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[Assistant] I also think that you like to get your first round rookie over a thousand rushing yards. It makes just sort of, it looks, it looks nice when you spend a first round pick on a rookie and he does that. So that's a good point.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Bears defense has been much better, especially the run events, but I think air jokes can probably get them in that passing game where he's been dominant. And if the Packers get a lead, wouldn't be surprised to see him grind it down. He should have a lot more touchdowns the last couple of weeks too. He got really hosed by them giving the ball to AJ Dylan at the goal line. Cowboys at the commanders.


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[Assistant] Cowboys minus 13 and a half commander's kitchen. A little bit of juice. A total here of 46 and a half. I thought about this one for a little while and here's my take.


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[Assistant] I trust the Cowboys even on the road.


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[Assistant] Even against a division opponent in this spot. Now, as what typically happens at least once a week, I'm going to give out a best bet of Cowboys minus 13 and a half. RJ is going to have a similarly themed best bet that I actually like better and wish that I thought of. Uh, we'll get to that in a second, but you look at the Cowboys road was they lost Arizona. Embarrassing.


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[Assistant] But there are other road games like Buffalo, Philly and Miami in San Francisco.


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[Assistant] I mean, those are all four really, really good teams. San Francisco blew them out, but they were right there with Miami. I think, uh, was the Buffalo game might've been not that.


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[Assistant] Buffalo game was no Buffalo, Buffalo destroyed the Cowboys, but then they really should have beaten Philly too. And so I think that you take those four games and group them separately from the Arizona game. And then you put in Carolina.


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[Assistant] And the giants on the road and they smoke those teams. And I think this is a spot where Ron Rivera and the commanders have checked out it's it's vacation season.


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[Assistant] They have no defense and they're probably starting Sam Howell again, who's been holding onto the ball behind a bad offensive line.


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[Assistant] And it's going to get sacked a ton by Michael Parsons who was probably out of the race for defensive player of the year, but maybe could flip it a little bit if he had like a five sack game or something like that. Um, I think the Cowboys absolutely destroyed the commanders here. They've been given a gift from the football gods to win the division and host a playoff game. And I don't think they're going to take it lightly.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, wow. 93 and a half. That's, I think that's kind of factoring in that Dallas, they're like, Oh, Dallas might take their foot off the gas. I don't see how you can. If you, if you saw the commanders come back and put in percent, come back against the jets. This is for the division. No, they were dead in the water.


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[Assistant] And they've given a gift. I don't think they take the foot off the gas at all. All right, let's take a break. But first,


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[Assistant] Yep, I'm on Seattle as well. It's a spot. Pete Carroll, you know, talks about compete, compete, compete. Um, that's right. We don't take dogs. We take the cat.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I think the, uh, I think I agree with RJ's ad cap of that almost completely, especially the part about Arizona coming off.


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[Assistant] Was basically their Superbowl. You go and beat your coach's old team. You make their defense look pathetic. You remind them that Jonathan Gannon, uh, was a big reason why they had success and went to the Superbowl last year. You ruin the Eagle season.


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[Assistant] NFC Westgate Rams at the 49ers battle of the backup. So we got the 49ers down to four now. I think it was.


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[Assistant] Four and a half, but four with a little juice, a total of 41 and a half. And look.


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[Assistant] I'll, uh, let you explain further Katie, but I like the under in this one and I like it because we have seen Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan.


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[Assistant] They're not going to toss caution wins. The only like throwing of the ball might be to get Pukka Nakua, the rookie records that he needs to get. Other than that, it's going to be run the ball and make sure everybody is healthy because we are locked into our playoff spots. I think they're right. Yeah, everybody's locked in. They're both locked in their playoff spots because they're not playing anybody. Sam Darnold and Carson Wentz ain't out there to wing it around, Katie.


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[Assistant] I agree that in a little, uh, the defense will come to play and I try to stifle the offense, but also these two teams definitely think there's a chance they see each other in the playoffs. There's going to be nothing. Nobody's going to like put anything out there that could mess it up. I don't think RJ. Agree.


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[Assistant] Alright, sorry, I kind of blacked out.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't either. I like, I like the Giants in this body. Eagles are reeling and really could have like lost the two games out of their by against the Chiefs in the Bills. And we'd be talking about an all time spiral in terms of Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] I think the Giants are absolutely live here. They would have been made the list, uh, close on the best bet. Next up Broncos at the Raiders. Raiders minus two and a half is the best bet for me. Um, uh, total here, by the way, 38 and a half. Look, talk about motivation for all these playoff teams, possible playoff teams.


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[Assistant] There's no motivation for the Broncos. They've been eliminated. There's franchise franchise quarterback. Russell Wilson has been benched. They have turned to Jared Stidham. The Raiders, this entire locker room wants


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[Assistant] Don Yee represents Tom Brady, or represented Tom Brady when he was a player. So there's a Raiders connection there. Also Don Yee, Jimmy Garoppolo's agent, I believe too. And so, you know, he's, he's negotiated, he spent time around the Raiders. He has a lot of connections there. And I think that might be the holdup. Is Jim Harbaugh interested in this Raiders job?


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[Assistant] So in other words, these Raiders, these Raiders players are going to come to play on Sunday to try and get


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[Assistant] Alright, Bill's, uh, I got to bounce here in just a second, but Bill's minus three at the Dolphins over under 49 and a half Dolphins catching a little bit of juice. The under catching a little bit of juice.


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[Assistant] Good to have the bills at like minus 120 on the money line earlier this like right on Sunday. I still like the bills minus three. I'm a big number on the road, but there's a 100% chance of the bills. I mean, the dolphins will be motivated here.


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[Assistant] But man, the Bills have been great in these spots in week 18. They have knocked the Dolphins out of the playoffs before. They have.


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[Assistant] Blown out the Patriots and these, they, they, they come to play week 18. I think this is one where Buffalo is either going to be playing for the division or playing for a playoff spot. I think they find a way to win by three plus points and man handle.


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[Assistant] Ah, well, I'll tell you the truth, man. I did not expect to see a lot. My expectations were extremely low and it wasn't just about the guys that opt out.


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[Assistant] What people didn't hear about was a lot of the other starters were having surgeries. You know what I mean? Getting ready for the off season. So what happened was,


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[Assistant] Memes opt out. Everyone else pretty much played. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of their starters were underclassmen. Carson Beck probably would be a first rounder last year. He played, uh, lad McConkey, the best pass catcher outside of Brock Bowers. He played all, all three or four of their running backs.


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[Assistant] Playing defensively. Yes, they lost the linebackers at Kentucky.


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[Assistant] But they were loaded. I mean, when he got hurt, a true freshman jumped into the lineup anyway midway through the season. They didn't miss a beat.


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[Assistant] So for us, you talked about, you know, how lopsided the game was. I mean, Leger, you know how it was when as a true freshman, if your first time seeing significant action was against one of the best teams in the country loaded with pro prospect at the pro prospect, you're going to go through some growing pains.


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[Assistant] If it, if it was the other way around, if I was starters, I found.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jordan Travis, Trey Benson, Kion Coleman, Johnny Wilson played against their threes and fours. It'd probably be the same thing as well. Jared Verst, could you imagine Jared Verst going against a true freshman left tackle or a guy who really hasn't seen a lot of action?


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[Assistant] Like, so it was a tough spot to be in, but I mean, 13-1 is not a bad year. I mean, a lot of universities would love to have a 13-1 type scenario record wise. Uhm, and you know, we're gonna, we're gonna tap into the recruiting trail. Once again, we got some guys coming in. It just was.


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[Assistant] It wasn't just about the guys that opt out, man. We had a lot of guys that had season ending.


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[Assistant] Surgeries, like right after the Louisville game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Tatum Bethune, um, Joshua Farmer, who wasn't even a starter defensive attacker, but he was third in the rotation, you know, Fisk. Uh, so it was a lot of guys that were there, but didn't participate because, you know, they're dealing with injuries.


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[Assistant] Man, I'm happy we got an experienced quarterback because you know, one thing about college football, if you don't have an experienced guy at the quarterback position going to struggle, ask Ohio State, right? Ask Ohio State. They threw that true freshman into that fire, that offense was a bit stagnant, you know what I mean? So having an experienced guy,


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[Assistant] Coming to Tallahassee along with some of the younger quarterbacks to get an opportunity to learn from because we threw Brock Glenn into the fire, another freshman. Uh, the lights were too bright for him. So he gets an opportunity to learn from an experienced guy. So I'm happy.


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[Assistant] Was the score. Uhm, yeaah. 31-0. And basically, the starters played, but he, Mike Tomlin, was telling all of us, like, listen, there's no need to play around. Uhm, we wanna win, most importantly, we wanna get you guys involved, get the blood flowing a little bit.


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[Assistant] Let's come on out, let some of the young guys get in into the lineup and let them take it from there.


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[Assistant] And that's what we did. We started with a fiery, jumped out early. I think our offense scored the first drive or the first two drives.


