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[Assistant] I remember sitting here in the off season. Such a big story. We talked about it so many times and there was so much positivity and you were, we were both super excited about what it could be thinking about McVeigh and Stafford, but I mean for a decade.


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[Assistant] I mean that, that mindset kinda starts to seep in. You're a 4-12 team. You're a 6-10 team. You're a 7-9 team. All were 2-14. And you're the quarterback of that team.


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[Assistant] Part of that has to become part of how you play. And part of how you think during the game.


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[Assistant] And I've not been there. We spent so much time thinking about the offseason. I remember thinking about that going, I wonder if he can just leave that decade behind.


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[Assistant] And that's where he's got to adjust. You mentioned that even though he threw three picks, it could have been five or six. Yes. I think you have picked out to show kind of an example of what he did over the weekend. Uh, one that could have been a pick or should have been a pick.


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[Assistant] Did you use that word careless already? Cause that, that's, that's careless. Yeah, that's careless.


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[Assistant] Interesting game coming up. We'll see what kind of team Baltimore can field out there if it looks different than the one.


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[Assistant] Uh, that played against the Bengals, but they do play against the Ravens coming up. Uh, so, I think it was yesterday, the day before, I was in a conversation with Peter King on his podcast, and he said, outside of the number one seeds in each conference, who do you pick as the most dangerous team? So in the NFC, I thought about it, I said,


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[Assistant] I'm going with the Rams. Yeah. They're winning again. Yeah, I hear you. But, I mean, do you think that the Cowboys or the Buccaneers or even the Niners or the Eagles would have been a better call? They're still dangerous. Yep.


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[Assistant] And speaking of those mistakes, let's pick it up there late third quarter. Uh, I think on fourth and sixth, this is at least a bad throw, not a pick. Yeah, bad throw by Jimmy G.


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[Assistant] Does a game like that, a performance like that, in that moment, make you pull off the, cause I know you're a believer in what they could do in January.


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[Assistant] It's always a mistake or two. It's mostly good with him. Like you could reach into the bag his season and like pull out any three or four games. It's mostly good. It is. But there's enough bad to make you


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[Assistant] I don't know. He has to be the primary receiver and he's open.


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[Assistant] Crushing for a coach to dial up a great play. It's not even like that difficult of a throw.


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[Assistant] People like me, but no, it's not a good idea. So on the other side, it was kind of like the different kind of story flipped around the other way. Titans didn't do anything in the first half, but somehow they got better in the seconds when they didn't show a lot of life in the first.


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[Assistant] He was terrific. And I believe, Pete, that we have a graphic showing first half against second half Ryan Tannehill, what he did against San Francisco last week. You got it, Pete?


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[Assistant] I don't even hear Pete. Pete left us? I think Pete, there he is.


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[Assistant] Yes. Talking about Tannehill on third down, Kristen, I've talked about it a little bit.


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[Assistant] There it is. Six first downs. And a lot of those, like you talked about, it wasn't like it was third and four. It wasn't like the third down, you're like, oh, we got a bunch of plays for this. It was third and longs. Third and longs.


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[Assistant] When you look ahead in the AFC, I kind of feel like Tennessee is the team not getting a lot of attention. They've been winning kind of ugly. Tannehill, I was really excited to see him without. Henry, he's been a little bit less than then. And Henry hasn't been around. They haven't gotten a lot of attention. It's been about the Chiefs, the Patriots, the Colts and all these other teams.


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[Assistant] You look ahead to January, is this a team that you really believe in?


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow, and I know that Baltimore didn't have the team it wanted to have defensively playing, but man, that was fun to watch. Fun to watch. I mean, again, Baltimore's really compromised. Extremely. It's really tough. Almost wasn't even fair.


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[Assistant] Cincinnati, uh, playing pretty well now, heading into- They're fun to watch on offense. They are.


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[Assistant] So like last, uh, last week I said, I found out you guys had a poem written that you read on a Monday. I said we need one for a Wednesday. Right. And our man Tomaz from Brazil steps up and uh, provides this. Hey Paul, as you requested, here's a poem for tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Fresh off the shelf, Wednesday Pod is here. True Grit himself, our man Pauly B. The homies are waiting for the film review and I'll be here praising all the way from Brazil. What I like about it is that he didn't feel like he had to rhyme.


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[Assistant] Tomas, thank you man, that's really cool. I wish we had some swag, Pete, that we could send out internationally. Yep, we're gonna work, we're gonna work on it. We're gonna get some.


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[Assistant] That's so cool. That is so cool. So like right when I get home today I'm gonna be like, Andy, you gotta step it up now because there are some others out here like helping you show.


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[Assistant] On the drive in today, I had something happen. I'm like, I gotta bring this up with Chris. Oh, I like it. November 17th. I'm hooked up. Right. Christmas Carols. Christmas Carols? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] The day after, go. Maybe even that night. Go time. But today? After you eat the dinner, you're good. No, no. I changed it. Good. Yeah. So wait, you were gonna go do Christmas caroling? No, no, no, no. I'm driving into work. Oh yeah. Oh, you changed, it was on the radio. I was trying to get my podcast to work, and for some reason wasn't working. So I was like, okay, just go radio. First station, Christmas carols, and I'm like,


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[Assistant] Okay, it's, it's before Thanksgiving. No! Can't do it. Changed it.


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[Assistant] Did you do any of the grocery shopping at your house? Cause all the grocery stores are like decked out. Right.


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[Assistant] Good pivot. Thank you. Very good. Yeaah. We've got some, uh, I was kinda waiting for the Under Armour read, but it's later. Later. We're teasing it later.


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[Assistant] And the Patriots defense, a lot of questions raised, some positive, some negative. I think that would be a good place to start.


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[Assistant] I think it's because the extra game, players and coaches a little bit, mostly players have this attitude of like, I'm gonna have a stretch where it's just not that good and it's okay.


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[Assistant] It's such a good formula for what they have offensively with Mac Jones. Right. And I hate it when people say, well, it's, it's been easy for him because all that's around him. It's been easier for him than some of the other rookie quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] But if you look at the pieces any rookie quarterback would want around, you'd say okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, not to make it easy, but to really give Mac Jones a chance because all the things around him that matter the most, they're really all there.


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[Assistant] And he's much better, he's much better himself than people gave him credit for. Definitely. I think as well.


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[Assistant] I think we're starting on the other side though, and you're gonna thread a needle here, we're gonna learn about


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[Assistant] And they have a number of stats on their side that represent what they're doing well, but I think the biggest one to me is that they're lining up quarterbacks who are playing lesser than what they normally play against the Patriots.


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[Assistant] So Baker, as you stand up and walk to the screen, Baker did have his worst game of the season. Statistically, they only scored seven points. So our first example, uh, the interception here, early second quarter. Game's still close at this point, time of seventh.


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[Assistant] There's not much schematically at any level that if you see your basic cover three that you can't run.


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[Assistant] Just learn something. I didn't know that corners were playing seams.


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[Assistant] There you go. Scott or Scotch. From seven players on the line of scrimmage to Russian only three, the beauty in this detail is those two in the middle take, as you pointed out, three steps in. I mean, that is, that really screws up the offensive line as much as anything.


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[Assistant] That's how three beats five. Yeaah. Alright, so Case Kingdom comes in. Very next play. Next place, third down and ten.


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[Assistant] On those back to back plays, they rush three once, they rush four the next, and they, they win against the line. Pressure on the quarterback both times.


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[Assistant] We've seen New England's past defense winning against Cleveland here a few times. You've mentioned how big they are up front. I'd love to see an example of the rush defense.


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[Assistant] He's, he's been absent. I wish he would come back, but he has been absent. This is from at Neil Watch's PFT. Hey Chris and Paul, love the pod. Couple weeks back you said that defense wins championships is dead. The Patriots defense has rocked the whole season. The power run game seems to be catching its stride. Is this an example of a defense that can win a championship?


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[Assistant] I'm Brady, it's Mack Jones. Let's flip it over to that side. He had his best game, 19 out of 23. Any new takeaways from watching him this week?


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[Assistant] So. As much as we, you know, we give credit to everything around Mack for, uhm, again, not easy, but for putting him in a position to succeed, sometimes there's just no defense for the perfect throw. No. This is a perfect throw. Perfect throw.


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[Assistant] So, it was so easy to stand back and shoot holes in his game if you wanted to because of all the talent he had around him with the playmakers, with the offensive lines. Sure. He was wonderful. Yeah. Scheming that thing up last year and every other quarterback at Alabama's put a big numbers too. Right. But if you really watch that intangible, I thought Joe Burrow had this better than anybody we've evaluated in a while.


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[Assistant] Anybody who watched that closely was like, okay, that's, I know it would have been good with any of their six quarterbacks, but it was better with that guy.


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[Assistant] So this week, New England at Atlanta coming up tomorrow night, Thursday night. A big trouble at Atlanta. Anticipate the Falcons giving them a hard time? No, I don't.


