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[Assistant] You know, we're gonna crowd the line of scrimmage, we're gonna scare you with numbers in the pass game, I mean in the run game.


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[Assistant] You're, you know, we're in this era of, oh, if they have one more guy than we do, we, we're not going to run the ball. And you know, which I think is stupid. The really good running football teams don't care about that. And that scared the Ravens out of running the ball. Definitely. It's the, this is the world we're in. Oh wait, there's one guy on block. We have to throw it now. We have to throw it. Like how did Evan Smith ever get a yard?


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[Assistant] Do you think your Lions didn't outnumber Christian McCaffrey in the run game a few times the other night? I mean, of course, right? It's stupid. A good coach can go, wait, they have one more guy than us, we can figure out how to block to leave the one guy that we can't block the farthest away from the football. It's not that complicated, right?


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[Assistant] And that to me is where, yes, they dropped the ball. You know, I don't understand it. And then they failed to recognize, not only were they bluffed out of that, bluffed out of what was, you know, I think one of their biggest advantages.


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[Assistant] Also, I think mis-evaluated their own talent and what the other, what the Chief's defense is and where they had an advantage there. That's where I think it's shocking. But the whole game plan that you saw in my notes was just about, like,


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[Assistant] Stop the run. Don't let Lamar run. That's all they were worried about. That was the first two things when you watch the film where you went, this is what all they're worried about. Five or six people blitz, so he has no lanes to scramble and run and make magic.


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[Assistant] You know, five or six people at the line of scrimmage all the time. People in the box to go, Oh damn, our numbers are right. Check to the pass or throw the RPO or whatever. Right. And.


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[Assistant] That led to incredible amounts of time without a run game. And what's crazy is...


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[Assistant] We went into the game talking about, I think quarterback design run will be one of the things that is an advantage for them.


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[Assistant] The box was loaded by Chief Defenders. They ran the ball up the middle with Gus Edwards for 15 yards. And then, and they don't even go back to it.


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[Assistant] Yes, right after the long fourth down conversion from Lamar.


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[Assistant] You better throw it. There's one guy unblocked. What are you gonna do? Oh, that's right. You have Lamar Jackson. So the backside guy is never gonna be involved in the run game as long as he runs his fake after he hands it off. And now the numbers are even.


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[Assistant] I mean, look at this. Look at this hole. Like, look at that hole. There's nobody that touches him until the safety, or it was McDuffie or the safety, I can't remember who it is at the top of the screen, who makes a tackle.


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[Assistant] 15 yards up the middle, run defense, in your face, huge hole, inexcusable, inexcusable. I don't understand the thought process at all and they never did anything and never stayed patient enough with it.


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[Assistant] To where it would have backed Kansas City off as far as weight. We can't keep blitzing like this. We can't keep doing this. They're gonna gash us. And it never really made them change. And it is, uh, for a Baltimore Raven team, it's inexcusable. It really is.


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[Assistant] I, I didn't, I felt like more it was just like, they were like.


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[Assistant] A little bit into Lamar, Munkin, we got these weapons, we're gonna throw the ball. How dare they play man to man on us like this? We're gonna show them.


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[Assistant] Instead of just going, wait, they're pretty good there, do we really want to roll the dice all the time? I mean, de-tackle our guards, our line, that's the advantage there.


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[Assistant] Like I said, the Chiefs obviously felt like if they do that, you know, they were betting that the Ravens won't stay with the run. That they'll panic and start to go, oh get the ball in Lamar's hands, let him throw the football, let him do all that. And then of course with that, that's where Spags is great.


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[Assistant] Now he gets you into, I scared him out of the run. I scared him.


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[Assistant] And now they're trying to throw RPOs or other little throws. And now he's tactically like after starting the game off kind of aggressively.


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[Assistant] Now it's like, hey, it's aggressive, it's aggressive. Oh, it's cover two. Some people at the line of scrimmage too, but not an extra guy in the box. Oh, it's cover two, and they went to a quick pass, or a little pick play on the edge, because they thought it was man to man. And all of a sudden, let's think, oh shit, it's not there. So now LeBar's like, oh wait, I want to throw there, oh wait,


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[Assistant] They are the best. You know, I think at one time, the Chiefs, it was either like, it was either Blitz and it was Man or it was Tampa 2. It was a little bit. Now there's obviously some other coverages mixed in there. But yes, they are phenomenal at


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[Assistant] They're cover 2, kinda looks like they're cover 4, they're cover 4, kinda looks like it might be All Out Blitz, right? It's All Out Blitz, it goes to Tampa 2!


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[Assistant] It's Tampa 2, it goes from man to man, and they blend. It's like, they're very good at kind of blending it all together, and the DBs kind of all stand around the same area. You're just like, wait.


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[Assistant] I mean, this really could be one of five things here, and they're good at all five things. And that's where he's really...


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[Assistant] He's really, like we talk about with a quarterback sometimes, or offenses, the optical, the optics of illusion, right?


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[Assistant] Smoke and mirrors to make things happen, even though it's the same play we've run a few times already, but it just changes your thought.


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[Assistant] They're kind of that way on the defense. Like, hey, it's cover four. Oh, it's set hut? What? No, we got you. It's two. It's cover two. You got fooled. Ah, set hut? Oh, it's all out blitz. You thought it was court. You thought it looked like it was all coverage. And we ended up blitzing you. And they're just good in that way. And that's how they combat offenses and really give them a lot of issues.


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[Assistant] Their answers for the Blitz are not sufficient to scare a guy like Steve Spagnolo away.


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[Assistant] Right, but if you remember, in my notes that week, I wrote, I'm not sure this plan's gonna scare the Chiefs away, right, after, because quick throw to the flat, quarterback design run.


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[Assistant] Right? The Chiefs are like, oh, okay, we just played Josh Allen in the bill. They threw the ball quick to flat. He ran the ball. We could defend that. Like, you gotta have some other ways.


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[Assistant] Where it's uhm, hey, whether it's a block it up, game plan play, or there's a route combination that you know, like, hey, this works against cover too, but if they blitz,


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[Assistant] This will also work against the Blitz. And you, I'm teaching you here, if they Blitz, I really love this route for this Blitz. They didn't have any of that that went, made Steve Spagnolo go, oh shit. Oh shit. They got, ooh.


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[Assistant] Okay, I can't call that blitz again the next time they get that formation. Cause, yeah, they got an answer for it. That's scary. They don't have that. And that's an issue.


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[Assistant] No screens in the game, no real creative runs, no five man release, right? That's another answer you could do, right? Just send everybody out, you blitz. Oh shit, more times than not they think, oh we're blitzing, the back will stay in a block.


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[Assistant] Now you blitz and also the back goes and he's uncovered. The chiefs did that to them a few times. Like those are things that they don't, they're non-existent. And then no Lamar redirecting


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[Assistant] That to me would be the next thing that Lamar, like we've heard about Mahomes the last few years, right? He's trying to be like Brady. He's trying to know what the defense is going to do before they even do it.


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[Assistant] And we've seen the last two years, he's, he's a general, he's, he's like Peyton or Brady at the line of scrimmage now, right? It's 55 Mike, he does all this stuff we talk about. That's the next phase for Lamar. Lamar, I can still tell when it's blitz, when it's blitz.


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[Assistant] They are rely- he's relying on the center to make the calls. Right? And...


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[Assistant] If there's one aspect I think he gets better at this year off season, it's, hey, screw the center. I'm going to tell you where to go and protect it. And now I'm going to know exactly who makes me hot or where I got to throw the ball. And that I think will make him a much more dangerous quarterback in totality.


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[Assistant] There's so many plays in the game where you go, ugh.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, Zay Flowers fumble, whatever. There's a place where you just go, oh my gosh, if they make this play here, this game's gonna be different. So, here we are, second quarter, right? Now,


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[Assistant] This is where it also became an issue and don't show anything yet, Pete. But because they don't really have a Boots plan and


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[Assistant] They were being fooled with so much, their only answer was really like, let's keep the tight end in, let's keep the running back in and block, right?


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[Assistant] But what happened, and what I was telling you, is SPAG started to go, if that's the real answer,


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[Assistant] Okay, like, I'm gonna blitz, but every now and then I know they're gonna think I'm gonna blitz, and I'm gonna drop out, and now they're gonna have eight guys blocking.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna have everybody in coverage. And you're gonna have three guys downfield. So they got them like that a number of times here. But this is a time here where let it play out. He's got Zay Flowers in motion. He's in the shotgun. He's got Gus Edwards to the right. Right? They do keep the tight end to block. They got Zay Flowers who runs


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[Assistant] Bateman is basically running the clear out post, right? But he is the first read. You always look at it. He's not open a lot of the times because there's a middle safety or whatever, but you always do it. Lamar does right here.


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[Assistant] He sees it developing. He's going, wait, the underneath guys are, one, there for Zay Flowers, but two, the angle at which Bateman's running aware of the safety who went way too far over the top. He's going, I got Bateman.