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[Assistant] After that, it was like a preseason game, Leger. Everyone came out, right? Younger guys got in.


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[Assistant] And of course, for Cleveland, they had nothing to play for. So that's another thing too. When you talk about playing against a team that has nothing to play for in the final week, if you jump on them early, they're getting cruise control. Cause the last thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the last thing veteran players want to do, especially when you know your season is done after this game, is to go off into the off season with an injury.


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[Assistant] That you didn't have before that final game. So they're in cruise control. They try to protect their body and try to get out scot-free so they can enjoy their off season. So for us, we played, but we didn't play the full ball game and I would love to see exactly the mindset of teams like San Francisco and Baltimore who have everything locked and loaded, how they will handle their starters because they have two weeks off.


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[Assistant] No, no, I mean that 2008 year when we had to buy, we were the number two seed right behind Tennessee.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, we, we were happy we had to buy because, you know, it was a long season, uh, mentally fatiguing, same can be said for the physical side of things as well. So we were happy to have that off week to be able to watch football. You know what I mean? Recalibrate. Now my rookie year, of course, when we were in desperation mode, going all the way back to week 13, if we had a buy, we didn't want it.


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[Assistant] Because we were rolling. I mean, the way we were clicking, it was like, yes.


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[Assistant] Regular season ended, playoffs next week, let's keep it going. We, we, we needed that because we were in a streak. So I see it from both sides. You know, some teams that are playing some of their best football, you know, like prime example, Buffalo. If Buffalo wins,


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[Assistant] If Buffalo gets into the playoffs, they're in a division, you know what I mean, where they're going to be division champs. So for them, they don't need to buy because they've been playing some of their best football.


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[Assistant] In the last four weeks. So that's the rhythm that is, was established for them to be able to get into this point where they win and they're in. So I see from both sides, but 05 we didn't want to buy, 08 we kind of needed that buy just to kind of recalibrate and take out four off the gas before getting right back into playoff mode.


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[Assistant] Depends on the year. Okay. We, we, we hate the Ravens but we respect them.


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[Assistant] Say it again. 05, you respect the Cincinnati? No, we definitely hated Cincinnati because they actually thought they were better than us.


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[Assistant] But guys, think about this though, real quick on this whole Tepper situation, uh, unprofessional at his, at his, at the most, right? And you, you're an owner.


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[Assistant] And he got, he got hit with a $300,000 fine, which as you stated, Ryan, it was like,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he should have been suspended because when you talk about the head of security for Philly, you know, it kinda got in a little tussle verbally with a player. You removed him from the sideline instantly.


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[Assistant] Then the following week you said he can't go on the sideline, he has to watch it from a, uh, from a, from a box, from a box.


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[Assistant] He didn't throw any water on anybody. He got into a little verbal issue with a player. I understand you can't do that. You talk about an owner threw water on people. That's disrespectful. That's something that you don't, you teach your kids to not do.


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[Assistant] You threw water on people. I wouldn't throw water on my pets. Better yet, an individual who I don't know. You might do it once.


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[Assistant] If I'm giving him a bath, if I'm giving him a bath, I'll do that, but just in a disrespectful way, cause you're mad and he's mad because his team is getting whipped. And that's the thing, you know, LeJay, you know how it is as player, players, when you go to a ball game and even as fans, when you go to a ball game, you, you're in enemy territory. If your team is not looking good.


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[Assistant] Fans can, they will say whatever it is they want to say, you gotta have tough skin.


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[Assistant] You're not, the Panthers will not get a noteworthy head coaching candidate. They gotta get someone who's just wanting to be a head coach. They're not getting the guy who, like Harbaugh, Ben Johnson, Belichick, they're not getting that type guy.


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[Assistant] Mean legit, we on the defensive side together. Alright, we're getting ready to get in the huddle. Once the tackle eligible comes in, the referee acknowledges who is eligible. He comes to us and say, hey, 74 is eligible. So now we're going to echo that.


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[Assistant] Linebackers, guys in the secondary, we gotta echo that. Hey, remember 74 is eligible. So now we gotta, we gotta play the formation as such. So for them to try to finesse and confuse on the Cowboys, nine times out of 10, they probably didn't see two guys running to the referee anyway, because we're looking to the sideline either waiting for our signal.


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[Assistant] Or we waited for our caller, whoever has the mic and the helmet to kind of get us together. So we didn't even see, we usually don't see that.


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[Assistant] For the Cowboys, Skipper was the guy who they were told was eligible. So no question in 68 was going to be open because he wasn't supposed to be, he wasn't the eligible guy. He wasn't the guy that was communicated to them as the eligible guy.


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[Assistant] If you go back to his presser, remember he said, the reporter asked him about going for it even after the penalty. Correct. And he said, I told my guys during that drive, we're going to score and we're going for two. And I wanted to keep my word.


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[Assistant] Especially if they got the ball first coming out of overtime, you know, winning the coin toss, they had momentum inside easily. They went down the football field and scored. So listen, when the play was called back, the eligible confusion led to them calling it back. You move back.


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[Assistant] Oh boy, so bad. He got bailed out with not running the football, throwing the football. He threw the football three straight times.


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[Assistant] I hope Miami wins, but I'm agreeing, I'm agreeing, I'm agreeing with Leger. I think Miami, they're dealing with too many injuries. The key guys, man, it's, it's, and yes, Josh Allen has been turnover prone, but the flip side to Josh Allen, he's an, an elite talent playing the quarterback position as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the flip side. If this game was happening at around one o'clock with that sun beaming on that sideline to the visiting sideline, I would, yeah, but Miami, man, they're dealing that no more.


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[Assistant] Nope. Chubb. Phillips. Is Jerome Baker back? I think he's still injured as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, Xavier and Howard, uh, you're playing against a team that has been in desperation, uh, desperation, desperation mode going back four weeks ago in Buffalo.


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[Assistant] So, I hope Miami find a way to, uh, win this ball game, but if I had to put something on it, I'll take Buffalo because they're the healthier team.


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[Assistant] It boils down to them not being physical. Them not being able to win the game in the trenches.


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[Assistant] When you talk about a team like Baltimore, they, their style of play will travel because they're a physical ball club, regardless of what type of scheme they're going against offensively or defensively, they are physical in the trenches. So for Miami, they're not a physical team. Yes, they do an exceptional job running the football, but it's a finesse running style.


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[Assistant] They're not coming down powers and leads and things like that. It's more perimeter pulling guys and kind of using motion and they kind of manipulate your eyes a little bit. And of course.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they try to manipulate you. Baltimore is coming down, down the teeth. You know what we're going to know what it is. And they play the same way on the defensive side as well. So you talk about style makes fights. It's like that in the game of football. So for me, it's


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[Assistant] Miami, if they can come down the teeth of Buffalo's defense, that's where they're going away. I like Ed Oliver, but he's a bit undersized. You know what I mean? Sometimes he can kind of get lost in traffic a little bit linebacker wise with no Matt Milano. The same can be said. Those guys can kind of get lost in traffic. But if you're trying to hit the perimeter where they can just run.


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[Assistant] They go, they gonna be successful. So in transitioning to Baltimore and Pittsburgh, number one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they wouldn't be in this conundrum right now. If they would have started Mason Rudolph two weeks prior, two weeks earlier, they would be okay.


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[Assistant] They wouldn't have to worry about anything. Now, they got a window shop. They got to look outside their window and see what's going on and hopefully get into playoffs. But I'll say this though, Leger, one thing I know about Baltimore and Pittsburgh, even with Lamar Jackson, with all their stars,


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[Assistant] It's something about those, those teams where both coaches will emphasize this. We know them extremely well. They know us extremely well. So it's almost like who's going to.


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[Assistant] They play a full game. I think they play a quarter, maybe a half the starters because, because TJ Watt is something about TJ. He's always in the backfield of Lamar Jackson and you know, Pittsburgh, I wouldn't be surprised to see Pittsburgh find a way to win, you know, especially with them pulling.


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[Assistant] I think Jacksonville wins because as LeJay mentioned, Tennessee has nothing to play for. They're just trying to get out of this ball game hell.


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[Assistant] I love, I love Houston. I love Houston against Indy. I'm taking the best quarterback. Having CJ Stroud come back last week instead of coming back this week was huge. He didn't do a lot, but he did enough, right? He got his feet wet. He got his blood flowing again. So now he should be much better.


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[Assistant] In this outing against the coast than what he was last week and he played pretty good football a week ago at home. And Will Anderson, he had two sacks last week. He's playing some of his best football in the month of December.


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[Assistant] You know, Sheldon Rankins as well, another former first-rounder playing great football. So these guys are hunting. They're hunting on the defensive side. So I take Houston against the Cokes.


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[Assistant] But I can see, I can see both teams slipping up, honestly. That is true.