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[Assistant] Then they get into that stretch and we can talk about that later, but they play Tennessee, they play Buffalo twice, they play the Colts. It's going to be an interesting month, a fun month to watch Patriots.


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[Assistant] A lot of it. Other side, Cleveland, Detroit. Browns bounce back, right?


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[Assistant] Let's go to the NFC. Think about the Eagles. They just beat the Broncos 30-13. Big picture here in the NFC. I think one of the fun things coming down the home stretch is going to be November and December.


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[Assistant] But it's Arrow up for them right now, and somebody in that group of teams where the record doesn't look very good, someone's gonna be there in January.


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[Assistant] We're going to get into film examples here of that 30-13 win at Denver, but I want to kind of kickstart what happened there and kind of what's going on, you know, bigger picture wise with the Eagles with this question.


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[Assistant] From at Lockdown Cornerback, can we get a breakdown of how Jalen Hurts mechanics and decision making has been in this new look offense? They seem improved. His style of play right now, plus the deep ball accuracy reminds me of early career Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] Before we see the film, Kristen, let's run that graphic we have on the Eagles rushing game. First seven games left a lot to be desired. They weren't calling it a lot. They weren't finding a lot of success.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I think it's now next play. And on that previous play you saw and you pointed out, hey, if you give it to the fullback or the running back inside, that works. So here's Boston Scott for 17 years.


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[Assistant] So with the, with the run game leading the way and doing such a good job, we go later in the first quarter, 3-0. It sets up Hertz, Devontae Smith to do things like this.


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[Assistant] Two man route. Sequence is well together because, yes. This is the third play we've seen. Right. The first play with that play action, Jalen kept it. Yes. Second play, he gave it to him. Right. So now, I mean, they've got to be aware of both of those things. Which way is it? Well, who's got it? What's going on here? Exact same play action. Now he's going to keep it, you know, in the passing hand. It's pretty.


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[Assistant] We've seen a called run for Jaylen. We've seen the handoff inside, the sprint out, and now a called pass and I believe he's going to make something happen on his own.


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[Assistant] So that challenge goes to the Saints this week. Uh, our Friends of Points bet gonna help us set this one up. Saints and the Eagles. We have, uh, Eagles plus one and a half over 43 and a half. What do you see there?


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[Assistant] Eagle's old line against that front seven of saints. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Over under 136.5, Pete, is that what you said in the, in the ground game?


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[Assistant] Oof. Again, they're averaging 2-0-2 the last three games, but this is the top run defense in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Pete just, uh, offered this potential, uh, betting point here. Right. If you lose, you wear an Iowa jersey to do a pod. Okay. Yeah. I've got a couple. You got a couple? Let me see. I think I got a couple.


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[Assistant] I want to be two weeks from now because it's Thanksgiving next week. I'll just come to North Jersey with you on Thanksgiving. Sure. If you want. One more in the car.


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[Assistant] Okay. My in-laws might notice I'm not there. The question is, would they prefer I'm not there?


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[Assistant] We'll figure out something, we'll figure out a bet either way.


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[Assistant] Okay, Bill's Offense. Gotta revisit the Bills.


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[Assistant] Right. And how about 48% of the pass plays? It only makes your passing game better. I mean, I feel like I'm oversimplifying when I ask for that more, but I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] Let's get you up here, second quarter late. Still kind of a game. Buffalo only leading 10-3, first down 15.


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[Assistant] Okay, early third quarter, now it's 17-3. More Bills passing game, this time to Isaiah McKenzie.


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[Assistant] See it one more time, just respect to the timing of the mesh here.


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[Assistant] Didn't even have to slow down, this is perfect.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Extra Point made it 24-3. Still early third quarter and I know this one is a pass because I remember it. To Gabriel Diggs for 49 yards.


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[Assistant] I should have, I should have known. I'm like, Diggs. But here you go again. Diggs is not gay.


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[Assistant] There's our three examples there of the bills. I had grammatical errors on two of the three. That's not a very good percentage.


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[Assistant] What's the deal? 29-19? And I think we have this as a feature here and we asked the question not because it was one game, because now this is two in a row where it's lesser than what we've come to expect.


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[Assistant] And all these good teams, as we talked about an hour ago, are kind of allowed, I feel like they're allowed this year to have a little stretch.


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[Assistant] Very interesting. He basically said Tom gets hit early, it affects him later in the game. It affects him. It did.


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[Assistant] All those things that you pointed out there, Chris, kind of, kind of set up where we're going here before we watch the film. Uh, Brady's pass is downfield in this game. I mean, not, not what we're used to seeing. So you take a look at the chart and we're used to seeing, you know, Brady's not afraid. He's never been afraid to check it down, but these last few years he's been throwing it downfield quite a bit.


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[Assistant] What role did Washington play in kinda limiting what he was doing?


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[Assistant] He was looking for Mike Evans, and I watched this live, I watched it a couple times, and his body language, his rhythm and mechanics in the pocket are just way different than what you normally see on this pick.


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[Assistant] Alright, halfway through the second quarter, still 13-0. And I think another example here of Brady getting rid of the ball, maybe when he doesn't have to?


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[Assistant] Next chance comes Monday night against the Giants. I'll steal your term, anticipatory. Yeah, thank you. What are you, what are you anticipating for that one?


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[Assistant] He should come out and sit right here sometime. He should be that guy. Is it in your contract, Pete, that you can't be seen?


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[Assistant] I'm so glad this one came up because I think I got off the couch and cheered with this play on 4th and 6th. Empty backfield, we're just throwing it. We're just throwing it. Love it to Debo Samuel.


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[Assistant] And you can sum that up, uh, perfectly with this question from AtBurnUnit. What the f*** happened to the Super Team Rams?


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[Assistant] Two games. Look around the league. We talked about this an hour and a half ago. All these good teams are facing these stretches. Two game blip. They're fine. They're too good to hang around in here. Or are you concerned?


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[Assistant] White winter himbo. Yeah. Whoa, I don't know what that means. But every day, question mark question mark, y'all must go through toothbrushes so fast. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. Chris Sims, Ahmed Fareed. Chris Sims on button presented by Under Armour, Ahmed Fareed. Yes, and our running gag still continues here. I hope everybody had a great holiday, a Merry Christmas, and everybody enjoyed week 16 in the NFL season.


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[Assistant] More importantly, you know, white winter himbo there, right? Every day. Sounds like he's on team Ahmed to not wash the teeth too much or brush the teeth too much.


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[Assistant] Just wanna make sure here, uhm, cause you're doing this show as we speak right now. You're in Virginia Beach.


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[Assistant] A lot, a lot, but before we get to a lot, all right. And I mean, if you're listening to this, you're, you're not going to see the treat of the holiday season.


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[Assistant] Ahmed Fareed wearing unbuttoned swag. Like that t-shirt is so cool. And the fact that your wife made this, what a wife. Like, whoa, she went way up in the Chris Sims power rankings around this one. I mean, this is above and beyond the normal duties of a wife. Like really awesome.


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[Assistant] I think that's official. You're, you're, you're right about it. All I got is a coffee mug. That's all I got. And I don't even have that with me today. You got two t-shirts. Oh, you're right. I got a sticker too. I do. So I have two things. Yes. But the shirt you're wearing right there is, I mean, pretty awesome. I mean, I know I'm a little biased here.


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[Assistant] Either way, I just want to wear it. That's what I want. I just, large, extra large, you know, please tell your wife to send one my way. I'm definitely going to sport it and give her all the credit that she deserves. Uh, Chris, hey Chris, before we do


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[Assistant] It was great Christmas. Yea, a lot of fun. Always, always. Enjoy the, you know, enjoy the kids. I got some cute nephews and nieces who are at great ages. So watching them run around. I love Christmas Eve the best. That to me is the...


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[Assistant] Like the anticipation of Christmas, I could feel it with the kids. I love the Christmas Eve meal and the Christmas music and all that. That to me is like the pinnacle of the Christmas holiday. Uh, Christmas day is great, but after the presents are open in the morning, it's kind of like, I don't know, a little anticlimactic from there on out. Uh, but yes, it was great, Ahmed. Thanks dude.


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[Assistant] I get to Christmas and Thanksgiving break every year and I'm always like, man, this is supposed to be a break. And the day I go back to work, I'm more tired than I was when the break started. Cause I just, you just, you, you relish that free time. So you push it to the limit. And I know I do all that stuff. I don't know what it is. It's us gluttonous Americans. I guess that's what it is.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, you kind of said it right. I mean, first off, I think it's the first time in the Belichick era that an offense has not punted the ball in a football game. It's something along those lines, if I remember that stack correctly, insane. And yeah, we've all, we've all questioned a little bit. Yes, the Bills attack and what they do. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] And hey, they were better yesterday. 100%, you're correct.


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, that quarterback is insane. That's what I mean. What can you do to defend that when he's playing like that yesterday?


