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[Assistant] Well, you kind of had it both ways on the broadcast. Well, I know. You did the classic, I would like to pick the Ravens. Well, I was making fun of myself. But, because I'm so, I've been so bad, I need to catch up to everyone else who's picking the Ravens. It's not really why.


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[Assistant] So here's the deal. Next game, Pete's got a good suggestion. Next game, Phillip picks the game. Put it on him. Okay. Okay. Maybe I'll do that. If he can, and say that. Why don't you just say it on TV? This is the good thing too.


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[Assistant] So let's take a look at the total picture in the AFC North here. Thanks to our friends over at Points Bet.


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[Assistant] Live your bet life, they like us to say. The division winners, the odds there. Uh, so the Ravens, overwhelming favorite right now, minus 165 at 8-3, a game up on Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] But to your point, the Bengals seem right now to have fewer questions. The Bengals beat them head up. I think that might be some good money to go on the Bengals to win this division. You're feeling the logic. Kind of. You get the better eyes.


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[Assistant] Who knows who will be playing for the Steelers week 18. Right, alright. Pete, let's go to Pittsburgh. Mike Tomlin might be playing at defensive end at that point.


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[Assistant] We don't respect you. You will get no respect from the Prisms on Button podcast.


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[Assistant] Now, can you go a combination like you see sometimes when they do the Spongebob meme where the guy's like all kind of being weird and it's up or lower, up or lower. Don't risk it. Either go all upper or all lower I think.


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[Assistant] So you bet on any game, pick any game, and if they score one point in the game, well, which is impossible. So if they score two points in a game, that's it. If it ends two nothing, you still win $125. That's right.


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[Assistant] Now, I can move on to the damn okay of the Broncos and Chargers game. What a game. What a win for the Denver Broncos. Patrick Surtain, who I do hear some people say Surtain. But I often go with Surtain.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I heard some people say Surtan. And if he's gonna be a damn okay, I feel like we should. We should probably get it right. Yeah, but I think there's some question out there. You know what? Maybe we just don't know right now. We have to live with the uncertainty out in the world right now. Either way, no matter how you pronounce it, he was awesome. Two interceptions.


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[Assistant] One in the end zone, the other one, he took it to the other end zone.


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[Assistant] Uh, Pete says his dad was Surtain. Right. So if he wants to follow in his father's footsteps, he can continue to do the Surtain. Right. We'll keep on this story. It's developing. Um, but, uh, he, uh, he has, uh, past defense in every game since week four. Uh, he has.


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[Assistant] Some people criticize the Broncos for taking him there. You know, there's some quarterbacks available. You could have had maybe the quarterback of the future in Justin Fields, but well, he proved his worth in that game against one of the quarterbacks of the future in Justin Herbert. What'd you think of him?


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[Assistant] Good win for the Broncos. I'll be interested to see if they can do the same in Kansas City against the Chiefs. Sunday Night Football will be the best game of the day. They can match up okay with them. It's gonna be a good one. Sam Olson wants to know, how do the Chargers not score 35 points every game with Justin Herbert as their quarterback?


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[Assistant] So that's to answer that question right there. Yea, to have a 13 play drive and it only go 52 yards down the field. That's what I mean. How is that? How is that?


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[Assistant] There's still 6 and 5 though. Are the Chargers same as the Broncos? That AFC West is going to come down into the last couple weeks of the season. It certainly seems like a couple other young guys having big games. Jalen Phillips, damn okay. Andrew VanGinkel.


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[Assistant] For the Dolphins as they defeat the Panthers 33 to 10 with the final score. Phillips had three sacks in the game, seven total quarterback pressures.


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[Assistant] Van Ginkle had four quarterback hits, seven total quarterback pressures in a game where, I mean, for four weeks in a row now,


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[Assistant] This Dolphins defense, like yeaah, that's the Dolphins defense. Why did they take so long?


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[Assistant] Jalen Waddle, 9 catches, career high 137 yards, and a touchdown had a big, what, 57 yarder in the game. He's got the Waddle celebration, but 2, I mean, 2 had what, 3 incomplete passes in the whole game, 4 incomplete passes, 27 of 31.


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[Assistant] These are not explosive plays. You know, the long, one long ones are yards after the catch.


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[Assistant] Yes, correct. Right. And it was incomplete. Right. So this is, but this is who he is.


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[Assistant] 23.8% completion percentage, a career low passer rating. That completion percentage? The lowest for a quarterback in a game who had at least 20 attempts since Joey Harrington.


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[Assistant] In 2004 for the Detroit Lions. We're not even playing on the day and they're bringing up stats about the Detroit Lions that make me feel terrible. Uhm, so that was, that was, uh, that was incredible for, uh, for, for the, the defense for the Miami Dolphins and the Carolina.


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[Assistant] I mean, it seems like this is not going to be in the cards for them this year. They were a playoff team in your eyes. Pete picked them to be in the playoffs. I picked them to be in the playoffs. Doesn't look like it's going to happen.


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[Assistant] Uh, turnovers. Yeah. Jalen Hurts had three of them. Right. And then two, egregious.


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[Assistant] Agreedges? Agreedges. Agreedges. Drop passes from Jaylen Rieger at the end.


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[Assistant] The Giants genuinely get a win and genuinely put the Eagles playoff hopes.


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[Assistant] On ice. Now, they're, they're in, they're in trouble. As we thought they would be maybe a couple weeks ago. They're back, back in trouble once again. Two more games to go here. Uh, last and Pete notes, probably least. We got the Jets versus the Texans. The Jets get the win. Uh, Ricky Leakey says, what'd you think of Zach Wilson's first game back?


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[Assistant] Falcons were better than the Jaguars by a touchdown, 21-14, the final score, Cordero Patterson, 16 carries, 108 yards, two touchdowns, all career highs for him. When he, I mean like he's back healthy now, like his second touchdown, it was like shot out of a cannon. Oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] Oh, Washington's favored by half a point. Almost to pick him, but the home team is favored. Over-under is 47 and a half, so don't figure to be too high-scoring. High-leg Washington. You're on record as picking Washington.


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[Assistant] Washington to cover, and you're going with the under. You're going 23 to 21. So 44 total points in a low scoring game in Washington. Alright, well it's been a good week. Eventually we're going to get to more games that don't really mean anything. We had a couple maybe, Falcons and Jaguars, but even with the Falcons we mentioned they're 5 and 6.


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[Assistant] Aw, baby, what's up? It's episode 315, Chris Simms on Button, presented by Under Armour. I'm here with my man, Pauly B, who's looking dapper as usual. How you doing? What's up, big guy? How are you? I had a little thing on the, on the drive.


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[Assistant] Can't do it. Changed it. Yeah, good for you. That was the right move. That's the right move. You know, you gotta draw a line in the sand somewhere there. Yeah. No doubt about it. I mean, what? What is the rush with all this stuff? I don't know. I don't get that lately either. I mean, it's, it's, they're giving, it's, it's Halloween, Halloween, they're trying to sell Halloween stuff August 29th now. It's just like, what the f*** is going on?


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[Assistant] I want to bring everybody out and let's turn on the Christmas lights like, cause I like to do that, but it's not going to work out that way.


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[Assistant] And that's like a what the f*** happened to Thanksgiving. Now this is the what the f*** happens podcast on a Wednesday. We're going to break it down here today.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a great place to start. I mean, come on, at the weekend, we know it was crazy. It's the NFL. It's crazier than ever this year.


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[Assistant] Wait, we know the two or three best teams, period. I mean right now it's kind of, like we have six or seven teams that we know are like, I think a little bit above the rest.


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[Assistant] You shake their head and you just go, what, what is there? What is there? You know, Dallas would be another team that I would probably throw in that green Bay mix there.


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[Assistant] But, but I'm with you. I've never been this far into the year where you just go...


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[Assistant] Right now, the last few weeks, are the New England Patriots and the Tennessee Titans. And of course they're coached by similar people there. You know, they know how to...


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[Assistant] Go to a new game with the appropriate game plan for that week against whatever team they're playing. They manage situational football.


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[Assistant] To a T, and what I mean by that is third downs, red zone, red zone defense, you know, special teams, when to call a trick play.


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[Assistant] Hey, here's the one thing I'll say, and, and, uh, with the Patriots, and this is why to me,


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[Assistant] Belichick built a team the last 20 years that's, yea, not maybe high end superstar talent like the greatest show on turf or the 90s cowboys or the 80s 49ers. He went,


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[Assistant] Uhm. Well, and then when Brady was there in New England that year, it was like, he doesn't have enough. That's not enough. I mean, so, but now Kendrick Bourne and everybody are stars. That's what I don't like about the conversation. I'm gonna go.


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[Assistant] He got the, he judged a book by its cover, treatment, and how dare you can't pick that guy over this guy, look at him with his shirt off and not his shirt. Alright, well that didn't mean shit, we know that.