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[Assistant] And, it's a four man rush. They got six people in to protect. He had, he thought he was going to have a ton of time, right?


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[Assistant] And he's loading up to hit Bateman. Bateman's got it, as you can see on this screenshot here. He's on the 38 yard line running across the field. Lamar's gonna throw a football that's gonna hit him on the, at the 30 yard line on the three on the field. And we're gonna go, oh shit, can Edwards make a tackle to save the touchdown here? Number 21 of the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] As he's getting ready to throw it, Charles Emmanue, around the edge, strip sack, and uh, big play in the game. Left points on the board, or possibly points on the board for the Baltimore Ravens.


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[Assistant] Great job by, I can't remember who it was that tipped the ball, right? They kind of had an uncovered, they blitzed, they took a chance, they had an uncovered guy in the flat, but the blitzer knew that. So, that's where they're next level too. They're literally like, wait, I know there's a guy uncovered right behind me, let me get my hands up. Ball gets tipped in the air.


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[Assistant] Lamar catches it, and this is where on TV they should have showed some better replays, because like, he was gone.


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[Assistant] If Drew Tranquil doesn't dive and clip his heel.


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[Assistant] He is off to the races. Gone. Nobody is there. It's going to take a luxurious need on the other side of the field to run him down at like the pylon of the one yard line. Right? So here it goes. Justin Reed, great job by him, right? Because this is all out blitz and watch as it re-racks and goes one more time.


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[Assistant] He knows, wait, our guy 21 is covering 43 in the flat, but he's way back there, right, in disguise, Edwards, but he knows there's a guy, oh wait, they free release this guy, he tips the ball there, but look, Lamar catches the tip, catches it, and you can see everybody's running away from him, other than 23.


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[Assistant] And Tranquil makes the play of the day to save him right there because I'm telling you he is gone.


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[Assistant] It really made him up there. We've never seen anything like that. But it was gonna be like, the only guy I looked at on film that went, uuuh, is Ligeria Seed totally on the other side. You see him on the opposite 40. It would have been a race to the pylon to see if he could do it.


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[Assistant] Yes, there was a lot of very close moments in the football game, and unfortunately for the Ravens, the Chiefs, you know, came out with the best of it more times than not.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, it's, it's another, it's just, it's amazing how many go, whoa, gosh.


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[Assistant] If he just started here, it's a touchdown. You know, Zay Flowers big play down the left sideline when the Chiefs mix the coverage up. If he just throws a good ball and doesn't make him stop, it's a touchdown. I mean, they're like, they're, you know.


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[Assistant] Skinning your teeth away a few times from like, making this game, changing the momentum, totally changing things around. So, we have the interception down the middle. Another big moment. They moved the ball in the second half, but they couldn't punch it in.


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[Assistant] He's got Isaiah likely in a coverage where he's one on one basically with the linebacker up the middle of the field. This is Nick Bolton in this case. He looks


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[Assistant] To play Rashad Bateman to the right on like a double move, a slant and go.


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[Assistant] The corner is way off them, right? I mean, way off.


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[Assistant] To where you're like, I don't know if this is like, you're thinking he's gonna bite on this move right here. And even if he does bite, he's far enough off where I'm not sure he's gonna go by him, right? So, I'm sorry, I might be my nose for a second. That's okay, that's alright. Still want a runny nose guy on camera. Yeah. But. We'll edit that out. Okay, thank you.


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[Assistant] So, do we have the pictures? We have the pictures of this, right? Do we have the pictures of the interception? Because, so you'll see here, he's got, uh, likely to the right, Aguilar to the right, Bateman to the right. Bateman, you're gonna see, Ahman, is gonna run like a fake slant and go, or it was like a little five yard in and then go, whatever. But you see here where,


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[Assistant] Right now, we kind of have cover two to the top of the screen on OBJ. And on the bottom side here, it's quarters. So it's what we would call quarter quarter half, right?


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[Assistant] When you play that type of coverage, you can see the middle of the field is open, right down the middle of the hashes, right?


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[Assistant] And as it's lining up, you can kind of see like, wait, is the safety going to take likely? Or is it going to be Nick Bolden, the linebacker, that's going to take likely? So let's go to the next shot there, Pete. So they get the ball.


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[Assistant] It's the right play versus the right coverage, right? And as he has it right here, see right here, he's still looking outside to Bateman, right? He's looking outside to Bateman because he's going, wait, Snead's kind of looking at me. But Snead, as you could see, at the snap was 10 yards off the ball.


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[Assistant] Right? Here he is, now Bateman's run five yards already, and he's still five yards away from him. He's just pumped to him. Likely, I know on this picture you're gonna go, wait, he doesn't look that open, right?


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[Assistant] He's got Bolg by a step. Connor, who was the quarter's safety to that side, was kinda flat-footed, and he's looking to help with Aguilar or anything there.


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[Assistant] My point is, right now, if Lamar's looking at him, Isaiah likely is about to clear these guys. He's gonna clear them. And you're just gonna throw a little banana ball right down the middle.


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[Assistant] Right? He's even, he's leaving, and he's really got kind of a step here, and he's bigger than Connor 27. So go to the next shot. Right? So now, here, you can see he's kind of got a beat here, right? But the ball should be in the air and almost there already.


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[Assistant] It's still in Lamar's hand. He hasn't thrown the ball yet. Now Deon Bush, the backside safety's closing in. Connor, who's faster, is made up ground, right? So again, if he was looking there from the start, you go, oh, he's got him by a step. It's a big tight end. He's going to throw it up high over the middle and boom, it's going to be a touchdown. But instead, like, I'm not embellishing this. It's, it's almost three seconds late. It's like he looked to the right, he pumped.


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[Assistant] And then he went back down the middle late. Everybody's heard that phrase, right? You never go back down the middle late, right? This was way late for a guy like Lamar. And of course, triple coverage, like you said, is what it looks like on TV when it wasn't actually triple coverage. But when you take that long and you stare a guy down like that long, it's going to be, you know,


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[Assistant] You saw him on the side, cause he's looking at it and going, damn, why didn't I just go there from the get-go?


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[Assistant] That's why he threw it. Cause if he gets the ball, takes three steps and throws it, it's gonna be a touchdown. But instead he got the ball, took three steps, looked to the right, pump fake, gave it one more look to the right to make sure the corner didn't bite, then went back to the middle of the field, and that's a no-no at the quarterback position.


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[Assistant] I would look at it. You know, it wasn't a bad game. You're certainly not blaming Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] There are a few throws where you'd go, Oh, he, that's Lamar. He should hit that. You know, there was a few times where the blitz, like I said, I don't love the answer of, Oh, it's blitz. Just throw it up one on one. But he had a one to Aguilar, one to Odell Beckham Jr. Where you go, damn, you're Lamar and they're open. They beat their guy.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I want to blitz anymore and do that, right? There's a 45 yard gain to Aguilar or Odell and like, ugh, I don't know if I can keep calling that, right? But they didn't, so they can just keep calling them. So that's where it stinks Lamar, right? You know, they were one


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[Assistant] Didn't coach the best on their side of the ball. Maybe out coached a little bit by the other side of the ball, obviously.


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[Assistant] So, it was not his best day, right? But I don't think they did their best to help him either and make him feel comfortable as well. Alright, grade the game for Patrick Mahomes then.


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[Assistant] A plus? 95? 96? I mean it might not be A plus because there might have been like one play I put in there where I was like, my home should have hit that or whatever, but it was A. It was A caliber.


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[Assistant] You know my thought, my grades are different. My grades are a little bit more on what was there to be had, not what you did, right?


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[Assistant] Yo, I go, well, you didn't execute the play to the maximum. There was a guy here where, you know, my homes, I'd like you to see you hold that ball. You're smart enough, play enough. You know he's about to come open and you checked it down. Why did you do that?


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[Assistant] You got a guy going across the field for a 30 yard gain, right? That's where I'm a little different. See, Lamar didn't take advantage of all his opportunities. I thought Mahomes...


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[Assistant] Maybe had one or two plays where you'd go, uh, I don't think he did, but he's also in the lead and I think going, well, I don't need to risk this throw or do that either. So that's where I'm not going to grade it too harshly. He's playing a different game than Lamar was and, uh, Mahalems is.


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[Assistant] That's all you got on your offense? You gotta do it! Like...


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[Assistant] Way to go Chiefs! Like, that's, I just, I think why, one of the reasons I'm liking the Chiefs more is the fact that they re-evaluated themselves and said, this is what we are.


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[Assistant] This is what we are. For us to win a game this year, this is the best way to do it. And, and we gotta throw a bunch of short passes, and dink and dunk our way down the field, and stay a little patient with the run, and let our defense go, then that's fine. I mean, look how many behind the line of scrimmage. One, two, three, four.


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[Assistant] They've become the best RPO screen team in all of football here over the last month. I mean, he, like and Aaron Rodgers, is the best screen thrower in football because he could just so quick get it out, so on target, you know, off of so many different platforms.


