[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And we don't really wanna rush five, so now we're gonna ask some guys that aren't good in coverage to drop back and play underneath coverage. And that really puts you in a bind. And that's where, uh, Papa Stew, the McCaffrey thing is gonna make things really


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Interesting little exercise and thought, you know, and I don't, I don't think our guys...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He's too far off in that thought altogether. You know? He's not. And Shanahan is... He's special. And to the point...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He's not a top 10 quarterback. And he makes what? 25 million a year? Yeaah. 25? 27? 5?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Those, like, announcers for the number one game on NFL Sundays.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's, it's, it's gotten to a point where, yeaah, I think that market's about to explode. And there is a few, I think Belichick's making north of 20. And I think Pete Carroll's making close to 20. Sean Payton was close to 20.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Shanahan's definitely double digits, millions. You know, I don't know where it is on that. But, you know, McVeigh, it sounds like he's around 16, 18 million now. Alright, so I think your point is real. And then, with the quarterback thing there,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I mean. Yeah, do you, do you agree with those names? I, I, I think I do. I mean, the only one that I, I guess I would say I definitely wouldn't put in there, you know, is maybe, is maybe Dak.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Anthony has sent out some tweets before where I go, I agree with Austin and what he's saying there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, it's a little bit of what I've been saying lately. We hit it on in Green Bay a few weeks ago. You know, uhm, it's just the, again, it's not that it's bad.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think so. And I think the thing is, I still see moments of going, that's who he is. Why aren't we doing that more? What's the deal here? There's just inconsistencies in this game right now. You know, you take away the Minnesota game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nothing's been clean or easy for him as lately. I mean, he's thrown seven interceptions in the last five games and he threw none in the Minnesota game. So it's really seven out of four, seven in four games. And to me again, too,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know me, I'm not always the bottom line stat guy and all of that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just even watching the game live on Sunday when they would show replays of throws or whatever, I'd just go, man, ball just not coming out of his hand clean. A lot of like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, not spinning, wobbler type of balls. And then also, just balls that are a little off the mark, where they might be complete, but you go, oh man, if he hit that on stride, that guy's gonna run for another 20 yards. So, again, it's, Dak, I wanna make sure that I'm very clear about this. It's good. But, but,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I know what Dak's capable of. I've seen him have years and put together games where I just go, he's on fire. He's just striping it. He's throwing the ball amazing. Every time he throws the ball down the field, it's a completion. Boom.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And right now, I feel like I'm seeing some throws that I go, a guy that's $45 million and there's a top 10-ish quarterback who I know can do this, is not, not hitting on all cylinders right now. That's what, that's what was peeking my eye.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's the point. These homies are in your head right now. Thank you. That's where they're supposed to be. They're supposed to be my homies. But at Plug and Play 16, you're right. That's the point I'm trying to make. It's not bad. You said it right. I'm holding to the standard. We're talking about the Cowboys Super Bowl.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Like, this type of play, to my point, is not gonna beat, to our man's point here, is not gonna beat the Eagles or the 49ers, or the Bills or the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Like, you know what I mean? It's just not, that's not gonna get it done. So why is it happening? Well, I think the first thing is mechanics, and we've talked about this before.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I've had this conversation with Jason Garrett since he's been here, and Jason is verified. And I know, as I've told you before, I've talked about it with Dak, to know this is a little bit of a bad habit he kind of reverts into at times. And right now, he has the, and you know, I'm not gonna stand up, but the front leg lockout.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right? Your front leg should never be locked out. Never.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it gets like toe right to the target, which is odd in itself, but that's okay. I mean, he's the only guy I know that's like literally puts the big toe and points it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Almost like a dancer or a pal arena at his target, right? Most guys, you just get your body lined up, and you kinda step, and it's more like your pinky toes at the target, and then you turn into the ball, and now you're big, after the throw, now you're big toes hitting the target, right? So, that's usually what you see.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He gets that with the front leg lockout, and then added to that, it's a, anybody who's been listening to me, you know the creating of opposites, right? Between the upper and lower half.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So front leg lockout and then zero shoulder movement. So he gets like this and then he just comes over the top of it cause he's a big strong man with some big hands and he gets it done. But like top throwers in football don't throw the football that way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, Mahomes, Allen, their front leg never locks out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nor do they ever get way over the top of the ball and they always get their front shoulder tucked in underneath their chin to the point where you see the nameplate on the back of their jersey when they're about to throw a football. Did that paint the picture the right way? Right? So we're not getting that. And that to me is what I look at to be


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Why the quality of the football is not what I have seen from Dak Prescott when he's really getting, you know, kicking balls.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, well, it makes it easier on the receiver. It does. When you throw spirals, it can just, again, it's less moving parts, you can focus kind of on the point of the ball, and as you look it into your hands, it just boom, and it sticks, and it, because it's spinning, it kind of digs its way into your hand, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's like coming right at your head, right? And it's just like BOOM! I gotta, uh, okay, I gotta hold this there. So that's where it's good.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, but that makes it hard to catch that way. It makes it hard to pluck the ball out of the air that way. And usually, again, when the ball is wobbly like that, you're doing something mechanically off. That's what history would tell you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, McCaffrey has more value in probably running between the tackles, but Powell is known as slouch. And that's the one thing when people are like, you know, oh, you know, you want him to be the space guy and I'm going to go, damn, he weaves his way through the trash, you know, better than Zeke a lot of the times. I know he can't punish you and do that always, but then like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] His ability to catch the ball out of the backfield from the true running back spot or his ability to line up at receiver and run routes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, I'm not going to say it's quite as good as McCaffrey, but it's receiver-ish, regardless. It's to where you'd go, he runs routes like a receiver. Like it's not, this is not a running back where we're like, you do these two routes good, we don't want you to do anything else. There's nothing Tony Pollard can't do that way. And again,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, I don't know, am I missing somebody? Is there somebody? You know me, I don't, I write these things and I'm saying them because yeaah, I follow the game and I'm obsessed with it all the time and I kind of write it just right off the top of my head there, but I don't think I'm wrong in that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, I gave it a quick thought. Is there anybody that jumps off to you? You know, Dalvin Cook is, is good at receiving the ball, but they don't use him in the receiving game a lot, right? But he is good at both. I get that. Is there anybody else I'm missing that you would throw in that conversation?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right, so that's true. He's in that conversation too. That's a good one by you. You're right. He'd be in that conversation with those guys. Same type of thing. Exactly right.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, okay, so that's good. Aaron Jones? Maybe another guy. I'd throw him right back in that list there. Right? So those would be four guys that I'd look as dual threats. Equally as scary in the passing game as they are in the run game. And yes, Pollard is...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I just still think they give the ball to Zeke too much. I do. Zeke's good, but having said that, exactly.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He is. He still moves well. He still can run with power. It's just, there's a few runs every game where I sit there and go, ah, I wish that was Pollard there. That would have been more exciting. You know, hey, I was a game of seven.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Pollard might have split those two guys and gone for 60. Uh, that, that's, that's the biggest thing. And to me, again, they can say all they want. They know Pollard's better. Anytime there's a big drive or a gotta have it moment, 20 is in the game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But they are still trying to kind of tote the line a little bit because Zeke was, he's a legend down there. He's the highest paid running back in the game. So they are playing up those politics too.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He's got a lot of value to the team. Exactly right. There's no doubt. And again, I don't mean to always sound negative on Zeke, it's just I think Pollard is really damn good, and he's in the prime of his career, and uh, that's where I really


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] From that standpoint, you know, right? You know, you just got, you won the trap game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, hopefully this makes everybody, uh, this is the best way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, to, to win the game, you probably should have lost. Yeah. So you don't have the, ah, can't believe we lost.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, we won the game, but then the coach can still go, Hey, there's a lot of shit we got to improve. That wasn't good enough. And the Jaguars were awesome. The Jaguars are, they got talent. They do. They're not, again, the Jaguars still young and all that, but they are not going to be physically outclassed by the Dallas Cowboys.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, you know, I just wanted to end the last drive. We didn't hit on that. Oh, that's right. You're right. The last drive was special.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Was special there. Those were big time throws. You're like, this is what I've been talking about. Well that's my point. That's all I was trying to say. Like, I know this is what he can do. He's not doing that much lately.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right? You know, and I heard a few people start to go, we need to throw them in the class of Mahomes and Allen and Burrow, and I want to be like, wait, did you watch the rest of the game? You can't say that. Or the game before that? You know?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Or, you know, just, there's, it's, lately it's not been sharp to say that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeaah, this guy's still a hell of a player. That was a big time clutch moment after making like the mistake of the game where you think it's gonna lose. And then you go down 98 yards for a touchdown. Uh, pretty awesome. But to our man's point, plug and play 16. If they wanna get where they wanna get, it's gotta be better from him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think the, the, the, the biggest thing, or just the, the borderline state, right, the headline statement I would make, and we can get into a little of the details, is just that,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We can't forget about the Ravens when they're healthy on the O-line and they're running back. Running backs are there. That changes their team. You know, I hate-