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[Assistant] It all came into play. It all came into play. Just how he looked in his uniform. It was like too many people in San Francisco and Chicago's of the world. It was just, we can't take him. He doesn't look cool in his uniform.


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[Assistant] Like Belichick's smart, he's not gonna like, go for the kill always. He's gonna, there's gonna be some downs and distances and formations where he's gonna go, well...


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what they do. Every week. That's what they do. You know, the first thing, and, and, and you know, let's, let's throw it up here, the first play. The one thing about New England is,


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[Assistant] They go big guys don't get smaller during the year. That's their thing.


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[Assistant] Roosevelt Colvin, 255, the other outside linebacker. Of course Seymour Wilfork, Teddy Bruski, I can't remember the other middle linebacker.


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[Assistant] Patriots, long touchdown drive, quarter over. I mean, that's how it went. Now, here's the first thing I'll say about Cleveland, what I don't like. Run the ball great on the first drive, and you've heard me say this I think the last few weeks. They run the ball great on the first drive, what do they come out and do? Let's get in the shotgun and pass. At six out of the eight next plays, even though they ran it well,


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[Assistant] Are gonna be shotgun or empty, which I don't like. And again, this is not what they're good at.


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[Assistant] And Paulie, you've heard me say, when they have to rely on their pass game, it's less than. It's less than. So, here we go. We got New England. It's a third and seven. They got you right where they want you. They love a good old third and seven because it's just a screw you over special.


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[Assistant] Right, looks like a man coverage, right? Right now, and you know, I know we can't see everybody, but yea, it looks like you're gonna get man, and man, and man up here, and man up here, and it looks like there's a safety back here in McCourty, and here's the other safety, so right now,


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[Assistant] Baker Mayfields look at it and go, oh, okay, looks like I got man. They play a good amount of man on third down, so that makes sense. Alright, so, now the problem is, he gets the snap.


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[Assistant] And he, look at where his eyes go. Look at where his eyes go. Cause he thinks he's got man. He thinks he's got man. And you can just watch Baker's eyes. Gets the snap.


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[Assistant] Right to Njoku, cause man, he's got Njoku as we're gonna show in a second on a 10 yard out.


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[Assistant] And you can see here. Look, here's the safety that we thought was going to be in the middle of the field. He's going over here. McCordy's coming over here to play almost a 2-D. And what they're doing is they're playing, they're going to end up playing quarters over here. It's going to be quarters.


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[Assistant] Okay, and you're gonna have all these guys right here looking for crossers and underneath coverage. And then on this side, it's gonna be cover two, alright, cover two, and it's like a two carry principle. So if this guy stays vertical,


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[Assistant] Right? Because they have the middle linebacker kinda looking for crosses over the middle. He's gonna carry him vertically.


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[Assistant] If, if, if it ended up going flat and slant, then the corner would take the flat, and he'll be looking for somebody to come inside to his area. But as long as this guy goes vertical, he's gonna carry him. Alright? So, now, here we go as the play goes, and you can see how it's unfolding, right?


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[Assistant] You'll be able to see, I know you can't, you can't see it all, but trust me, McCordy's over here playing a deep safety, Adrian Phillips is over here kind of playing a quarters, you're gonna see him enter the screen again, and you can see up here, this is not a cover to look that J, J.C. Jackson's getting, he's kind of playing like a man because it's kind of, it's a quarters coverage, alright? So, there you got that. Alright, here's another great thing about the Patriots, look at Judon, he, Matt Judon, he,


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[Assistant] He gets a hit on the third receiver over here before he rushes. That messes up the


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[Assistant] First thing we gotta show is nice little creative four man rush.


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[Assistant] Dante Hightower, yeaah, he's coming up there, they're pushing the pocket, typical New England stuff, right? But, because Baker never really located the coverage again, you know, what you're going to see here is


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[Assistant] I mean not one, I mean not one guy should pick it. Two. But it's two guys, right? So you got two guys here who, like, are gonna pick it, but he has no idea of the coverage when he's throwing it. He's throwing the ball just assuming it was the coverage he saw before he got the snap. And as we get here, again,


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[Assistant] There's a cover two corner. You see, he's not worried about covering him as he goes down the field because he's got McCordy over here as a cover two safety.


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[Assistant] You know, so Mills is looking for anybody to break in the flat.


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[Assistant] And because now it's downfield and J.C. Jackson has carried him, he continues once they get a pass. There's a rule they have. Like once he gets past 10 yards and if he goes out, just take him. Don't worry anymore. Alright, so that's what happens there. Baker ends up just serving it.


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[Assistant] Right there for Duggar. If Duggar doesn't get it, Jalen Mills is gonna get it.


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[Assistant] And that's the beauty of the New England defense. Combination coverages. See, he's carrying him. He's staying inside leverage because McCordy is going to continue to get wide in case he does look at this go route down there. And he doesn't want him to be able to run some


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[Assistant] The cover two beater down the middle, right? A middle post that beats a lot of people in the cover two.


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[Assistant] No, he might have saw it five weeks ago and he goes, well, they don't usually play it to this formation and this personnel and, and then Bill goes, well, this week we like it and they have their reasons of why they like it and I don't always know those.


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[Assistant] 535. Hey, we're still in empty. We're throwing the ball. That's right. Just give up on the run, you know, just $90 million on the offensive line, but let's just give up on it.


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[Assistant] And listen, this is not a groundbreaking one. I would just want to show you how they do some basic coverages. And I get a lot of questions sometimes, mainly from my friends, and I think once or twice with you, like, what do you mean the corners


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[Assistant] Carry the seams and cover three. I actually had one of my son's coaches ask me the other day. He was trying to like explain it to him. Alright, so.


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[Assistant] They're gonna play cover three. Yeah, you think it's just cover three is when we grew up was just that, right? Yes.


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[Assistant] You know, he's curled flat, you got some guys in the middle here, okay. So there you go with that. Alright, that's usually what you see with covered three. And really, covered three, like that.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things that certainly can expose it. Most quarterbacks love that coverage. Yeah, if you don't coach it the right way or know kind of what you're going to get and what they go to in these. So, but Bill Belichick, first off, again, back to the Giants days and practice with them and, you know, early Patriots days. Like my dad and the Giants were the best seam throwing team in football.


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[Assistant] And that to me is where I believe the evolution of this came because it was like, wait, we can't just let the two insides receivers run vertical, you know, we don't get hands on them in the corners or outside worrying about maybe a guy that doesn't even run a vertical route or whatever.


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[Assistant] Jarvis Landry is the third option here as a little like jerk option route, seam route, hitch route.


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[Assistant] New England is the master of the same hitch. Brady made a career living off of this. A career living. They look at this concept anytime there's a single safety defense, they'll have this type of stuff. Here's your first read, Tom.


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[Assistant] Wait, seemed didn't like it, oh wait, hitch, okay, now I got an in-cut coming and blah, blah, blah. And that's how they played offense. So nobody knows how to stop this stuff better than New England. Alright, and then what New England's gonna do with this is here's what I mean with corners


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[Assistant] They have the seam. Yes, it's cover three, but as you're gonna see here,


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[Assistant] They steal the seam routes. Jalen Mills and Jacey Jackson. They're very aware. And that's the new and unique part. That's the twist. That's the twist. And that's the twist because


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[Assistant] Within that, okay, so now they're gonna steal the seams, they're gonna steal the seams, they teach these underneath guys to get out here and stop the short route, the hitch route outside of it.


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[Assistant] Now you might say, well what if they ran two verticals, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, well that's tough. There's no doubt about it. They run two verticals. But what he would do is he would try to midpoint them.


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[Assistant] They never saw anything on film that had two verticals. So they were probably like, we like this this week, let's do it. Alright? So, the other thing that New England's really good at, watch.


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[Assistant] He gets his, Hightower gets his hands on Hooper. It slows him down.


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[Assistant] So now it gives Mills the chance to kind of read it and get in a good position to stop it. Adrian Phillips up here doesn't quite probably get the hands they would like.


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[Assistant] So let's watch it unfold here. Oops, let me, I don't know why it always goes to fast forward when you just press play on a new play. But, alright, so, there we go.


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[Assistant] You can see Hightower got a piece of him. Look, Jaylen Mills, his eyes are inside. He sees it. He's slowly starting to go this way because he knows, okay, wait, I see this guy stopping. This is Hightower's responsibility. I got no more responsibility there.


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[Assistant] And you know, again, as a quarterback, you have the option to play either side. They probably said, yeah, whatever you feel is good, comfortable. Go ahead. It's as equal two routes by two routes on the, on each side. So as he goes, he decided to play the top. It's a fullback or I think it's a fullback here, you know, and he,


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[Assistant] Looks like he kind of wants to throw this, but maybe he's, I think he sees Phillips kind of break in and he doesn't want it to be a bang bang close play. I would say really Baker's probably got strong enough arm to kind of put it on him here.