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[Assistant] Nah, not really. Uh, you know, we've always had an easy float when I was there. Nothing really internally that was an issue that kind of got outside to media. What, right now this story, I can tell you this much. Uhm, if Pittsburgh beats Baltimore,


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[Assistant] And Mason plays the way he played the last two ballgames and they get into the playoffs, Mason was starting the playoffs.


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[Assistant] But the thing is though, what happens now is if that scenario becomes a reality, guys, in the offseason, now you really have a quarterback issue.


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[Assistant] You do. You have one. So you invested a first rounder in a guy two years ago who


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[Assistant] The offense, he understands the way the Steelers do things and he's experienced. He's more polished. You can tell that throw he made when that pocket was collapsing.


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[Assistant] Last Sunday in Seattle, hit George Pickens on that seven cut and he didn't panic.


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[Assistant] That was, that was outstanding. Unfortunately, we've seen, we've seen Kenny Pickett get out of the pocket too soon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, not going to get in a lot of hypothetical situations.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome to the pick six podcast, CBS sports NFL podcast. I'm a person joined by the super friends, Ryan Wilson and John breach along with the pilot of our power rankings plane.


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[Assistant] Propeller pusher himself, Pete Prisco. What's up buddy?


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[Assistant] You know, I got beef with this, uh, this Monday. I don't like a Monday Christmas.


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[Assistant] Get born on a Thursday, Jesus. Cause see, like if you get, if we get a, if we get a Thursday Christmas Eve or a Thursday Christmas.


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[Assistant] Then you get to roll it into the weekend.


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[Assistant] Like everybody's sorta like, alright. If you get a wednesday christmas, you get to roll into the weekend. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Don't you feel like the monday christmas is kinda like, everybody's gotta get back to work.


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[Assistant] Some days off. Some days off. Pete's in the office. How are you in the office again today? That's impressive.


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[Assistant] All right. If you want to check out our festive Christmas recap, Gansa, it's in the feed myself, Wilson and breach had a grand old time after the Ravens stopped the 49ers on Christmas night. Go and check that out. The 10 things we learned for week 16 games, including Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] Elite Joe Flacco making a Super Bowl run is a possibility today. We're going to run through Pete's week 17 power rankings and blind rank MVP's. But first the Chiefs lost at home to the Raiders yesterday.


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[Assistant] Real story. Oh, that game was a Nickelodeon theme. Santa doing the gritty Ninja Turtles doing commentary, sliming the end zones. What are themes you would like to see with football games, Pete?


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[Assistant] Themes. Yeah, like, you know, like a little mermaid theme or a party.


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[Assistant] What's that? A toga party. A toga party football game. What kind of game? What kind of silly, silly, whimsical themes would you like to see attached to football games?


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[Assistant] You're, you're just, I'm sorry. You're over Bill Belichick on every level.


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[Assistant] Wow, uh, I'm told reliably that the person who peeked into Pete's room.


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[Assistant] Jamie Eisenberg wanted to jump on and say hi and happy Merry Christmas. Pete locked the door to the podcast room. Is that true, Pete? Oh, it's not locked. Look at it.


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[Assistant] All right, let's get into the power rankings and we start. Have to start.


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[Assistant] Dude, there's a new number one on your power rankings and who else could it be? But the, I assume the Ravens were number two before this game. Yes, they were because they moved to one spot. Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] I would hope is your MVP Pete at this point brought party got it on your ballot.


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[Assistant] I mean Tyreek missed a game, Waddle went nuts and.


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[Assistant] They, they beat the Cowboys without Tyreek doing much of anything. So it's hard. It's hard for me to like even have him on the ballot.


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[Assistant] Put Stafford in there. No, I didn't put him in.


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[Assistant] Uh, we did our MVP ballots for Jared Dubin's post. Here's mine, Lamar Jackson one, Josh Allen two, Matthew Stafford three, two of four, Jalen Hertz five.


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[Assistant] They are not a team that I think is going to be worthy of having an MVP because there's so many different players that are so valuable. Like I don't, I don't think you can take, like to me with San Francisco, you can't say party is more valid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I don't, and I have a hard time. Look, Christian McCaffrey's awesome. I mean, I've watched him for years in Carolina and love the guy, but I have a hard time sort of, I just have a hard time saying like, like,


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[Assistant] We just react like crazy after one week of football. And that's, I mean, that's just like how the NFL works. It's why it's why, I mean, the NFL loves that we do it. It's, it's because you have no choice, but to react on a week to week basis. I think if you take a step back and say, all right, here's the totality of Brock Purdy season, like this is a great season.


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[Assistant] To me, the MVP race this year, it's sort of part of the, part of the theme about this year with all the backup quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Playing it, playing this year you lose, you know, and then also remember that thing Tom Brady said about.


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[Assistant] Play being down or whatever, whatever you try to come out and say, I think it's just the transition from one generation of quarterbacks to this next generation of quarterbacks. You're not getting the greatest season from the homes.


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[Assistant] I would agree. I would agree. It reminds me of, I agree with you too, it reminds me of...


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[Assistant] Mahomes playing better at the position in 2018 than he did in 2017, even though the numbers statistically regressed back a bit from the ridiculous 20, like he was a better quarterback in 2018, but the numbers in 2017 were just outrageous.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because he's averaging 223.8 yards per game. He's at his highest.


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[Assistant] He's averaging, uh, let's see what 5.5 yards per attempt led the league in 2019 with 6.9 yards per attempt and just 52.4 yards per game versus 80.4 that season. I think.


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[Assistant] And if the 49ers had kept it close, I think this would have borne out. We talked about this last night, but I do think Lamar is going to run more the final two weeks of the season if he plays in week 18.


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[Assistant] And then, and then in the playoffs, I think they're going to have more designed runs as part of that offense. And they, they purposely kept them out of that offense. Not that they're going to have to do, that's going to be the offense. He's going to pass still, but I think they're going to, I think.


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[Assistant] Yeah. No, I mean, it's like, if you look at, um, so his, he had only


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[Assistant] They have a few more designed runs sprinkled in there, but I just think it's a byproduct of we've let him play in the pocket all season long. He stayed healthy and now we can be a little more aggressive running the football with Lamar.


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[Assistant] Indeed. Your other biggest riser, Pete, my Los Angeles Rams up to 10.


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[Assistant] It's hard to believe that they're the position they are in terms of the playoff race. Sean McVeigh can flat out coach up six spots. I'm 16. Are the Rams the most dangerous team in the NFC?


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[Assistant] They've done a great job of building, like building around those, those high price stars. You know, you had, when they had Ramsey for a while, they had the four guys, right? Cup, Stafford, Donald Ramsey. You trade Ramsey. It's understandable why people thought this team wouldn't be very good. And Stafford, you know, a couple was hurt last year. Stafford wasn't very good last year. He was hurt the entire season. He's playing awesome football right now.


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[Assistant] He's playing, he's slinging. You saw it two weeks ago and.


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[Assistant] Like the, just the, the torque and like the velocity and the spin on, on his deep ball is just, it's just different than a lot of other guys can even throw it and.


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[Assistant] When they're on, man, they're, they're, they're a problem. We were talking about this last night, but lions, rams.


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[Assistant] How many, uh, Pete, how many quarterbacks on either side, AFC, NFC?


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[Assistant] Do you think can just like get so white hot that they take over?


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[Assistant] Stafford, like if I'm saying like the quarterback, it's like Stafford's the only guy I really see on the NFC side who just can't just take over.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, you know, while we're talking about teams and, and, and their flaws and who we think could get hot.


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[Assistant] Let me take a break. We'll come back. We'll play a game of vote of confidence. The dreaded voter confidence will tell you about it next.


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[Assistant] Let's talk instead of, you know, we're having this sort of a haphazard discussion about the quarterbacks and I think this basically takes, uh, takes it into, uh, takes us in the same territory playoffs. You're almost here. We know who's going to be involved.


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[Assistant] We certainly have some questions about all of these teams. The chiefs will get to in a second, but first on a scale from one to Nick Mullins, heaving a ball downfield in the vague direction of a receiver.


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[Assistant] Is that the high confidence? I feel like that's low confidence or I guess it's, I'm very confident Nick Mullins will keep it downfield haphazardly. So on a scale of one to 10, how confident are you Pete in the Cowboys winning a road playoff game?


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[Assistant] One to Nick Mullens, heaving a ball downfield the vague direction of a receiver. How confident are you in the Chiefs receivers? A Chiefs receiver catching a game winning touchdown.


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[Assistant] Do you think that Taylor Swift has ruined Travis Kelsey's career? No.


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[Assistant] The distraction might be that Taylor Swift won't stop complaining to Travis Kelce that she has to be friends with Brittany Mahomes now.


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[Assistant] I thought you were going to say she's going back on tour when the playoffs start and Travis Kelsey can finally start paying attention again to football. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] All right. Uh, any numbers for you guys? I'll say, uh, uh, four is a good number. I like four. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, on a scale of one to Nick Mullins, how confident are you in the Eagles calling a play other than the tush push on fourth and one?