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[Assistant] You know, again, I hope everybody like, will give the due credit. Again, I, you know, it's Monday morning, I haven't watched a lot of sports highlight shows or everything, but I hope they're like,


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[Assistant] Steadily giving Josh, Josh Allen a lot of love right now. I do, I do know that. Again, I don't think we can really like put it into words how awesome that performance was last night.


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[Assistant] Or yesterday afternoon. I mean, a Patriots defense that you, like you said, is a really good unit. I don't even care about last week with Jonathan Taylor or yesterday. It's a good defense. They don't let people in the end zone. They don't let teams get explosive plays. And Josh Allen did all of that yesterday.


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[Assistant] To me it was one of the great performances I can remember. Single handed performances of this season and really the last few seasons when you just talk about the magnitude of the game. It's the Patriots in New England. We never see a player. A player.


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[Assistant] Do that to the Patriots. We know there's teams that come in and play complete football and win a game, but one guy just dominate the flow of the game throughout. Never see it. I'm sorry to talk so long, but I just want to make sure we give the guy the credit because he's a, he's a freak of nature and no doubt one of the three or four best players in the NFL. No doubt.


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[Assistant] Well, they are at some point. There's no doubt. Whether it's the court, the, the car crash quarterback runs. I mean, again, they, you know, they pull guards and pull a center and he gets behind them on third and four.


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[Assistant] Runs it up in there. He's pretty good at not letting somebody just absolutely crush him. You know, he does a good job of like getting on the edge of defenders so they don't always square him up and kill him. But you're not going to be able to avoid that all the time. He still takes a lot of hits. And even without that, hey, when he plays in the, in the pocket, he takes a lot of hits. I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] Josh Allen, the reason it's so great to watch him is he's running around the pocket, got somebody hanging on him and you go, he's still going to try to make a play. He's still going to try to throw the ball 30 yards down the field. He doesn't care. That lends to him being in some compromising positions at time. I do worry about that. I do. But here's like,


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[Assistant] You know, maybe where he's a little different than Lamar in my opinion. And the fact of like, yeah, running quarterback, take a lot of hits, a lot of wear and tear.


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[Assistant] Josh Allen is, and I'm not saying Lamar's not, but Josh Allen is special in the pocket too. So he's always going to be able to go back to that.


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[Assistant] His arm is no time here in the near future, not gonna be.


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[Assistant] You know, the top two or three or the number one strongest arm in the sport.


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[Assistant] Let alone, you know, he's been taught the right way by a Brian Dayball. He understands how to read defenses and go to the right place with the ball. Like you saw Belichick talk about him last week. You know, we've gotten into, to me, Josh Allen is getting close to like the way Belichick used to talk about Aaron Rodgers. It's gushing. You know, when the game's over, it's like,


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[Assistant] I gotta go find that guy and tell him how awesome he is and he does that yesterday. You know, so that's where I think like Josh Allen has gone to a different level of play the last year and a half. And I know it's not been consistent this whole year because yeah, there's certain weeks where


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[Assistant] You know, teams they don't match up as well with, you know, they might not know them as well. They're a little down and yeah, it's all on him and they haven't played as well. But man, that was a special performance yesterday and I don't, you know, again, it's going to affect them to get back to the question, but not the long-term prospects of his career because of the great decision maker and thrower he is.


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[Assistant] The one thing I like the Bills, where we know they have some flaws with their football team.


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[Assistant] McDermott and Leslie Frazier always gonna be, you know.


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[Assistant] It's cover two for three plays in a row. Oh, it's man to man. You don't know what you're getting. And they believe in that same philosophy on the offensive side of the ball. That's who they are. You know, they're going to put the ball in their best player hand and Josh Allen and let him make plays. And I think, you know, yesterday, probably one of the reasons they were a little aggressive doing that is yeah, they're on the road in New England.


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[Assistant] And I think they wanted to probably put pressure on Mac Jones and the Patriots offense to see if they could kinda keep up. I don't think they had great fear.


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[Assistant] Of the Patriots offense, even though I know they ran the ball on the first time around. You know, I think it's a smart enough group, a talented enough group to where they weren't going to let that same run game go off once again. Patriots ran the ball well, but hey, this is what I wanted to get to. Allen, Bills, that's kind of what they do.


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[Assistant] You're right. Belichick is kind of like the anti-fourth down, go, go for it guy. Uh, he's kind of proving that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, but I think yesterday he felt the pressure of like, I can't stop this kid.


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[Assistant] I can't, it was a little bit like, hey, the Peyton Manning, Tom Brady game in the Cole in Indianapolis. Remember that where they went forward on fourth and two on their own, like 30 yard line. Cause he just went.


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[Assistant] I got to go for it because Peyton's going to drive down and they're going to score. There's nothing I can do. I think he got a little bit into that. Like there's, I've, I've called the perfect defense 10 times today and he still made a great play. So I don't think I'm going to be able to stop him. I got to go for it too. And that's how great Josh Allen is right now. He's affecting Bill Belichick's decision-making.


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[Assistant] I don't know why my internet's like glitching here for a second. New England at the end of the year here has who, Pete? They got the Dolphins the last game of the year, and then...


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[Assistant] Not going to be easy for them. They play a similar style. So I would go almost like 98%. I'm going to say the Bills win the AFCs at this point. I am. And they're going to be at home in round one. And uh, I think that's a big advantage because I think they can go on two road games.


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[Assistant] And get to the Super Bowl. One game at home, gotta go on the road twice to win the Super Bowl. I think they're certainly capable of doing that.


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[Assistant] Go back to your politics. You're not here. I'm the Kornacki of football.


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[Assistant] Listen, I was, I was talking about it as it was going on, going, man, I mean, they're, they're going for it. You know, I got the sense when they got around like 425 or so.


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[Assistant] You know, they didn't seem like they were kind of pulling the reins back. They were, I was like, Oh, they're going to try to do something here today. They are. And again,


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[Assistant] I mean, first off, just, just to sum up the football game. I mean, he was on fire yesterday. Now I know Baltimore secondary is less than a hundred percent. You know, they're, they're less than 70%. It's not the same group up there. And I know they probably messed up. Hey, the long, there was a long touchdown pass to Boyd. They probably, they blew the coverage. I mean, there was nobody in the screen when he caught it, but, but either way.


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[Assistant] Burrow was on fire and on point with the football consistently, even in tight coverage, restoring the ball right where he needed to do throughout.


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[Assistant] You know, early on it kind of went back and forth where you thought, Oh man, the Ravens really going to hang around here and be that team. But you could see once we got to, I want to say it was maybe, what was it? 17 or.


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[Assistant] So uh, 24-14, when the, when the Ravens kinda came back, and now the Balto, I mean the Bangos kinda re-accelerated, and he made a few big throws, you kinda got the sense right there, and then the drive right before the half, that like, oh man.


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[Assistant] The Ravens have no chance of stopping them today. They don't. I mean, again, there's a lot of weapons to, to, to stop on that bangles offense, which we talked about all year long.


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[Assistant] It's one of the most fun, exciting offenses of football in my opinion. I still have worries about their defense. I do. I like the talent. I think they're too simple on defense. I think that's why we see teams move the ball on them that shouldn't or make big plays on them that shouldn't, but phenomenal performance and


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[Assistant] My dad, you know, I was like, when he got around 500 or high 400s, my dad threw for 513, so I was rooting for him not to pass that.


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[Assistant] I was, I always like, kind of like, when you get close to breaking some of my dad's records that I think are cool, I'm always like, eh, I hope he doesn't do it here. And I don't think he would have got it if it weren't that last play down the sideline to Joe Mixon where, you know, that won't piss the Ravens off next year or anything. Don't worry about it.


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[Assistant] I don't. Again, I think they were looking to try to throw like a slant route to the left and just get the first down and end the game. I think that's what they were trying to do. I don't think they called a play going,


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[Assistant] You know, and even the way Zach Taylor answered Harbaugh on the field because Harbaugh came up to him and you could read his lips and he goes, why'd you call that last play?


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[Assistant] They called that last play to get a first down and the football game. It was covered. He moved out to the right and he saw Joe Mixon running by the guy. And now again, no, I'm not going to really.


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[Assistant] Be mad at that or call it Bush League. They weren't like going out of their way to call big plays or game plan shots. They just ran their offense. Baltimore was not good on defense yesterday and Baltimore is the king of bullying teams. See Baltimore gets a free pass in these situations because, because they're not a throwing team.


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[Assistant] They're a great running team, but they do these things to other teams all the time where they continue to run their high octane run plays as they're up by 30 points and they win by 40 something and we don't get to say, well, why did they keep doing that? Because it was running the ball.


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[Assistant] But it's like, well, that's what they were built to do. They're the most explosive run team we've seen in NFL history. So they've done this to other teams too. They like to stick it to everybody. And they stuck it to who? The Broncos in the preseason game? Or what preseason game was that? Trying to get a hundred yards rushing.