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[Assistant] And as we go, now he goes back and he's looking to the middle and he's going, well I always have Jarvis Landry here. I always got him. And boom, they got a guy on either side. And so now you're going, oh crap, I got nothing.


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[Assistant] And that leads to you running around like a chicken with your head cut off and, you know, you go out of bounds and throw the ball away.


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[Assistant] I know, you had questioned me a few times, once earlier in the year, and I was like, man, I can't wait to show Paul this. So when I saw this, I was like, I'm going to show this, because I get questions about it a lot too, from people who listen, and they don't always get to see us do it. So, uh, yeaah. But there, we've seen some complicated coverages, now a simple coverage that's made, I'm coached to a T.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure. So what does it do here? First off, it confuses the quarterback because he's not sure what exactly he's getting. And then secondly, he's not sure exactly who's blitzing, who's not blitzing, and that's going to cause problems for them here. And as you can see,


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[Assistant] They got, what, six guys at the line of scrimmage? Seven, I believe. It's seven at the line of scrimmage. Alright. And now it's set hut. And watch. They had Jawan Bentley.


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[Assistant] And Tytower take a few steps in to keep the inside guys there just for a second. They're gonna back out, they're gonna back out.


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[Assistant] He's kinda looking for anything inside breaking route. J.C. Jackson's on the outside. Okay. As usual, as I told you before, they always get their hands on number two and number three for the most part. So Van Noy gets a, gets a touch on, I believe that's Jarvis Landry there. Alright.


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[Assistant] And, you know, as we go here, you're gonna see, so now they rush three, and they have a guy scotch free. Scott free. I said Scott. Scott or scotch. Yes, right.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. That, that is the beauty of it. Let alone, you know, you want to throw hot and get it out.


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[Assistant] But gosh, they got a guy here. He's going, wait, I'm not hot because it's only three. That doesn't say my rules aren't there. So, you know, he breaks out. He's taking his time running around because he's going, wait, nobody blitz. I don't need to go hot.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, not, I mean, they have it covered to such an extent, it's, it's like almost comical. I mean, it really is. I mean, as you see here, I mean, they got, if you want to run a skinny post,


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[Assistant] Like, with the backside guy, I mean, Duggar's here to get that. If you want to run an out route, you're going to run it right into J.C. Jackson.


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[Assistant] And on the front side here, again, this is where New England, they're just so good at knowing what to expect with routes. They got people all over everything and they confuse you and they make you look ugly and of course bakers hurt.


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[Assistant] 100%. It is. It's the disguise. It's the detail. It's having a feel for how they protect things and what their rules are. This will give that an issue and nobody's better than New England at doing that.


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[Assistant] Next play. Next play is third down and ten. Yeaah, very next play guy. Hey, congratulations Case Keenum, you get to play against the Patriots. Third and ten, good luck. Bill Belichick, when he knows you have to throw the ball. You're, you're screwed.


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[Assistant] Alright, that, that's what you are, is you're absolutely freaking screwed in this situation. Just a straight four man rush, but I think what I want to show more than anything here is just watch how, again, it's man to man


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[Assistant] But, they understand how they're being attacked in man to man. That's where they're really good. And,


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[Assistant] As we get through this here, like, first thing I want to show is Adrian Phillips, the backside of the backfield, you don't even know what he's doing yet.


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[Assistant] 41 Bryant, it's Bryant, right? I think he gets, he gets a little picked by his own guy here, but watch how he like,


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[Assistant] He kinda knows what to expect as far as the route. He never panics and follows him inside. He almost runs to a spot over here cause he's like, he's going outside and I got help in the deep middle. So why am I gonna follow him?


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[Assistant] I know I'm playing man to man, but man, Coach Belichick has told me all the time, remember where your help is. Don't over commit yourself to a place where you already got help.


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[Assistant] So he's basically running to the spot. You know, so now you got clear go, number two read, number three read, number four read, and really nobody's open.


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[Assistant] You know, it's hard to pull the trigger right here with this look right here, let alone...


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[Assistant] What's really happening is he's getting smashed already. He's getting smashed by a four man rush.


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[Assistant] Not only are you confused about the coverage and what you're seeing and nobody's open, but then you get to a point where you go, I can't really see because these guys are f***ing big and they're pushing everybody back into my face. And that's the brilliance of the New England defense.


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[Assistant] Not only do they know the rules so well, but they know the other team's offense so well.


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[Assistant] It's a good old line. It's supposed to be. It's a good old line, but I will say they probably haven't played a defensive line as big and as physical as this all year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's do it. You know, again, I know I got on Cleveland for, like, not running the ball. I understand, like, hey, this is a tough group to run against, definitely. But you also gotta have belief in your own guys.


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[Assistant] I do think they gave up on their own run game too easily. I do.


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[Assistant] Like I told you, they got down, this is one of the few plays they get in a running formation here early, and it doesn't work well.


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[Assistant] This year, that's not the case, alright. I mean, and this is how I want to make it perfect. Thank you Pete for throwing that up there. Alright, so, here's Lawrence Guy right here at the five technique. Head up on the tackle.


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[Assistant] 315 pounds. Sam? Alright, so there's a 315 pound defensive end. Alright, now here's Devon Godshaw in the middle.


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[Assistant] Okay, Devon Godshaw, 311 pounds, right there, in the middle of the field. Okay, so he's playing nose tackle. Now you got Christian Barrymore, the other defense end, five technique, head up.


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[Assistant] Three hundred and, or nine hundred and thirty six pounds with just three linemen. Good math. Right? Thank you, pretty good. Matthew Don, outside linebacker. Two hundred and seventy five pounds.


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[Assistant] Two hundred and seventy-five pounds. It's a big outside backer. Big outside backer. Bigger than the two defensive ends on a 4-3 team for the Cleveland Browns, to make the point. Twenty pounds, twenty-five pounds bigger than Jadevia and Clowney as a defensive end.


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[Assistant] So there you go. These are outside linebackers that are bigger than the Browns defensive end.


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[Assistant] He's their kind of guy. And Baltimore plays does a lot of similar stuff to them. So that's why they like that. They believe, again, in big people. We're gonna be the big bullies on the field.


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[Assistant] And that's why it's been a great rivalry and that's why Baltimore has given them some issues in the playoffs because they're like,


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[Assistant] Oh, you're big? Well, f**k you, we are too. Let's have some fun out here. Right? And then you got here, Jawan Bentley.


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[Assistant] At 260, Hightower, it says, or Dewan Bentley, 250, Hightower says 260. They must have cut off an arm to be 260. I was up there when they drafted. He had to starve himself to be 270 at weekly weigh-ins. And then you have the small guy, Van Noy, at 250 at weak side, outside linebacker.


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[Assistant] So, the point I wanted to make was just that. And then...


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[Assistant] Okay, this is just where they're special because I told you about what they do and you just see, look, they just want to hold people up.


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[Assistant] That's all they wanna do. They wanna just give you nowhere to go inside. Like you're not gonna double us and go to the second level. They're just making a mosh pit. And then this guy has a cinder block for a head.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's what he has and I say that with all due respect because I like watching this guy. This is Joel Bentonio. Who's coming around.


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[Assistant] As a pulling guard. And I just want everybody to watch this. Alright, I'm going to go just a little further. Here's Joel Bantonio, one of the best guards in football. He is physical and a killer. And look at Jawan Bentley, take him on as a pulling guard in the hole.


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[Assistant] Boom. Play over. See you later. You're going the other way.


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[Assistant] Doesn't make the tackle. Tries to, of course. Made the initial contact. But he f***ed the playoff. Yep, there you go. He's not gonna get any stats, but there's our definition of he f***ed the playoff. Yeah. You know, one yard gain, whoopity-doo.


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[Assistant] You gotta get into a passing play. You gotta realize, wait, they got three, a true 3-4 in, they gotta pass it.


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[Assistant] Sometimes they'll get into 3-4 defense, but they'll have more passing personnel in on defense. That's when you want to run it. And that to me is where teams make mistakes. You don't try to run against that front. That's when you do play action or a bootleg at something like that and get them moving because they're big and not the fastest necessarily.


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[Assistant] It is. It is. You're right. I should have, I should have qualified that a little bit. Neil made a note to himself when you said that. Neil's right. And way to go, Neil. You're right. You know, my point shouldn't have been defense, you know,


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[Assistant] Belichick of course can pull it off. And we've seen some other teams who...


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[Assistant] We saw that, yes. My point was more that offenses can win it now too. Uh, but yes, we're going back in the time machine. This is 2001 Patriots football. We're watching the start of a dynasty all over again here in my opinion.


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[Assistant] Not really, I just think, you know, the thing I continue to see is, you know, of course he's smart, we know that. Knows where to go with the football.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well like New England, this is a perfect example of like New England knowing what they're gonna get, right? And maybe like, alright, maybe they didn't know that they were gonna get this little edge blitzer, like for sure, alright, because that's what they are gonna get here ultimately.