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[Assistant] Scale of Wonder Nick Mullins, how confident are you in the Dolphins beating a winning team? They just did it. What are you guys doing? I'm reading producer Harry's lines, bro.


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[Assistant] I'm not confident. I don't think the Dolphins, like the Dolphins still just scored 22 points against the Cowboys at home.


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[Assistant] How confident are you in the 49ers coming, uh, down back, coming back from down more than seven points?


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[Assistant] I thought this was interesting from Mike Sandow.


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[Assistant] 49ers are own 38 down eight plus in the fourth quarter under Mike Shannon, under Kyle Shanahan, all teams.


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[Assistant] Win 7% of the time in those situations. 98, 1337 and 4.


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[Assistant] KC is the best win percentage, 6 in 14, 30% of the time the Chiefs wins in those spots. Green Bay next 7 in 34 with a 17.1% winning percentage. Seattle 138, Carolina 1 in 58, Indy 136 in 1.


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[Assistant] Baltimore, two and 22, Dallas, two and 37, New England, three and 35. No one really wins. These helps to be good at drop back passes. San Fran scheme, quarterback weakness equals drop back pass.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying it's like, it's like they can't come back down from down eight plus in the fourth quarter. Like most, most teams aren't good at doing it.


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[Assistant] Eight is an interesting, eight's an interesting number cause it takes out a bunch of like.


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[Assistant] Pete, can we take a break and then you do blind ranking or do you need to go?


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[Assistant] How would that, how would the order go if we did it today? Do you still go Niners first, Wilson?


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[Assistant] And then three, so breach and go chiefs and Cowboys probably. And then Pete would come back with the.


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[Assistant] That's good, good exercise. Alright, that'll do it for Pete on the show. When we come back, uh, we're, we're going to blind rank some MVP winners.


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[Assistant] In the history of football. Mark Mosley won.


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[Assistant] All right, let's blind rank some MVPs. Who wants to be our blind ranker? Wilson, you want to do it this time?


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[Assistant] All right, we will start. This has been fun with Pete, actually 2002 rich cannon.


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[Assistant] And he, he took off that 2002 season. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Had a pro bowl season, all pro season in 2000. They went 12 and 4.


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[Assistant] 4,689 yards to lead the NFL, 67.6% completion percentage, 26 touchdowns, just 10 interceptions, MVP, third place offensive player of the year, his second all pro and his second just his fourth fourth consecutive pro ball.


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[Assistant] Made four straight when he got to Oakland after being largely irrelevant, uh, in Kansas city. I think, I think it's one of the underrated, great examples of a quarterback getting paired up with the coach and what it can do for their career. All right, you want to give him the next one, but then he went to the super bowl and had to


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[Assistant] The most sexy ever had in his career, 20 and a half. It's wild. Like how many sacks do you think Lawrence Taylor would have in a season now?


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[Assistant] That's how good he was. He was a defensive player who won MVP. Do you happen to know?


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[Assistant] Through the, uh, the fi- the other, there were actually 10 guys who got votes for MVP, but only five who got multiple votes. Can you name any of the other four guys who got multiple votes? I want to say I got 41. The next guy got 17. What year is that? 1986. Joe Montana. Phil Sims.


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[Assistant] Neither of those is correct. Montana got one vote.


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[Assistant] John Elway, fifth place, got three votes. Oh, I'm doing all right there.


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[Assistant] Dickerson! Dickerson is correct! Yes. John Riggins? Uh, no, the other one was Joe Morris of the Giants.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. And the Giants that year went 14 and two and harsh out dominant defense. They were good. They gave up, um, 14.8 points per game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not the greatest year. Todd Gurley, second place car. That was the Carson Wentz year when Carson Wentz was going to win.


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[Assistant] No, I know it's coming. All right. Night. I reach you. Go ahead. Who's next?


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[Assistant] Two runner up MVP awards before runner up places before winning this award. He led the league in 65 his final year in the league in rushing yards for the eighth time, led the league in rushing touchdowns for the fifth.


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[Assistant] 8.3 yards per attempt, one MVP and off


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[Assistant] Good point. Uh, also worth noting Tom Brady in 2007, not unanimous in BP.


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[Assistant] Who's team obviously lost to the Giants? Barf. Barf it is. That's all I needed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the, but the, but the, but the Giants beat three NFC teams.


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[Assistant] Who would remember? Bridge had just enough time to Google it while you were like, lobbying out AFC names.


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[Assistant] All right. That'll do it for us. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.


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[Assistant] Smash that like button, subscribe, rate, review, tell your friends, tell your family. You're sitting around day after Christmas. Tell your family about the podcast for Wilson, for breach, for Pete Prisco. I'm Brinson. See you guys later.


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[Assistant] Uh, if you put the eggplant on my Italian pizza and a glass of Italian red wine, that's all I need.


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[Assistant] You know who didn't lose? Number eight, the Cleveland Browns. Pete and Joe Flacco and the Cleveland Browns play the Dolphins on a neutral field tomorrow who's winning that game. We don't know the health of Tyreek Hill. Who's winning the game?


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[Assistant] I mean, Brenton, if you're talking about one team finishing 11 and six, the losing team finishing 10 and seven, it could be the two seed or the six seed or the two seed or the seven seed.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to see if we can, if I can bring up the, do the math really quick. Fun fact while Brinton's doing the math really quick. Uh, Mike McDaniel two and seven as the dolphins coach in December and January.


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[Assistant] Another part of that comparison is that you have that upstart other team in the division in 2005. It was the Bengals for the Bills this year. It's the Dolphins where all the spotlight's kind of on that team. And then the, the T the unexpected team catches fire. I was around.


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[Assistant] That's the only way he can fix his reputation. I'm the number one person on the Cowboys handbagging right now, but I agree with Princeton that the only way McCarthy can, can improve his reputation at this point is to do something in the playoffs. Same with Dak. Same with Dak. Same with Sean McDermott too, by the way.


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[Assistant] They've gotta get to at least deck has to get to an MC title game or just library.


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[Assistant] Well, that's what I was going to say here real quick, is that Mike McCarthy has more margin for error, because if the Cowboys lose to Buffalo but still go 3-1 in their final four games, they could still win the division.


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[Assistant] Pete, let me ask you the total chaos question. This is a question that we all wanna see this scenario play out.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco leads the Browns to the Super Bowl. I don't care if they win or lose, they just get to the game. Who is Cleveland's quarterback next year?


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[Assistant] Or like the, the jets should have had them. Why wouldn't the Falcons or Vikings call him up right now and be like, dude, we'll give you as much money as you want. You name a price. Get over here. All right. Well, he doesn't want to leave.


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[Assistant] Once the Chargers get rid of Brandon Saleway, which obviously will likely happen this upcoming offseason, should they make a trade for Bill Belichick? Yes.


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[Assistant] Uh, I agree with Pete's thoughts. And also you can't throw him under the bus after one year. You gotta give him one more year, but if he sticks next year, you are in trouble. Uh, and you can cut bait after two years, I think.


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[Assistant] Same, I think it's about the yellow. I think he's done enough this year that you feel good about him going to next season and that's all you can ask for at this point.


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[Assistant] Well, Justin Fields real quick though, it's one of those things where you just need an offensive coordinator who can utilize his skill set. And it's like, the Bears forget from year to year what Justin Fields is capable of.


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[Assistant] Well last year, last year they did nothing and then he blew up the Patriots on I think Monday Night Football last season.


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[Assistant] And then they're like, oh, he can run the ball and he can do other things besides be a pocket pass or whatever we were trying to make him be. And then same thing. It was like starting back at square one this season where they were limiting what he was doing and then they decided to open up the offense and now they look a lot better. So I grew these guys, I think.


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[Assistant] Fields deserves another year, two years, three years, forever!


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[Assistant] I would never miss a podcast. I don't protest anything. I just show up and do my job, Brinton.


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[Assistant] I am here. Let's talk about we, I can't believe the regular season's over. Can I tell you how much I can't believe that? I'm in shock. You sure can.


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[Assistant] I am a 1. I do think it's surprising it was at midnight. It's like this is something you could have done a couple hours after the game, maybe at 8pm or just hold it off until Monday.


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[Assistant] We kind of saw this with Brandon Staley where everyone thought he was going to be fired. And then you went to bed and you're like, man, he didn't get fired yet. Is he actually going to get fired? And the next morning they make them go into the office at 8 a.m. Pacific time to get fired. Like if you're going to fire me, at least let me sleep in. So at least Arthur Smith.


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[Assistant] Knows this beforehand and look, this, the writing has been on the wall here ever since Arthur blank.


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[Assistant] I did that interview a few weeks ago where, hey, do you want to give Arthur Smith a vote of confidence here? And he basically was like, yeah, we're going to see how the season plays out. There's no vote of confidence. If it doesn't end the way I want it to end, uh, he is probably not going to stick around and losing.