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[Assistant] Regular season. That was the regular season game. Right. So they can't, yea, what am I talking about? They're, they can't really talk. They have no pedestal to talk on right now.


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[Assistant] Okay, and they were this close too with Boyd catching a pass, I think it was Boyd, where they almost had 300 yard receivers yesterday, got called back.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is a good discussion and one that I haven't really thought about, you know, and we, and I know you and I, we usually kind of talk and do this kind of thing where I go, eh, who does have the best skill group in the league or the best receivers? We haven't really done that all year.


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[Assistant] They're definitely in the conversation. That would be my base thought right off the bat. I mean, again, look at like wide receiver rooms.


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[Assistant] Skill, skill positions, you gotta have a little of everything, alright? And that's where I like the bangos. Oh wait, we got Jamar Chase who can run by ya, or catch a slant and break your ankles and make a lot of people miss and go to touchdown.


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[Assistant] You got Boyd who's like really good route runner, good size, works the middle of the field, really smart, can do a little of everything.


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[Assistant] But you want him kind of in the slot being that kind of guy. He's Mr. Dependable, right? And now we go, oh, yeah, you're over defending Chase and that boy. Oh, now we got a one-on-one freak over here.


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[Assistant] You know, here, here's our, here's our, you know, power forward that none of your small DBs can match up with. And Higgins to where...


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[Assistant] Yeah, they can throw them slants cause he can big body people and box them out, but you can throw jump balls. Like we saw yesterday, Joe Burrow, one of the worst decisions he made of the day was a big pass to Boyd and the double coverage, but he just goes up and snags it out of the air. Higgins has.


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[Assistant] Higgins has reached another level here over the last month where I feel like his game has grown to where it's not longer is he just like another guy in the offense. It's like, whoa, no, you better think about who you got matched up with him in certain situations. Cause he can make plays and yards after the catch and he's, he's a one-on-one nightmare.


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[Assistant] Ah man, I guess what I'm saying is, you add that with Mixin' and Ozoma?


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[Assistant] I'm looking, I'm just looking right now and I'm going, you know what? I mean, the Bucks, the Bucks, if they were all healthy, right? Cowboys, Bucks, Arizona, of course is in that conversation.


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[Assistant] The rams, if they did have, you know, Pete said rams, if they had woods, that is a, that is a good thought, Pete. You're right. They'd probably be in that discussion as well.


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[Assistant] After that, I'm not gonna put the chargers quite in that. You know, again, it's Williams.


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[Assistant] It's Keenan Allen, I like it. I'm not gonna, I don't think they're in the class of the Bengals there. And of course they don't have a Joe Mixon or running back as much as I respect Eckler. So I guess what we're getting to here is that, yes, I think it's...


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[Assistant] Sneaky in that range. The other one that's kinda sneaky is the 49ers. Cause when you break down Kittle, Wadibo, Samuel, and Ayuk, and if they have a healthy running back, that's pretty dangerous too.


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[Assistant] After further review, I, I think I look at it and go the Cowboys, the Bucks, and the Bengals, you're right, are the three most explosive teams, uh, in the sport as far as their weapons are concerned.


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[Assistant] They're close. I'm not gonna say their offense is as dangerous as 2019 or 2018 or 2020, right? They're not there. But, I do think they've got to a point here where, Mahomes has settled in, he's comfortable. They're not making as many mistakes.


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[Assistant] He's better with reading plays within the pocket, staying in the pocket.


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[Assistant] Hasn't missed nearly as many throws over the last four or five weeks. You know, really, I think the Denver game, so that was four weeks ago that I look at to go, that was just okay. The 22 to 9 victory. But of course the Raiders game, the Chargers game, and now this game yesterday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're close. Now yeah, I don't put them in the group of the bangles, the bucks and some of those other teams because again, I look at it as it's just Tyreek, Kelsey and Mahomes and


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[Assistant] There's no other consistent presence. You know, you're, we're hopeful for Nicole Hardman. We're hopeful for Pringle, but they go through weeks where we just go, where are they? They're not a part of this. So that's why I can't put them in that class, but they don't need them to be either.


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[Assistant] They have a really special offensive line that can protect their quarterback who's still special. They have a great, you know, offensive game planner and then their defense is special and their defense got them through the rough patch. But yeah, I mean yesterday, what do we, what do we, what do we say?


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[Assistant] Game was over when Big Ben threw the flea flicker on the first drive of the game. The Chiefs go down, do I got that right? So, right, the Steelers got the ball, they went three or five and out, punted it. Chiefs go on a great drive, score a touchdown. The very next drive, they run a flea flicker.


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[Assistant] Big Ben gets the ball and he just throws it like the guy's the most wide open receiver you've ever seen. Except guess what? He wasn't wide open. He was...


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[Assistant] Tightly covered. And then through an interception and...


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[Assistant] That's, this is to me, this is where the Chiefs are dangerous.


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[Assistant] You know, 14, nothing, 17, nothing. You know, we've had this conversation, right? Ahmed, this is where Spagnolo can start to be crazy with defenses.


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[Assistant] You know, they got some studs up front that now can just, whoa, we don't have to worry about a run game. We can just rush the passer and get after them that way. Uh, yeaah, that was pretty damn impressive yesterday. They put the Steelers to sleep.


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[Assistant] Really early in this one. I would say what? Early second quarter, I got the sense where I was just like...


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[Assistant] I mean, the Steelers might mount a charge here, but they're not gonna come back and win this one, or, or, you know, go down to the last play like they did the Vikings a few weeks ago. Chiefs, Chiefs were dominant throughout.


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[Assistant] Go ahead, I was going to say, the interesting thing about the Chiefs is they can kind of do it both ways, which I think is kind of interesting. You know, they've learned how to like,


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[Assistant] Wait, do we gotta muck it up and play defense and just win ugly? Whoa, hey, when we were cold and not playing good, we did that all the time. We're good. We can play the muck it up ugly game.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I would have said that two years ago when their offense was really special. I would have gone, oh man, muck it up ugly game. Kansas city ain't going to win this one. That's not for them. They've learned to kind of how to manage those games, let alone we know in a shootout, they're dangerous. We saw that last, last Thursday night against the chargers. They got down, shoot out. Okay, let's do it.


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[Assistant] Let's start throwing the ball everywhere. They're comfortable in that too, and I think that's what makes them dangerous.


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[Assistant] Chiefs man, unreal. The NFL had a chance, the AFC had a chance to put them in a tough spot while they were struggling and now they've regained their form and they're clearly the best team in the AFC. They are. Now I know they got two tough games left here too. It's not easy. It's not done yet. Uh, but I think they are the best team in the AFC right now for sure.


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[Assistant] I hope so. I mean, you never know in the AFC this year, but again.


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[Assistant] The Steelers got the Browns the ending year, correct? And...


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[Assistant] Next week, let me look it up. I forget. I know it was another tough game. I just, I would have a hard time. You're still worried. You're still nervous about that Ravens. I have a hard time thinking they're going to run the table there. I do. It's just, Hey, the game has to unfold a certain way for the Steelers. Like we've said all year and the defense because of injuries, it's just not as dominant.


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[Assistant] And they had a play through that defense and that defense had to be special for them to get where they wanted to go. And I just don't see that happening.


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[Assistant] Yes, but we gotta get to the point where they're willing to do it more or more aggressively. Like, that's what worries me about the Packers. We've kinda seen this, you know, throughout the year where, yea, they can control a game, but they get ultra passive and, you know,


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[Assistant] Play simplistic on the offensive side and try to just manage the clock and manage the game that way. And you know, the other team of course is desperate. So they're gonna do some crazy things. They're gonna take a chance here and there.


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[Assistant] And they get totally cold on the offensive side of the ball. So that's what worries me a little bit about the Packers. You know, we, we've seen this a few times this year where, yeah, it seems like they're commanding the football game, but you know, now commanding the game, they've taken the foot off the gas pedal a little bit and they let another team hang around and almost beat them.


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[Assistant] Again, Rogers Adams Special. We know that.


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[Assistant] You know, Baker Mayfield, some of those mistakes he made in the first half, as soon as he threw that first interception, I just.


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[Assistant] I looked at my little boy and I went, oh, here we go. This is going to be Rodgers, boom, boom, boom, touchdown. I guarantee it. And of course that's what happened, you know, and he got the, got in a rhythm that way. The Browns don't do anything to take people away. That's my issue with the Browns a lot of the time. Now I don't know what they did in the second half.


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[Assistant] To slow it down. I do think it was probably more Packers slowing it down than probably the Browns game planning, doing, doing something differently. But yeah, the Browns are one of those teams I met that, you know, that drives me crazy. It's just say, this is what we do. We play. This is what we do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, that's great, but, you know, it's not always going to work against these great quarterbacks and some of these systems that have answers against it. Uh, good win by the Packers.