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[Assistant] You know, they might have not known that, but either way, what they did know is that it really wasn't going to change the coverage rules, right? Like, within this coverage that they're about to play here, okay, and again, this is where it goes into the Cleveland, in my opinion, is


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[Assistant] If he didn't blitz, the back would be in the flat. But instead he blitzes and the back picks him up. But either way, they know with the combination they're about to run here, which is basically double post right here, and I'm just telling you, it's all window dressing. It's all window dressing.


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[Assistant] Like, hey look down there, but we're not really working this play for this concept.


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[Assistant] Double post, right? And these guys are kinda gonna go and they're gonna match. There's a safety back here in the middle. And they know with the number three guy here that they're gonna try to cover him with this middle linebacker. This middle linebacker is gonna try to cover Hunter Henry.


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[Assistant] From this inside leverage. So, wait, if the Patriots know you're gonna play inside leverage coverage, what do you think they're gonna do? Oh, run an out route, right.


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[Assistant] Okay, oh, but I got it wrong. I'm sorry. I've got it, I got it wrong. I'm wrong with my guy here. Sorry. He blitzes. Okay. He's got a cover. He's got the curl flat area, or the flat area if somebody goes, okay?


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[Assistant] Alright, so within that, alright, I messed that up as far as my guys are concerned. They knew they were gonna get an inside leverage type of coverage either way. And he looks down the field, he's not really looking down the field.


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[Assistant] And he gets Hunter Henry. It's a great throw. Mack Wilson does a great job. But here's like where like the Browns are not as coached up as the Patriots.


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[Assistant] As, as, uh, you know, nobody is. But like, once he sees this guy block and knows Anthony Walker knows the back is not going to get out there, he's got to get back underneath this.


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[Assistant] And as you'll see as the play goes, he can't really see it in this frame. He kinda hesitated for a second. And that allowed him to, you know, make the throw and get exactly what he wanted here.


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[Assistant] I mean, Mac Wilson does a really good job here, and that's where I messed up. Again, if he doesn't blitz, sorry. He'd be in the flat, and then he'd be the guy trying to cover. It still would have been inside leverage, okay? Yeah. So, for anybody going, wait, Chris messed up and he's right, no, I'm not, I'm not messed up.


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[Assistant] Greased up on all their things they do on the defensive side of the ball. Let alone, I mean look at the pocket. Of course they pick up the blitz the right way and it's a perfect pocket.


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[Assistant] There we go. Oh no, we brought a fifth rusher, I don't know. I bet you New England didn't bring many five-man rushers in this game. Not from what we saw there.


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[Assistant] That's what he is. That's what I compared him to in the draft. He's a bigger breeze. That's what he is. Maybe not quite as athletic as Drew was.


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[Assistant] But to me, see, we haven't seen all his talent. I've seen his talent improve as the year goes on. He's gonna continue to get better. Hey, he's still a rookie. He's still thinking. It's hard to just let it go and let it rip. It's all still new to him. We've seen leaps and bounds.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I'm gonna pat myself on the back here. Like, yeaah, some of these evaluators don't want to admit it. Like, you're not gonna be right about everybody.


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[Assistant] I was wrong about Justin Fields. I'm already feeling the heat about it. I know it. The way it's looked, it's been good. It's been better than I expected. He's proved me wrong.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna make my points, and I'm glad Justin Fields has proven me wrong to this point. But yeah, people are still trying to make up excuses here.


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[Assistant] Right. And I just go, well, no, no, no. The guy's the real deal. Works the pocket perfect. It's never gonna be the sexiest thing you saw on earth.


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[Assistant] Neither was Tom Brady, but now he's the sexiest thing on earth because, oh, he wins championships, he makes the Gatorade taste better, he coaches the team, he coaches the cheerleaders, and he does everything for us, and now he's the sexiest f***ing guy alive. Well, give Mac a few years, he might be too.


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[Assistant] No, they were a machine and there was a ton of talent around them. There's still a number of plays every game where you went, nobody's open, and the protection's not that good. Great move in the


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[Assistant] I can't imagine Atlanta really having success on the offensive side. Atlanta's not that good at running the ball. There's no Calvin Ridley. Cordell Patterson's out.


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[Assistant] All they gotta do is stop Kyle Pitts. Sorry. Big trouble. I mean, again, New England's not gonna just, I don't think win 45-7, but would I be surprised if it's like a dominant 27-13 win? Absolutely not.


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[Assistant] Definitely is. They won't be outclassed by anybody, and, uh, you know, again, I'd like to see them play the Bucks or the Cowboys again right now. The Patriots. The Patriots have confidence in a little mojo now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure. You know, listen, mechanics are not my favorite.


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[Assistant] What they're, they're not asking him to be like Johnny Precision, pick us apart type passer and go 35 for 41 for 380 yards. That's not what he is.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they'll ever be that, but when you play this way, you know, deep crossers, go routes.


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[Assistant] But when he does get completions, they're for explosive plays right now. And that, again, is gonna go into what we're gonna show here in a second with the Eagles.


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[Assistant] He's got a great charisma and leadership about him, never gets affected, but their offensive line has got some ass-kickers. I mean, some ass-kickers. And they're not even at 100% full strength. I mean, if they were and Brandon Bookes was out there, I'd go, damn, don't ever throw the ball ever again. Just keep running it every play. Uh, but yeah, let's get into it a little bit and kind of show what they've been doing here.


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[Assistant] You know, he's gonna have one or two scrambles where he's gonna get a big, big yards. But more importantly, they're gonna design a few runs for him.


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[Assistant] You know, again, what we always say, like, I'm sick of teams drafting these quarterbacks who can run and then they get to the, they get them and they don't run them. Like, what was the point? I don't understand. So first play of the game. First play of the game.


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[Assistant] First play of the game, you know, you got, what I want to show here is an unbalanced line. They got the tight end up here.


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[Assistant] And they got both Lane Johnson and Milada over here, alright, with the tight end behind it.


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[Assistant] So Denver's going, oh shit, they're gonna run the ball over here to those guys. It's a thousand pounds of people over there.


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[Assistant] Oh man, alright, wait, that's unbalanced line, you know, tight end, gonna kick out here, I mean look, if he gave the ball, they're gonna get yards there too, no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Here's the next play. Boston Scott, 17 yards. We're gonna go right up the middle. It's a little inside zone running play. You know, again, but it sets the attitude. And again, here's the thing. Milada is a killer. This is Landon Dickerson, center from Alabama. He's playing left guard. He's awesome.


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[Assistant] Kelsey, of course we know he's good. Right guard, I can't remember his name off the top of my head, right tackle, Lane Johnson, all pro type player. So, they got a lot of talent and big people up here. And, you know, Jake Driscoll, thank you Pete, he get, Jack Driscoll is number 63.


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[Assistant] Alright, so now again, they're playing with you here.


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[Assistant] I mean what they do, I mean just look at, you know, double here, double here, double here, they're just gonna push everybody this way. So those guys are screwed, alright. So there's that, alright. You can see here, Driscoll, he gets the inside edge to where now he can't really protect that gap there, alright.


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[Assistant] So he does a great job of kind of what you would say reach blocking, number 90. Alright, so he kind of seals it off there. 56!


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[Assistant] And he can't get there, and Lane Johnson cuts him off. You know, maybe got a little hook of the arm there, I understand that. But either way, you can drive a freaking truck through this. And boom.


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[Assistant] A gigantic hole. Wow. And that's to me, again, I'm cherry picking plays, but I'm trying to give everybody a feel, this is what's been going on in Philadelphia the last three weeks.


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[Assistant] Like averaging over 200 yards the last two games. It's the last three games. Last three games, right. You go to the Lions game, the Chargers game, and this. Yup. They're playing a lot of that with their bread and butter here, and that's what I really like.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're gonna have a hard time stopping them. So they wanna, you know, have the forward down linemen and start blitzing linebackers to fill gaps so they don't just get totally overpowered and then they're gonna play, you know, man coverage with guys on the back end. But this is a direct result of like,


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[Assistant] Like 11 for 18, for 130, 11 for 18, for 180 something. You know, it's all in that range, but the 11 completions are game changing type of plays. Right? So, here we go.


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[Assistant] They, they, they do a great job of doing this. Get him out on the edge a little bit in some space. They keep a wide receiver in to help on the tight end so he can stop him from getting around the edge and getting in jail and hurts his face. They know they got man to man.


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[Assistant] And they're just gonna have Devontae Smith run it out and up, up the sideline, and Quez Watkins is gonna run a deep cross. It's all they're doing. It's a two man round.


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[Assistant] Yeah, plays that look the same that are different. It's pretty. This is what we talk about so much about tying plays together, right? That's where they've gotten good lately. You don't know what's coming and it all looks kind of similar. Right. So I mean, here you go. Now they've reacted to the run. They got seven guys in blocking.


