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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Well, welcome to move the sticks here on

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Speaker 1: a Monday dyeing Red Lewis here with our former NFL

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Speaker 1: scount lead draft anilist Daniel Jeremiah Bucky Brooks. Ready to

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Speaker 1: rock and roll here on a following a Sunday that

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Speaker 1: featured so much fun, so many fantastic finishes in drama

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Speaker 1: down the stretch. So today, you guys, we're just gonna

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Speaker 1: try to keep this thing between the uprights. Okay, Wow,

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Speaker 1: easier said than done. Indeed, indeed, we'll get to those

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Speaker 1: miskicks here in just a moment. Let's begin as we

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Speaker 1: always do it on Monday, with our big three, and

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Speaker 1: we'll start with the big time win in Kansas City

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Speaker 1: for uh, the Buffalo Bills. They go on the road

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Speaker 1: defeat the team that knocked them out of the playoffs

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Speaker 1: in the a f C Championship game a year ago.

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Speaker 1: This was a really interesting game. Plenty of we had

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Speaker 1: a lightning delay, right, but you know again, it didn't

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Speaker 1: really charge up the Chief's offense. I just gotta I

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Speaker 1: gotta get all right, all right, that's that's the last one. Last,

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Speaker 1: I promis all right, Let's kick this thing off with

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Speaker 1: some similarities here that I'm sure Patrick Mahomes in the

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Speaker 1: Chief's offense felt based on how the Bills were playing

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Speaker 1: them on defense. DJ. Yeah. To me, when you watch

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Speaker 1: this game, you knew that the offense is what they

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Speaker 1: can do, what they're capable of. It was which defense

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Speaker 1: And I thought in this game it was the formula

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Speaker 1: that we've seen against the Kansas City Chiefs. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna send pressure, you're gonna rush for. But to me,

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Speaker 1: it's not just rushing for, it's how you rush for.

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Speaker 1: It's not getting caught up the field. It's trying to

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Speaker 1: build that wall in front of Mahomes. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people say, oh, you gotta keep in the pocket. Oh

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Speaker 1: you're okay. If he bounces right or left. You can't

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Speaker 1: let him climb up in the pocket when your ends

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Speaker 1: get caught up field, because Buck, when that happens, Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes can access the entire field left to right and

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Speaker 1: you've got no shot. I thought they did a very

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Speaker 1: nice job with a discipline rush plan, and we've seen

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Speaker 1: that against the Chiefs several times this year. Like as Funnys,

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Speaker 1: you talking about the Buffalo Bills, and their disciplined and

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Speaker 1: attention to detail. That is what I felt like. The

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Speaker 1: theme of the game was day true to who they

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Speaker 1: were playing within the identity of the players that they

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Speaker 1: have on the team. They didn't DV you. You You did

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Speaker 1: see him bliss like crazy. They kept everything in front,

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Speaker 1: they rather to the ball, and they made enough plays

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Speaker 1: because the pass first was able to get there on times.

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Speaker 1: And they have identified a new playmaker on offense and

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Speaker 1: it's the tight end Dawson Knox. Look, I mean this

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Speaker 1: was his biggest game of his career thus far now

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Speaker 1: two plus seasons into the league, and his first hundred

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Speaker 1: yard game. This was a huge turn in the game here.

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Speaker 1: This essentially was a scramble play for Dawson Knox's behind

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Speaker 1: the defense and ends up going for six. But you know,

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Speaker 1: for a team that is consistently seeing defenses, paid more

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Speaker 1: attention to Stefon Diggs after the phenomenal year they had

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Speaker 1: a year ago. He's another answer now for this Bill's offense.

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Speaker 1: And look, we go back and look at what we

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Speaker 1: talked about. Dawson Knox coming out of Old Miss is

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Speaker 1: He didn't have a college touchdown, So you have fifteen catches,

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Speaker 1: But Buck, this is something we talked about all the

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Speaker 1: time on the podcast, which is the tight end position.

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Speaker 1: It's traits over production in college George Kittle part of

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Speaker 1: and give these guys time to develop. It's paid off.