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[Assistant] For their last five games is definitely not how, uh, Arthur Blank wanted to see this end. I mean, yes, this team finished seven and ten, but it is crazy to think about that they were six and six. I mean, they were in the thick of it in AFC South. They could have won it had things gone their way.


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[Assistant] When he walked off the field, Brinton, you mentioned the situation that led this, but when he walked off the field, dropped an F-bomb, and yelled at everyone in front of him, it was pretty clear that that was going to be the last thing he ever did, because you're on the hot seat, that's just a man who, exploding, the final shawl, the camel's back, you're done, bye, that was it.


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[Assistant] Swing and miss with Arthur Smith. They thought they were getting a great offensive guy and the interesting thing is


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[Assistant] If you look at the beginning, uh, the last few coaching hires, go back to Mike Smith, his first three years, he, him and Matt Ryan went to the playoffs together in 2008, first year head coach, rookie quarterback, which is what we're seeing this year with D'Amico Ryan's and our, uh, and uh, CJ Stroud.


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[Assistant] So, and that's a rare thing to do that, to have a rookie head coach and rookie quarterback make it playoffs together. And then they hired Dan Quinn, the early years of that, that was a home run. He made the Superbowl in his first three seasons with the team.


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[Assistant] And so this just felt like something where I think Arthur blank was like, all right, we got to cut ship. I'm, this is what I'm used to and smart business guys.


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[Assistant] They can cut bait. They, they realized that, hey, look, maybe Arthur Smith can work out somewhere else, but this is not the team where this is going to work. So I'll be interested to see what they do going forward. So we'll see who you think they're going to hire.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you just mentioned how much they show against good teams. Harry's got the graphic up that I'm sure is painting him up there, uh, to put it up there. And that's the, look, they've faced


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[Assistant] Six teams that finished above 500. They went one and five in those games. The one win was against the Cowboys by two points. Three of the five losses were by two touchdowns or more.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, they do struggle against good teams. And yeaah, it did take a punt return touchdown for, that kinda sparks the Bills. Cause at that point, I'm not sure, I felt like the Dolphins were gonna win it until that punt return happened. But...


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[Assistant] Even with that, the Dolphins struggled in the second half. I think they only had 67 total yards. You can't put up 67 yards and a half and think you're going to win a game. They couldn't do anything. They couldn't come up with any big plays in the second half. And that's an issue. And it's not just the defensive injuries. I mean, Raheem Mozart wasn't out there. Jalen Waddle wasn't out there. So this team,


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[Assistant] Is absolutely banged up and you have two, uh, you know, starting the game with an interception, ending the game with an interception, making a few uncharacteristic mistakes. So I,


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[Assistant] You're playing a team with a winning record next week. You mentioned the temperature. I think they're 0 in 10 in games under 40 degrees, uh, which we'll talk about a little bit later in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeah, this is not good for the Dolphins. It's not easy to blow a three game lead when there's five games that are less left in the season. It's only happened four times in NFL history.


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[Assistant] Uh, and for the Bills, look, if Josh Allen, you just talked about how badly he played, they still won!


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[Assistant] He turned the ball over three times and they still won. If he doesn't turn the ball over three times, who knows what happens? Maybe they win by two touchdowns.


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[Assistant] I think that's the conversation you have with Josh Allen this week. Look man, look at our whole season. When you don't turn the ball over, we dominate people. When you do turn the ball over, we lose or it's a tight game. So don't turn the ball over. So I think it's really that simple with Josh Allen. You don't have to be


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[Assistant] You don't have to hit home run every play. We can take the singles. We can take the bunt. Just get us down the field, score touchdowns and we'll win.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, Sean McThermin had no problem throwing Josh Allen under the bus, which tells you how dumb of a play it was where sometimes the coach will take the responsibility. But when it's such a dumb play that you have to, and I don't think Josh Allen would care if he heard that interview, he'd be like, yeah, that was a dumb play. And when you win.


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[Assistant] You know, you forget about it or put it in the back of your mind and say, I won't do that again. I lucked out because we won this game.


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[Assistant] And so, you can't, and that is, it's a microcosm of what Josh Allen does. It's, he thought he could get a touchdown there, he thinks, hey, I'm gonna sneak it in, my guy's gonna turn around, jump at the end zone, we're gonna get the touchdown, everybody's gonna celebrate. And the opposite of that happens, although, you know, there was a helmet to helmet there that probably should have been called.


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[Assistant] But even then, you get an untimed down and you probably kick the field goal because there's zero seconds left. You just get one free play and you probably take the points, but who knows.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, this was the ultimate Josh Allen. We got the whole Josh Allen roller coaster. The Bills are lucky they won with as badly as he played for a good chunk of the game. But in the second half, he looked like the Josh Allen who could take the steam to the Superbowl. So I just thought it was crazy that we saw, uh, the two sides of Josh Allen, the one that could lose them the game in a wild card round or the one that could take them to the Superbowl.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I just feel like this is when you're in college and you're with a drunk buddy and you start playing who can jump off the highest roof without breaking their legs. Like eventually you get to a roof that's so high that someone's going to get hurt or you just back out. You guys didn't play that in college?


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[Assistant] Just kidding, but it's one of those things where you have to weigh the pluses and minuses here. And yeah, if you want to play your starters because you do think you have an outside shot at the two seed, that's one thing. Uh, but we also had what Jared Goff in this game in the fourth quarter, I think that he was still out there.


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[Assistant] Well right, and that's my point is that the Cowboys went up 35 to 10 very early in the third, I think after the first possession of the third quarter. That game's over at that point. You're not getting the two seed. You already had Sam Laporte get injured. It's pull everyone because it just doesn't, they got the play. They're not going to be rusty. They had a good first half.


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[Assistant] But at that point, there is no reason to have anyone out there. Just go home. Like it doesn't matter. You're getting the three seed. So.


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[Assistant] I do think that he was a little over aggressive. I have no problem with him playing his starters to start the game, but just scoreboard watch and pull your guys when you need to, especially if you've already suffered a brutal injury.


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[Assistant] Probably Dan Campbell, but I don't think it's as, I don't think it's as uh,


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[Assistant] It's gonna be a very, I mean the Browns one of the best defenses in the NFL and they at least got a taste of what the Texans do on offense when they faced them a few weeks ago, but CJ Stroud did not play in that game. Uh, I think the Browns won that 36 to 22.


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[Assistant] And so I think Cleveland's offense is going to feel confident because it's pretty much the same Texans defense out there. And they're going to think, hey, we can score on this team. We can run up the score. And, and you know, the only way they're going to stay in it is if CJ Stroud can turn this into a shootout.


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[Assistant] But as soon as CJ Stroud connected on that 75 yard touchdown on the Texans first play from scrimmage, it was just like, okay, well this game's over and now let's start paying, let's flip the page dude tomorrow, uh, and see what happens. See if the Texans end up winning the division that it's just.


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[Assistant] That was a smart play and the Texans have so many smart plays and CJ Stroud is making all these great throws. It really is ridiculous what he's been able to do as a rookie quarterback this year.


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[Assistant] It doesn't actually look exciting on offense for the past three weeks. It's not like, fair.


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[Assistant] Since 2012, rookie quarterbacks are 4-11 in the playoffs, just any time in the playoffs. Brock Birdie has two of those wins. Yep. Russell Wilson and the other two wins came because a rookie was playing another rookie in the playoffs and a rookie had to win.


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[Assistant] So, you really only have two wins. Ross against RG3, and then what was the other one? Ross against RG3, and, uh, man, one of them actually involved the Texans. Andrew Gregory Dalton vs. TJ Yates. TJ Yates. Oh no!


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[Assistant] I think Trevor Lawrence, Trevor Lawrence was a huge problem down the stretch. I mean, you look at what happened. Hey, look, and, and, uh, Harry, throw up the graphic. Just as I say that, how do we feel about Trevor Lawrence? That's a tweet from Chase Daniel and look.


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[Assistant] It has not been good. He ended this season with 21 turnovers. 10 of those came in the last 4 games. He threw 3 interceptions in that loss to the Browns. That was a big reason why they lost. He threw 2 interceptions


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[Assistant] Against the Buccaneers in a game where it felt like on paper they had more talent, but they got smoked. And then the Ravens game, he had that bizarre fumble where the ball just fell out of his hands when they were at least in min minimum in field goal range.


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[Assistant] And he had a couple of those where he had, his guy was running a stop route and he overthrew it and the ball sailed out of bounds.


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[Assistant] He was erratic today and he struggled with his accuracy, but you know, he didn't practice for much of the week. He was dealing with shoulder injury. So there's a lot of things to that, but if you're going to play, you know, your team expects you to put you in a spot to win and it didn't go like Trevor did that.


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[Assistant] Anyway, he just finished two winning seasons in a row with Jacksonville. Do you know how many coaches have done that with Jacksonville?