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[Assistant] And now he's got time to let a down the field route.


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[Assistant] And again, at this point right now, it's like, it's not open. You know, Surtain's doing a great job.


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[Assistant] But he just, he's just going, I just want him to get even. He gets even, I'm gonna give him a shot, and we'll see where it goes.


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[Assistant] And, you know, to me, uh, that's where he's, he's gifted. Now what I don't necessarily like, I mean, again, to answer our, our, uh, listener's questions, you know, listen, he lets his arm get very long, like those are not, like, those are not necessarily a position I always like, like that right there.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, straight leg, arm really far away, doesn't get necessarily a lot of shoulder, but he's still, he knows who he is, he doesn't overthrow, he's got a good feel, and he makes it work.


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[Assistant] And then he's got a super freaking wide receiver, right? But they got Talented receivers, so if you get them one on one, they're gonna get open and beat people, make some plays like that, and I think that's what's really cool about the Eagles right now.


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[Assistant] And then we see the pass, which is one-on-ones downfield, and that plays through his hands. Look, Denver's doing the same thing again here. I mean, it's the same thing. It's man-to-man coverage. They got a linebacker in the middle.


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[Assistant] Kenny Young, who blitzes, he thinks he's gonna be blocked by the guy. They still, he still goes out in the route, Jordan Howard. So look, he's going, wait, oh, I gotta cover him, so I gotta go turn and run and go get him. He does that.


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[Assistant] Guys downfield, but it's man to man. And when teams play man to man, they're looking at who they gotta cover. They're not looking in the backfield to see what the quarterback's doing. And that's where he's got a very good feel. If you play two-man or man against him,


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[Assistant] Boom! And there's Justin Simmons gotta save the day 30 yards down the field.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Right, and that's where they kinda got you right now. So, it's not gonna be like a ton of points every week playing that way.


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[Assistant] What do you see there? So the Eagles are favored by one and a half at home.


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[Assistant] That's interesting. It is. Now, I don't think they're going to be able to do some of this stuff.


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[Assistant] As easily that we've seen the last three weeks against the Saints. Number one run D in the NFL.


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[Assistant] You know, they're a team that will not be out physically killed by the Saints. The Saints usually just beat people into submission with physicality. Eagles will be hanging in there right with them. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] So top run defense, what's always hard...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna prob- I'm gonna probably take the under. You go under? I am. I think I'm taking the Saints to win that battle. I'll go over. What's the bet? Uh, let's bet. We'll figure- let me think about that. Okay. Let's figure that out though. That might be something good. We'll sort it out next week. Yeah, that'll be interesting to see though. I really am. I think that's gonna be a close football game. I'm actually surprised to see


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[Assistant] Uh, so that's probably why, but, uh, good, good, interesting, physical NFC matchup here where both teams are, you know, a little desperate, no doubt.


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[Assistant] I gotta look, I gotta look. My little boy's got a bunch of jerseys up in his closet. I think one's a Texas one.


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[Assistant] I don't think she'd care. Big Phil wouldn't mind. No, not at all. My wife would care less. She'd be like, she's been listening to the pod lately, so she likes you. For real? She feels like she knows you. Okay.


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[Assistant] Maybe, I don't know. I don't know your in-laws. In-laws can go either way as we know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, more variety in what they did on the offensive side of the ball. A little more patience with the run game.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Yes. We were asking for that. Tying the run game with the play action pass. Tying plays together.


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[Assistant] That was a big thing for them, you know, that we talked about, cause last week we showed a play action pass where it was like pass protection, but they were running the play action fake. And it's like Jacksonville wasn't buying that at all. So, you know, to me it gives them a fighting chance. It's better than being in the shotgun play after play after play and not giving the defense anything to think about.


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[Assistant] I agree. Well, there's just more things that the teams, the defense has to think about.


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[Assistant] Definitely, there's more run game possibility when you're under center. You know, when you're in shotgun, you're a little limited to what run plays you can run. When you're under center, there's a whole litany of things that can come at you.


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[Assistant] And then let alone the play action pass, the bootlegs, everything off that, and you can still do drop back pass. What's interesting about this game is, to me, what they did here,


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[Assistant] They play action pass, play action pass, play action pass, and kinda got the Jets so worried about that.


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[Assistant] That then they started to go to the run going, Oh, you're worried about the play action pass. Look at that linebacker. He's flying down there. We're giving the ball this time. And that kind of got them in a rhythm. It's backwards. That's not usually how it works, but I think I kind of agree with it with what they are instead of them just trying to come out and go, we're going to run the ball. That's not what they are.


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[Assistant] So, uh, I, I thought it was interesting approach by Brian Dayball and company.


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[Assistant] And we're gonna show here, still very reliant on a guy that's a superstar quarterback.


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[Assistant] And a superstar wide receiver, and Stefan Diggs. Now the one thing I did like about this too, is the builds throughout the game, and this is just also emphasizing that point in something we saw all game long. Again, I'm trying to cherry pick to tell people the story.


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[Assistant] All you ever hear about the Jess is they're cornerstink. Cornerstink, cornerstink, cornerstink, cornerstink. Alright, well the Bills did a great job of making the game simple and just going, wait, our guy's better than your guy? And this guy's unstoppable, so let's just let him throw the ball and just do it. You know? That's where I'll give Brian Dayball a lot of credit. See, a lot of offensive coordinators can't check their ego at the door.


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[Assistant] And you'll have a less stressful week trying to figure out how to find out a four yard completion. Alright, so, here we go, third quarter.


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[Assistant] You know, they've already done it before where he's done that or he ran like a little out route and they hit that.


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[Assistant] And then he goes. Look, and he's throwing up the hand, he's not even buying it. I know, cause he's going, oh, I got him to pause, and he's not as fast as me, so he's screwed. Alright?


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[Assistant] And this really kind of jump started their day from here on out to where they kind of caught fire, got confidence. Perfect throw down the sideline. Diggs goes, but look at the route by Diggs. Great job of just


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[Assistant] The body language, just a little bit of a stutter. Just enough. But it got 26 to slow, stop for a second, look at the quarterback, and boom. There you go, you got Stephon Diggs running down the sideline.


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[Assistant] Run the ball downhill, pull guard right, run it up in here between the tackles.


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[Assistant] They did that a lot, and then of course they did it with, let's fake the speed sweep, let's pull the guard, and still run it downhill, and go. So they tied plays together, I thought, in a very nice way, and because they're under center, to our point, and the point you just made, there you go, there's more things you gotta think about when you're underneath center, alright? And, you know, the Jets, it's not like, again, if he gave the ball up the middle, as you can see here,


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[Assistant] They got them gashed, you know. The Jets have been getting pushed around up front the last few weeks. It's a little disappointing. They kind of got off to a good start early in the year.


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[Assistant] But I think he underestimated the speed of McKenzie turning the edge there and that was a touchdown. Let's see it one more time.


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[Assistant] I did not know Isaiah McKenzie had the ball the first time. Yeaah. I was going, wait, and then I saw like Moss stand up and I was like, oh wait, they gave it to McKenzie. It was perfect timing there, perfect.


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[Assistant] They gotta start doing this type of stuff. First off, he's a weapon. He's, McKenzie is, they need to incorporate him in. He's one of the few guys in the offense other than digs that can make more out of less. You could throw him a slant route and he can get 40 yards. You can give him a speed sweep. He can turn the corner, you know? And what are we gonna see this week? I mean, what are you, I think we're gonna end up seeing this week.


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[Assistant] Yep, Gabriel Davis, alright, as you messed up another play, alright.


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[Assistant] Here you go again, like, like what's cool here is the tying of plays together once again, alright? So, we're gonna get...


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[Assistant] It's Quarters. It's Quarters coverage. Yep. We got a post route coming. There it is. We got a post route. Now there's two reasons I also love


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[Assistant] The space it gives a quarterback that can move around and make plays behind the line of scrimmage. See, play, action, pass.


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[Assistant] Gives the ability and gives the quarterback space to, you know, step on the pocket, move, get out of the pocket, either way. And then of course it compromises coverages and people find ways to sit in there and it becomes scramble drill, but it becomes hard to defend. And that to me is something, another reason why I would definitely do play action pass with Josh Allen because we know how dangerous he is at all of the things I just said, all of the above.


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[Assistant] Alright, so again, perfect pocket. Now why is that? I mean again, you can see.


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[Assistant] It's hard to rush the passer. Man, just look at 50. He's worried about, he's worried about, look at him, he's worried about the pulling guard, he's looking at him.


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[Assistant] What this safety is looking at, why he doesn't gain any depth, because he's got no reason. I guess he's worried he might run some sort of in-cut, which was what he would be responsible.