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[Assistant] But I'll still stand to where I say like with the Packers in general. First off, they got a little lucky in my opinion. I do think that was pass interference on the last interception by Baker Mayfield. I do. And then I think the other thing I go back to


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know, and maybe I say this too much. I just don't know if the Packers are great. I don't.


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[Assistant] And you know I love Aaron Rodgers and I'm rooting for that. I'd love to see Rodgers vs. Mahomes or Rodgers vs. Josh Allen. I'd love it. You know that.


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[Assistant] But I'd still get back into, I don't know if they're dominant in any area on their football team, other than when Rogers has his, you know, hand on the ball and they're being aggressive. And that's kind of not always their approach on the offensive side of the ball. And I think that's what scares me about them, Ahmed.


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[Assistant] It's still one guy. I get the argument. Your point's real. Your point's real. I hear what you're saying 100%.


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[Assistant] Do they have a dominant run game though to close out a game when they're in the lead against one of the NFC elite teams when we get into the divisional and the NFC championship game? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Is their defense good enough to stop another team if they have a lead in the fourth quarter?


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[Assistant] You know, and stop them, I mean we saw Nick Chubb and come and he just run the ball at will on them there in the second half. I mean at will, just gashing them. 10 yards, 5 yards, 10 yards, 15 yards, I mean whatever they wanted.


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[Assistant] You know, so that's what worries me about them a little bit. You know, again, yeaah, winning these close games, it's all cool, it's great. Oh, it was, it was Baltimore and, and Huntley. You know?


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[Assistant] It was, you know, the Bears a few weeks ago, spotting them a big lead. There's just too many of that. I don't know if you're going to get away with that in the playoffs against the better teams in football and teams that I still look at and go.


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[Assistant] I look at the Bucs and the Cowboys healthy and, you know, some of these other teams in the NFC where I just go, I think they have more talent than the Packers. You know, again, can you get to the Super Bowl and win it just through execution and we're not going to mess the game up?


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[Assistant] I don't know, that's very tough. I've really only seen one team in the history of the sport really do that. That's the New England Patriots.


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[Assistant] They're the only team I've really seen be able to do that. Other than that, everybody else, they gotta make plays, they gotta have some dominance on either side of the ball, and I'm sorry to be a little bit of a hater, I guess I sound like one, but these are my concerns, and he still is my favorite quarterback, and I'm saying it as a fanboy of him more than anything.


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[Assistant] It seems like it might be falling in place here. You know, with the Cardinals kind of falling on their face here. The Patriots losing two in a row. Yeaah, the one mainstay is the Green Bay Packers. And Lefleur, like we've talked about a lot, doesn't get the credit he deserves.


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[Assistant] You know, he's got a good offensive mind. He understands how to manage games for the most part. Like I said, I wish he was a hair more aggressive in some of those situations. Uhm, but yeah, again.


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[Assistant] It's a good offense. I don't look at it and go, Oh my gosh, there's stars everywhere or weapons everywhere. Like some of the other team, better teams and football that are in the conversation with the Packers for that best team in the sport, nor the defense. It's good. It's really well coached. I don't think it's great. It's not dominant. It's not.


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[Assistant] You know, there's some good players splashed in, you know, with a bunch of solid good players, you know, but I don't know if it's again dominant. Do I think they're going to be able to make plays like?


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[Assistant] Maybe the Cowboys on defense, or the Bucks can on defense, or the Chiefs can on defense, or even the Cardinals who are struggling lately. Again, throughout the whole year they've made a lot of plays. No. So I guess that's where I'm, I worry about the Packers when it comes January.


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[Assistant] Well, I guess he's, what, referring to there to the end of the football game?


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[Assistant] You know, I, well, I mean, it was, it was, I gotta go back and kinda look at that situation again a little bit and dissect it that way. You know, again, it was, he got a lot of carries in the second half. What? I mean, I don't even know. How many yards rushing in he had in the second half? He probably came close to a hundred in the second half, right? Cause the first half, that's where I think Stefanski made the mistake. And you've heard me say this all year.


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[Assistant] You know, again, the Browns run game is special. I think they need to do more around it, and just go all in on the run. You know, but here, let me get to like, the a-


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[Assistant] Right, so they're giving them a steady dose there in the second half, they certainly were. It's two minute warning, you know, again, you know, they got the ball, it's, they're on their own 29 yard line, right?


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[Assistant] I know they have, I believe all their timeouts at that point, so they didn't need to throw the ball every play.


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[Assistant] Again, I understand them throwing the ball more than not there. I do. Let's break down the plays. Two minute warning. Nick Chub off the right guard for 10 yards. Then it's Nick Chub off the left tackle for four yards. Now we're down to a minute 22.


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[Assistant] He passed incomplete to Njoku. And then, and then they pass short left to Nick Chubb on a third and six. It gets him the first down. And then it's incomplete pass, incomplete pass. Now at this point, we're at 59 seconds, right? So...


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[Assistant] Again, they do have three timeouts. I understand that, but I don't think you're looking to run the ball at a steady dose here. You're trying to maximize opportunities to get in. We'd like to get inside the 20 yard line and maximize the amount of plays we have in right there.


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[Assistant] And to me, you're in danger of losing that if you're running the ball still too much around midfield.


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[Assistant] So, I'm not gonna second guess it. I think they kinda got screwed over with the past interference. Again, it's another, another piece of evidence where it's interference all game on that play, but now inside two minutes we don't call it, and I don't like that from the NFL right now.


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[Assistant] Back to closer to the form we saw earlier this year. You know, again, we didn't come away going, man, how did he?


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[Assistant] He missed that throw there. Oh man, oh man, that was a big throw on that drive. I can't believe he missed that. And it was on point throughout.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, I think one of the things I look at more than anything is when they kind of just threaten you with a little run game early on, and you've heard me say, I wish their passing game was a hair more creative. It's a little basic, but when they get a little bit of line of scrimmage movement, we're running the football.


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[Assistant] It just opens everything up and a team like Washington, who's of course down players on the defensive side of the ball. Once they see that type of running, they got to put guys in some bad positions and one-on-one matchups and they just tore them up, let alone.


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[Assistant] You know, they couldn't do anything on the offensive side of the ball either, and were just getting completely overwhelmed. You know, as good as that Cowboys offense was last night, and they were good, and Prescott was efficient.


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[Assistant] Man, the Cowboys defenses is like, they're game wreckers right now. They are. I mean, it's gone to a whole nother level here. Their defensive line is capable of taking over football games and ruining it. We've seen that multiple weeks now to where I went to Dallas,


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[Assistant] Pain in the, I went from early on in the year going, Dallas can win the Superball, to, ehhh.


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[Assistant] Dallas a pain in the butt. You don't want to see them coming into town in the playoffs. To the last few weeks to be gone, Dallas can go back to the Super Bowl. No doubt about it. 100%.


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[Assistant] You know, again, the offensive line's still not totally healthy with Tyron Smith out, but like we talked about last week, Ahmed, the defensive line's so special, and they got some good cover guys at corner.


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[Assistant] To where they don't have to cover for long with that defensive line. And if the offense can kind of just continue to execute a little bit and run the ball, like I said, it's going to make them almost unstoppable on the offensive side of the ball because they're just going to get too many favorable matchups in the pass game off of it.


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[Assistant] Well yea, Taylor Heinecke again, as anybody has listened to me, he's a good player. He's a low level starter.


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[Assistant] He's really what he is. He's a great backup. That's what I want. If I was, if I was going to build a team, I'd go, man, I'd love to have Taylor Heinecke as my backup. I pay him seven, eight million dollars just to be a backup. If you got a good team, cause you know, okay, my team's good and starter gets hurt. He can come in and do a few things that way and, and help our team get over the hump.


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[Assistant] He's not the type of talent where if the game gets off the rails a little bit, that he can make plays to carry your team.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I know he's got great moxie and, you know, he's got some playmaking ability too. I know he has that, but it's nothing about his game as elite. It's really about, hey, he's a good athlete, he's got a solid arm, you know, he knows how to play the game.


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[Assistant] But, not gonna do things special or pull your team out of a hole when they're having a bad night like last night. But yes, in his defense...


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[Assistant] That was a real fight. Listen, you're getting scuffles. Right? Yeaah. You're getting scuffles on the sidelines a lot. I mean, that happens. We know that. But, like, that was, let me throw a haymaker and knock this dude out. Alright? So that's where that was real. That was a different fight.


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[Assistant] They both went to Alabama. Yep, they were both first round picks in consecutive years for the Washington football team. Allen, of course, is a stud. Doron Payne is really damn good too. More of a run stuffer type of guy, right? Allen can kind of do everything, but this is where I'll say, and you know.


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[Assistant] What Daron Payne did was completely wrong. That's a no-no in the NFL world. An absolute no-no. And I got no problem with Jonathan Allen throwing a right hook to his head after doing that. You don't touch another grown man's head and put your finger on his forehead to make a point and push it out of the way.