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Then, you know, people go, oh, Lamar's gotta throw for more yards and do all that. And I'm gonna be like, well, who? Who's, who's he supposed to scare you with out here? And, well, why? Just because he's Lamar and you wanna hate on him? So you're gonna say that? But,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, they need him healthy like you said, and they need this run game to work. And just to me, like, like I wrote at the end, right? Where I was just like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We can't give up on the Ravens. The D is solid, and when they're running back and all lines are healthy, they have shown the ability to beat an elite running football team and run at anyone. Right? And the Steelers have been good against a run this year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I really went like, man, with backup quarterback, not a dangerous passing game, I just thought, man, I don't think the Ravens are going to be able to run on this crew here.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, but that was not the case. I mean, it was a dominant, it started out as a little bit of a stalemate. But when we got into the second quarter, it started, the dam started to break. And the size and physicality of that O-line and then those running backs to go along with it started to really whoop some butt on the Steelers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know, and, and too, like, you know, I feel like we've seen like the


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] One stretch of the year where I went, ooh, their O-line was kinda healthy and they had some running backs to a degree. And that was the Browns, the Buccaneers, and the Saints. That little three game matchup where I went, ooh, watch out for them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then the bye-wee came, and then Ronnie Stanley got hurt early in the Carolina game, and, you know, then Morgan Moses, I think, got hurt later in that game, and, and Gus Edwards hurt himself in the Tampa game and all that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, the, the big thing early on was just like, and I love these plays, you know I love these plays, where it was just like, we're going straight. We're not, no scheme or anything.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Oh, Cam Hayward, you're in between the guard and the tackle. We're gonna double you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then one of us is gonna go up to the linebacker and then hey the other tackle, we're gonna double you and somebody's gonna like, like double concepts. Man to man, just downhill, get bodies on bodies, we're big, we're gonna move you, and then we're just gonna let the running back kinda gain some steam and find a hole and go, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We would call those like 34 double if I was in New England back in the day or playing for Josh McDaniels. And that was what kind of got going early.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, the one thing you notice about the Steelers is just nobody can get off a block, nobody can really make a play. And as I got into the game and kept going, I was going, damn, I don't think I've noticed anybody on the front seven of the Steelers. I haven't even remotely thought about TJ Watt.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, other than Cam Heyward, a few plays where it's like he almost made the play, it was like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Nobody was getting off a block or getting any disruption. So they were totally manhandled up front. I mean, if it weren't for like Minka and Cam popping it at all, you'd go, I don't know who played on Pittsburgh's D today. You know, but it was that early on and then became the second half, the pulling guard stuff where they started to really have their success.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They could not get it going early on. The Steelers movement up front and trying to slant some guys, it kind of clouded things and made it a little messy. Uh, but man, in the second half, they got it right and they just, it was block down, block down, two guys coming around the edge. I mean, just kill session. And they were like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Smidgen's close on like two or three other runs where you're just like, oh, this pulling guard just had his eyes in the right spot. This was going to be another big run and they got four instead of like, it could have been 44. Uhm, so that's where again, I just think the Ravens, when they do stuff like that and you see their front healthy,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's the second time this year it's happened to me where I'd gotta wait.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We can't forget when they're banged up in that area, they're just not the same team. And when they are healthy, they have shown the ability to overpower teams. And that's why I still out hold out hope that they, you know, with Lamar healthy and they can be dangerous.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They can definitely be one of those teams that can upset some of the thinking we all have, which is going to be the final four, the final two. Yes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, them, them healthy with that healthy running back and Lamar and all that and that's ground and pound and they control the clock and do that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then their defense makes, you know, some raven turnovers of that, and all of a sudden you're going, wait, they're not better than this team, but they're up by seven late in the fourth quarter in the divisional round. It looks like they might go to the championship game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, no, that's not shocking. We see a team like that almost every year in the playoffs kinda make some moves and I'm certainly not gonna count them out of that conversation. Right now, I'm not gonna say they're as good as the Chiefs, the Bills, or the Bengals, but they're right off of that and they're...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They're scary if they can be healthy because of the formula you're describing there. And they have a favorable schedule here down the stretch too. They're at the Browns Saturday. Right.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Browns are favored by two and a half in that game. I'm a little surprised, but I guess it's the third string quarterback. Not sure what's going to go on there. That's a little scary. Yeah. Well, if they can run like they did, it won't matter.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, it's cool. I checked out the link right before you started. It's definitely worth the look and good job by Pete compiling it all and yeaah, I mean, we all want to be right. Yeaah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I feel like they're backed into a corner here. If you don't make them the backup for this week, then, then, then you're basically telling everybody it's over. It's over, which I'm not sure it's not over anyways. To me, it's still one of the weirder things in the sport right now. It is. And I don't, I don't know where it goes and I don't know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Like, what to believe? Are they trying to actually work Zach Wilson in? Do they want it to happen? Or are they just trying to save face there and then keep value of his trade there and like, to move him on the offseason? Either way, to me it has the feel of a situation that's not going to end nicely.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The way they have handled the situation, maybe the way Zack has handled himself too, and with some players I think who talk too much, the


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The fanbase doesn't like Zach Wilson. All you gotta do is listen to local New York radio and nobody likes him. I said to Mike Florio yesterday on PFT when I was at the gym on Monday evening around like 5 o'clock, 5.30, I mean I had two fans come up to me and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Like, hey I love your work, I don't necessarily agree with your Mike White, Zach Wilson stuff. You know, us Jet fans, we, they use these words. We hate Zach Wilson. I hate? And I was like, wow, hate?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The franchise quarterback, number two pick of the draft, ends the 2021 season on a good note.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Gets hurt, training camp, comes back in a very tough situation as we discussed, has to play like seven of the top eleven defenses in football. They go five and two, and the fan base is rabid to get them out of there.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They bring in a Mike White who's done a good job, I get that, but against three of the, you know, or two of the three poorer defenses in football.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And in two of the three games, they can't get in the end zone, but we love him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That, that, it just doesn't make sense. And now, hey, and he's done a good job.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He is showing that maybe he is that guy that has the chance to be a bridge quarterback or a quarterback. They're going to have to pay him after the year if they want to keep him. But I just don't know where this goes. That's my point. And I feel like it just is like, it's a weird situation that, yeaah, I think the Jets have kind of