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[Assistant] Probably, uh, Jack Del Rio. I bet Jack Del Rio may have done it. Last time was Jack Del Rio 2004-2005. So literally, Peterson just did something the Jags hadn't seen in 17 years, 16, 18 years.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, first of all, you think Jordan loves, like, my God, why did I agree to that little bridge contract that pays me ten million dollars next year? So I do think...


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[Assistant] And everyone, Packers fans were just ready to send them to the bench and think, what are we doing? This guy is not our future. And that's what happens when you go, what, two and five, I think is what they started. And now.


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[Assistant] Well, he played well against the Bears, but he fell apart in the second half against the Falcons in the game. They lost 25 to 24 and had they not fallen apart, this, they would have been in dire straights heading into week 18, needing a win to get in. And the thing is, and Wilson, you just asked,


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[Assistant] If this is going to make them feel confident about being the Cowboys, I'm not even sure it was the way Jordan Love played that's going to make them feel confident. It's going to be the way their defense played. I mean, look.


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[Assistant] Joe Barry has taken so much heat there over the past few weeks. We saw, they gave up 30 points to the Panthers, 34 points to the Buccaneers, 24 points to the Giants. They just kind of needed, I think, this confidence boosting game going into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Now you're coming off two weeks in a row where you've given up 10 points or less. This defense is playing much better. Jordan Love looks good. And yeah, you're playing Mike McCarthy's Cowboys and you guys already both mentioned that there's, you know, Mike McCarthy has a thing for melting down in the playoffs. So against his old team too, like, I mean,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think we would pro- I think Brentz will definitely be on the Packers, at least to cover seven here, so it's seven.


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[Assistant] Who'd they have at 35? 35 years ago. Cause you had FAR starting in 1992. And so you weren't like,


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[Assistant] The one odd thing about the Bucks is they were playing anyone but the Eagles. I would 100% be picking against them. The fact that they get to match up with the only team.


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[Assistant] That is just playing the worst football out of anyone in the postseason right now is unbelievable. Because Brenton, you mentioned how bad their offense has looked in the past two weeks. They only scored 13 points against the Saints.


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[Assistant] We already mentioned they only scored nine against the Panthers and these were high pressure games. These were almost playoff games. The Panthers game was a playoff game because if you lose, you're out. The Saints game, if you win, you clinch the division. So in these high pressure situations, they average 11 points. So that's not what you want going into the postseason.


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[Assistant] I am a little worried about the one stat I did see today that blew my mind is that the Buccaneers have the longest active playoff streak in the A- in the NFC. Do you guys know that?


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[Assistant] They've been in the playoffs four straight years, which is the longest streak in the NFC. The NFL is hard, man.


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[Assistant] Where it was just every time they won a game, it just, you knew the wheels were going to fall off the wagon. And this is where three of the wheels are falling off the wagon and the Eagles are still dragging that wagon with one wheel on it. And look.


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[Assistant] You just mentioned the 49ers and Cowboys blowouts. It was after they gave up 42 and 33 in those games and that's when they...


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[Assistant] They just said, all right, decide you're benched, you're done. We're letting Matt Patricia take over. Patricia's very first game. They give up a game winning touchdown pass with 26 seconds left. It was like, ah, Chino Smith. It's okay. They're good. And then to give up. Oh yeah. It was drew walk. It was drew.


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[Assistant] So that's not a red flag, but Drew Locke is out there dicing you up and beating you. Cause if they win that game, they're still in the running to take the NFC East. And that is really when it felt like the collapse was really there. Cause I felt like we all thought the 49ers and Cowboys were just better teams. That's why the Eagles lost and then the CM lose to the Cardinals. And it just feels like this team.


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[Assistant] Is in total collapse. They have no chemistry. It seems like everyone in the locker room hates each other.


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[Assistant] There's always, the coaching staff is a problem, the defense is a problem, the offense doesn't get along. So you always see guys yelling at each other on the sideline. It just seems like this team wants the season to end. It's just, it's painful to play and nobody's on the same page and I will be shocked if they win in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I don't want to steal Brinson's answer. I would say that is the best answer, but I'll go with the Seahawks. They were 6 and 3 at one point. Seemed like a lock for a wild card.


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, because they had the impossible stretch of 49ers, Cowboys, 49ers, and it was, if you win one of those, but then they had the shocking loss to the Rams, 1761, they had a loss to the Steelers that Wilson remembers on New Year's Eve, uh, and if they win just one of those two games, then


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[Assistant] No one has the Steelers. No one has the Steelers. That's right. And everyone has one.


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[Assistant] No, we did the draft after th- they- I don't wanna talk about it.


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[Assistant] The Breach VP, I'm gonna stay right here in my lovely town of Nashville. It is going to Derek Henry.


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[Assistant] Who might have just played his final game with the Titans, and if he did, he went out with a bang. He almost single-handedly knocked Jacksonville out of the playoffs.


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[Assistant] 19 carries, 153 yards, one touchdown.


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[Assistant] Uh, he has basically been here. I moved here in 2017 and it has been Derek Henry, Derek Henry, Derek Henry. He's been the face of this franchise for so long. He's been such a weapon and if he is gone,


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[Assistant] So my Breach VP is not a kicker this week. It is Derek Henry.


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[Assistant] You deal with the temperature that's going to be in Baltimore. You deal with that pressure. Matt Stafford, that's a game. I expect Baltimore's defense to find the end zone in this one.


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[Assistant] And the Colts defense is opportunistic. They can get pressure on the quarterback. They can stop the run. This is a bad spot right now. You have to take Gardner Minshew over Jake Browning and the Colts I believe will get their eighth win and going over a game and a half of their preseason total of six and a half.


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[Assistant] But I think that closed, like, while we were doing the show too, so. Yeah, it might have.


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[Assistant] This is the NFC South Championship game, right? Because I mean, you think about it, uh, remember the first time these two teams played and doesn't really have like all the.


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[Assistant] Tampa had a dog fight with Carolina, which was just fascinating to watch. And granted it was raining, it was a downpour. I get it. But I feel like the Falcons in this spot, um, are playing much better offensively. Ritter had some nice throws against a very good Jets defense. And I just think that we'll see a clean game from the Falcons this time around.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? Like this dude, like 5'9", 145 pounds. What is he doing with the guards and centers, right? So that just blew my mind. And again, you didn't have to do all of that.


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[Assistant] You will touched on perhaps why Seattle look like they look on last week against Dallas and you wonder.


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[Assistant] So this will have to be all back in the passing game. But the good part is C. D. Lamb is their best running back because he's outstanding with the ball in his hands. So I feel like with the way the Eagles show, they are not interested in tackling in the on the perimeter of the safeties in their corners.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome to the pick six podcast. CBS sports NFL podcast. I'm Will Brinson here with Ryan Wilson, John breach and the peak power ranking purveyor, Pete Prisco.


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[Assistant] Man, did you watch David Tepper's press conference today? I'm not watching that, Luke. Trainwreck. Panthers cut it off after 13 minutes.


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[Assistant] Scott Fowler's been the columnist of the Show Observer for like 30 years.


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[Assistant] He's been covering, he's covered the Panthers to some capacity for like multiple decades and they refused to let him answer a question because his, the column he wrote yesterday was David Tepper should fire himself. I had some pretty feisty words for David Tepper as well on cbsports.com.


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[Assistant] Oh, the reason I mentioned this cause you're talking about Bryce Young and David Tepper was, uh, basically.


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[Assistant] Attempted to suggest that he had nothing to do with the choice of Frank Reich or the choice of Bryce young or the coaching search or the quarterback process.


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[Assistant] Whatsoever until the coaching staff or the front office or whoever it is, the scouts, whatever they vote on it, they bring it to him. He's like, and I have the power to veto it. He's like, but you know, like,


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[Assistant] Here, here's the thing about the setup with the Panthers though. And I think it's been really interesting to sort of find out in the wake of Frank Wright being fired.


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[Assistant] Cause Frank, right. Didn't interview with Scott Fowler and, and then of the Charlotte observer, you heard Joe Parson of the athletic as well, both friends of the public. It's like, um,


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[Assistant] Joe pointed out that there's, and he said this several times, I just think it's kind of flying under the radar. Like they were trying to incorporate Thomas Brown's ram stuff into Frank Reich's system.


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[Assistant] And then also, I think, uh, Kyle Bailey of WFNZ reported today that the front office came to Frank Reich this week. It was like, you need to put in more RPO stuff. He's like, I'm not going to do that.


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[Assistant] But like trying to combine Frank Reich system and a Rams based Thomas Brown system and throw it into one and have your offensive line, which is full of young guys in the first place.


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[Assistant] And your rookie quarterback learn it on the fly with a new running


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[Assistant] All I'm saying is that, like, that, that, like, and then to hear, and then to, like, uhm, what's his, is it, uh, Todd Corbett? Who's, what's the guy's name?


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[Assistant] Ted Corbin, Ted fires Josh McCallin and Deuce Staley.