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[Assistant] I don't care who it is. You do that to anybody in football. It's going to be, you're going to get in a fight or you're going to get in a confrontation. You are. I messed around and did it with a guy named Adam Hayward in Tampa once and I was joking around.


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[Assistant] And like being a smart ass in the hallway and kinda put my finger right on his forehead like that.


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[Assistant] Adam was tough as hell, special teams, linebacker, 250, jacked, right? I had no chance. I was so glad when other defensive players came and pushed them away to break it up. Cause I was like, Oh God, I'm going to get killed by this guy. So you don't do that. And even though I was joking around, you don't do it when it's a heated moment on the sideline. That was a no-no. And.


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[Assistant] They're gonna have to figure that one out, cause that's not gonna just go away today when they walk back into the facility and go, oh yeaah, no big deal, it's just heat of the moment. That was more deeply rooted than your normal sideline scuffle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Washington's done though. Poor Washington. It was a lot they had to overcome this year. They fought hard. They made a comeback. That was all good. But between COVID, short week, all those issues, playing one of the hotter teams in football, they were just compromised last night. How many


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[Assistant] How many bootlegs or little play action easy completions that Prescott throw in the first half or just guys over one on one and there's no William Jackson on the other side against a lesser corner cause he was out of the game. Bam, easy completion. It was just too easy all night for Dallas. They're rolling.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know, I think we get back to, it just, it kind of speaks to how talented they are as a football team.


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[Assistant] And sometimes I think even they forget about the aspect of like, wait, we have this big dominant offensive line that was a big reason of why we got to the Super Bowl last year. Why don't we run them? I, you know, you, you know, me again, I sound probably like a broken record to some people out there.


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[Assistant] I think the Bucs are at their best when they do that style of football rather than Brady and the shotgun and everything there. I think they're more susceptible to being upset.


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[Assistant] In the shotgun, we're going to throw the ball every play with Brady mode than they are when they get in two tight end sets, Cameron, Braid, Gronkowski, they run the ball and then Brady can feel protected off of those formations and strike downfield. That to me is when they're really dangerous and that's what they got back to a little yesterday. They had to cause like what you said.


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[Assistant] They were down some weapons. They didn't have a ton of receivers they could trust.


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[Assistant] So, it was a too tight end, smash mouth. You know, Vaughn breaks the big run early when the game was kind of in a stalemate. And then Jordan Whitehead you brought up.


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[Assistant] You know, him being back in the lineup on the defensive side, that's a big deal. He's a really damn good player who does a lot out of that safety position for them.


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[Assistant] You know, he can come down and kind of play linebacker and nickel and deep safety and he can do it all. He's a great tackler and that was where the game turned around was his interception. You know, not that it was like,


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[Assistant] Not that I felt like, oh man, Carolina was going to win the game, but Carolina looked like they had a decent game plan, went down on that first drive, got a field goal, had a few good quarterback design runs again. You know, there they are at midfield.


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[Assistant] And I just, I don't know what Cam Newton was thinking. I mean, he was getting hit.


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[Assistant] And he tried to like jump as he was getting hit and throw the ball over the middle to like an under route on the outside and of course got nothing on it.


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[Assistant] And it was basically like a jump, a hook shot in basketball. And it was an easy, easy interception for Jordan Whitehead. And really from that point on, you know, the game wasn't the same. Bucks got the field goal, right? And.


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[Assistant] Bucks got the field goal, I think Sam Donnell led them down to a drive to make a 10-6, uh, but then the Bucks kinda controlled the game from there on out. And it was, it was just like, kinda domination or slow death for the Carolina Panthers from that point on.


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[Assistant] I'm not mad. Hey, this ain't a sport for the kids. This is a grown ass man's sport. So, you know, again, this is you, you, Hey, like, like, I know we talked about this a little last week and I know some people are like, Oh, you gotta, you gotta teach them a lesson. None of those guys in that locker room want you to teach them a lesson. They want to win the super bowl.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's not my favorite, but I know in football locker rooms, he is one of the favorites because of his work ethic, attention to detail. He's a psycho preparation guy like Brady. So the team sees that.


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[Assistant] And they're all in for that. They are, you know, and, and they've gotten to be around him and understand how much he loves the sport. So yeah, even though they said one mistake and you're done, you know, okay, they've had a year of evidence to go away. The guy's a little different than we thought when we got him in here. And we're not going to just sacrifice the Superbowl to teach him a lesson.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well the two guys that you wanted to teach a lesson or the public wanted to teach a lesson to, they're a big part of why the Bucks won yesterday.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, they helped the team. And again, it goes back to like Antonio Brown, uhm, and he can do everything. You know, he can run the Chris Godwin over the middle, Julian Edelman stuff.


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[Assistant] And then he's strong enough and fast enough to where when they run the ball and they start to see single coverage on the outside, he can beat people one-on-one and Brady just goes, well, he's better than that guy and I'll throw a strike. And it's as simple as that.


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[Assistant] And that's where they're going to be tough to beat. And I'll be interested here going forward, Ahmed, if they don't get into this little offense more. I want to see where they go from here.


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[Assistant] If they're gonna stay in this little run game underneath the center, two tight ends, a little bit more than the, what we saw when Brady was really tearing it up maybe in the middle of the year with four wide receivers and just, you know, unstoppable passing game. I think they're more dangerous playoff wise when they play this style.


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[Assistant] Taking a charge, I mean, I don't think it's gonna get him there, right, but...


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[Assistant] Like I do feel like ever since we talked about him two weeks ago, like he came out in that Arizona game. It was like, Hey, you everybody. You remember me? I mean, from the first play of the game, I think he ruined like one of the first plays of the game with a sack in that game. So yes.


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[Assistant] He's been playing some really good football here the last few weeks. There's no doubt that we've seen the Rams again. Some of the star players have shown up in some big moments. I get, I don't.


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[Assistant] You know, there's something about that Rams game yesterday. I guess I like, and I don't like, I guess, you know, of course the game was inconsistent. Matt Stafford and some turnovers were bad.


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[Assistant] I mean, three interceptions, you know, two of them led to ten points.


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[Assistant] One was, you know, a tip pass over the middle and definitely tight there that gives the Vikings a touchdown when you're kind of in control of the football game at 13-3 to start the third quarter. You know, but either way, I still think there were some things about the game I like. The defense showed some moments of being dominant. They did do that.


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[Assistant] You know, and even, you know, with Stafford's first interception, which was also backed up, held the Vikings to a field goal.


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[Assistant] You know, they've had shown moments of being like, wait, we can clamp down and stop you completely here. They are making plays. Offensively, we saw the run game again, which was good. No doubt about it. But yea, Stafford's gotta be careful. You know, that game got closer than it should've been, in my opinion. Just the way it looked. And that's one game that...


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[Assistant] I want to go back and watch and just get a little bit better of a feel for, you know, I know that he went off with Cooper cup in the fourth quarter. Um, I felt like the Rams were always in control of the game, watching it yesterday, but just kept it up a little bit and letting the Vikings hang around.


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[Assistant] Really, you're right, the last drive, even the drive before that, right? Or maybe it was two drives before that, where as 20 to 13...


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[Assistant] You know, Minnesota's made it a one score game and they go right down the field and he makes some throws to Cooper Cup. The drive ends with a touchdown pass to the back right corner to Odell Beckham Jr., right? That was where you went, right? Like he'd already thrown his three interceptions and he went, Oh, all right, all right, here we go. He's got his rhythm back. He's got his confidence back.


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[Assistant] Again, the Rams, I'm not gonna put them in the class right now of like,


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[Assistant] Where I look at them and go, oh man, they're dominant like Kansas City and maybe the Dallas has been here the last few weeks. But it's certainly better. It is. And it's close to showing signs of some dominance. And if they get a few of these guys back on defense healthy,


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[Assistant] I'm interested to see what they can be, but nonetheless, again,


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[Assistant] I mean, they went a week without practicing. People gotta remember these things. Barely practiced last week. You know, short week.


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[Assistant] Tuesday game against the Seahawks. Emotional against a division rival.


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[Assistant] Who had their backs against the wall short week, go to Minnesota. That's not always easy. I don't, you know, sometimes you got to remember, can't expect teams to always play their best football in those types of circumstances. That was a big win for them on the road. It's never easy to win in Minnesota in that environment. And like you said, let's not take credit away from Stafford and McVay for doing that.


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[Assistant] You know, no, I, I, I, I still think I would be more on the Rogers, Jonathan Taylor...


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[Assistant] You know, and even after yesterday, and if they win the ASEs, I'd probably put Josh Allen in front of Cooper Cup too. As amazing as it's been, there's no doubt. Like again, just at a...


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[Assistant] Cooper Cup, that year like you're talking about with Calvin Johnson, how many receptions did he have? I would imagine they were far less than what Cooper Cup's gonna end up with here. What, what, do you know that? Do you have that stat in front of you?


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[Assistant] You got 122 receptions and right now, uh, Cooper Cups on pace for what? 150 or 149?