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Put themselves on a spot here where I don't know if you're gonna get out of it. And you're gonna put, and if you do try to like hang in there and oh, we'll make it work.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think their thoughts in their own building are not matching up with the reality and the perception that's out in the rest of the world.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Exactly, and now you're gonna get another game here where you're playing Detroit, who everybody throws on Detroit. You're gonna put up good numbers, I don't know if you're gonna win the game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But the numbers are going to end up looking like, well, Mike White's not the problem. So no one's going to ever do that, right? And that's where again, where I go, okay, so, so, so you're not going to pull the Zach Wilson trigger and go back to him this week.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, when is that happening exactly? And that's where it just, it seems weird. And if I'm Zach Wilson, I'd have a hard time thinking.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He gotta be thinking, I don't know what's going on here either. And if I'm in Zach Wilson's camp, I'm not so sure. The rest of, most of the league thinks this is crazy and that it's over. I'm just, that's, that's what I want to tell the Jets.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I think the Jets are like, hey, what's the big deal? He's just working on his craft and then we're going to try to work him back in when he's, when he's ready to go. It is a big deal. Like you said, it's the quarterback. You're in the middle of a playoff race, right? He was winning games with you and I know it wasn't great.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, but, but it's all that and the rest of the league is going, what the hell is going on there? And everybody is, no one's buying it. Everyone thinks that the Jets don't really like Zach Wilson. So if they're trying to save face and trade him, no one's going to buy it. Everyone's like, no, you don't like him. Nobody thinks you like him right now. They think the team in the city has turned on Zach Wilson.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So that's where I don't think their reality is messing with the perception of everybody else, which is going to become the reality in reality here soon, if they don't watch out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, it seems like it's a part of it. It does. It does. It's all the fans, and when you listen to the radio up here, it's all they can talk about. It's that question. One comment where they said the press conference is over, and then they said one more question. A throwaway question.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Where he wants to just walk out the door. And definitely shouldn't answer it differently, I get it, but no.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When we're gonna hold the kids to the craziest answer we've ever seen in a post-game press conference.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They went out there in the playoffs. And they were my team in the last two years where it was a little bit like Jacksonville where I was like, I see a lot of talent on this field. I don't know why they can't put it together.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, I don't know if they're able to run for 200 and something yards against everybody, but I think the formula can be replicated to a degree. And I do think that. I mean, here's the, this is one of the coolest things of the whole game. Their first field goal drive.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Play 25 yard drive for a field goal that took 4 minutes. You know, uh, and then of course you got other drives that are, you know, 10 minutes or 5 minutes and all that. But their patience with the run game is the biggest thing. They have totally opted to go...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, we're gonna keep the clock rolling, we're gonna play defense, and we're not gonna let our quarterback ruin the game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that's what they're doing, and it makes a lot of sense, and I think it's the right way for them to approach.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now, you know, the offensive, the patience is the biggest thing. And I think you saw in my notes, I mean, they weren't really gashing them in the run game. It wasn't like, oh man, Seattle's in trouble. I kept going like, wait, when are the stats and the numbers going to come? I really did. I was like, wait, I'm at halftime. They ran it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 20 times for 77 yards? Like, what? Are they really gonna?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Like, explode like this and then I'm in the third quarter and I'm going, it's still nothing special, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I think, you know, it's the Dean Liman. The Hawks, as we've discussed, there's no big-time Dean Liman.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, Shannon Nubulis is good out on the edge. Jordan Brooks is a good middle linebacker.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, they got some guys that are solid, but nobody that can go above and beyond or just be dominant, right? We've hit on that a little bit.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that, that to me, I, I really, I think Hawkstralager kind of said it right. I didn't look at one guy as getting gashed or being dominated.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's just the, they got in the fourth quarter, it's so many plays, they are worn out, and then they were down. So they started to play a few fronts where they're like, wait, we gotta stop this and get the ball back, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So now there's nine guys with the line of scrimmage. And as you know, oh, you break through the line of scrimmage and there's not many people there. So then, oh wait, we got a 15 yard game. We got a 12 yard game. So that's a little bit what happened to them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, just between running the ball, short passes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, and just the patience with the run game, and then we'll hit on their defense here in a second, they're a pain in the ass. And those running backs run hard and...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, the old line is, it's gotten a lot better from where it was early in the year, and Sam Darnold's doing the right things, and I think that's how you can really kind of just button up their offense. Yeah, what do you think of Sam Darnold? Hey, he's done like, he looks good. You know, it's, they're not asking a lot.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's a play-action pass, and a bootleg, and okay, we'll drop back and pass it here, but he's doing it just right. Hey, he's open, he throws it. It's close, aaah. Coach told me to play the defense, we're gonna run the ball, I'm gonna check it down.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, and that's what he's doing for the most part. And even their pass game, it's like an extension of the run game. Like, Loviska Shinaw, he caught four passes. They were all like the, you know, swing passes that were basically like toss sweeps. And then, he's like a, uh, uh, Mack Truck.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At receiver, and he just rawr and just runs through DBs and you're like, that was a game of nine. They threw the ball three yards behind the line of scrimmage.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] With more power maybe. You're right. I think he could be played in that element. I wouldn't be shocked if that happened here at some point in his career. Where people start to go, wait, we should hand him the ball. He was at Colorado doing that. He did that at Colorado. They played him a traditional running back. So, he certainly would be capable.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if there's anything more than that there, but I think we hit it all. Time of Possessions, all the attempts, just the toll the running game took on you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He just is like, DJ Moore can fly. He's got three rockets up his ass.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He's running post-corner routes and Tariq Wolin's like, huh, it's a jog in the park today. Like, and you're like, damn, you're, you're only staying in the hip pocket of the, like one of the most explosive guys in the sport. Yeah. He, he.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He really, you notice him on the field. Not only with his look, but his movement and how close he is on making plays on the ball constantly. I mean, there was two or three balls where you, you're like whoo!


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Sam just got that one in there, that was Dicey. Uh, so yeaah, he, he is, he is amazing that way, and yeah, uhm, yeaah, I think we, we, but Sam's movement is a part of this too.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And Sam's ability to scramble, and I wouldn't be shocked if we start seeing, because one thing that got going late in the game was the Ravens double puller run that I like. Right? So you're in the shotgun, and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The center blocks down, and the right guard and the right tackle pull around, and you give the ball. And I wouldn't be shocked to see, oh, we faked it to that guy, and then there goes, you know, Sam Darnold start to be broken out. But uhm, yeaah, the Panthers just physical and stay into their game plan impressively.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I was on that wagon with you last year too, right? The Panthers were my team. Like if there's a team that can make the playoffs and nobody expects, it's the Panthers. So we wanted to be half right. Well, the defense was a playoff defense. The defense, it was, I think ended up being top five last year. Alright, so the big thing is here,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] With Wilkes, I do think he simplified the defense, right? And I think within to your point is why. I think he's realized like a little bit like,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Wait, I'm missing some big people. I wish we were better at like run stopping. So he plays a little bit more single safety defenses. Let's get an extra guy down in the run box where the last defensive coordinator was


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Played more two and quarters looks. Had too much movement up front at times. You know, as you always hear, that's, that's scary.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, when you move and, hey, I want you to run to that gap, you know, six feet to your right. Well, if they're blocking you that way, you're going to end up being 12 feet to your right and you're not going to be in the gap. It's, it's hard to always be schematically sound when you play that style.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Wilkes, I don't see that going on nearly as much. He's just going, hey Derrick Brown, you're big and explosive, win that gap and that's it. Hey, hey, uh, Brian Burns, you're long and explosive and quick off the ball, just win your gap. Linebackers, same thing.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So that to me is where they've changed. He's taken the approach of, wait, we got talent, length and speed. Let's just let these guys play fast and not overthink this too much. That would be the thing that I've seen that they've adjusted. And then here's the other aspect of that. You know, they have some freaky talented guys, for sure.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But the thing that makes that all work too, to me and the biggest maybe shock of since I, this is the first deep dive I've done on them in 5 or 6, 7 weeks really, is the way the corners are playing. The corners are...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Fucking phenomenal. Sorry, Kristen. They're phenomenal.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Jaycee Horn is phenomenal. CJ Henderson is phenomenal.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And they couldn't, Seattle, who's not a great running team as we've always said, and then without Kenneth Walker, they didn't really want to live in the run game a whole lot.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And now they want to throw the football. And I'm telling you, there wasn't many throws. Gino threw for 264. They weren't outside on those two corners very much. Uh, so that to me is the other element.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That is special about them right now. And you almost have to find other ways to get the guys to your guys the ball when they're matched up on other people. They're really, they're really phenomenal duo at corner right now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That defense has got names on it. They got names. They got guys that are athletically talented, that pop. The only flaw of their defense, like I said, is they just need another big guy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's been their problem is rush defense. And I think that's what got the other guy into, wait, let me try this and move this around. He was trying to, to make it work that way. But hey, you know, that Seahawks offense is creative. They're aggressive. I like watching. And we know those three receivers can go and lock it Metcalf and Goodwin. And they had decent numbers.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But they weren't really all that good. They weren't. And they, and like I said, those numbers that Gino and those receivers put up, they were when they were matched up on guys not named. CJ Henderson and, and, um, JC, uh, JC Horn. It really wasn't. Added to the fact that Lockett, Metcalf, and Godwin, look at their final stat,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And then take 25 yards away from each of them, each one of them. Cause they got 25 each.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] On the last drive, when the game was 30-17 and Carolina was just, everybody was 20 yards down the field. So, the stats were a little bit misleading, but that's the interesting thing about Carolina. Uh, that defense is gonna be a pain in the butt with the way they're playing right now. It's just gonna be, can the offense do enough?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, to win the games. Cause their offense is, of course, it's not really explosive and nor are they trying to be.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think so. And they get to match up and play the Ravens, you know, mano-mi-mano. You know, they do have a little bit of a tough schedule, right? Uhm, they got Tampa this week, which, you know, Tampa's gonna be pissed off. They got the Patriots the week after that. They got the Bills, and then they got the Ravens. So that's where it's a little scary. You know, so, but,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But like, gosh, the way they're playing, yeaah, I would still want to pick them. I would.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Dolphins and panthers. You still think the dolphins could do it? I don't think the cowboys can do it, because the eagles aren't going to falter, at least in my thought, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Jaguars, I don't expect Tennessee to falter anymore either. I don't. We'll see. And the Jaguars are so all over the place as I've learned the hard way this year. I guess that's where I can't get into it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The, the Panthers one is interesting in the fact that, I mean, all they, all they, they