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[Assistant] It's, I don't know. It feels to me. And then Frank, Greg's like, this is probably my last stop in the NFL. It feels to me like one Frank, Greg had been checked out for like a month. And then two, there was maybe like a bunch of faction and infighting within the coaching staff. Had you heard anything about that? Pete?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's magnified. I want to make two points on that. One, I think hell yeah, it's magnified by CJ Stroud, making it look easy. Two, it's magnified by the fact that they are currently going to be giving away the number one overall pick in the draft to the Bears. And I think that really started to settle in with David Tepper where it's like, holy crap.


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[Assistant] We, we, we like jumped the gun to get Bryce Young when, and I don't know if Caleb Williams would be great, I don't know if Drake Mayer would be good, we'd beat his ass on Saturday. Shout out to the Wolfpack. Uhm, but yeah, like, I, yeah, uhm, but I think like,


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[Assistant] You're giving away that number one of all pick is not something that an owner likes to do. I would also say that CJ Stroud has way better weapons, a way better offensive line and a consistent coaching staff.


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[Assistant] I think Frank Recky is a good example and we've seen this with, uhm, we saw it with Rex Ryan where it's like, just take a year off, step back, and then maybe come back, instead of like just jumping immediately to the next job. Somebody else did that too, I think. Or maybe you're better as a coordinator, and that's okay too. I think that's the other thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, by the way, did you see, uh, and we'll move on in a second, but did you see, uh,


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[Assistant] Where, uh, Alex Smith, when he was talking about the Tom Brady's reacting to Tom Brady's media, media, like mediocrity comments and his, and he is.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you was mediocre for 20 years. That division, that division was terrible. They like cut to Rex Ryan in the, in the same room at the same desk. And Rex is just like, what the hell dude? You just, Alex is right. He's not wrong. Uh, Pete, let me ask you this.


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[Assistant] Is it, is the Carolina Panthers head coaching position attractive?


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[Assistant] That's true. Uhm, okay. Let's get to the power rankings.


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[Assistant] It was all, it was huge favorites. Uh, so I full donkey week for me, uh, against the spread. Congrats to me and Dave. Anyway, enough shenanigans. Let's get into.


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[Assistant] Low scoring shenanigans from the Bears Viking game on Monday night for interceptions from the pastronaut himself, Josh Dobbs.


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[Assistant] They nearly stole the game anyway. So terrible football. Uh, Pete, do we think that the legend of Josh jobs is coming to a screeching halt?


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[Assistant] If they, if they win those, if they win those four games, that gives them a 99% chance to make the playoffs according to the upshot.


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[Assistant] But so like your first year, Wilson covering for seat, working for CBS, you and I were working for CBS and this is like, this is the year of Tiva mania and like Pete was the last man standing. Like it was like, like Tiva, they won six straight games over the course of that season.


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[Assistant] You trade, you trade the number one overall pick to a team that wants to come up and get a quarterback for multiple firsts is what you do.


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[Assistant] Um, and if it's Arizona, we don't know if they're going to be looking for a quarterback or not yet, but like the Patriots certainly could. If you trade it, you, you would have.


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[Assistant] Presumably if you had, if you trade down from one to two or three and you also have four, I think you could get Marvin.


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[Assistant] It's just, to me, it's just odd that you, I mean of, of like, and I mean, like I'm surprised that you're the one who likes Justin Fields because he doesn't necessarily get flashed in the passer, like getting flash in the pocket. He's relying on his legs.


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[Assistant] What about the Lions down six spots, your biggest follower in your power rankings? They were number two. They were a team that I said at mid season. I liked him to maybe make a Super Bowl run. Of course they immediately went in the tank. You said that last week.


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[Assistant] So it's, it's, uh, Eagles, Cowboys, Chiefs, Niners, Dolphins, and then six is Raven. Six is kind of low, but seven Jaguars, eight lions, nine Steelers, 10 Texans, 11 Broncos, 12 bills, 13 Colts. It's ugly down here. 14 Seahawks, 15 Vikings.


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[Assistant] You know what else is awful? The system they use to elect.


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[Assistant] The hall of fa, to, to, to, to vote for the hall of fame players. Why?


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[Assistant] Semi-finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame were announced this morning, Tuesday morning, a pretty awesome list of players. Tiki Barber added, love Tiki. Eddie George, Andrew Johnson, James Harrison, Julius Pepper is a first timer on there. There's Vince Wilfork. I'm not going to name all of them. You can see them on the screen. Shout out Tori Holt.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're going to give out our ballots. You get five guys in Pete Prisco's cover this league for 35 years. Could qualify would qualify in my book Pete as a hall of fame writer. Maybe you'll get in posthumously. Um, it is ridiculous. So the way that the system is set up, it was geography based.


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[Assistant] Local outlets back when you started coming this league and they didn't have TV. Like you didn't have red zone or you never had a Sunday ticket. Like if you lived in Jacksonville, you couldn't watch a California team unless they were on national TV.


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[Assistant] Right. And watch on the satellite. So they wanted to have local people who could stump for the players that they were around. They saw in all of those things and that's, and it's just, it's a weird system. So let me ask you though, what's wrong? What's wrong with the system?


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[Assistant] She cracks me the hell up to think about these hall of fame voters, like walking around like it's like super bowl week and you like turn the corner and you see Pete coming your way and you're like, God dang it. I'm about to get.


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[Assistant] He got a little frozen there, while he, while he re-corrects and, and...


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[Assistant] Uh, you get only at five modern era players on per ballot. Like that's it though. That's it. Well, I guess you'll get, you'll put five on the ballot, right? Because only five can get in. Uh, what is your, what is your, what would your five, your ideal hall of fame class from these semi-finalists look like? Um, I obviously Fred Taylor is one.


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[Assistant] I think one of the things they need to do, and I'm, I'm biased here because I really want Torrey Hultigan and think he should be. And I think he's a little, I think he's a lot like Fred Taylor in terms of the stats, um, and, and how he's perceived, but they really need to do something about this log jam at wide receiver.


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[Assistant] Like it's getting backed up and guys are retired. You have Andre Johnson is the first time guy, but to me, who was


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[Assistant] Either you go with Hester and get him in, if, if you believe that he should be in. If you believe Hester should be in, then he's the fifth pick. Or you, or you use the fifth pick to sort of unclog this wide receiver mess a little bit more. Cause to me, I, you can make the case that all six of the, I don't know, I'm not as big on that board.


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[Assistant] What? My ballot's terrible? Or I know football and you don't? You don't include Antonio Gates or Julius Peppers? Like through the easiest first ballot hall of famers in this group by far?


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[Assistant] I was played, uh, I played Madden at this first Superbowl I attended with Antonio Gates.


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[Assistant] And I later had to call, I like was supposed to do an interview with him and somebody gave me a number to call to do the interview. It was like his house, but he answered. I was like, uh, and tell me what's up. Um, I don't remember. We played mad at the super bowl. He's like, yeah, I've only done that once, dude. I definitely remember. He's an awesome guy.


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[Assistant] Uh, is Antonio there? He's like, yes Antonio, what's up? I was like.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Cause I mean, I remember they, I mean, they had me and Chip Patterson covered, like, like I saw Lehigh beat Duke and we saw, uh, Creighton beat Carolina. Cause they would, they sent us a Griezberg to cover that.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, my- my ballot is Antonio Gates, George Peppers, Tori Holt, Steve Smith, and Devin Hester. Uh, brief- You don't have Brett Taylor on that damn ballot? What the hell's wrong with you?


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[Assistant] I knew you were doing the podcast, so I was like, I know Fred Taylor, I know Fred Taylor.


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[Assistant] Um, where each has Willie Anderson, Devin Hester, Fred Taylor, Darren Woodson, and Andre Johnson.


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[Assistant] I didn't have Fred Taylor, dumbass. Julius Pepper was on the Hall of Fame All-2000s team and the Hall of Fame All-2010 team. He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer.


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[Assistant] Sorry, but Breach Breach Breach says his non modern era pick would be surprise surprise Ken Anderson.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Bill Walsh never leaves and goes to San Francisco. Joe Montana doesn't. Yeah. The very, very big butterfly effect.


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[Assistant] Yeah. All right. We're gonna take a break. When we come back, we've got our live power rankings of NFL team fight songs.


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[Assistant] All right, Pete, uh, we haven't, we're going to, we're going to rip through these blind power rankings. We'll get you out of here in a couple of minutes. You don't have, you don't have HQ, right? No, because of soccer, you've been superseded by soccer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, of course. You know, I love that. I know you do love soccer. Tell on the company line. That's right. Yeah. You tell me how you listen to that soccer podcast the other day.


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[Assistant] Christmas tree looks like, it's like, hey, it's like, it's like somebody asks, it's like an AI thing. Their chat GPT is like.


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[Assistant] Draw me a Christmas tree that looks like the bingles playoff hopes. It's just like this pile of crap. All right.