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[Assistant] I do think it's more impressive than the Michael Thomas year. I do.


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[Assistant] The Cooper Cup, he might have been open on a lot of these plays, but he went, damn, the guy didn't throw it to me or he threw me a wobbler that didn't get here. So, yes, now he's got a guy that


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[Assistant] You know, allows the offense to completely open up, let alone make him, make some insane throws to him that, that add to these stats. But either way, phenomenal year by Cooper Cup and people got to give him more credit. And the fact of.


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[Assistant] This physical specimen he is. I'm a little sick of hearing that line from guys on TV. Oh, he's smart. No, I've seen Cooper cup in person. He's, he's more than smart. He's big. He's fast and he's quickest. Like shut the.


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[Assistant] He's talented. Why are we discrediting him? I don't know. I know he's like nerdy, white guy, slot receiver, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have talent. And I feel like that's kinda working against him.


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[Assistant] No, he won't be ready for that, but I think it's realistic to think divisional, NFC championship weekend, he could be there for that. You know, just, just, and again, I'm not trying to be a doctor, but sprained ACL, MCL, again, I've had a lot of friends and teammates that have had it over the year. That's usually somewhere between like a three to six week injury.


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[Assistant] You know, so I'm kind of putting it at like the four week mark that I think we can maybe see him back or at least maybe he could be practicing to where he could be ready for the championship game. But, uh, yeah, that's.


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[Assistant] That's not good. It's definitely not. As strong as this NFC is, and you don't know who you might be getting coming into town in week one in the wild card game. I mean, you could end up getting the damn 49ers coming into town. That couldn't be, that would be tough.


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[Assistant] I mean, the 49ers are, they're one of those teams that are not gonna be scared of the talent of the Bucs. They're gonna go, wait, we're just as talented, or we think we're just as talented as you. And that's where they're gonna need Shaq Barrett. So, stinks for them, uh, but, you know, they'll weather the storm, they still got a great team down there.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I like our little graphic design today with the split screen there of like the Under Armour. Well done. Well done. And we love, this is our last week of our Under Armour sponsorship. So, yeah, Under Armour, I mean,


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[Assistant] There's playoffs. A lot of people listen and watch the podcast of the playoffs. I'll continue to kiss your feet all the way through Under Armour. I'm not going to kiss Ahmed's feet hopefully, but I'll kiss your feet. No. All right, Under Armour. Yeah. So feel free to, uh,


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[Assistant] They deserve it. I mean, that's a legit damn okay. 100%. I picked the Colts to win.


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[Assistant] But I mean, I'm not going to lie to you. On Christmas Day, when family was asking me about the game and stuff, I was going, damn, the Colts are missing their three interior offensive line. Man, that makes me, it changes my thought on the football game a little bit.


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[Assistant] I don't know, well they, this might mean they might need to rely on Carson Wentz a little too much in the passing game. I don't know if I love that. Didn't matter. Didn't matter.


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[Assistant] And hey, the Colts have a toughness and a belief about them right now that's real. You know, hey, they caught Arizona who's, you know, obviously in a little funk here as we see, and we've seen all teams go through this this year. It's just bad timing by the Cardinals that they're going through it right now. But the Colts were.


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[Assistant] You know, the more physical team on the football field, I would say Christmas night. That was the thing that jumped out to me more than anything. And what I get a little scared of again, you know, again, the Colts.


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[Assistant] The running game, Wentz is good enough to beat you with the pass game as long as we don't have to rely on him to throw like 45 times in a game. Cause that usually is when he does a dumb thing or two and it hurts his football team. But this current formula is real. I mean, it's real to where.


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[Assistant] Hey, you know, like I said again, the Colts are, they're capable of going to the Super Bowl too in the AFC. They're made for playoff football. They are. The defense is really good. You could see.


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[Assistant] You know, other than the one run, they had real, they have enough speed up front to contain a guy like Kyler Murray. I know he had the great run and that was it, but after that, that was about all we talked about for the rest of the night. It wasn't a whole lot after that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the Cardinals, let me just hit on them real quick, Amin. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] You know, it, it's, uh, I think what I've said the last two years is kinda coming back around here. Like, yeaah. You know, they got a lot of, you know, they have a little more versatility on offense.


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[Assistant] As the year goes on here, I think teams are realizing, all right, wait, wait, we, all right, they're good. They're, they run the ball pretty well. Okay. It's not a great running team. That's pretty good. Oh, the screens, blah, blah, blah. Got all that. Right. But what to me, it looks like over the last few weeks is teams again, have really caught on to how they want to attack in the past game.


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[Assistant] And Kyler has not been great. He's missed a handful of throws in every game here ever since he came back from injury where I go, man, he usually hits that.


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[Assistant] And, I know I've come away watching film a little bit the last few weeks going, eh, there's not a ton of people open. I don't sit here and go like, oh wow, he's really playing bad and there's people wide open. I think a little everything. Yeah, he's missed some throws he should hit, but I do think people are on their drop back pass game and they're passing offense to a degree, once again.


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[Assistant] Pretty close. You know, I'm not gonna say it was the Carson Wentz I saw.


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[Assistant] You know, in 2019 that carried the Eagles to the playoffs with a, you know, everybody hurt on their football team or the guy we saw the year they won the super bowl where he was, you know, probably a game away from being the MVP of football before he got hurt.


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[Assistant] Well, and that's what I think Frank Reich's talking about. You know, he's seen that guy and going like, wait, you're not that guy right now. You're good. But that guy back then was like,


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[Assistant] Like, all the time in Philadelphia. Constantly. How could his confidence be great? How? How? Then has a great year and carries the team to playoffs and they bring another distraction and more pressure on by bringing Jalen Hurts in.


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[Assistant] Like, so of course he's not the same guy right now. They've continued to try to build him up all year, but we have seen like.


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[Assistant] You know, like you said, that throw there at the end of the game, we've seen little moments.


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[Assistant] Here and there down the stretch to where we go, Oh, that's pretty damn special play. And that was a special play running to the left.


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[Assistant] Dropping the arm like that, throwing that perfectly in the back of the end zone, really nice. You know, they don't need him to be a superstar like he was in 2017. But if he can be like that, or, you know, just play really solid football, the Colts are going to be a tough


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[Assistant] Yes, I, I, I can't lie. You know, again, the game early on as Texans were hanging around.


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[Assistant] You know, and I just kept thinking, okay, I want to try to remember the point where I went, uh oh, this might change here. I guess it was, I think Chargers 12, 10, right?


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[Assistant] And that was where Herbert had the ball at the middle of the field and through, tried to throw the post down the middle, which was a bad decision. And he didn't throw the appropriate ball in my opinion.


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[Assistant] And they intercepted it, it was 12-10 where I just kept going, all right, hey, it's early on, they're going back and forth. You know, the Texans will fizzle out and the Chargers will, you know, keep the offense rolling here and they'll get it going and they'll, they'll put them away.


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[Assistant] Didn't happen. I mean, throws the interception right there, and I believe on the subsequent drive, the Texans went right down the field and went on a 94 yard drive and scored a touchdown. Yea, they did.


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[Assistant] With the Chris Conley go rat on the right side. Again, here, you know, I come away with a lot of weeks going, hey, one team really messed it up. And the Chargers have made some mistakes. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] You know, I just didn't like the fact that the Texans were physically hanging in there with the Chargers. To me, that's where it's a bad look. You know, again.


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[Assistant] Texans offense just running the ball right down the throats of the Chargers defensive line. And then, you know, Mills and company, Mills played a great game, did a great job, just put the ball on the money throughout. You know, it was, it was an impressive victory. It was one of those where I came away and I wrote down here, I went like,


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[Assistant] You know, a little more evidence to me of why I don't really think the Chargers are a playoff team. They're fun, they have a superstar quarterback, but I know you've heard me say all along, I don't think their defense is real good, and I think the offense is good, not great.


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[Assistant] Has had some favorable matchups throughout the year too, uh, and I just don't look at them as being playoff quality.


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[Assistant] And early in the year, they were trying to changing the narrative of like, hey, the Chargers aren't screwing games up in the fourth quarter. They're actually winning these. Look at this. And Herbert is, you know, special. I mean, he's special.


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[Assistant] You know, for the most part of the year, I mean, talk about consistency at the quarterback position. Yeah. Herbert's probably played as good or better than anybody in the AFC as far as consistency, you know.


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[Assistant] Uh, with the splash plays and all that. I think that led to everybody kind of jumping on the bandwagon of the Chargers. Whoa. You know, coach goes for it on fourth down a lot. Superstar quarterback.


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[Assistant] It's awesome with fantasy football. Their defense lets up all these yards too. So their offense gets the ball right back. Everybody wanted to jump on that, but that's just not playoff football in my opinion. And that's why you're going to see again there.


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[Assistant] That's gonna be a tough go here to see if they can sneak in somehow, someway. They're gonna need some help.