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[Assistant] The screen game is more effective for the Chiefs than it would be for most quarterbacks and offenses because of Mahomes ability to flick the ball out of his hands and still be accurate in the shotgun without the laces and all of that. It's next level shit. So that's where, and where the game is awesome is


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[Assistant] You know, they're still scary. So you still have to play divas and go, it's still in the hoes. He'll still throw that deep. He doesn't care. We can't just let him have it, right? So they're like, fine. You want to do that. You want to play a little softer.


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[Assistant] I'll be surgical. I'll be surgical. I'm gonna dig and dunk your ass until you get up here and start giving me some shots to throw the ball down the field. And that's where they've gone right now. And they're, they're really like, I mean,


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[Assistant] They came out in the game, quick pass, RPO, wide receiver screen, tight end screen. I mean, get everybody touches, get everybody in a rhythm, right? Get it going that way. Uh, and then, you know, it just continued throughout the game where it was efficient and it was part of their managing of the overall football game that I thought was brilliant.


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[Assistant] It was a problem nine weeks ago where I still was like, he's being impatient.


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[Assistant] Remember, when they were going through that lull of losing 4 out of 6, I was going, Mahomes is kinda getting some bad habits here, he's not playing real good. Raiders game, was that one of them? Right, Raiders game, there was a few others, you know, they lost 4 out of 6 there, 5 out of 8, where, yeaah, he lost trust of the receivers, I think he lost like, wait, we gotta get something going, he was trying to force it to happen,


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[Assistant] Not the case. I mean, you saw it, I wrote a start on it. You know, the Raven's D game plan was like, started off nothing exotic.


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[Assistant] But it's hard to play that way versus these Chiefs or this guy at quarterback right now. Cause he will dink and dunk you to death right now. He'll be patient. They'll run the ball. And, you know, then we talked about their pass pro.


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[Assistant] Is really good. Even minus Joe Tuni, it's really good. Now, it stinks they don't have him because as the game went on, Tuni, Alan Greti, the replacement, he really struggled against Mata Buke. And he's a weak link, something to watch more of the Super Bowl. But, like,


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[Assistant] Oh, you want to play zones, take away the big plays, don't want to do anything crazy so my home can't make the big play? Well, he can protect. And when they said four, really, especially early on in the game, he had all day, and he figured out how to get the ball out, and they just, like, slowly matriculated the ball down the football field.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there, there's no question. I, I... The forty dollars can emulate some of the things they do.


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[Assistant] I think the first half, like I said, they went into the game going,


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[Assistant] Let's see if our front four can get there. Their tackles haven't been great all year. Let's not let Mahomes get off. Andy Reid get off with some cool game plan plays they have and throw bombs on us and all of a sudden we're like, holy crap, they got our heads spinning, right? So I think they took like, hey, we're awesome at our zones and passing people off and


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[Assistant] Let's try to play that way, and then not let him scramble. Right? But.


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[Assistant] They're good at protecting and the problem with him now


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[Assistant] I feel like you almost can't be right. That's, that's where he's gotten to. You can't be right. Oh, you wanna play Don't Let Him Scramble?


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[Assistant] Well, he'll just sit there and buy time in the pocket like you saw him do a bunch of times, where he's just like, I'll move here and slide here and slide, and I'm gonna just wait and I'll get somebody to open them. I'll get the completion. Or at some point, as I wait and I wait and you're trying to contain me, one of you guys will move out of the way and I'll go run for six. And do that. Right?


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[Assistant] He blitz, he's got the answers to that. So that's where he's tough. And that's where like the 49ers are gonna have to figure out like, do we want to rush him and go after him? Because if we do that...


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[Assistant] He could get out of the pocket and it's a 50 yard bomb or a 30 yard scramble, but we also might get some sacks. Or do we want to play, let's keep him in the pocket and not let him do those things I just talked about. But if you do that, he has all day and then he makes the right decision and picks you apart, right? That to me is something you're going to have to toy with. The second half though, I think,


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[Assistant] Which is just a little bit more, they finally got, they got a little of the desperation mode.


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[Assistant] Got in their face a little bit more, played more man to man coverage, right? And I think took a few more chances blitzing as well in the second half. They got into a spot where they started to go, wait, we don't have a choice anymore. We have to do this. If we continue to do what we did in the first half, they're going to win the game.


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[Assistant] And the first half, they only broke out man to man or aggressive plays kinda when they got close to the end zone or maybe in a big play moment. And the second half, they started to go, well, screw it. The hell with it. We gotta blitz this guy. We gotta do this. We gotta play a little man to man. And like I said, it gave the Chiefs problems. There was probably a few plays in there where I go,


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[Assistant] The Chiefs, the game was even, or if the Chiefs were down, I'd go, Mahomes probably was gonna throw that right there. But he knew how his defense was playing, he was up 17 to 7, he said, ahh, I'm not gonna force it, I'm gonna throw it away, or I'll just


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[Assistant] I'll, I'll try to take a check down or whatever else that way. And I think that was kind of the adjustments there. And yeah, the chiefs didn't fall into the trap and try to, try to make anything big happen off of that.


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[Assistant] You know, the quick throws, his ability at quarterback, his understanding of the moment, his experience, all that.


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[Assistant] The ravens are the kings of negative playings. That's second in 17 now. It's third in 24. Like that shit never happened the other day. Never.


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[Assistant] They stayed ahead of the chains. It was like, old Patriots. It was like, it's second and six, it's third and two, it's first down. It's second and seven, it's third and four, it's first down. Right? That's kinda how they played. It was a little like that. It was just kinda like,


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[Assistant] You know, are they better than this team? I don't know, but they're just doing every situation and everything right. And that's where the Chiefs are special this year.


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[Assistant] We're close, as we know. I think it's only gonna get better.


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[Assistant] You know, Mike McDonnell, they lose him, that stinks, right? But I would bet you they have somebody coming up the ranks that's ready to be the guy there.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the Chiefs got into a game and were comfortable and, you know, uh, I'll answer the rest of the question in a second, but the, the thing I thought that was the best thing the Chiefs did, like you just kind of said, was the no negative plays in the second half and then,


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[Assistant] Just the changing of field position was huge. A number of times where they were backed up and they got the two or three first downs to go, okay, at least the Ravens and Lamar don't get the ball at midfield here again, right? They're going to get the ball, they're 15, they're 10, they're 18, and they're going to have to put a drive together.


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[Assistant] That was a huge dynamic in the football game too. But I look at the Ravens and just go, it's just a little...


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[Assistant] Polish, right? Whether it's the offense growing in that department or the defense, hey, maybe a corner, maybe another pass rusher, and you go, it's one of the better teams in football, period. So, uh, they'll be right back in the mix of those things next year. I don't have any doubt about that.


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[Assistant] Did you get that from the pod? Your family was like, we don't listen to the pod. They don't. They don't. They really don't. It's kind of funny actually. Uh, they'll see some things on social media. That's about it. Uh, but, but, uh, where was I going to go? Oh no. Oh, I got you with one more thing.


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[Assistant] Because yeaah, you wanna play aggressive against them, right? I'm sure the Ravens were like...


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[Assistant] Let's play man, let's blitz. What we did in the first half doesn't work, right? But, at the same time, like we talk about, like,


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[Assistant] Like, every now and then, the Chiefs would throw a play out there, a man-to-man beater, and I'm sure Mike McDonald was like, oh shit, that-


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[Assistant] If they call, man, that was close. That could have been a big play right there. If that guy broke that tackle, that was a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Or, if Mahomes got that ball a little more accurate, that was a, like, there was that. So that, again, when you show proper answers, back to my point, the defensive coordinator goes, I can't do this every play. They're, they, they got answers. This is Mahomes, a read.


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[Assistant] Right? So they had enough answers against when it became like, oh, we're expecting man to where even though Mike McDonald probably wanted to do it a lot more, he was like, I can't.


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[Assistant] They've showed me that they know how to screw this over, and I gotta be a little careful that way, and I thought that was, uh, you know, again, part of the genius of Mahomes and Andy Reid and Matt Nagy to go along with it.


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[Assistant] Alright, as my headline statement just to start it, right? You guys were the better team on the field that day.


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[Assistant] It's the second week in a row where I felt like the 49ers were outplayed and won a football game. Right? That's, that's where it is. It's great.


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[Assistant] That you guys are there, right? But it stinks because it feels like, as you saw in my notes a number of times,


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[Assistant] It, the game felt like it was work for the 49ers.


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[Assistant] Right? I never felt like Shanahan cracked the code on the defense totally. Right? They did a lot of good stuff. To your point on Monday, they moved the ball consistently, but I never was like, oh, he's got them. They're just gashing them. Right? It was work. It was a little Brock Purdy play here and there.


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[Assistant] Same with your, the defense on your offense. It was work. And then there on the other side, I kind of felt like you guys had cracked the code, right? So that's where, as Alliance fans, it's awesome and horrible all together because there is a lot of good, and yeaah, there's some ballin' opportunities that we'll dive into all of that.