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, they, they do. They get to play Tampa head on. Tampa's gotta play the Bengals this week, right? Tampa, I think we're, we're at the point here where I hope they can lose anybody. So we gotta stop thinking like, oh, Tampa will get it right. They can lose anybody. They got Arizona. They'll be lucky. They're lucky that Kyler Murray got hurt. They don't have to deal with that on Christmas night.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, but I think when it's all said and done, yeaah, I still feel the best about the bangles. And then...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Dolphins, I'll go with them because they have great talent. And it's plus 900, you get the best odds. Great talent, right. And it's in their hands, I guess is where I want to say. It's in your hands to do it. Sure. So, I guess that's where I'll give those


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, if you win, you'll get $375, but I'll let if you lose, you'll still get $100 worth of free bets.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Although, what? What do you wanna fuckin' say? What? I saw someone tweet this and I agree.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, I want it to be the guy that epitomizes the MVP. And that to me is my, I've never seen a more valuable player to maybe any team ever in the history of sports.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He got stuck, I think, in a spot in Arizona where they weren't sure what he is and he's a hybrid and okay, Wade, he had the first few years there, he wasn't, you know, he was good but not great, so did we pay him as a top tier pass rusher? So then Carolina, Matt Rule had experience with him at Temple, he knows what he can do.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Has another good year, but they probably went, damn, we got a lot of young guys we gotta pay in the future. You know, Brian Burns is a really special pass rusher. Derrick Brown, they're gonna have to pay him. They got a bunch of other guys too.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it seems like he kind of just was the odd man out there. And he goes to Philadelphia and he's, he's, he's a phenomenal football player. You can't keep him off the field.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, I don't think Philly wanted to play him as much as they do, but I think when they just see, wow, him in coverage and him rushing the passer, he's disruptive, he's good against the run. Uhm, it's about time he gets paid by somebody here, because that's a pretty special attribute that you just talked about.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't, I don't know either. You know, I don't think they're in the worst spot financially, actually. I think they got a lot of their big-time players kind of, they just, Jalen Hurts is the only thing they probably got to worry about on their horizon a little bit here in the near future. But, gosh, I'm just thinking about it, you know.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Fletcher Cox coming to an end, you're not gonna have to worry about that. Javon Hargrave, they're gonna, Javon Hargrave's been really damn good this year, they'll have to think about him, and then they have Josh Swett, who's also been really damn good too. Who knows, it could. But either way, he's gonna go somewhere next year and be a butt kicker. That was cool.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He is. And, and you, like, he got back against, I believe it was the Titans game, and it was almost instantly they're, they're a better team.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He not only is awesome, you know, as a player, he also gives them a schematical advantage. He is, Ahmed's something we talk about a lot, he's one of the best two-gappers in the sport, right? Which gives them great flexibility now when you're playing running quarterbacks and stuff like that to


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Play with a few guys, and oh well, if they run this play, I got a guy over here for that gap and that, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that's where he's good too. So if he goes over here, I got another guy and they're both named DJ Reader. I mean, he is like two people. He is. And he's, he's, he does not get enough credit. The one team, uh, you know, it's just funny just why you cause we're bringing them up, but that was like the Rams.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When I talked to some of those coaches in the off season, even Kevin O'Connell, I talked to him at the combine a little bit. It was like the first name they brought up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, just, we thought we'd be able to run against the Bengals in the, the Super Bowl. They're just, damn that DJ Reader. Ooh, DJ, we couldn't block him. We couldn't stop him. We couldn't move him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] He's, he's amazing. He is. And he, when, when he's healthy, there are different defense altogether. Well, now he's got a big butt award. Yep. He can retire, pay him 40 million a year now. That's what he deserves. Uh, and that is it. We've uncovered new treasures. Yes, we have. We're going to do a few plays on social. So check that out. And then, um,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tomorrow the picks podcast, Florio Sims, mega picks podcast. I did go 3-0 on my best bets last week. I mean, we've been shitting on me when I lose all the other weeks. I'm going to give myself a little props this week.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, I hope everybody enjoyed the pod. Ahmed, you the man for driving the ship as always, going through my notes, finding out the things that are interesting to the homies. Homies, good job. We had some great questions today. Keep sending them in. We'll do our best to answer it all and dive into some of these subjects. Hope everybody enjoys the week. We had a good weekend. Man, I can't wait.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] My son has a basketball game and I think I'm gonna say screw you son. Mom's coming this week. I'm watching the games on the couch. I think I'm gonna have to do that. I think I'm gonna have to pull the dad card this week. Uhm, but I'm excited for that. I hope everybody else is excited. Enjoy. Get all your holiday shopping done. Don't be like me and an idiot and wait for the last 48 hours. It never works out well. Amid, you the man. Clap it up.