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[Assistant] He's slow to kind of recognize it, and Gabriel Davis goes right over the top of him, and it's a perfect throw by Josh Allen, and another big play, and Bill's offense was rolling.


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[Assistant] Little struggling lately. I mean, it hasn't been the best. Offensively, they've been kind of good. They've been. I know. They've had their moments. They definitely have. You know, when I look at it, I think with the Colts, first off, I will always say, I don't think they stay patient enough with the run game. I'm so, I would even hold that true to last week against Jacksonville. There's a damn bug flying around me. He was on my side before I sent him over there.


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[Assistant] The Colts match up with the Bills. You know, to me what the Colts can do with the Bills a little bit is, you know, the Colts can push you around on the offensive line.


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[Assistant] You know, as far as the other matchup there, the coastal defense for me is very hard to figure out. It is. It's kind of all over the place this year.


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[Assistant] You know, I gotta see another game of Buffalo functioning at a high level on the offensive side of the ball for me to just sit here and go, boom, they got it. You know, again, this was a good start. I like it.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's still a lot of Josh Allen relying on him making big plays and do that to a degree. But this is better. To me, it gives him a fighting chance. You know, I'm-


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[Assistant] Well yea, definitely lesser than what we've come to expect. You know, Tampa's got some, uh, they're missing a few weapons. They are, there's no doubt about


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[Assistant] And this one, this one really showed. There's no doubt about it. And again, we know that this is, you're not, you can't be perfect. Brady's amazing. He's 45. Gosh, there's gotta be some flaw in the human being, right? Here's one of them. This is it.


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[Assistant] And then they had a lot of great ways to, let's protect Brady now. Keep gronkin'. Don't let him go downfield. We got a six or seven man protection and Brady's going to throw perfect passes down the field wherever we want him to throw it.


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[Assistant] So, they don't have that aspect, and, you know, even to, like, see, if you got Gronk and AB out there too,


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[Assistant] The other aspect was, and even early in the year, teams wanted to play coverage and stop the big plays then too.


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[Assistant] And he throws it to him for 7 yards, and he runs up 10 yards more. So we took away the big shot, but we gave up 17 yards.


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[Assistant] No, no, and, and you know, and to, back to what Bruce Arians says, I mean, yea, you see here, I mean, gosh, completions, there's only one at 15 yards, there's a 14 yarder down the middle, right? I mean, everything else is,


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[Assistant] You know, a bunch, yes, on the left side. Everything's 10 yards and below. Oh, and then he hits a 25-yarder on the right side that I missed. So that was really the only explosive throw of the day.


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[Assistant] They played coverage, did a good job. Washington has finally stopped going like our front four will just dominate and we'll just play simple coverages and we won't mess up. Like they've become a little more complicated on the defensive side.


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[Assistant] This, this 20 yard gain. It's a 15 yard gain. It's a 30 yard gain. And he, he never gives it a chance. He just gets it out of his hands and throws a line or four net.


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[Assistant] No, no doubt about it. And this to me is like, you know, not the check down part, he's not looking short here, he's trying to be aggressive, but he's been like,


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[Assistant] Truly hit hard a few times already at this point. So he's not feeling comfortable in the pocket. And again, he gets a little pressure here, but the pressure does affect like how he wants to throw the football and, you know, maybe the reading of the throw altogether.


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[Assistant] Alright, and, you know, but this one right here, okay, let me just stop it here. He's got O.J. Howard running a go, he's got him on an outroute, he's got Crosser by Mike Evans, and I believe Godwin runs the in-cut behind it, okay?


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[Assistant] And you can see it's a five man pressure, right? They're pushing the pocket pretty good, but it's not horrible. It's not horrible right yet. It's not, but we got to take into account. I don't care who you are. Like Bruce Ariad says, when you've been hit like he had a few times, you start to get a little jumpy in the pocket. And to me here, instead of maybe holding the ball just for an extra second or


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[Assistant] You know, like Brady you've seen before with that cocky bounce in his step to just be like, wait, I can hold this for a half more second and let the guy clear. You know, he's a little conscious of it right now. He's gotten crushed a few times. He doesn't like it.


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[Assistant] So as it gets close, he's gonna try to pull the trigger here to throw to Mike Evans over the middle and Mike Evans isn't even gonna be open on the other side. He's gonna try to make a very, very tough anticipatory throw out the back door of the linebacker and there's a safety over here too.


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[Assistant] And, it's down the middle of the field, and it's just dangerous.


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[Assistant] To be able to try to throw an anticipatory throw like that. Like that word I'm spitting out of my mouth there? I do like that one. Yeaah. I mean, it's hard to do that down the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] He has been a little affected. Look, he doesn't really even step into this throw. I understand there's people there. You know, what I would say is like, hey, maybe the Mahomes or Rogers or Josh Allen when they're on their game, you know, in these type of moments, you know, one,


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[Assistant] Yeah, he probably could have padded the ball one extra time and still just stayed where he was and waited for Evans to clear 55.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or, you know, you bounce back just a little, just to give yourself a hair more room to throw it. That's what like, you know, a Rogers or an Allen or somebody like that would have done. He looked unsure as he was releasing this.


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[Assistant] He doesn't really have conviction, like throwing the ball. Like I said, he doesn't really step into it. And we're throwing like a 20 yard crossing route basically. And he's trying to throw it like I said.


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[Assistant] And he misses the throw, completely. I didn't read the coverage wrong, you know, he saw what he saw, but like, here, like right here, he's throwing the ball.


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[Assistant] And he's trying to throw it perfect, like right over here. And as you can see, he's got a safety baron down and he hasn't cleared this guy yet. So to be able to throw that ball without kind of seeing him clear the other side, very tough.


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[Assistant] And boom, interception. So that was a big moment in the game, of course, because that makes it end up, ends up making it 13-0, it was 6-0, and now it's a two score game, and of course that always changes the dynamic of things.


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[Assistant] They got a little route combination of like, let me just make sure I got it right on top here.


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[Assistant] Just wanna make sure I got everybody in the right way. Okay, good, I do. Alright, so, it's Fornette here, OJ Howard behind it, this guy out here. You know, generally, this concept here is for a shell defense. Two deep, quarters.


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[Assistant] Not for a single safety defense, and that is what they're getting here. It's a single safety defense.


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[Assistant] Alright, what I want everybody to watch here, first off, this coverage is for this right here. It's the thing we talked about with New England. I mean, it's hitch on the outside, seam route down the middle. And they're gonna ask Fuller to try to stop the seam route.


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[Assistant] Well, they're not coached by Bill Belichick. They don't do it the right way. Alright? He, Mike Evans, is gonna run Scott Freed down the middle and Brady that I know on his game


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[Assistant] Hits that 99 out of 100 times and Mike Evans is gonna walk into the end zone or get down to the 2 or 3 yard line. Because Fuller on the outside


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[Assistant] I'm gonna get a completion and get us in a good spot. That's fine.


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[Assistant] To me they left points on the board, let alone Pete will tell you there's two or three plays after this on this drive where he, he does the same thing a little bit.


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[Assistant] Chris Godwin's gonna come down here, he's gonna end up being out of the screen.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's no way he could even read the coverage right here. I mean, look, first off, just, I mean, you tell me. Can he read the coverage this quickly? I know he's Tom Brady. His head's turned around. He just never even looks downfield. He's looking right here, right away.


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[Assistant] It's a perfect pocket, but he's been affected by the hits and how he feels and he's a little flustered. And what I can tell you again, and if anybody has NFL game pass, go look it up. First and 10, a minute 36 left in the third quarter. I mean, you'll see Chris Godwin is back here behind this.


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[Assistant] For an 18, 20 yard gain. Nobody near him.


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[Assistant] I can't say that it did, but it cost them the ability to get the ball on the field goal fringe area to where you get one more completion and one more run and you do get a field goal and the game is different.


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[Assistant] Happened throughout the game. He just, again, he couldn't have said it better for me. You know, it's kinda what I thought when I was watching the game on Sunday.


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[Assistant] I thought, you know, again, it's hard to watch when you're watching on TV, but there was a number of plays, you know, I'm the kind of guy that...


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know, the Tom Brady I've known for the last, you know, 15 games has striped that ball in there with perfection and that just didn't happen this last week.


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[Assistant] Well, the Giants don't have that pass rush or the Saints pass rush. Now, they are really well coached and know how to play pass defense. You know, I would think that


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[Assistant] They're not as dominant on defense. They're not. We're seeing teams, because of their injuries at corner, and I know we still got Sean Murphy bunting out. Carl Davis is out. We're missing one other corner. I know Demps is back.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sherman's out, so they're, they're missing some people there. Yeaah. And they're getting nickel and dimed in the passing game. You know, just like if you look at Heineken's stats, it's a lot of 10, and 12, and 8.


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[Assistant] If we had a real producer, he might have music. Come on, Pete. No, I'm joking. Pete, I honestly do want, I want Pete to have a mic.