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[Assistant] There's plays in the first half, and in the third quarter where I go...


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[Assistant] If they make this play or score a touchdown right here, the game's over. It's over. Like, it's done.


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[Assistant] Okay, and, you know, that's where it's gonna, it's gonna hurt the Lions for a while because they gave their best shot and Al played them, coached right up there with them, had great ideas, and gave the 49ers all they could handle.


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[Assistant] They were undermanned a little bit up in the middle, right?


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[Assistant] You know, Hargrave, Armstead, you know, have not killed it this year.


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[Assistant] Alright, especially in the run game department that way. Armstead's been battling through some injuries, all that. Hardgrade has not had as good a year as we've seen them have in years past. Right? I think they were very worried about being overpowered in the middle. And because of that,


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were, you know, tackle shooting in, linebackers were quick to try to be aggressive right downhill, and you guys just went, wait, wait, instead of like trying to deal with, you know, all that chaos and mush right there, let's just get out on the edge just a little bit.


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[Assistant] And now we can get like a guard tackle double team and the tackle can get out and stop the linebacker from running sideline to sideline. They took a little bit of that approach. And I think the other thing too that I loved about it, the 49ers


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[Assistant] They, they, you know, more times than not, like, they want to win the run game with their speed. And I don't mean that by sideline to sideline, I mean like,


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[Assistant] If you pull a guard, right, their tackle, their defensive tackles are so good, they'll follow that guard and just be like, I'm so quick, I can actually get in the hole with you and go right down the line and make the tackle with the running back.


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[Assistant] And brought it right to the 49ers and gave them issues, let alone then got a few good off-tackle runs or whatever else. Knowing they're the 49ers, they'll be super aggressive. Oh, here's the reverse, the Jamo rockets up his ass touchdown. Good little curve balls that way.


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[Assistant] Brilliant game plan. My bet Johnson to the offensive side of the ball to start the football game. I mean, really throughout, but to start the football game, no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] The 49ers defense is just not the same, right? You've heard me saying that the last few weeks. It's not as good as years past. It's not even as close as years past. Right? Right? I mean, the first half...


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[Assistant] There's a po- I don't even know what the 49ers were doing. I re- I mean, you guys got people open everywhere. I mean, it's everywhere. And it's not just like, oh, it's like he's opened by a step, it's like,


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[Assistant] Nobody's in the screen. Or there's like, nobody within five yards. I mean, they didn't challenge the Lions. It's kind of like they came out and they're like, let's see how they attack us, let's play it soft. It's a little bit like we talk about Baltimore and the Chiefs, right? Came out that way.


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[Assistant] Literally, the lions were just like, we'll do whatever we want! This is great! Right? Second half...


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[Assistant] The liner started to go like, wait, wait, we gotta start challenging the receivers. We gotta start getting in their face a little bit.


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[Assistant] We might have to play, you know, some more aggressive cover three, safety, get down in here in the hole and start helping out in the run game to Sean Gibson, strip fumble. That's kind of what happened.


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[Assistant] So they press the issue a little bit, let alone you guys are like this close to like, again, scaring them out of it. Like if golf hits Laporta on the first drive of the third quarter of the quarter round, it's man to man. He's got him. It's like, oh shit, they're going to have the ball at the five yard line. They're going to score a touchdown. The game is going to be over. It's over, right?


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[Assistant] But they just could not make that play. They could have maybe made that play late in the second quarter.


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[Assistant] You know, 21 to 7, right? The drive you go up 24 to 7. Jameer Gibbs, running down the middle of the field. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Well, look at this. It's 21 to 7. You see the coverage. Again, to my point of what I was just talking about. Look how soft everything is. This is not the 49ers I know. It's really not. Right? So, here we got a four man rush. Gibbs is off to the right.


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[Assistant] Like, they know what they got here. Ben Johnson knows it. This is, this is where he's in brilliant again.


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[Assistant] He's gonna get Jameer Gibbs singled up man to man on Fred Warner basically running right up the middle of the football field.


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[Assistant] So, it's shotgun, gibs off to the right, two receivers to the right, and then he's got a receiver and Reynolds to the left, and Laporta outside of him to the left, right? So no tight end connected.


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[Assistant] Right? Four man rush. Pockets good. It's quarters. Right?


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[Assistant] You know how you know it's quarters, right? The two, uh, you know, they got their three linebackers, the two guys on the outside go to the flat, right? You could see the corners didn't play the flat, they backed up. So it's quarters, right? It's not covered too. And then with this route combination and how they do it,


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[Assistant] They send guys somewhat in the area of the safety, so the safety has to worry about like, wait, they're running a curl route, it's not exactly in my area, but I can't avoid it, so they're getting a little depth.


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[Assistant] And now you can see it's Gibbs with Warner one on one.


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[Assistant] More times than not, offenses and the running back of this breaks in or breaks out, right? So Warner's kind of like, okay, I saw this on film a lot. Gibbs is going to break to the right or break to the left and I just got to break on it. Gibbs gives him the old hit it and run straight and it's a touchdown.


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[Assistant] And he misses the throw. Go to the next picture, Pete, because


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[Assistant] As you see here, and this still doesn't even do it justice, but again, this is where like still shots, this is wide open in the NFL. And he's wide open to run to the back of the end zone, golf moves off his spot a little bit.


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[Assistant] And throws a ball that was kind of just weak and died out inside to where he never gave Gibbs a chance. But there was one place certainly where I looked at it and went, holy shit. Like, I was like you.


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[Assistant] Kind of forgot about that play. Yeaah. Cause you're just going, yeaah, they're going to be up 24-7, this is amazing. And you sit there and you go, oh my gosh, I forgot that one. This should be 28-7, going into half. Like, and the Niners would be screwed, pretty much. But that was a missed opportunity, and I'm sure that one will hurt the Lions offensive Jared Goff.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, we will. Third quarter, like I said, I'm sitting there, I'm right, I'm going, it feels like the Lions have cracked the code. Yeah. Right. Okay.


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[Assistant] The, I talked about Goff missing Laporta, that was another big moment right before the 4th and 2.


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[Assistant] I hate the fourth of two call. Okay, so I guess we're gonna all do it right now. I can't help it.


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[Assistant] I love Dan Campbell. I wanna hang with Dan Campbell. I know Dan Campbell's one of my kind of guys. I know I'd wanna work for Dan Campbell if I was gonna coach in the NFL. So I just wanna make sure I'm very clear about my belief in love.


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[Assistant] Except this is the only thing I've questioned about him, and this isn't just Sunday. You know I've been wanting to question him why he's been doing this for the last year and a half or so. Yeaah. But definitely more than I think others have questioned him as me. And I'm a little old school that way, but yes.


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[Assistant] It's like a meathead who just played football one day and was like, go, we're tough. There's definitely a lot of cerebral


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[Assistant] There's such an overblown talking point. Why? Because it's like, he's really like, first off, he hasn't missed a field goal this year. Right? When's the lat- I looked this up.


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[Assistant] When do you think the last time he made a- The stats are skewed all because of the 2020 season where he was bad in that range, where he missed a bunch that year. Through his career, if you take away the 2020 season, it's really not that bad through that range.


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[Assistant] That year was a bad year and it leads to the numbers being a little misleading. So will he have a job next year in the NFL? I would think so. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I don't follow the kicker thing. But that's I think exactly it.


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[Assistant] No, listen, I hear there, I do, uhm, I know what you're saying, you know, but at the same time too, yeaah, I think it's a little bit of the cherry picking of the stats there. You know, again, he's been making field goals.


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[Assistant] I think you have to believe in your team and what you got anyways, no matter what. He is believing in his team as offense. Yeah, I don't think he is. I think you're, you're, you're, I don't think you are. I think you're trying to take almost the easy way out is what I would say. We're gonna go for the win right here cause I don't want to have to play this out anymore. I don't want to have to battle it out. I'm going for it here.


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[Assistant] And that to me is not the right approach. When you've controlled the football game, you crack the code.


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[Assistant] It's not our day. They crack the door open for them. But you're assuming.


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[Assistant] Okay, but you're assuming he can make the fourth and three and he didn't. I think the safer play is to kick the field goal. Yes, to go up that third score to continue to keep that pressure on them. You open the door of momentum.


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[Assistant] Throughout the year. Okay, they weren't playing the 49ers defense. They were not. It wasn't the NFC Championship game. It wasn't Nick Bosa and all that.


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[Assistant] I just say that's stay the course, keep the pressure on them. That was staying the course. No, I don't think it is for that game. I think you have to adjust there. I don't. It's a different animal.


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[Assistant] I mean, he didn't, you know, I gotta go back and look at these things as far as the outdoor kicks and whatever else. First of all, it wasn't that windy there. Okay, I never heard anyone bring up the win the whole football game. So that's not a, that's not a valid point in this one.


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[Assistant] And, hey, he's your field goal kicker, he's been knocking him dead, and his, if you take 20-20 out of the range, okay, in the 40-49 area, oh, he's 8-10.