[User] Please transcribe this text

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


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well the fact that you have the biggest comeback in NFL history, and it might not have been the best game of the day. Right. Right. You're right. On Saturday.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] What we are going to talk about though, we're not going to talk about the Thursday game. What, how about our set here? What? So if you're just listening, you can, you don't see how festive we've become. We are festivous for the rest of us. Point set is right.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Right? Yeah, those are poinsettias. Like we have like holly, like Christmas tree branches on the, uh, back couch. Right? And in the monitor's way of the background. Oh, that's the finishing touch, right?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We will talk about those games. We're not outlawing those games. And I noticed also, you got your holiday haircut. Oh I did, I got a little trim on Friday. So is this the first time you've kinda gone tight on the side?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You're welcome. Thanks a lot. You're welcome. Whenever your hair changes, I notice. One of the first things I notice about you.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Run the ball! Uh, yea, it was crazy. I think maybe the Super Bowl and Olympics. That was a pretty big day this year. So we had to throw that out.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's like, you could pick any game to start with. Pete was like, wait, how does this look? Does this look like a good rundown? I was like, you could basically start with any game, it'd be okay. Uh, but we're gonna start with maybe the craziest play that we have seen all season long.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Which I thought the Remandre, looking at that one, I was like, there was the potential that one could have been awesome. Like that little pitch right there, it was like, woo, if Jacoby catches that, it catches him off guard, goes up the sideline like that, actually may have worked. Uhm, so after the game, Bill Belichick talked about it, Jacoby Myers talked about it, if you haven't heard their comments, here they are right now.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So first of all, mad respect for Jacobi Myers. Like, if you've seen that interview, he's in tears, basically, after the game. And he stood by his locker and answered all the questions, and that one that he just answered there was like after he'd already answered three questions about the play, like how bonehead it was, and then...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was, someone goes, well, what were you seeing out there? And so he had to like kind of relive it again, but he, you know, he just got caught up in a, in a braindead moment.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Raiders took the early lead. Raiders did some dumb shit. Exactly. So they would have won this game too, perhaps, if a call would have gone their way at the end of the game. What do you make of that? The Keelin Cole game winning touchdown, they called it a touchdown on the field.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Replay looked like, I mean they looked at it for a long time. Looked like his toe has touched the line.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yards per attempt for like three and a half. Career low and completion percentage and yards per attempt.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, so let's move on to a, to another team, a Cowboys team that's in the playoffs, solidly. They're not gonna win the division now, that's becoming clear. They go down in overtime to the Jacksonville Jaguars, 40 to 34, uh, a defensive...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Interception, play, ending this game as well. How about that? My first two games here. This is a crazy game. Apest of apes. Says, I'm a hopeless Jags fan. So much Trevor Lawrence and Jags as possible. Uh, please. So, we'll get it in.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, let me give you the Sanjay, uhm, or Johnny. Right. Tweet. Right. Chris, hats off to my guy. You called it. When I sit back in bed after watching games all day, that's interesting.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think of all, uh, the big time, uh, wow plays pop back into my head. Over the last three to four weeks, they have been from Trevor Lawrence. That may be the best arm that I have seen. So he is complimenting Trevor Lawrence's arm. So yeah, continue your, uh, your gushing over Trevor and what you saw in this game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, a special shout out, we'll give an early damn okay to Ray Sean Jenkins, career high, 18 tackles, the two interceptions, including that walk off pick six. But you, you mentioned there were, yes, a mistake by Dak there, but it made a lot of big plays. I mean, the offense did not ultimately lose this game for him, crazily enough.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was the defense again for Dallas. They were up 27-10 with that defense in the second half.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You figure, alright, this game should be over. They've given up some points here lately. Yes, they have. Um, 40 in this game, obviously not all on, on the defense. He had a defensive touchdown for Jacksonville, but it was 23 versus Houston last week, 31 versus Green Bay mid-November, 29 against the Bears the week before that. Well, what's going on with this Dallas D?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Or, clearly in the playoffs, that hope of a division title is basically gone at this point for Dallas. They'll be on the road for their first game, probably in Tampa, or something like that, depending on if they can.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, what is this, their fourth in a row now? It is, I believe so. Three point win for the Los Angeles Chargers. Justin Herbert going, uh, up and down, uh, the field at the end of the game there. It was kind of an up and down game for him.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But uhm, let's just start with the Tennessee side of things. Because things are falling apart very quickly. For a team that we've gotten used to, hitting their stride this time of year. Remember, it was like Derrick Henry, always this time of year, December, this is where he's having his 200 yard games. And everything is just so difficult for them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Some injuries, not a real weapon, uh, in the receiving game when Traylon Burks hurt. That's right. I mean, ugh, I don't know. Can Tennessee hold on?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Justin Herbert. Oh my gosh. Took three sacks. It wasn't pretty until the final minute of the game. It was very pretty, which is why I was, you know, and I don't, you can always second guess a coach and I, and I don't want to do that every game because it's kind of, it's, it's lame. And when it doesn't work out, you go, Oh, why did he do that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But I did think at the time it was like, you're Tennessee, you're having trouble scoring, right? Are you really gonna keep up, even in overtime, with...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] L.A. Right. At the end of the game, you've scored with what, 50 seconds left?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't know, you got Derrick Henry, they have some pretty nifty plays down by the goal line usually. I know it just- They do, you're right. It was a struggle for them to punch it in finally, but it's still like, I don't know, it's like why not give yourself- So you thought maybe just go for it.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I figure either way it's a 50-50 chance, right? So getting a two point conversion at the end of a game, or at any time, what, 50-50, right? Winning in overtime, about 50-50. Why not take your 50-50 right there, knowing that that's your only chance to win in regulation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] If the Chargers go down and kick a field goal, you're gonna lose anyway. If they go down and miss the field goal, hey, you win in regulation. You didn't even need to go to overtime. I was just surprised and variable. I don't think he's super, super conservative all the time. No, he's not. I was surprised they didn't go for two in that situation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You've picked, uh, the Jacksonville Jaguars quite a bit, uh, in that division to win. They might sneak into the playoffs. It's looking like...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Your New York Giants. Oh baby. Could be making the playoffs. Let's talk about the good stuff. Sunday Night Football. They beat the Washington Commanders 20-12. Uh, we'll get into all the plays at the end of this game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But, I wanna start with something that happened before the game even started. Yeah, of course. You know, Football Night in America, that's where they make you make your picks. Uh huh. Uhm, and, everyone except one man.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You picked the Washington commanders. And if you're listening and you don't know who that one man is, you don't have to ask. Chris is the Giants fan. He probably picked the Giants to win. Tony Dungy is the one man, the Giants saw that, they retweeted this picture.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So think of that. If you just would have picked the Giants. I know, they would have thought I'm cool. They would have tweeted and said you're cool. They've already told me I'm cool. I don't need it on social media. But how could you do that? You've gotten several tweets since then. Like how could you do that? How could you pick against the Giants?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Loss, had a grand slam as Torrico put it in the game, where he had that sack, the forced fumble, the fumble recovery and then picked it up and went in for the touchdown here. This is from our guy, GM Superstar2, damn okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] James Lennox 19 also says damn okay, Kavon Thibodeau. I think you may have been wrong about this guy, Chris. Can the Giants build around him and Sexy Dexy to make this a dominant defense? And before you answer that, they interviewed on The Peacock Show, Kavon Thibodeau.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] With Jack and Kayvon. There's a little issue with the mic, so they, Jack and Rodney got to talk to Kayvon a little bit off camera.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And I'll be honest with you, seeing all the interviews beforehand with him, like around draft day, he's like super cocky, kind of confident guy, and it's like, uh oh, kind of like alarm bells are going off.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You said maybe you were wrong on, uh, on this, uh, player, Kavon Thibodeau. Terry McLaurin thinks the refs were wrong on probably two calls at the end of this game. We'll start with the first one. It was an illegal formation, so if you're watching the end of the game, uhm, they run it in. It's a Robinson touchdown run.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It would have got him within two points. They would have had to still get the two point conversion after that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, say that or no that. And who knows what happened here, but I can imagine a scenario where the ref thinks that Terry is like, do I still need to move up? And it's like, yes, or you know what I mean? I doubt there was this, you know, verbal communication that was that clear. Who knows? Or maybe he was saying here is good. I mean, it's.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, so what do you make of it? Very next play, in the end zone, Heineken's kind of scrambling around, it's a little bit of a broken play. Did a good job of still getting it off, throwing it up into the end zone. Yeah, giving this guy a chance. Curtis Samuel in the end zone, correct. Right. And, uh, it's just, uh, the Giants defenders have their hands all over.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And if you want to feel better if you're a Washington fan.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Opportunities for Washington. They were 1-for-10 on third down. It was not a very clean game. There was a fumble by Terla Heinecke in the red zone before. Um, that was a huge moment.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Giants now 3 games above 500, I guess, 8-5-1. Yea, yea, you're right. That tie always confuses me. It's like, get that tie out of here. It messes up my brain.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because I'm trying to calculate what do my Detroit Lions need to make the playoffs. Right now they're still out, they're 7-7, but Washington's still in at 7-6 and 1. Let's get to my Detroit Lions disposing of the Jets.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Three point victory. Wasn't the cleanest game. The offense wasn't that great for most of this game. Give some credit to the Jets. That's a great defense they played. But let's give the first word on this game to my main man, Dan Campbell, on the Lions' possibility of squeaking into the playoffs this year after this great run.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That sealed the deal for your Detroit Lions. Yea, let's take a look at the dots for that play, cause Hawkstrologist has democated the Lions, going 1-6 to start the year, now they're 7-7. How did the Jets D give up that 4th down touchdown at the end of the game? So you just mentioned it right there. Was it basically CJ Mosley's guy and he just thought he was blocking?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think that they rushed 6 right there, if you include the blitz serve, right? And the fact that Jared Goff was able to stand back there for a good amount of time. Yea, and wait for him to come back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean, Zach Wilson able to get the 4th and 18 conversion, which was crazy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, some bad plays from Zach Wilson, uh, for sure. Eisen Lucie DU-1 has a good comment here to you. He goes, Jets fans need a Dr. Frankenstein to combine Zach Wilson and Mike White. Take Zach Wilson's arm strength and ability to move in the pocket, combine it with Mike White's short range accuracy, ability to process, and lovable underdog status, and you have a perfect quarterback.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Well, yeah, Jets play Thursday now, and it almost seems like from the reports that Mike White probably won't be healthy, broken rib, but it almost sounds like the way everyone's talking about it, like if he were healthy, he'd be back there as a starting quarterback, doesn't it sound like that?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Who knows? Who knows? But we're in the mix and we're playing meaningful football as did the Cincinnati Bengals last year into the final game of the season. Who knows? They could get there again. They start off this week's damn okay.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Really the entire Bengals defense after the 17-0 Tampa Bay lead in the second quarter. Wilson had 15 tackles, a strip sack, two quarterback hits.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But really it was a total team effort for that Bengals defense. So the Tampa Bay, Tom Brady led offense, get out to that 17-0 lead, and then it all just falls apart. Four turnovers from Brady himself on four straight possessions.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, Burrow threw the ball 39 times, completed 27 of them, just 200 yards, did have the 4 touchdowns, but they didn't need a whole bunch of yards.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's right. Right. They have, uh, the Bengals have now won six in a row.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, their first, uh, or longest win streak since 2015. And yeah, Brady, those four turnovers, that is a tie of a career high, all coming in just one half right there. And Tom Brady, he entered week 15.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] With an 89-0 record in home games in which he led by 17 or more points. He's like losing all of his Chuck Norris stats. You know, it's like all those things like, wow, how incredible. It's like Brady never lost when he was at home with a 17-0 lead.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, in the NFC by one game, that division is just crazy right now. It is crazy. I mean, crazy in not a good way. Like today, this week was crazy in a good way, that division's crazy in not a good way.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Looking pretty good for the Bengals to make a run in the playoffs. We see that just about every year from the Patrick Mahomes led Kansas City Chiefs. Our damn okay goes to Pat for this one in the.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, overtime victory against the Texans, a lot harder than people thought it was going to be, but NY Chiefs fan says, damn okay, Patrick Mahomes set a new NFL record on Sunday, best completion percentage in a game with 40 or more attempts. He was 36 of 41, 87.8%.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's crazy. Uhm, a lot of it was short passes. Less than 10 yards down the field. He was 31 of 33 on those passes.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Our good friend Orion Chuzlewicz says the same thing here. He goes, Hey guys, the Chiefs outgained the Texans by 283 yards. Yes. And Mahomes had 20 straight completions to end the game, yet they only barely dug out a win in overtime. Yeah.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Our next damn okay goes to an Eagles player, it is not Jalen Hurts. It is Hassan Reddick. Big butt award winner from last week. Man, motivated. He heard that and he was like, let's do it. Fresh off that award, he had two sacks, he had a batted pass, he had a forced fumble, he had a fumble recovery in this one. The Eagles in a game that was tough for them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, we're able to pull it out against Justin Fields, who is making some athletic crazy plays in this game. But uhm, yeaah, what'd you make of a harder win for the Eagles when they kinda had to gut out on the road but still ultimately getting a win?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You said they're so good, they'd still be pretty good, even if their backup quarterback had to play. And by saying that, they now hate you. All Eagles fans hate you. I know, I know. It's uhm. Because you said Jalen Hurts is not your MVP.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, let's get into the Saturday games now. Uh, that Pete on Twitter, I noticed this, uh, on Saturday. He goes, we need a name for the Saturday.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, Saturday triple header? Question mark? Strip-el header? You know, Saturday triple header? Strip-el?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Seems like, yeaah. That's alright. Seems like a little strippy though. I don't know if that's gonna sell to the moms and dads of the world. NFL might not embrace that fully. I thought Pete's was pretty good. Decemberfest. Decemberfest. That's pretty good, right? I like that, that's good. Right. The three games, and I'll tell you, I mean,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It was insane. It was insane. So let's start with the greatest comeback now in NFL history. We won't spend too much time on these because you've probably talked about these before and seen the highlights many, many times, but the Vikings look like one of the worst 10 win teams in NFL history in the first half. And then the second half, they look like one of the best.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] 10-win teams, in which are what, they're now 11-win team. Yeah, right. Uhm, I'm, like that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's weird. It's weird. Like I don't know, and we want to give the Vikings, like I feel like, the fact that they came back like that, not a whole lot of teams could do that. No, it's great, it's amazing. We've got this whole discourse on the Vikings, like are they good, are they not good? There aren't many teams that are going to score that many points and not give up that many points in the second half.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Two answered some questions for me. So that was a big thing of them coming into this game. If they won this game, they had a chance to win the division still. It would have gotten real interesting at the end.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, wrap that up at this point. So Steve Kornacki did his playoff odds on Football Night in America yesterday, and I think we have that graphic here. And so the Dolphins do lose, but their chances of making the playoffs actually went up a little bit.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because of the things that happened around them. The Patriots lost. Their playoff percentage goes from 42%. Now they're just 22% to make it into the postseason. The Chargers got a huge boost. They're almost 80% to get into the playoffs now. The Jets odds were cut in half. They're down to 25% right now. Uhm, so for the Dolphins, yeaah, a loss.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But man, that's, you gotta take a lot, a lot away from that game. If you're Mike McDaniel and if you're a fan of the, the Dolphins, you're like, man, that looked pretty good. Yeah, you, you can't be, you know, I know they've