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[Assistant] He obviously was. I mean, they're up 17 points. It's the fourth quarter. The Rams haven't done jackdiddly squat on offense. I think Pete will know. I think I sent it to the group text. I sent a group text to our PFT show. I was like,


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[Assistant] And we got a combination coverage by the Los Angeles Rams. They're basically playing man to these two guys right here, alright. And then...


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[Assistant] On these type of situations, fourth and five, we got a five man rush.


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[Assistant] I hate it. I hate that. They're gonna throw the ball here. There's no back in the backfield. They don't run quarterback draws with Jimmy Garoppolo. So why do we have a five man rush?


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[Assistant] Why do we have Von Miller and Leonard Floyd and Aaron Donald if we're gonna rush five? What was the point of getting them then?


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[Assistant] Uh, 9700 million dollars and we need one other guy to get one on one matchup. No!


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[Assistant] I want a guy back in coverage in the middle of the field. Do something else. They're throwing the ball. It's stupid. And I don't know, Pete, do we have any stats there to talk about their five


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[Assistant] Alright, and they're gonna work D-ball Samuel right down the middle, right down the middle of the heart here. So they got a little combination up top. Let me see if I get this right. Out route.


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[Assistant] Corner route and then him coming across the middle and


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[Assistant] Garoppolo does a great job of kind of just like little stutter step in the pocket just to make sure he doesn't get hit by Aaron Donald as he's throwing the ball and hit a disaster. He's been playing pretty well. He's been playing pretty good. There's no doubt about it. He's playing plenty good for them to win football games and throws an absolute strike right down the middle. Right? So again, I don't know.


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[Assistant] If we're rushing, if we're rushing four, I have a hard time thinking we're gonna play that coverage and we can maybe have an extra guy in coverage. I don't love that, but this was certainly a gutsy call, an unbelievable throw, and


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[Assistant] This guy's insane. Oh my gosh. Like I'm mad at myself for not giving him more respect. I'm really in. He's a weapon.


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[Assistant] In the middle of the field. Thank you. I said this, you know, on the PFT show on Tuesday. I just go...


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[Assistant] First off, the whole game has been throws over the middle. Oh my gosh, yeaah. Like it's all they do. Yeaah. The whole season. Jimmy Garoppolo is all his four years in, in San Francisco. They never throw the ball outside the numbers.


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[Assistant] Like, and this is McVeigh and Raheem Morris who are supposed to know Kyle Shanahan. You know, I even wrote in my notes after watching the game, I was like, apparently they don't know him. Apparently. Cause they just, they let him throw the ball short over the middle the whole game.


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[Assistant] You know, and have a little athleticism up front, it can give them issues. And the 49ers are that. So I think that's, you know, it's a tough matchup from that standpoint.


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[Assistant] You know, Stafford is off a little bit. There's no doubt. He's been off. I mean, he's, he's, you know, even some of the completions he threw.


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[Assistant] In this game where you just go, man, it's complete, but he didn't give him the best chance to run after the catch. And, you know, again, you know,


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[Assistant] Tyler Higbee, he couldn't catch a cold running bare ass through Alaska. You know, Van Jefferson, Van Jefferson drops a touchdown pass. I mean, they, they, they go for a fake field goal on 4th and 7th or 8th. Just make it 21 to 10, please, and go into halftime.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he throws the interception early to Odell Becker. It's not the worst. I mean, again, it was like a punt.


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[Assistant] Like watch out. The 49ers are one of those teams that I, I do think still has the potential to be like, whoa, we got to January and they got a lot of better around Thanksgiving to January.


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[Assistant] I know. I think they got that potential. And the last thing I'll say about the Rams is this. Stop the five man rushes. I love Raheem Morris. I love Sean McVeigh. I'm speaking to them directly here. Stop the five man rushes. You got three super freaks under D-line. So, they gotta win.


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[Assistant] Alright, they gotta win by themselves. The other thing I'm gonna add on top of that is, they're paying a corner 20 million dollars a year and he's playing zone every play. Stop. Stop.


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[Assistant] What made them great last year on defense was they would put Ramsey, not every play, but a good amount of the game, especially the second half of the year, on an island.


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[Assistant] The cliff notes of what went on in some of these games that were such shockers this past weekend.


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[Assistant] And, uh, always appreciate the questions, the listeners, and Paulie, you the man.


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[Assistant] That was Chris Sims on Button presented by Under Armour. We always appreciate Under Armour too. Peace out homies. Check you out next week. Poly B, you the man. Thanks, buddy.


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[Assistant] Ah, yeaah, that's right, it's Chris Sims and that jock sniffer is back. He's here.


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[Assistant] Well, we have something else that we used to say back in the day and I can't remember what it was. Like maybe about your brushing your teeth, but I don't know. Me? Oh yeah, no idea.


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[Assistant] Once a day, that was it. See, I knew there was something. Damn! That needs to be put on Twitter, really, uh, Pete, and we need the homies to like chime in. Is it acceptable to only brush your teeth once a day in the year 2021? Putting you to the test here. In the morning, so when I'm meeting you,


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[Assistant] And when I'm meeting anyone throughout the day, I have fresh teeth. But you don't want to go to bed with fresh teeth? You just want to let that crap sit in there all night, huh?


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[Assistant] But what's up everybody? Chris Sims, Ahmed Fareed, Week 15. It's the Monday podcast. We're going to recap every game. And of course not all games happen. So we might actually get done with this podcast before an hour and a half. We got, we got four more games left on this awesome weekend, which I love by the way. I'm like my Monday and Tuesday got better. I mean better.


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[Assistant] To me it's like, it's almost like an excuse for like, man, okay, hey, hey honey, I gotta sit on the couch, I got work to do.


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[Assistant] I got work to do. It's the Raiders and the Browns. Gotta watch the game. Doubleheader? And then I'm a little disappointed about Tuesday's matchup as far as Seahawks, Rams, and Washington Eagles. Why? Like, well, why couldn't they, why'd they have to make them at the same time? I know they were both like,


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[Assistant] Why? I mean one was supposed to be a 1pm kickoff Sunday, the other one was supposed to be a 4 or 5 kickoff on Sunday. Why are they making them at the same time? Now I gotta make sure when I'm at home that my NFL


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[Assistant] Whatever, on MyNFL.com, I can watch the game on the computer, cause I don't have a room with like two TVs next to each other. You gotta have like direct TV, or the stream. I do have direct TV, but like, well I'm gonna watch one of the games on


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[Assistant] Right, and I'm gonna have to do that through my computer, so these are, you know, big problems in my life that I gotta figure out by tomorrow.


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[Assistant] It's finally, it's finally happened, no doubt. I hope this actually, I've said this with Florio and I think he agrees, I would like to see it go this way in the future. You don't think it's too much? Like after a while, like I think- I know for the normal fan it probably is. It is.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know. I guess I look at it selfishly too. Like when there's seven or eight games at the one o'clock window, I'm overwhelmed on Sundays too. And I'm like, it's hard to keep track of everything. And then I spend my Monday and Tuesday trying to go back and watch everything again. Like to be able to digest it.


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[Assistant] Little by little, I think would be better on my memory. It would improve your quality of life.


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[Assistant] Oh, I know, I think I got the clowniest of the clowns, actually. Yea, why'd they do that to you? I dunno, cause, I dunno, it probably fits, right? You know what, they knew you could take it. They knew you could take it. No doubt about it, no doubt.


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[Assistant] Right, now he said it, he said it earlier that day, and like at lunchtime, he was like, I'm going with the Saints, and I was like, you can't go with anybody else, and we kind of all laughed, but yeaah, big, big time for him there. He gains a game on, a game on Mike, and of course my losing continues, it's the worst year I've ever had on Sunday Night Football, and it's actually embarrassing now.


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[Assistant] They've, well, they have. They definitely have. It's just about like, listen, other teams probably see it and want to go, wait, we, you know, we'd like to do this too, but we just can't do it. I think that's really the biggest problem.


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[Assistant] You know, first off, hey, we talk about this a lot. When you're in the division with somebody, and you're the two kings of the division, you, you, you study them a little harder. You know, you've had...


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[Assistant] Not only do you not, you know their system through your studies, you also start to know the person on the other sideline too.


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[Assistant] Right, a little bit. Whether it's the coach or the quarterback, you start to go, oh, he likes to go to these plays on third down. You start to get a feel for the human being, let alone the scheme itself, right? So I think that plays into it a little bit. But then, you know, it's just one of those few defensive lines in all of football.


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[Assistant] That seems to give the Bucs issues. It's in fact, to me it's only, there's only two defensive lines that I've seen have given the Bucs issues. It's one, the New Orleans Saints, and two, the Rams. And the Rams of course are 2-0 against the Bucs over the last two years too. And it's weird because they're totally different defensive lines. The Rams are really small and fast.