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[Assistant] 19, let's see, what is he? He's 16 for 19 in 2021. Okay, he's 9 for 11, or let me just add this up. I mean, his numbers are good in 2022. They are perfect in 23, although there's just one of them.


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[Assistant] So, no, you open the door up for San Francisco to gain confidence, energy, whatever. The game flipped on its head in that moment.


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[Assistant] Yes, if you can guarantee me. But why does he not assume it? Why? Why? I mean he's made every kick this year so far for him. He made every kick. He doesn't have one inkling to go.


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[Assistant] He didn't make it when I wanted him to. You missed two extra points I think throughout the year. Okay, alright. So, but yeah, I don't. You're controlling the 49ers. You got them on the road.


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[Assistant] He made kicks in the divisional round? He made a kick in the wild card round?


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[Assistant] So why didn't we just go for it on all of them then? We couldn't guarantee he was going to make it. At the end of the first half he kicked the field goal. I know. Sorry. Okay. And I think that was the right decision. And I think you should have continued to do that. I just don't agree with that process. I think it is a horrible, horrible call.


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[Assistant] I think if you talk to any coach in football, they're going to sit there and go.


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[Assistant] Man, they opened the door for the 49ers to come back. The door was shut. And they opened it up.


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[Assistant] And let alone, you know, I can justify the one at the end of the game more, but I still think that's a horrible call too.


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[Assistant] You were the better team on the field that day. You gotta feel it. You gotta feel it. And you gotta continue to just go, we're gonna keep doing what we're doing and we're not gonna give them any inkling and just continue to apply the pressure and go from there. And that's where it stinks. I understand your thoughts there.


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[Assistant] It's a gauge, exactly right. They can't gauge how down the 49ers are gonna be going to the sideline going, damn we came out aggressive like our coach wanted us to and we adjusted and we didn't make any headway, we're down 17 still. And now we got the ball at our own 20 yard line and we're trying to march down the full pop field.


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[Assistant] You feel it. You can drown in that. He was coached by Sean Payton and Bill Parcells and people that are like, they wouldn't do that.


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[Assistant] You're guaranteed Jared Golf will miss the throw and I just made the throw and I just gave you seven examples where he missed throws and he's not guaranteed. Every time he has to move or do anything, he can't hit the throw. So there's a problem there, right? They cracked the code though.


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[Assistant] It was a bad throw. He could have caught it. He missed a throw the play before for a touchdown. He missed a play at the end of the half for a touchdown. Hey, instead of going with the kicker that's made all the kicks we needed to this year, let's go with the guy who I've seen miss four throws in the last five minutes that would have put the game away and let's give it to him one more time.


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[Assistant] That would be what I'd say. And actually it's a history of missing the throws in that moment. His history is Jared Goff misses throws in that moment. So if you want to play all these ifs, I would go, there's a lot of ifs on the Jared Goff thing where I'd go, I would never trust him to make that play in a big moment.


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[Assistant] So you go to all the years of football experience and say, I've kicking the shit out of this team, we're out playing them right now, and the pressure's on them, and they're doubting themselves in the home stadium.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna keep the pressure on them. I think my kicker's gonna miss the kick. We come out and kick, and you guys, even though you're dominating, come out with a head down, and like, aw shit.


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[Assistant] We didn't get it and all of a sudden luck changes and everything changes from that point on.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, I don't agree with it. And I think that the postmortem, whatever we saw after it,


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[Assistant] Is definitely on Dan Campbell. He ruined the flow of the football game with that decision right there. Yes, you know me, I would have never, ever ruined the flow of the football game by not getting it. A 40 yard something field goal this day and age is like, we don't even think about it anymore. It's not even a thought.


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[Assistant] Okay. And Shanahan went, wait, I got faith in my guy and I'm gonna kick it again. And he did it the series before.


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[Assistant] Okay, but still it didn't make him scared just cause he missed it. Your guy hasn't missed one, so why are you scared? Why? I don't understand.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Listen, I don't know about the kicking and where he'll be as a player next year. He's obviously an NFL kicker. He did a good job for you guys this year. He did not miss a field goal, right? So that's what I would say to that. And that's all.


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[Assistant] And I think you lose all your momentum and control of the football game and it was the first time all game the 49ers went, whoa!


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[Assistant] Something good happened. Here we go. And the game is never the same. I'll give you that for sure. And that's where I don't agree with it.


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[Assistant] So, and then, yeaah, you have a quarterback with a great pass rush, who's not great at moving or making plays off schedule, and he's forced to move just a little, and he doesn't make the great throw. Reynolds, yes, you should have caught it too, I hear you. It's on both of them.


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[Assistant] Right? And I don't know where, I mean, you know, again, he, he kicked extra points, he was knocking them through, I know he missed two extra points during the year, but there he was, I mean, he's knocking everything through the fucking uprights, the whole playoff.


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[Assistant] No problem, of course. That's what we're here to do, man. It's all good. It's not personal at all. It is a tough decision. I understand that. It's one I don't believe in it.


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[Assistant] I don't believe in that philosophy of football. I don't. My point to you, as I've said on Monday, I don't know a team that's gone to the Super Bowl yet playing this style of football.


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[Assistant] No, no, maybe not. No, maybe not. You're right, that's a good one. Yup, that's a good one.


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[Assistant] Uh, they definitely, they were definitely maybe one of the first ones that broke the mold that way, right? Definitely, so I don't disagree with you there. Now, they were a really awesome football team that was dominant on both sides of the ball, right? And Doug Petersen's lost a number of games over the last few years doing that same type of stuff. Where I'd go, ehh. So all I'm saying is just to reevaluate that.


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[Assistant] Other thing I want to hit on with that play, going forward on fourth and two. Yes. This is where like, you know.


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[Assistant] Mahomes is gonna run right there. Once Bosa gets around and he has to move and he goes, oh wait, there's a little lane there and it's only two or three yards, I'm gonna go get the first down. And that's where, you know, golf's inability to move and whatever, but I'm just trying to tie it together with the Chiefs game and that's where those moments will be a little different this week because, you know, Bosa, yeah, on those type of plays, right?


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[Assistant] Next week, when he's playing the Chiefs, he's gonna go, wait, can I really, I don't think I can go kamikaze around the edge and try to get the sack, cause if I miss, he's gonna run for the first down. So now they're gonna be in the dilemma of like, wait, do we try to contain him, and now he has all day, and do all that, so, that's gonna be the interesting thing as we rotate to that play and that whole thing right there.


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[Assistant] How the 49ers like to attack, right? Some of the things we've always talked about. They knew to kind of take away the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] Obviously you guys can play some pretty good run defense because you got some big dudes. Aliyah McNeil, I want to give him a shout out. Early in the football game, he was unblockable. They couldn't move him. He was phenomenal. And their linebackers too. Like holy cow. Did they get better and better as the year went on? For sure. But yes, right?


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[Assistant] They like, I'm sure their breakdown a little bit are like, when they get in these type of formations, which here we got a bunch to the right, it's use, check, kiddle, and demo, sand it to the right in a bunch formation, McCaffrey's all set to the left on Purdy, and then they got Ayuk all by himself to the left.


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[Assistant] They're not a huge, as we've always talked about, throw the ball down the field outside the numbers type of football team, right? So bring up the drawing one more time, guys, if we can.


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[Assistant] What they do is go, wait, when they get these formations, the backside guy, they basically do it. They probably want, he runs two routes. He runs a slam or he runs an out route, right?


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[Assistant] So they played a defense where it looks like you're gonna have one of those two things, but they were very cognizant of that's what the 49ers like to do. So Jack Campbell, who's the weak side linebacker, he was


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[Assistant] You know, number 46 you'll see, right? He drops to take away the slant. So Purdy can't do that. And then Sutton at the top is kind of playing outside leverage and he's going to be able to jump the out route if they do that. Cause that's really the two routes they seem to do the most when there are these kinds of formations. So there they got that.


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[Assistant] To play the bunch and the three guys on the right.


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[Assistant] That's smart. They're going, wait, you check a kiddler there. They still could run the ball. Debo blocks pretty well. I'd rather not have my corner there. I'd rather have my ass kicking safety down there, right? So now he does it, drops into the flat to play the cover two corner, 29 drops back to play the cover two safety, and then


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[Assistant] I don't even know what Mellon Faddenwood, number 6 in the middle of the field, is doing. It's kind of like they're playing 3 cloud, I guess you could say, or 3 cloud invert, something like that, where it's kind of like cover 2-ish to that side, but cover 3 everywhere else. But cool coverages to where, yeaah, you break things like that out. That's tough on guys like Shanahan, because he's like,


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[Assistant] I can't get a feel for how they're playing me or what they're doing all the time. And it's kind of all over the place. And every time I think I got them down and I feel like they're settling down into one thing, they throw another curve ball at me or do something. And that's where I really like, you know, they moved the ball as we know, they're a really good office. It's a great system. He's a phenomenal coach. The quarterback's good, but you know,


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[Assistant] It was work the whole day other than throwing the ball up.