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Decemberfest ended with a great game. It started with a great game. That middle game you've probably already forgotten about. 13-3, the Browns defeated the Ravens. The Ravens again without Lamar Jackson. There's a question here from Ben Dunster that I almost think is unfair without even Lamar. There he goes. The Ravens have struggled again offensively. Do you think the defense is good enough to carry them to a Super Bowl? And do you reckon the criticism Greg Roman is getting is warranted?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They're tough, they run the ball, they play defense. I guess if they still win out, do they still win it all? I think they do. Right? Yea. That's crazy. I know. Uh, so, uh, they lose this game though. Your headline for this is? I mean, you can't out Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Because they ran for 223 yards last week versus the Seahawks, just 21 rushing yards on 16 attempts this week. And the defense that we've been talking up for two years now, they allowed Pittsburgh to convert 12 of 15 third downs. A 21 play drive at one point. They could not get off the


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And a decent running day for Pittsburgh with Najee Harris. So I think we've gotten to the point here where we might have to take a look at his stiff arm. It's sick, right? Well, I feel like there's, there's a fine line between like a stiff arm and like a punch to a dude's face. I know. I think we're kind of getting close to a punch.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And that kind of ended the game. Yeah, it wasn't great for Desmond Ritter, his first start, the rookie, the third rounder out of Cincinnati. He was just two for 10 for 23 yards on passes, 10 or more yards downfield. End of the game with just 97 total yards. Yeah. But I mean, that's, we've seen that from Atlanta all year basically.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And Drake, London with the fumble at the end of the game that maybe could have set up that completion, could have set up a game tying field goal, but who knows. But the Saints get the win there, 21-18 the final score. One more game to talk about, that is the Broncos beating the Cardinals 24-15. Your headline for this game is...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And so we lay them to rest. The best way we know how. Poor little birdies. With this music and Requiem for a Team. Now it sucks that Kyler's hurt. I hope he comes back healthy next year. Me too. Uhm, but Kyler is in this ending poem. Cause he has to be. He's a big part of the team. Of course he is. The franchise. Here lie the Arizona Cardinals. The season ends with a massive thud.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tyler and Cliff certainly have bad blood. It's becoming a theme, like the Spider-Man meme, pointing, shouting, no, you're the dud.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You are, not me, you, Kyler, Cliff, pointing at each other. Yes. Who's the problem there? You know, it's, Kyler hasn't been great, but you can say that Cliff hasn't put him in the positions to succeed. And yeah, can he be a franchise quarterback? Can he be a leader like that? There are some questions this off season. I think so. Most of which now can Kyler get back healthy? Um, which hopefully he can. And then hopefully he can show that he can lead this team to.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In a long time. I guess they're, I guess, actually with Aaron there, there has been some dysfunction. I guess they, they just won. It's a winning dysfunction. That's true. Right. That's right. They just, they haven't won with that dysfunction happening. One final game here this week. Bet MGM Parlay Preview. Rams at Packers. Monday Night Football.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uh, the Packers are favored by seven and a half and over under of thirty-nine and a half.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You're going with the under it looks like here. I am. You predict a Green Bay victory, but you think that LA will cover 1917, so you're trying to thread the needle as they say.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The action never stops at bet MGM. You can sign up now using the bonus code Sims. Your first wager is risk free up to $1,000. Yep. And sale.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Simply download the BetMGM app today or go to betmgm.com. Enter the bonus code Sims to make your first wager risk-free up to $1,000. And as always.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Bet responsibly out there. Always. Just throw a few bucks. Be smart, okay? Just bet what you can afford to lose. Don't go crazy.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It can happen, you know, just do your job and, uh,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, you can't hone in on it. What if we don't? What if we don't, you know?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Now what if we don't make this player? What if we get, no, you just go make the play. Line up and cut it loose.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I don't know. Getting old. How you doing? Doing good. FTPM. Chris Sims on button. I'm doing great. Feeling good.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We are down to only five more weeks of the regular season and I enjoy this every week. You know, going into Thursday morning when I know we've got two hours of PFT Live and then this on the back end.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I always have a little bit of, oh man, it's gonna be a long morning, but I enjoy every minute of it, especially this part of it, especially this year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] No, no. Look at the spread. I will take 99.88 and 8 against the spread. If you bet all my spread picks, you are buying a Cadillac right now, baby. I can't believe I'm 11 games over 500.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, and, and again, this is all the product of very careful deliberation and algorithm that I have honed over time, a mathematical formula into which I put various factors and