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[Assistant] The Saints, like the Bucs, are one of the biggest defensive lines in football. And I think, hey, listen, this is no secret formula. Anybody that's paying attention or hasn't lived under a rock for 20 years, right, knows what's the key to beating Tom Brady. You start to hit them early on, you know, they got pressure.


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[Assistant] You know, they keep two safeties back a lot. They kinda call your bluff and go,


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[Assistant] Two safeties are back. Go ahead, try to run the ball. But within doing that, they also put a lot of people in the line of scrimmage who are gonna drop out.


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[Assistant] So, they kind of like bluff you out of the run game a little bit, and that was one thing. Listen, it was a physical butt whooping. I think that's where you gotta start. And then the second thing, and I said this last night, and you might have heard me say, I think the Bucks came out a little bit arrogant in the fact that they thought they were just gonna


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[Assistant] Forget the run game, we're just gonna throw at every play. And that's kinda how they started the football game. And to me, that's not when the Bucs are at their best.


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[Assistant] Hey, you can get away with it against the Atlanta Falcons a few weeks ago or teams that you know that are clearly not in your class. But with a team like this, you do that. Uhm, yeaah. I think they kinda gave the Saints energies. They didn't have to worry about the run game very much.


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[Assistant] I think there's probably some of that, I mean, to a degree. And they are, they're like the Bucs. I mean, you almost just go, ah, forget running against this team too much. But, you know, again, Tampa Bay, to me, is at their best.


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[Assistant] And I know they're still good when they get in the shotgun and throw it all, but they're at their best, what we've always said, Ahmed, when it's...


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[Assistant] A little bit more of like running formations and we're going to run the ball. We're going to run play action.


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[Assistant] And then we're also going to keep Gronk into block and have six or seven blockers with the running back added to the offensive line. And now Brady can be comfortable back there and he can let the three guys work their magic down the field, right? That's to me when they're at their best.


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[Assistant] You know, the other stuff to me is just icing on the cake. But I think they're, uh, you know, a tougher team to defend when they do have that running threat because then it plays into braiding the play action. He's amazing on that. And then also when they drop back in some of those formations, like I said, you can keep a max protection and he can feel cozy. Cause last night again, he's, we know, the GOAT, he's awesome.


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[Assistant] He does have a propensity in any game you've seen them lose the last few years.


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[Assistant] When people get on him a little bit early, Washington earlier this year, the Rams earlier this year, it's all the same story, where then he becomes flinchy.


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[Assistant] And, you know, people are chicken to say that. The only guy I know that says it is Rodney.


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[Assistant] Rodney said it last night, Brady gets scared and things like that. He starts to look downfield, he looks back in the pocket.


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[Assistant] And then he starts to already move in the pocket when he doesn't need to, and he takes his eyes off downfield. And listen, that happened. That happens to all quarterbacks. Uhm, but Brady at 44, who gets I think in a little bit of a self-preservation mode with that stuff too, because he doesn't want to just get crushed and killed, and he took a lot of hits last night, don't get me wrong, but it does affect him, and we've seen that.


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[Assistant] And again, I'm not trying to be a jerk. I know I take my shots at Tom Brady and all that, but that's a real thing. And really one of the few flaws he has of his game, you know, that not being able to make plays off schedule. Probably a lot of quarterbacks would have felt that with Cam Jordan in this game. No doubt. Cam Jordan was amazing.


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[Assistant] He could have put that nail like halfway in the coffin. I think so. I'm not going to say he could have solidified it.


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[Assistant] I think it would have gone a long way to your point, especially because down the stretch they got what? The Panthers?


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[Assistant] The Jets and the Panthers, is that what they got down the stretch, I believe? Right? Now the Panthers are still a good defensive football team and giving them issues. Panthers, Jets, Panthers, right? And uhm, but, but yes. And to me, again, you heard me say this last week, I think, I don't know. I think Rogers is the MVP.


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[Assistant] And I know I'm biased towards Rodgers, but I don't think there's any quarterback that's more important to their football team than Rodgers. And the way he played yesterday compared to Brady, yeah, I think he closed the gap a little bit there again, once again, but, uh, I think that's a real thing. And, and yeah.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, I think overall big picture to what you're talking about, the injuries, the receivers and all that. That's why they're not going to get rid of Antonio Brown.


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[Assistant] You know, one because, hey, the team might go, well, that's messed up. You said he may mess, if he messes up once he's out of here, but they're also not stupid enough to go, well, let's cost the Superbowl all over teaching him a lesson. Those guys don't want that. They want to win the Superbowl. We'll teach him a lesson after the year. Whatever. Don't play him now. Don't let him get his contract incentives. Sure. Fine.


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[Assistant] They're not gonna want that, nor do you want Green Bay picking up Antonio Brown either, but yeaah. Like crazy game. Crazy game last night. Never would have thought we would come away and go.


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[Assistant] If the Saints kick for your three field goals, they're gonna win the game. It was insane.


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[Assistant] Oh, so it's closing the gap there. To me, again, Rodgers is better at this point. That's not even a question. It's not, and he's more important to his football team. I just, I don't know any other way to say it. And I know Brady's probably going to have more touchdown passes.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, but to me the quality, he's gonna have more interceptions. Rogers again is gonna lead the league in quarterback rating. His greatest quarterback rating in the history of football. Uh, but it's, hey, it's gonna be actually, I think it's gonna get fun to watch now to see what happens with these two guys down the stretch. But, yea, crazy loss of the Bucks and certainly lost their stranglehold on maybe being the number one seed there.


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[Assistant] Maybe hit a guy in the chest and by accident because they have a head on their shoulders and a helmet that's on that head.


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[Assistant] Where the helmet just touched the receiver's helmet too. And even though all the contact was in the chest and the shoulder area. Oh, he hit him in the head. You know, unnecessary roughness. You know, and so players are scared that way.


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[Assistant] But it stinks, and I wish the league would do something about it. Again.


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[Assistant] I've had this conversation, I said this last week on PFT.


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[Assistant] If I was playing football, and I know most receivers feel this way, and Larry Fitzgerald used to tell defenders this, right? He'd go, I'll pay your fine. He'd go, hit me in the head. Don't hit me in the knees. All day long. I don't care.


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[Assistant] Again, these are meatheads. None of them care that much. They're not all worried about like their future being Einstein in the future world. They want to play football. That's what they love to do. So I don't look at it as dirty. I think it's a result of how the game is being ref now. And yeah, a player that you'd like them to aim a little higher. Definitely. I get that. But I, I,


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[Assistant] It's not the worst. They shouldn't be crippled. And especially if Antonio Brown comes back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not gonna be as easy. I mean, Mike Evans is a mismatch nightmare.


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[Assistant] You know, Godwin's phenomenal at the work in the middle of the field, run blocking. He does a lot of the dirty work, uh, for that offense.


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[Assistant] So they're, they're gonna be missed. I mean, hey, listen, I'm really happy for Chris Godwin. I really am. Because I, that, that looked way worse than a sprained MCL. Yes. He must have some loose joints to be able to. Looked like it could have been a head injury too. I mean, right, you're right. I mean, it really, the way he fell, the way his knee bent, I thought, oh no, I hope it's not ACL. So glad he'll be back for the playoffs. You know, Fournette doing that.


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[Assistant] You know, helicopter split that he did. You know, the one thing, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I'll be interested to see where it goes. Because two, what happens to guys on Sunday, Ahmed, and you know we've had this just with injuries,


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[Assistant] Most guys on the, on the field, I mean 90 die, 98% of them, they're on tour at all. So when they get hurt,


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[Assistant] They don't realize how hurt they are until the next day. Cause they still got like that numbing drug and hamstrings, they can certainly be one where you go, Oh, it's tight. But then you wake up this morning and you're like, Oh my gosh, it's way worse today because that drug is worn off. But yeah, big blows to them. They'll be okay.


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[Assistant] Ronald Jones is really good, you know, he's been in the dog house because...


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[Assistant] Not trustworthy, not mentally tough, maybe after some fumbles and issues like that. But they're gonna have to ride him. He's gonna have to get tough again. And he showed he could do that last year. And you mentioned the other cast of characters who were good.


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[Assistant] Certainly good. If they run the ball, play action, do what we talked about, play through their defense a little bit. I certainly don't see them losing games down the stretch. I really don't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean you would think they'd have to be a little bit better, but like if they're defense plays that way, they don't need to do a lot.


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[Assistant] They don't, you know, they just need to be able to like, hey, move the ball, eat up some clock, score some points, and win some ugly football games.


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[Assistant] And listen, that's a real thing. To me, that's where they miss Sean Payton was those dull moments you're talking about. It's the third quarter.


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[Assistant] Payton's in-game adjustments or ability to go, wait, they're doing this to us and wait, we got these plays right here that'll screw that over and being able to get to that, that's to me where they probably missed him. You know, he's a genius that way.