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[Assistant] So here's the deal, Pete. We, we give, we give you, you have one through five. We give you one. You don't know what the next four are going to be. You can rank it anywhere you want.


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[Assistant] Is this hey hey hey hey with the buccaneers? Hey hey hey with the buccaneers!


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[Assistant] Let me tell you something about your, your brother. By default, you only have one left. So this is...


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[Assistant] Tomorrow we got Doosdayz with Brady, Brady Quinn, and Lazy A Doosable joining the show. One last reminder, give us a like or comment, hit that subscribe button on YouTube. If you're listening to the pod version download, follow, subscribe, do a five short review, tell your friends, word of mouth, always a nice bonus. That'll do it for us, for Pete, for Breach, for Wilson. I'm Brinson. Thanks. See you guys later.


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[Assistant] And that was Tim Tebow's dad, probably. No, he called about four or five times. He was mad at you.


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[Assistant] Last Monday, but he's doing better. We saw him on Thursday as well. This episode of the Pick Six Podcast is presented by Fandel Sportsbook. Make every moment more.


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[Assistant] The last episode, the Super Friends talked about week 15 of the NFL season. Breach, Wilson and Brinson did a heat check on the smoking hot bills and presented the MVP cases for Lamar Jackson and Brock Purdy.


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[Assistant] Absolutely love to see that. You can watch that episode on our YouTube channel or the audio version wherever you get your podcasts. And while you're there, feel free to hit that subscribe button so that you don't miss another episode. It's time now to look at the early lines in liens for week 16 of the NFL.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we could take a look at some of these macro trends quickly. Home seven and four against the spread. Favorites also seven and four against the spread. Home favorites dominated five and two against the spread. That seems to be the trend over the last few weeks. And the unders.


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[Assistant] It's been the year of the unders, eight and three so far. Uh, Emory, any overarching thoughts on week 15?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, and the thing is too, is that uhm, oh man, I lost my, I had a thart. I had a thart. It, uh, my brain just missed what I was wanting to say. But I do want to ask you, Propstars,


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[Assistant] Quickly, you know, more injuries happened this weekend, probably the biggest one, Keaton Mitchell, uhm, out for the Ravens. What, what has the prop market been looking like, uh, with all of these injuries that have happened this season?


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[Assistant] My thought just came back to me. I was going to say for tonight's game, it's such a, we're not going to talk about on the show, but Monday night football between the Eagles and the Seahawks, both quarterbacks listed as questionable. So we don't know if we're going to get Jaylen Hertz or Marcus Mariota. We don't know if we're going to get Gina Smith or, uh, Drew Locke. So it's so hard to price these, you know, to one bet these games and certainly for the books to figure out.


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[Assistant] How many points are going to be scored and what everyone is going to look like. On that note, let's go ahead and get into this week's games.


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[Assistant] Saint's coming off a 24 to 6 win against the New York Giants. I've got egg on my face because I took the Giants and Tommy DeVito and it seems like that story.


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[Assistant] Um, has come to an end. Rams, Rams appeared to be, you know, all the way back. They were just firing on all cylinders. They're coming off a 28 to 20 win over the commanders. Both of these teams, seven and seven on the season, the winner of this game would get a really big boost in the playoff race. Emory, what are you thinking about this matchup?


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[Assistant] Sorry, I was gonna say Matt Stafford is pretty elite against the blitz, is when you don't blitz him, that's where you can kind of get him to have problems. Sorry, Brenton.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Nick Browning is like pretty 2.0. I mean he's been ballin' out.


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[Assistant] Oh, well hopefully the, all the other ranger will be nicer to him. Uhm, okay, so moving on. Bill's laying 11 and a half right now at the Chargers. Guys, this line opened up at like 13 and a half or 14 after the Bill's absolutely demolished.


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[Assistant] The Dallas Cowboys, however, it was quickly about down to 11 and a half right now, 93% of early money, 86%.


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[Assistant] of tickets on the charger. So I think that's why this, this line has dipped down too much, you know.


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[Assistant] The Bills are a great team and Josh Allen is firmly now in the MVP conversation. If he could continue to ball out and somehow they win their division, I think that he's, you know, he's a dark horse.


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[Assistant] In terms of the odds, I think he's a good dark horse for this. Uh, that said, they have been a very volatile team, totally up and down, which as the Chargers are as well, but two touchdowns is a lot. So I'm not surprised that this has dropped down to 11 and a half. Princeton, what are your thoughts on this one?


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[Assistant] Emory, can, can you trust Josh Allen with this big of a spread?


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[Assistant] True. Alright, Packers laying four and a half at the Panthers. This total 36 and a half. The Packers have dropped the past two games. They've now fallen below 500. Two games below 500. Putting their postseason hopes on life support. The Panthers, as we just discussed, managed to win 9-7 over the Falcons in front of hundreds.


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[Assistant] Of their fans, uh, Brinson broke down for us why no one would be at that game last week and he was 100% correct. What was the attendance? 5,000 people?


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[Assistant] Going on for under a dollar, there were like 52 cents to buy.


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[Assistant] Get their, get it together with CJ Stroud. I know that they're banged up a lot, uh, with their pass catchers, uhm, which has been kind of depressing, but I don't know. I really believe in the CJ Stroud, so I, I like the text inside of it, but we do need to take a quick break here. Stick around for our anticipation plays next, where we try to beat the line movement for week 16. You're watching Pick 6. We'll be right back.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the Fixix Podcast. It's that time again for our segment where we give you a bet that you should lock in early before the line moves to get some CLV baby closing line value.


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[Assistant] We'll also do you one better and try to predict where that line is going to go. It is time now for our Anticipation Plays. This Anticipation Plays segment is brought to you by Fandel Sportsbook. Make every moment more.


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[Assistant] Last week, I had the Broncos plus three and a half, said it would go closer to three, uh, yikes galore on the Broncos, got absolutely eaten alive, um, by the Lions.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm looking at the bangles. We talked about this early. Line opened up at like one and a half or two. It's already two and a half. I think this kid three, possibly even three and a half.


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[Assistant] I just don't know what the Steelers could do, uh, and I'm pretty impressed with Jake Browning, so I think that this line continues, uhm, to go up, and so you might as well grab the Bengals now at minus two and a half.


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[Assistant] I'm like a lion's mush. Every time I back them or I back Jared Goff to go over one and a half passing touchdowns, it never hits. So I'm just, I'm just laying off lion's games at this point.


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[Assistant] That shot of him looking despondent on the bench after that as they're losing the game. I know that look all too well. Moving on, the commanders at the jets. I don't know why the jets are favorite in this game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, considering we just saw them get blown out by Miami.


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[Assistant] I mean, I heard he got benched. I heard it was his wrist. I heard it was dehydration. Like what is going on? Was that cool?


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[Assistant] This person had the contact information of the other 12 people and said, let's all pull out 400,000.


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[Assistant] Yes, the Jags and the Bucks, uh, really, really tight spread here. One and a half, uh, favoring the Bucks here. This total 43 and a half. Trevor Lawrence, uh, was reported this morning in Concussion Protocol. He really hasn't looked the same, um, since that high ankle sprain hasn't been playing as well. Now he's in the Protocol.


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[Assistant] Typically that lasts about a week, so maybe we won't see him there, but we have seen, uh, you know, Brock Purdy and there was somebody else that cleared within a week, right? There's one other quarterback that cleared earlier than a week, or maybe it was just Brock Purdy.


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[Assistant] Uh, Emery, what are your early thoughts, um, on this one if the Jags have Trevor Lawrence or if they don't?


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[Assistant] All right, moving on. Cowboys at the Dolphins. Very interesting matchup. Dolphins laying one and a half. This total is 51, uh, Cowboys clinched a playoff spot, but, uh, really because, um, they had a couple losses for it with the Packers.


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[Assistant] Harry says in the chat Miami is good at home. Yeah, Dallas and Miami both very good at home. Not so much.


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[Assistant] Uhm, on the road. Tyreek Hill should be back. It seemed like he was gonna play even this weekend. It smarted them to hold him back because they really didn't need him to win that game. Shout out to the Miami defense though. 38 points!


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[Assistant] Uh, and fantasy this week helped me win first round of the playoffs. Brinson and I, uh, he, I was, I had the Steelers and I was like, I don't know, Miami's available. What do you think? And he was like, absolutely. I went and did that and I just crushed it this week.


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[Assistant] Alright, next up, the Raiders at the Chiefs. Chiefs playing double digits, 10, this total 43.


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[Assistant] Uh, look, the Raiders are frisky. I don't know that I would lay 10 points with the Chiefs, uh, based on how they've been playing. Yes, they did cover a fairly large spread, uh, this weekend, but you got Kaderrius Tony.


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[Assistant] Drop in things again, Patrick Mahomes visibly upset on the sideline. I think he's had about as much as he can take with these pass catchers not actually catching.