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[Assistant] Off your guys face and then catching the ball, which was the most unbelievable moment and which led me to my moments of like, again, like you guys were out playing them. You were the better team, you know, and now you let the door open a little bit and now luck struck for them too. And it's just like, and that's where I feel for you. And that's where I don't like the going for it. I'm for that.


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[Assistant] I think it's a little bit because, you know, Hey, it's the playoffs. Defenses are taking a few more chances. They're going, wait, we can't, even though I like to play this defense and we're sound and we know what we do on this, right? He's there alone gets Shanahan. He knows what we're doing too. So he's going to come up with something.


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[Assistant] So, I think he's getting a lot of different looks, he's playing better quality defenses, and I think he's off his game.


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[Assistant] We come away going like, damn, he read that so quick and like, what a great feel. I think he's like, wait, I'm not sure what this is. So he's a little hesitant to like trust his instincts a few times. And I think that's what happens on his interception. He is a little like.


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[Assistant] Wait, what am I getting exactly here? I'm not sure. And he pats the ball and holds it for an extra second. And a little bit like we talked to Lamar interception where I go, he should have thrown the ball like a second earlier, but he waited and Debo gets across the middle of the field too much. And now there's a bunch of bodies there and it's not open. It becomes interception.


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[Assistant] You know, missed a few plays where you'd like the machine of Brock Purdy to hit, but he made some plays where you go, hey, nobody's here, nobody's open. And he scrambled and made something happen to keep the chains moving, right? So here we got it. Here's the interception, right? It's Tripp's right.


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[Assistant] It's Kittle, Jennings, Debo to the bottom of the screen, Ayuk by himself towards the top left, right? It's a cool front by the Lions, you see here, right? It's 3D Lyman to the left of the center and then a defensive end way to the right, right? And another


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[Assistant] The 49ers ran this defense against you guys, and you ran the ball on 3rd and 10, do you remember? For a first down in the second quarter? Yeaah. That, I mean, that's what I mean. It felt like you guys had cracked the code, right? But either way, I don't want to change the subject, here we go. You'll see it, so let it go, Pete. Alright, and Debo Samuel at the bottom of the screen, he is the one that's gonna run the in-cut.


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[Assistant] Here, you guys are running, oh, oddly enough, it's exactly like we just talked about with the Chiefs and the Ravens. It's quarter, quarter, half, right? And you can see the huge hole that's here for Debo Samuel that he's about to run into, right? You can see it. There's no defender in the hole between the numbers and the hash. And that's where you want to throw the end cut. But to throw this ball,


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[Assistant] You have to be winding up to throw this right now. He's just starting to make his break. You should then be like in the middle of like, okay, I'm about to throw it, right? And he's still kind of moving up in the pocket with two hands on the football.


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[Assistant] Assessing the coverage, and then you'll see, let's go to the next picture, Pete, where you see that huge window. Okay, there it is, right? Now it's either gotta be a laser at this point, or you would have to have already thrown it to drop it in there.


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[Assistant] But, because he's late, now he needs to throw a laser and...


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[Assistant] The ball gets tipped a little bit and a big arm gets in the way, but you see where the ball ends up, by the hash. That's not where that ball is supposed to be completed. It's in the hash, your linebackers were there. We talked about the hole being four and five yards before that. That was a, of course, a big moment in the football game.


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[Assistant] Also, a stupid penalty by CJ Gardner Johnson on the play, trying to get back to Debo Samuel. CJ Gardner Johnson did some amazing things in the game, he did some bonehead things in the game. You know, we talked about that play there.


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[Assistant] Had a bad mistackle of McCaffrey that led to the first touchdown. And then the second touchdown, the IU post, right? He took the cheese and didn't need to. And you'll see Cam Sutton on the film.


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[Assistant] He's like, dude, you were supposed to have him if he comes inside. Here's the play once again. Great job, Pete. Right? 19, Debo was covered. Branch and Melanthalu got him.


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[Assistant] Again to your, you know, great defense call. It was the right call. It's just one guy kind of just, you know, left his area, didn't do his job, and that left enough of an opening for IU to


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[Assistant] He loves the toughness and all that. I think you want CJ Gardner Johnson back. I think so too. I think he's a hell of a football player. We need talent back there. Yea, you need some other guys, and I think that edge and chippiness, listen, he's quite the weapon.


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[Assistant] It's rare to have a guy that can be down in the box, be that physical, that good, and then he's pretty good in space too. You know, so I would keep an eye on the Lions. Just try to get them to limit those emotional things every now and then.


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[Assistant] Again, never felt like it was like, oh, we gashed them, they're, they're, they've cracked it, right? It was always like, okay, good play, all right, good little run. Good scramble. But yep, good scramble, right? But it was never like some weeks when we've come in here and be like, ugh.


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[Assistant] There's people up and everywhere. I mean, McCaffrey's catching the ball, he's falling down, he's standing up, there's still nobody on the screen, right? There was none of that. That's for sure. There was none of that. Now, the only time I felt like they cracked the code a little bit was the long touchdown run, or the long run by McCaffrey, right? I think that was it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, yeah, he had the big run and that was because that was one of the few times where I felt like you guys were like, damn.


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[Assistant] They're kind of moving the ball slow. Let's take a chance and blitz and see if we can get them behind the chains. You guys played a four down front, you blitzed, and that's why it's scary to blitz good running teams because, oh no, they have this run called


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[Assistant] We blitz, we're over committed in one area and now we have another area where there's not enough people and he broke up the big run. But that's about all I can really say throughout the day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was a really good game, and like I say, at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] For the second week in a row, it felt like the better team on the field was not the 49ers, but the 49ers going to the Super Bowl, and there's something to say about winning, trying to win a football game, but, whoa, party foul.


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[Assistant] Pretty much always. It's actually kind of embarrassing sometimes, how blatantly it goes there. Uh, of course, my home's the leader. I gotta understand Purdy. Yeah, McCaffrey.


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[Assistant] McCaffrey, Kelsey, Debo, Samuel, Pacheco, those are all guys that I think are dark horse candidates here. I do. I look at them all and go yeaah, any one of them could do it because these are not two teams that are just


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[Assistant] All about the quarterback and trying to throw for 350 yards and do all that stuff. Uh, I can't wait. It's going to be a great Super Bowl. It really is.


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[Assistant] Right, right, like if Kelsey has a game like he did there and maybe had like the AFC Championship game and maybe one more touchdown to go with it, that could be the kind of game where you go, oh, he deserves the MVP.


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[Assistant] With those plays he made, like Mahomes played good, but it wasn't like, whoa, right? Like, and Kelsey played a whoa game. So that might be one of those assists, but yea, more times than not, right? I mean...


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[Assistant] Like, I don't always understand it, like Matthew Stafford, not winning the MVP of the year, he did it. He clutch as hell. He brought them down by 10 in the fourth quarter, and they beat the Bengals. He's throwing no-look dimes, and he's got an injured receiver. I know Cooper Cup had a really good game.


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[Assistant] You know, he doesn't get the MVP Stafford and then I got other games like you've heard me kind of talk about before. I mean Brady won the MVP for the 145 yards passing. He had 98 yards passing going into the last drive of the game. He won the MVP over the Patriots defense who had a pick six and stopped Kurt Warner and that right?


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[Assistant] Or, or Eli Manning getting it in the first Super Bowl win over the, the Patriots. Like the second one, no doubt about it, he was the MVP. The first one, it was the greatest offense we saw in the history of football. They scored 10 points.


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[Assistant] Strayhan and Justin Tuck were in the backfield with Brady the whole game, right? I know Eli had the clutch drive and all that, but yea, I didn't think that was worthy of MVP, but quarterback that kind of happens. So it's a little weird that way.


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[Assistant] I feel like if one quarterback would get screwed over in that one in this one, it would be Purdy, right? Purdy could have a good day, but if McCaffrey or Debo go off, I feel like the voters would be like, well, he's not a superstar quarterback, so we'll give it to the other guys. Agreed. I could see him getting screwed over that way.


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[Assistant] I was just thinking as I'm watching, like the NFC was crazy this year.


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[Assistant] Crazy, right? I don't know if you saw the little line I wrote at like the top of one of the pages. Oh yes, I did. I don't remember a year in any conference where the playoffs were so even, right?


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[Assistant] I think you would vouch to me, vouch for me, and I think Pete could probably bring it, like, playoff picks and things like that, I've usually thrived. Like I go through years where I go 12 and 1, 12 and 1, 11 and 2.


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[Assistant] I'm not very good this year. And a lot of it is, it's like, things are so, I don't remember a year where going,


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[Assistant] A wild card team Rams could have gone to the Super Bowl, right? And you guys barely beat them and then barely beat the Bucks. But the Lions could have gone to the Super Bowl. Exactly. That's right. It's crazy. I don't remember a year of going literally as I look at it going,


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[Assistant] I think every team in the playoffs in the NFC could have won the Super Bowl except the Eagles, right? It's just like, they were all there to be had. We've seen the 49ers, they're not peaking right now. They're not playing their best football. There's issues to where they came back to the pack. It just, I never remember a year where it being


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[Assistant] I don't remember me ever going to divisional round weekends so much as last week going.