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Just on Mondays, just on Mondays. I felt like I needed to wear a blazer in that studio, and then it occurred to me recently that, shit, you never do, so why should I?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Uhm, but, uh, yeaah. Look, in this thing, I actually wore it Monday.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Are you serious? In that studio. Wow. Yeah, I did. Man, that's, you can't do that. And then this morning, I was, I was looking, I, well, you know what? I'll do whatever I want. Because. Apparently. I don't care.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] When you get to a certain age, you just don't give a shit anymore and it is very liberating. Anyway, we've got time to kill today because six teams


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Are on a buy this week. And the good news is, this is it for the buys. The final four weeks of the season, everybody plays every week. No more buy weeks. Everybody's played the same number of games. You don't have to think are they five and eight or are they four and eight. That drives me crazy. So.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] We've got no Falcons, no Packers, no Bears, no Saints, no Colts, no Commanders. Everybody else is playing this week. 13 games. Let's get right to it. Let's do it. Thursday night.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Raiders Rams. I don't know how much time we should talk about this one. I continue to see indications that Matthew, no, that would be something. Matthew Staversland?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Did everything they could. Pulled out all the stops. Empty the tank to try to beat the Seahawks. They lost. I think it's the worst time to have a short week. I think this is going to be ugly. I'll be watching the sidelines for meltdowns by the likes of Jalen Ramsey. I feel like he's overdue for one.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] There's really, if this was not what I do for a living, I would not watch this game tonight.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Look, I've been a Derek Karnaysayer from time to time. I don't like the whole shtick at the press conference. We may or may not have a producer who likes to stir the shit a little bit to get us to say those things. I won't name names. But, uh, he's playing really well.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And Josh Jacobs is playing again. Now it's the short week after playing on Sunday and he's got the calf there, but he still lines up and plays. Devonte Adams is getting it done. They've won three in a row. I love a good story. And there's nothing like a team that felt like it was


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Almost ready for relegation after losing to the Colts and Jeff Saturday coming off of the ESPN studio into


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So it's fun to watch. The defense is coming around. You mentioned there was a channel Jones citing this weekend. He was the AFC defensive player of the week.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think the Raiders win this one 31 to 20. The spread is, the spread is 6.5 with an overunder of 43.5. And that just seems like a, you know, I hate to do Thursday best bets, but man, that Raiders spread seems a little too light for my liking.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's always hard on a short week. You never know who's gonna rise up. I just don't see the Rams doing it tonight. I think the bubble pops at some point and they just give up and they finish out the season and they're playing for pride and they're putting...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They're putting film out there that will help them next year, whether they stay with the Rams or go somewhere else. I just feel like there's a certain point where you just.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The humanity of it takes over, and oh the humanity for the Rams this year. Let's shift to Sunday at 1pm Eastern. Jets at Bills, the Mike White show continues. Last year it came to a crashing halt, 45 to 17 in his third start.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Also against the Bills with four interceptions and no touchdown passes. This time around the Bills with a couple of extra days to rest because they played the Patriots last Thursday night. They are nine point favorites with an over-under of 44. That seems like a big spread.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] For the bills to have against the Jets who are 7 and 5.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] You know, they got closer together as a result of those two weird games following the snowstorm. They had the Minnesota loss that really could have taken the air out of the balloon for them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The storm brought them together. They won in Detroit against the Browns. They won in Detroit against the Lions. Both games were kind of slog-ation.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, but then the Patriots, it all clicked. Right, right. And then, and then the Chiefs lose and they slip back into the driver's seat for the one seed. So they know the importance of the one seed. They got five games left. They're not going to screw around with the Jets here. And, and again,


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This applies to any team that's in a position to win its division and have a high spot in the playoff. You don't want


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Any of your rivals coming to town in January. You don't want the Jets to come back.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, do what you can to knock them out. Put them on a path that lands them on the outside looking in. Let the Steelers or the Raiders or someone else in, but not the Jets. That's another reason to do it. I think that, and you know, it's just another opportunity for them


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To get things pointed in the right direction, I think they will. 31-20. Bills win. And I, we talked about this earlier, Mike White's still gonna be the quarterback.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Not until they make Zach Wilson the backup, is it even approaching the point where they would make Zach Wilson the starter, I believe. They're gonna keep riding with Mike White, and I don't think he's gonna have that same disaster that he had last year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Browns at the Bengals. The Browns have owned the Bengals during the Joe Burrow era this time around. They're at Cincinnati. The Bengals are favored by 6 and for good reason. The Bengals are looking


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Every bit as good as they were last year. And the Browns, despite winning at Houston, Deshaun Watson has a long way to go to get himself back into high end football form.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Cincinnati is nine and three against the spread this season. They're tied with the Giants for the best in the NFL. Again, six point favorite over under a 47 to the Bengals. When do they cover Chris? Uh, yes and yes, I'm going to go.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And this is a Cowboys team that beat the Colts 54-19, the Vikings 40-3. They were up double scores on the Giants until the back door cover. The Cowboys are one of the closest things we've seen to dominance this year and the Texans are the closest thing we've seen to complete and total crap storm this year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I got 42 to 14, and the one factor that I really didn't consider earlier, and it's not going to change my mind at this point, in part because I'm too stubborn, there's something about going into AT&T Stadium and playing there. The road team sometimes finds a way to- Yeah, rise up. To play a little bit better, right? It's a bigger deal.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But you know what? The Texans last week had every reason to be extra motivated with Deshaun Watson in town. What did it do for them? They just don't have the talent.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And, and I feel like Lovey Smith is starting to realize he's gonna be one and done, just like David Culley was last year. There's talk now that Nick Casario is gonna be out, that Cal McNair is gonna hit the reset button because Casario was the guy that Jack Easterby had to have.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] So, I feel like this thing is pulling into the station in a very ugly way for the Texans. And why screw up? At this point, why screw up the first overall pick in the draft? Not that they could change it anyway. Davis Mills is back starting. It doesn't matter. The Cowboys are great on both sides of the ball. They have been dominant the past.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Three weeks, despite the final score of the Thanksgiving game against the Giants and everything for them is pointing toward


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Hoping the Eagles slip up against the Giants once or twice and Christmas Eve when the Eagles come to town. The Cowboys still have a chance to win that division. They're not giving up and they are priming themselves for a playoff one.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Which, if they don't win the division, it's gonna start with a game against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers most likely, and then they go on the road from there, and they have the potential.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Based on how they're playing now, it'll be very dangerous, and I don't see them slipping up. They're always prone to slip up at some point. I just don't see it happening.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This week against the Houston Texans. There's that, there's that, that, that in-state thing too. Yes. And Jerry Jones and company will take extra pride in kicking the crap out of the Houston Texans. So all the signs to me point to the Cowboys getting a big win. Okay. How about this one? Yeah. The Vikings. Ten and two.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Going to Detroit to face a team that was 1-6 not that long ago. Yes they are.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Five and seven now. They've won four out of five games. They're playing extremely well. The line opened at the Vikings minus two and a half. It has swung five points in the direction of the Lions. They are now two and a half point favorites. The spread is 52 and a half. That's the high, or the over-under, excuse me, is 52 and a half. That's the highest of the week.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Chris, you've been picking up against the Vikings a lot lately and that's one of the ways I've been gaining some ground against you because I've been a believer when you've been a doubter. Are you a believer now or do you continue to doubt the boys in Baroo?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I think the way the Lions win this game is to do what they did to the Jaguars and to do what the Cowboys did to the Vikings. Come out and kick the crap out of them.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's the best way to beat anybody, really, but you want to avoid that fourth quarter magic or karma or whatever in the hell it is that happens. And we've seen the past several Vikings-Lions games come down to the very end. And Dan Campbell's still thinking about


