if it's not, be conservative, throw it underneath or run, do something like that. But none of this like hold the pile, hold the ball, hold the ball. Oh, I think I could squeeze it in this tight window. Oh, that was a stupid throw. My bad coach, right? That's, that's ended.


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[Assistant] Right, and I, and I think that, I think they've tried to utilize some other guys and they've made it more about, we're just gonna make Stefan Diggs the number one read all the time.


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[Assistant] I think they've tried to have some plays where Shakir is the first read, Gabe Davis is the first read. They've tried to infuse the tight ends into it a little bit more, right? I think there's that and then the running the football is definitely.


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[Assistant] Uh, a different aspect. They're running the football and they're throwing the James Cook out of the backfield. My problem with them in Carolina was there was too many plays where I just went, well damn, you know, not only, you know, did, is this play not like a wow to me, but I've already seen you run this play four times and we're late in the second quarter and we're going to it again, right? So I think he's learned from that a little bit.


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[Assistant] And there's a versatility in his attack. And I think some of it's what he's taken from Ken Dorsey and what he has in his own playbook. And then he's combined that to a degree. Uh, but I think the biggest thing is just the toughness upfront, the physicality and some of the run game ideas they have.


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[Assistant] And to me, the run game ideas and what they did obviously were the headline of the game on Sunday and they absolutely dominated.


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[Assistant] The Dallas Cowboys up front, who were missing Jonathan Hankins, but I mean dominated. The Dallas defensive tackles, uh,


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[Assistant] They should be embarrassed. The Dallas Linebackers, they're not good.


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[Assistant] The Dallas safeties, they're just okay. And, you know, Buffalo attacked that middle of the defense a lot.


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[Assistant] Very. They're all D-line. They're all D-line in chaos and corners. That's what the Cowboys are. They're just D-line in corners. That's their defense. And I don't know if that's enough to beat the best teams in football.


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[Assistant] The theme of the day was, and you'll see it right here, Cowboys five man front, right?


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[Assistant] But you're still not good at stopping the run and you're still not big, so we don't care. And we're going to find a way to even out the numbers for us. They took something that was Baltimore ravenish in this football game.