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[Assistant] I mean, I know I picked this team, but I don't feel confident about it. It's really a coin flip. Like, it was more this year than ever before. It's been a crazy year, and I guess that's gonna lead us to a crazy Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Vegas, baby. I know, I wish you were staying longer. Uh, but hey, you know where to find us. Monday, it will be me and Ahmed in Vegas, okay? Ask me anything. Bring out your best stuff.


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[Assistant] It's going to be a great week. I wish Ahmad was staying longer. We would have lots of drinking and debauchery and lots of fun to have fun there in Las Vegas. But full week, look at NBC Sports. Florio and I will be on all week.


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[Assistant] Chris Sims on button will continue to go on from Vegas. Ahmet will be there with me on Monday. Please send in questions, anything you want me to dissect.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna continue to dissect the breakdown of this football game, give you a few other angles to look at as far as the game on Monday. Hope everybody enjoyed the pod. Have a great weekend of no football. It kinda sucks. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself.


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[Assistant] But I'll figure out a way to survive. Alright everybody, peace out. Clap it up. Clap it up.


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


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[Assistant] Oh yes, we need to have Phillip Sims doing the podcast maybe next year. Especially in the playoffs because Dad was doing well until the postseason rolled around. Now Dad is taking a little bit of a nose dive. Five and five straight up so far this postseason. Five and five against the spread. One and two best bets. In contrast,


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[Assistant] I'm 7 and 3 in the postseason, both straight up and against the spread, 3 and 0 best bets, and last week, a rare perfect week, it helps to only have 4 games.


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[Assistant] But it was a rare perfect week for me straight up. I was so nervous about the divisional round. I thought I was gonna go 0-4 and end up 4-0. I've got a three game lead which may be insurmountable straight up. I'm up one game in best bets.


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[Assistant] And off we go with the final three games of the regular season two this weekend. And then obviously the Super Bowl, we will do no


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[Assistant] Wagering or prognosticating on the Pro Bowl games, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, three games left before 2023 is in the books, Chris.


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[Assistant] Get that vibe as well. Look, I just want a good Super Bowl. I don't care who it is.


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[Assistant] I want to be right as to the two teams we pick, or at least the two teams I pick.


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[Assistant] Who will qualify for Super Bowl 58, but we just saw Chiefs 49ers four years ago, so I could see why people wouldn't want to see that again. The Lions have never been in the Super Bowl. It's been 11 years for the Ravens.


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[Assistant] So, you know, we like different, we like new, we like something other than what we're used to seeing. And that's one of the realities of being the top dogs. The Chiefs and 49ers have been among the best teams in football for the past five years. It's nice to have a little new blood.


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[Assistant] It really doesn't matter. We're still gonna watch the Super Bowl. Well over a hundred million will tune in and you want the best possible game. You want the best teams and the best game and it would be great. There would be layers and levels of intrigue to a Chiefs 49ers rematch when you consider that the 49ers were up 10 points with seven minutes to go. They hit on the


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[Assistant] Chip Wasp play on third and long that, that set the Chiefs up to make it close and then they took the lead and then they got another touchdown and it was unbelievable. So yea, I'd love to see round two of that. Any combination of these four teams is fine with me.


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[Assistant] No, I, you know. Lions, lions. Yeah, that was the first game of the season. It'd be great at the end of the season. What about 49ers? Ravens!


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[Assistant] So since we have only two games this week and a full hour or at least 53 minutes to talk, where will you be watching the games on Sunday?


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[Assistant] Weather on the 1s, high of 40, low of 35 in the mean streets of Greenwich on Sunday. So you will need to put a few logs on the fire and keep it warm in the barn. I was telling you before the show, you need to get a heat pump in your barn. I got one in mine and it changed everything. I used to go down there to


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[Assistant] Hang out, do some writing, watch TV, whatever.


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[Assistant] Half hour after that, you're sweating because it's 85 degrees. There was no way to regulate the temperature. So this, this thing is great. It keeps it at a nice even temperature and then you turn it up when you go down there and you're comfortable no matter how cold it is outside. You should look into heat pump. And I know you can afford it because you can't hide money.


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[Assistant] It'll probably be my son and me. I don't know if we'll invite other people over. We've become very insular in our football watching experience. I just like it to be me and him watching the game, talking about football, not talking about other shit. Right. Just let's talk about the game. What do we


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[Assistant] And I, cause I'm trying to kinda, I'm trying to kinda, you know, bring him along in the, in the business. I, I'm, I'm gonna, like, die one of these days. I'm not...


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[Assistant] That delusional, one of these days I will drop dead, hopefully later than sooner, but who the hell knows, and he's gonna have to be ready to take over.


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[Assistant] So it's family owned business, family owned food truck, just like an NFL franchise, the equity passes to whoever's in the wheel. And for now it's him, unless he pisses me off and it'll end up being somebody else. If somebody else wants it for now, it's him. So, uh, anyway, trying to try to get all the nuances.


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[Assistant] We got a couple of local options where we'll get food for our games in the barn. There's a restaurant not far from here. It's a bar slash restaurant called The Social Tap, which has excellent wings. See, I'm going to get in trouble with other establishments in the area for promoting only one, but have better wings, I guess is the only


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[Assistant] The only way I can, you know, stick handle my way around that and it's close and it's easy to get great pizza. We'll get food there or, or, and I don't know where we stand on our national, you know, food chain sponsorship, but


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[Assistant] My son and I love Jersey mics and I don't know if it's Danny Capito in the commercials or what.


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[Assistant] We love jersey bikes. I hear ya, I hear ya.


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[Assistant] We, we will, we will get Jersey Mike's at least once a week. Not even when there's anything going on. Like tonight I said, Hey, it's Thursday night. We're used to watching football. Let's go hang out in the barn. I'll get Jersey Mike's. He's like, I'm down with that. And so that's what we're going to do. But Jersey Mike's is great. The hot subs are better than the cold subs. I get it when I'm in Greenwich.


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[Assistant] Stay at the hotel there. Forget about room service. There's a Jersey Mike's about a half mile away. I'll walk down there and get Jersey Mike's.


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[Assistant] Not that I'll ever win the argument internally, but I have been entertaining, relocating. Whoa. Whoa. It'll never happen. It'll never happen.


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[Assistant] You know, eight acres is a lot of maintenance. When, when the four-wheeler happens to flip over and it isn't quite as easy as flipping it back. Once it's on its side and the motor goes through a cycle or two while it's still on in the oil,


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[Assistant] And the other fluids move to places they don't really go, it tends to screw things up. So I'm going to have to buy a new, yeah, I need to have one. I need to have a truck. I need to have a tractor. I need to have this. I need to have that. It all adds up. So.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, ten years may be enough of having eight acres. Maybe it's time to have one acre again. I hear ya. So, uh, so anyway, anyway, uh, and last word on Jersey Mike's, and I know you can do this a lot of places, but for someone like me that's used to going to a place and standing in line and ordering and waiting, I got this app. It's uh, boo boo boo boo.


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[Assistant] It's ready in 15 minutes. You drive up, you walk in, you grab the bag, and you go. It's awesome. It's awesome. So, anyway.


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[Assistant] Free advertising for Jersey Mike's, but Jersey Mike's were open for business if you want to do some advertising with PFT Live, because it will be real, it will be authentic, and we're giving it to you for free.


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[Assistant] Even though you've never given me a free sub. Although I've earned, I've earned, I've got the points. I've got 276 short points. But I always let it ride. They're like, do you want your sub for free? You'll get it for free. And I say, ah, let it ride. Let it ride.


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[Assistant] Let it keep going. I like, I like seeing that big number of short points from Jersey Mike's. Alright, let's get to it. I didn't think we were going to have anything to talk about and here we wasted about 15 minutes. Okay, AFC Championship.


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[Assistant] Third seeded Chiefs at the top seeded Ravens. Six straight year the Chiefs are in the AFC Championship. First time the Ravens are in the AFC Championship since 2012 when they ultimately went to the Super Bowl and won it.


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[Assistant] I've picked the ravens to lose seven times, you've picked them to lose three times, I don't know how relevant any of that is to Sunday, but it is factual, it is historical, it is based on what we've done this year, so.


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[Assistant] Who do you pick to win and who do you pick to lose?


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[Assistant] On Sunday, in the first of the two conference championship games.


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[Assistant] I would want to play to my strengths if I'm the Chiefs, and my biggest strength is Patrick Mahomes is one of the great quarterbacks of all time. He finds a new level in moments like this. He's hyper aware of legacy. He's two wins away from getting to number three by way of Super Bowl championships as he tries to catch Tom Brady's seven.