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Again, the opponents are starting to let that creep into their heads, that the Vikings have this magic, they've got this horseshoe up their ass, and it doesn't matter.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's gonna fall out onto our foot at the worst possible time. So I think it's gonna be another close game. It's gonna be down to the wire and the Vikings are gonna find a way to either make a play on offense, make a play on defense, make a play on special teams, whatever it takes. They'll find a way 30 to 27. I don't feel real confident about it, but I never do.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They've just got a lot of intangibles that are lined up in their favor and at some point it's no longer a fluke. You can look at it one game at a time and say that was a fluke, that was a fluke, that was a fluke, that was a fluke, at some point it's not.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I felt that way about the Cowboys game, too, and it was 40-3, but again, that's the way that someone is going to beat them. Jump on them early, get a big lead, and there's no chance for Magic in the fourth quarter. Eagles at the Giants. Boy, not that long ago.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] These two Giants games still to come for the Eagles look like real problems. Lately though Giants fading, Eagles soaring, Eagles 7 point favorites at MetLife Stadium with over under a 44 and a half. The Giants 9 and 3 against the spread this year tied with the Bengals for best in the NFL. Do they cover? Do they win when their arch rivals come to town?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Eagles are developing that vibe of Team of Destiny. Now we've seen Destiny get dashed.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's what convinced me. They are in full blown show up and kick your ass mode. They went through a stretch where they were a little wobbly. They still found a way to win the games. But now it's December and they figured out how to, one more time, show up and kick your ass. And I think that's what they're gonna do to the Giants. I've got 34 to 17. The Giants are kinda like the Vikings were.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But the Giants had the chariot turn into a pumpkin several weeks ago. Like they were like, how are they winning games? How are they winning games? How are they winning games? Same thing as the Vikings. It's gotten to a point where they just, they don't have the talent.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And it is weird that the commanders are home resting and watching while they get ready for the rematch next week. It's funny. The Giants, meanwhile, have to play the Eagles, which will make it even harder for the Giants to win that game at FedEx Field next weekend. Alright, next game. Ravens and Steelers. The first time they get together this year is in


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Two in a row? Two in a row. Three out of four. They've won three out of four. They gave the Bengals everything they could handle. Can the Steelers give the Ravens everything they handle and knock the Ravens out of first place in the AFC North and also get the Steelers to six and seven and stay very much alive in the playoff.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it seems like it's always close between these two teams. I would go 13-9 Steelers. And, there's just, look, Mike Tomlin's never had a losing season. And with 17 games, you know, last year he got lucky and they went 8-8-1, so it was a push. That's right. But, uh, they can lose one more.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Of the final five and they just have that, they just, they, yeah, that video that was making the rounds on Sunday and there's been a lot of talk about it in Pittsburgh, uh, where the, the fan.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] With his phone is, hey, hey, coach Tomlin, go get the win. And he says, man, I'm working. Just snaps at him. I mean, that's the.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] That's kind of the mindset of the Steelers right now. They're buckled down, they're locked in and Tomlin is doing his thing and he does not want to have a losing season. And I would not bet against Mike Tomlin under any


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Set of circumstances, and I think they'll win this game 13-9. Even with Lamar Jackson, I would probably pick the Steelers to win this game with Tyler Huntley. I definitely do so. 13-9. Steelers win and get to 6-7 to make things very interesting over the final few weeks of the season.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Final game in the one o'clock window on Sunday. Jaguars at the Titans. The New Look Tennessee Titans with John Robinson out and Mike Vrabel in full control of the team. The Titans are only four point favorites after the Jaguars were shredded last week in Detroit over under a 41. Chris, you have picked


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Jacksonville against the spread in 11th or 12 games, and they are 4-7.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] John Robinson and Mike Vrabel had a power struggle. Mike Vrabel won. That's going to give him a boost, the team a boost. I think they come out of this.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Ready to hit their stride. Ready to go down the stretch. They may not be higher than the 4 seed. Who knows?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But they're going to get things back on track and I think this should be.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Tom Brady, taking on Brock Curdy for the first time ever and perhaps the only time ever. We'll discuss that next on Chris Sims Unbuttoned and PFTP. Pretty good.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] PFTPM and Chris Sims unbuttoned the late afternoon games for week 14. This one was supposed to be prime time. The Broncos gotta be pretty bad.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I got the exact same score as you do. 27 to 13. And the Chiefs will be motivated to win because...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Number one, they want to catch the Bills for the top seed, but also they don't want to screw around and blow the two seed to the Bengals and then have to go to Cincinnati in the divisional round. You at least want to be home for the divisional round if you know you're going to go on the road to face Buffalo in the championship round. So they have extra motivation to win and this is a game they should win.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Isn't like Patrick Mahomes undefeated in his career on the road against division rivals. I don't think he's ever lost to an AFC West team on the road.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] It's not gonna start with a Broncos team that is as bad as any Broncos team has been since Super Bowl 50 when they won it and then


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Disintegrated in the years since then. So 2713 for me as well. Chief's cover.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And uh, Broncos lose yet again. Panthers at the Seahawks. This was once kind of a great rivalry. Yeah, it was. You're right. When it was Cam Newton and Russell Wilson. And I remember thinking at one point, is this the new Tom Brady and Peyton Manning? Well, a lot has changed in a few years. Seahawks favored by three and a half. The Panthers still in the race in the NFC South.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] With the Bucs winning on Monday night, it makes it a lot harder for them. 43 and a half over-under. Seahawks trying to hold on to a playoff berth in the NFC. Do they get this win and get a second straight victory as they continue their run for the postseason?


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I've got 27-20. Same idea. And yes, concerns about the running game because the Seahawks have been gashed lately. They screwed around with the Rams team. They should have beaten easily. I am concerned about where the Seahawks are right now. And I think that there's a good chance they don't make it to the playoffs. I hear you. Next year is their year to make their run.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But uh, this is a critical one, they have to win this one in order.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] To stay alive and, uh, and from the Panthers standpoint, if they want to have any chance at trying to pull their way back into this NFC South race and Steve Wilkes is trying to secure the long-term head coaching job. So they've got every reason to do it and they've got Sam Darn. You know, it occurred to me.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] This is a battle of a couple of former Jets would-be savior quarterbacks, Geno Smith and Sam Darnold, who have washed out. And Darnold's looked good since he's gotten the chance to play. Not that he's going to be the Panthers quarterback, but he's in a better position than Baker Mayfield to land a bridge starting job next year, don't you think? I do.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They've got to just take care of business, build a little more confidence, and then...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Alright, speaking of the 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers traveling to Levi's Stadium. Third straight home game for the 49ers. First career start for Brock Purdy, who was in for the injured Jimmy Garoppolo. Tom Brady coming back to his home area.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Grew up in San Mateo, was a 49ers fan, was at the catch game if you haven't heard a thousand times. 3.5 point favorites of the 49ers, 37.5 over under. Tampa Bay is 3-8-1 against the spread this year. That is the worst


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] In the entire league and they looked like crap for 55 minutes on Monday night, but they got it together for the final five minutes and somehow found a way to win the game.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] As I was watching that comeback on Monday night, I'm thinking that this looks great, but it is not gonna fly in San Francisco. It's not gonna work. The 49ers are too good to let Tampa Bay Buccaneers hang around.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Yeah, I've got 24-13 and, and it may be worse than that because that game on Monday night.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] The Saints were incapable of delivering the knockout blow. Right, they messed it up so many times, right? I mean, drop third down passes. The 49ers will deliver the knockout blow. I mean, it could be 27 to 3, frankly. It could be even worse than that.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Holding it a little closer together is the Brock Purdy factor and maybe the 49ers will be extra conservative on offense, but I just don't see the Tampa Bay offense


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] They're the best defense in the league and they can carry them to the Super Bowl. Uhm, and uh, Tom Brady. Tom Brady is potentially going to be interested yet again in joining the 49ers after this season if he wants to continue his career. Cause that may be the best spot for him next year.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] Premature. Talk about quarterbacks for the 49ers. But at one of these points, if they don't win the Super Bowl this year...


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] At one of these points, Tom comes knocking and they need to listen.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I mean you put all that around him, you put that talent around him on both sides of the ball, holy crap. You put him in Shanahan's system, holy crap. And he'll get to watch how it all works without him on Sunday and with Brock Purdy and I just, I have no concerns about


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] And look, the Buccaneers, you know, the Falcons are shifting to Desmond Ritter for the stretch run after the bye. The Panthers are still hanging around. The Saints are in a bye as well. The Buccaneers have the 49ers and the Bengals. They lose these next two. I still think the Bucs are going to win that division.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] But they may have to sweat it out the final three weeks because I don't think they're going to win the next two games.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] By the way, it's going to be very difficult for you this week to make up any ground, either head to head, straight up against the spread because we agree on everything.


[User] Please transcribe this text

[Assistant] I'm waiting for your concession speech on the, on the, uh, straight up. It's rigged, it's rigged, it's rigged, it's rigged. We're not, I'm gonna hire a lawyer. Stop the count. Stop it. Pause the show. We'll take a break. Primetime game. Stick around to see Chris's reaction when people say that Tua