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[Assistant] It's just a little too reliant again, I think, on just their playmakers. And, you know, we'll get a strip sack fumble, we'll get an interception, you know, we'll return a punt.


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[Assistant] Uh, we'll break a screen for 40. Kyler will break a run up the middle for 70. And I just don't, I, I, again, that's awesome. And it's gonna help them win some games when they get in the playoffs and do that. But also, like,


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[Assistant] You know, hey, you gotta, you gotta execute and physically dominate teams and football too. And you know, with the, with the Cardinals, I do worry with the lack of big people in the interior part of their defensive line. And you see, they can get pushed around at times, you know, and again, I'm not counting them out of it.


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[Assistant] The, the Rams certainly aren't out of the woods with the, at the Ravens and then the 49ers at home. They can lose both of those and be in trouble there, but I'm going to bet.


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[Assistant] They only lose one of those, and I would bet that the Cardinals lose to the Cowboys too.


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[Assistant] You know, yeah, I've always had a little caution about the Cardinals, but there was a point during the year where I just went, man, maybe they're just gonna be able to make plays like this all the time, and maybe I'm wrong. But we've seen here the last few weeks, that's gone away a little bit.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, they've been unable to kind of execute and pose their physical will on you on either side of the ball to kind of put teams away or get some wins here down the stretch.


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[Assistant] Team throws a pass, here's free money. Okay, TD pass, here's free money. Any pass that he counts. Doesn't matter if it's the QB, the wide receiver, the punter, the half back pass, it doesn't matter. Any TD pass. Don't just bet this football season. Live your bet life.


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[Assistant] It did. They were kind of sleepwalking in the first half. You know, again, the Giants have match up well with the Eagles. That's the reason they beat them, you know, a month ago or whatever it was, you know, at Giants Stadium or MetLife Stadium. You know, the one thing the Giants have a little bit is they have big people up front.


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[Assistant] So that allows them to not totally get blown off the ball by a great Eagles offensive line and the Eagles passing game.


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[Assistant] Not real complex. It's a little bit of like, hey, we run the ball and now you got to put people in there to stop it. And now we got guys that could beat one-on-one coverage on the outside. So it's not hard to break that down and stop that either. And you know, I think the Giants are coached well.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, they hung around and that was all nice and dandy and all of that. But once from through the interception, I believe, yeah, from through an interception and the game just went downhill from that point on, you know, for the New York Giants, the Eagles started to dominate and all facets of the football game. And then really Ahmed, like what I think about the Eagles is, you know, they,


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[Assistant] You go too hard on stopping the run game, which is arguably the best run game in football, you can see, Hertz can throw the deep ball.


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[Assistant] And guys like Watkins and Devon, uh, Devontae Smith and Rieger, they can beat one on one coverage. And that's where they're dangerous and have a good little formula, you know, as far as their offense is concerned.


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[Assistant] Have incredibly quick feet and are explosive. Again, they're not explosive as far as a 40-yard dash is concerned. They're explosive in short areas.


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[Assistant] And they're usually the type of guys where they're so explosive and big when you play with them or mess around with them or like, Hey, I'm going to hit you on the arm or jump on you. You don't want to play with them because you're like, ow, this hurts. This is not fun. Don't play with me anymore.


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[Assistant] It sounds like he's finally gotten healthy, Ahmed. That's the real thing. He battled, you know, two different injury spurts kind of throughout the year. They haven't been a great running football team.


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[Assistant] I think because he was injured early on in the year, it kind of forced them to rely on...


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[Assistant] Hey, we'll try to win the game with Derek Carr throwing the football and we'll make some plays that way to kind of substitute for lack of a running game. And they lost their mojo. Like we talked about running games hard. It's an attitude thing. You got to practice it and be physical all week, every week. You can't just go, oh, hey, now we want to run the ball this week.


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[Assistant] So they got to that really clearly the Raiders were clearly the better football team on the field yesterday. I can say that no doubt about it. I mean, really the three turnovers in the football game, two out of the three, you know, and I'm talking about the three Raiders turnovers. There was the Josh Jacobs fumble, Derek Carr had the fumble, and then there was the end of the half.


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[Assistant] Tip pass, Nick Chubb interception, that was really the only life the Broncos team had throughout the day. You know, there was never at any point did I go, oh,


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[Assistant] The Broncos are, oh, wait, the momentum's on their side. Watch out. I mean, I went in at halftime going, damn, I mean, the Raiders kind of controlled the game and dominated it. And yeah, it's, it's, what was it? 13, seven Broncos. I was shocked by that. No doubt.


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[Assistant] Either way, it corrected itself in the second half. But what we saw in the first half continued except the Raiders didn't turn the ball over. And yeah, the Broncos just couldn't get it going on the offensive side of the ball, uh, at any point really throughout the day.


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[Assistant] Can't run the ball, couldn't convert third downs, couldn't, I mean, it just, that was, that was a surprise to me. Now I have one positive for them is Drew Lock didn't screw the game up. He did not, but man, they got too much talent and players on that side of the ball to have a game like that against that Raiders defense. That's, you know, certainly not special.


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[Assistant] Last two years, he's been better than that category for sure. There's no doubt. And yeaah. I think, you know, they, they...


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[Assistant] A game like yesterday, I'd like to go back and watch it, but I can guarantee Vic Fangio, who's so smart, you know, on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Hey, the Raiders usually kill you with the five and six and eight yard passes and you die a slow death that way. I bet you they took some chances and took some stuff like that away, which led to some, some opportunities down the field. And hey, the last, the last, one of the last third down conversions of the game, right? It was a third and one.


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[Assistant] Little play action, hit Foster Moreau down the middle, uh, for a big game that kinda ended it and put it away. Great play call there.


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[Assistant] By Greg Olson on the offensive side of the ball. Aggressive. You know the team's gonna sell out to stop the run. You're gonna have a chance to make a game changing, game ending type play right there. And Derek Carr took advantage of it and hit it. But yes, Carr's had a very good year. There's no doubt it. Not a superstar, but a really damn good quarterback that you can win with.


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[Assistant] It could go a lot of ways, but that's the pits. Okay. That's the pits and the pits. That's kind of like a negative thing, I guess. Right. But it really isn't. We're talking about this.


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[Assistant] You know, that's not the pit. It's not. Ooh, that's what it should be. You're right. That's right. It's not the pits. Okay. Cause when you got Kyle pits on your team.


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[Assistant] Very rarely is it the Pits. I mean, very rarely. Special player. Listen, it just comes down to two things, in my opinion. The Lions, in a lot of ways, control the flow of the football game. You know? They were...


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[Assistant] Incapable, I guess, I'm gonna say scoring touchdowns, right? That was a little bit. The difference in the game is two things to me. It's Matt Ryan and Kyle Pitts. See, these are the games where Matt Ryan is still good enough to...


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[Assistant] You know, beat teams like this. Not, not that I want to say it's single-handedly, but doesn't need a lot. You know, that's the one thing I came away with in the game. Just going, man, Matt Ryan, you know.


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[Assistant] Makes so many plays, just kind of moving in the pocket, making a good aggressive 15 yard throw down the football field. He's really special that way. He is, he's still a really damn good quarterback that I got a lot of respect for.


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[Assistant] Yes, it was them, their defense hanging in there just enough to make the Lions kick some field goals. And then, you know, they, they scored touchdowns. And to me that ultimately was the difference in the football game, but I give the Lions a lot of credit for hanging around and, and being a pain in the butt. But man, Pitts, Ahmed,


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[Assistant] It's freaky. He's, he's getting better. You could tell he's getting, like, he's catching the ball and ripping it out of the air now and like looking angry as soon as he's got it in his hand. Like he's looking to make a play. To me, those are the little things I look at to go, oh wait.


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[Assistant] You know, he's got another rookie phase of like, I just want to catch it, get to completion. Now he's going, wait, I can catch it with my eyes closed. Time for me to be a superstar. And I feel like I'm kind of seeing that from Pitts here as of late.


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[Assistant] I, you know, maybe to a degree. Again, you know, Trevor Lawrence, he did some good things yesterday. There's no doubt about that. You know, I like both of these guys. I don't want them to be about that. But, you know, and again, in my opinion, you know, Zach Wilson's capable of more special than Trevor Lawrence. I will say that.


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[Assistant] Well, like, there's always a handful of throws from Zach Wilson where I go, damn, that was, that was a good one. Like, whoa, that was a laser down the middle there into a tight window. And I was, yes, I see that. I've seen movement really ever since he's come back from the injury, which I think his first game back was the Houston, Texas football game where I go, his movement's special. Like it's special.


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[Assistant] The way he can get out of the pocket, make people miss, do that. To me, it's different than Trevor Lawrence. He's better in the pocket, he's better at getting outside of the pocket. Lawrence might be faster once they both open up.


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[Assistant] But he doesn't have the acceleration of the explosion Zach Wilson has. And that goes for his arm as well.