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[Assistant] So, you're gonna see a more locked in. Certain guys just thrive in those moments. Joe Burrow, for example, he reaches a higher level of performance in the postseason. Mahomes is the same way. I mean, Mahomes has a pretty high level in the regular season, as does Burrow. But he kinda quietly morphs into...


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[Assistant] A next level superhero when these games roll around and you don't hear any talk about it. I said last week watching him play the Bills. He's just got that sideline demeanor when chiefs are on defense of somebody who's just ready at the drop of a hat to go do what needs to be done. He's not stressed out by anything. He's anxious.


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[Assistant] But he's not nervous. He's excited, but he's not rattled.


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[Assistant] And he's just, there's everything about the way he's like, he's edge of the seat. I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready at all times. And then he goes out there and he does his thing. So I would spread him out.


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[Assistant] Angriest runners that I can remember. And to put him on the Chiefs, I think that's one of the reasons why they're running so much. They realize this guy can move the sticks, this guy can set a tone, this guy softens them up, and then we slice them and dice them in the passing game.


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[Assistant] And if you do it right, you zig when they think you're gonna zag, you get em, you know, you get em fatigued, you get em in a position where...


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[Assistant] I still wouldn't ignore the running game, but I would definitely put it on my homes. I don't want it to be something where the Ravens can just resort to brute strength because I think it's easier for them


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[Assistant] One last point too, if you get them to drop into coverage and they're not blitzing and Mahomes has time to wait and see if he finds someone, remember the extra ingredient that Mahomes brings, even though it's not the same explosion and speed and suddenness that you see when Lamar Jackson decides to run, what you see from Patrick Mahomes is that


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[Assistant] Harlem Globetrotters leaving in slow motion and everybody's standing around and they don't know what to do and he knows how to get past a guy who's just kind of like flailing in air like the Washington Generals. I mean, it's comical at times. He had to run like that against the Bills.


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[Assistant] And it conjured memories and Nance and Romo mentioned the run from four years ago against the Titans in the AFC Championship where he made it to the end zone and it felt like they were just standing around watching him. They didn't know what to do.


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[Assistant] He's good for one of those as well, a game, especially if you're not putting so much pressure on him that he feels like he can slip around the corner and off he goes.


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[Assistant] He's one of those guys that's so good at everything he does that...


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[Assistant] So that's the key, you feel like if you commit, you're gonna be the mouse in a cat and mouse game, and if you don't commit...


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[Assistant] They can move the ball, they've got the pass catchers, and again, as we were talking about earlier on PFT Live, unleash Lamar Jackson as a runner in these high stakes games because you're not worried about a late season ankle injury or knee injury or foot injury or any other injury that would knock him out, you're going for the brass ring.


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[Assistant] Dangerous offense against a defense that has held its own for most, uh, most of the year. What do you expect from Baltimore's offense against Kansas City's defense?


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[Assistant] My general thought is this, and it's a twist on the Bill Belichick approach to defensive football, which has always been take away what the other side does best offensively. I think for a game like this, when you consider the psychology of it.


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[Assistant] When you consider the Chiefs are in their sixth straight AFC Championship, for the Ravens, it's...


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[Assistant] My approach would be, and this gets to what I was saying,


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[Assistant] As relates to the Chief's offense. Same thing for the Chief's defense. Take away the thing that's easier.


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[Assistant] Because I think if you let them do the thing that's easier, they are less likely to freak out. They're more likely to build confidence.


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[Assistant] And then they're more likely to do the more difficult thing well if they build some confidence. So I would take away the easy stuff. I would take away the running game. I would force Lamar Jackson to be accurate early in the game. Like Baker Mayfield told you last week, even though


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[Assistant] The reason was the bucks were in a hostile environment. Still, you don't want...


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[Assistant] To have negative plays. You don't want to have turnovers early. You're going to be more aware of that. You're going to be feeling more nervous. That's the time to kind of bait the Ravens into making a mental error, not a physical error, because


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[Assistant] Physically, it's just, it's, it's easier and you feel better, you know, hey, we ran for seven yards, we ran for eight yards, we ran for 10 yards. All right, we're feeling good. Play action. Boom. 50 yard touchdown. I want to force them to manage.


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[Assistant] I'll go first since I'm the one holding the lead and I don't want you to be suspicious of my motives or accuse me of cheating again and cause me to lose my fucking mind like I did last week. So, so.


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[Assistant] And this is what I've struggled with all week. This is what I've struggled with.


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[Assistant] Number one, number one, I don't need or want Ravens fans up my ass again as I experienced and I deserved it a month ago today when the Ravens beat the 49ers on Christmas night and I had foolishly said the 49ers would kick the shit out of the Ravens. Nobody's kicking the shit out of anybody in this game. This is going to be a close game. It's getting down to the wire, I hope.


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[Assistant] And, and look, this is, this is where I struggle.


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[Assistant] About who's going to make it to the playoffs, who's going to make it to the Superbowl.


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[Assistant] On the brink of the Super Bowl, and I picked the Chiefs to make it to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] It feels weasely to not pick the team that you've predicted to go to the Super Bowl before the season began when they're one game away from getting to the Super Bowl. I don't want to hedge. I mean, maybe if I had a ticket.


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[Assistant] That was paying me whatever the odds would have been. They wouldn't have been very high odds for the Chiefs to go to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I'm gonna hedge by picking the Ravens to win. I don't, no, I, I gotta stick, I gotta stick with the horse that got me this far. I believed in the Chiefs then, I believe in them now, I believe in pattering my homes, I've said we're witnessing history, and this may just be too much for the Ravens if it were in the bills.


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[Assistant] I'd probably pick the Ravens, but the Chiefs have proven that they know how to thrive in this kind of...


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[Assistant] Setting in this kind of environment, being on the road is just enough a twist to get their attention. I got the Chiefs and I keep going 30 to 27. I'm a glutton for punishment. That was the score of the 1998 NFC Championship game that the Vikings lost in overtime to the Falcons. 30, Chiefs, Ravens, 27. I'm sorry Ravens.


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[Assistant] And I won't be surprised if the Ravens win, I'm just sticking with the horse that brung me this


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[Assistant] Wow. Alright, so we disagree on that one. That was tough, man. You have the Ravens covering the spread as well. You have the Ravens covering the spread, and you've weaseled. You've abandoned your preseason Super Bowl representative from the AFC. Let's take a break. When we return, let's see if Chris abandons his preseason NFC representative from the Super Bowl as the 49ers.


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[Assistant] Prepare to take on the Lions. We'll see if he's weasel times two.


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[Assistant] That's next on Chris Sims on Button and PFTN. What kind of noise does a weasel make?


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[Assistant] Action being placed on the 49ers. Kind of a surprise when you consider the 49ers didn't look great against the Packers. The Lions haven't been dominant in the


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[Assistant] Post-season. No, not at all. They had two home games. Right. They won by a point over the, the, uh, uh, uh, who'd they beat in the first game? The Rams. I'm not blanking. The Rams. The Rams. The Rams. Duh. The Rams. And then they covered the spread against the Buccaneers, but it felt closer than that and could have been closer than that if Todd Bowles just would have, you know.


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[Assistant] T for Todd, if he just would have done that. Hey Todd, what's, what's the first letter of your first name? T. If he just would have done that, maybe they would have covered, maybe they would have won. So.


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[Assistant] They go on the road now for the first time this postseason. The 49ers at home again, obviously.


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[Assistant] The forecast is good, no rain, no worries about Brock Purdy and the wet football and the issues he was having on Saturday night. So let's, let's start this one and we're gonna do this in two different segments.


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[Assistant] We're gonna start with when the Lions have the ball.


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[Assistant] Let's break that down. Chris, what do you expect from this team that loves to avoid third and long and has the running backs and the passing game to avoid more often than not being stuck in third and long? You don't want Jared Goff to be back there with Nick Bosa and others.


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[Assistant] In his face, cause that's when Jared Goff can start coughing the football off.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna try to take away the running game if I'm the 49ers and I want Jared Goff to beat me. I want Jared Goff to feel the weight of the moment and I almost want him


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[Assistant] And if he, if he passes that test, then maybe you change it up and try to get after him, especially because they got injuries in the middle of the offensive line. Maybe you can send some guys up the middle and get in his face. You know, that was always the way with Tom Brady. You forget about going around the edge, go up the middle and that's what's going to rattle him. Maybe that's what you need to do with Jared Goff.


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[Assistant] I like the idea of, and it could be easier said than done when they have Jameer Gibbs and David Montgomery, get to the ball, use those linebackers to minimize whatever he's gained on first and second down, and then, and then


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[Assistant] Drop into coverage, hope Nick Bosa can earn his money in this game. Get around the edge and harass Jared Goff and get him to make a mistake. If you can just get him to make a mistake or two. It's almost like the same mindset as the Raven.


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[Assistant] Let him fr- and he's been there before and I know he's taken a team to the Super Bowl, but we saw what happened in the biggest moment possible. Let's hope that he has that same kind of a misfire in a hostile environment on the road against a defense that, you know, is better than any defense he's faced so far in the postseason.