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Speaker 1: It has paid off when we think about another thing,

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Speaker 1: paying off, the Bills investment in Josh Allen has certainly

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Speaker 1: paid off. Josh Allen continues to be the guy that

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Speaker 1: you're driving forth of this offense, and when you watch

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Speaker 1: Achilles Hello. The kryptonite for Josh Allen used to be

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Speaker 1: He is beginning to solve that puzzle. He's beginning to

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Speaker 1: with fifty nine yards, none bigger than both quarterbacks exactly.

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Speaker 1: None bigger for Allan though than that third and four

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Speaker 1: More on closers throughout the league on this Sunday, coming

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Speaker 1: that has been the Chiefs. Now, this has got feel

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Speaker 1: They had these long drives, the patients that the defenses

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Speaker 1: Two picks for Mahomes, although one went right off tyreek

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Speaker 1: do they fix this? It's a familiar theme? Is one

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Speaker 1: of the things that Patrick Mahomes talked about after the game.

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Speaker 1: He talked about needing to clean up the issues at

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Speaker 1: the Kindsi Chiefs to fix it is to scale back everything.

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Speaker 1: Allow Patrick Mahomes to do something that he's he's very

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Speaker 1: They gotta take care of the things that they can control.

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Speaker 1: Kesta ball when it's down in your area, don't fumble

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Speaker 1: do those things. If they eliminated the dB os that

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Speaker 1: The white board I'm writing up on that white board

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Speaker 1: to words I'm writing patients and physicality. That's their way

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Speaker 1: I actually think this offensive line is better equipped to

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Speaker 1: have to do it going forward with Darryl Williams. As

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Speaker 1: number two of the Big Three and four that we

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Speaker 1: go to Sophi Stadium where we had forty one point

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Speaker 1: scored in the fourth quarter alone, DJ, You and Money,

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Speaker 1: do you get an opponents to check on this one?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's like you had an entire game you

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Speaker 1: was a wild game, back and forth. It was fun

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Speaker 1: it because he's playing at that elite of a level.

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Speaker 1: He's in full control. He's selectively aggressive when they dial

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Speaker 1: two plays that stood out to me in this game, Buck,

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Speaker 1: the Browns third and ten. Not I think Baker might

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Speaker 1: The Chargers move late and covered it up. Bosa beats

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Speaker 1: clear indication of one team that says, this is our quarterback,

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Speaker 1: You're in the trailer. It feels like the definition of

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Speaker 1: good versus great. Because Baker Mayfield is a good player.

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Speaker 1: He's a really good quarterback, right I don't think we're

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Speaker 1: just we're disputing that, but justin Justin Herbert is a

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Speaker 1: and I we talked about difference in good and great.

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, to me, has to take another step in

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Speaker 1: his development to be considered a franchise quarterback worthy of

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Speaker 1: being afforded million dollar quarterback. When you look at this

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Speaker 1: Mayfield three checkdowns and then a bunch of hail Mary's

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Speaker 1: they got to make plays. Baker Mayfield's inability to close

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Speaker 1: people said, well they didn't trust their tackles. They're playing

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Speaker 1: they were conservative checking the ball down that two minute drill,

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Speaker 1: Well you go watch to take the Chargers had one hit,

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Speaker 1: So you didn't trust your tackles. You've got to put

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Speaker 1: Is it because that's how they want to run this

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Speaker 1: suits Baker's skill set and maybe he doesn't have that

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert type skill set to go out win games out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that Justin Herbert Pat Mahomes skill set is different.

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Speaker 1: The overwhelming majority of quarterbacks are system quarterbacks. This system

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Speaker 1: is designed for Baker Mayfield to have easy throws, and

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Speaker 1: they do that. But to go to the Promised Land,

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Speaker 1: you need a quarterback that can make war five plays

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Speaker 1: he is a franchise quarterback. He doesn't have that ability

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Speaker 1: or he hasn't shown it to this point. Look, I've

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Speaker 1: I've seen the Cleveland Browns obviously call all these Charger games.

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Speaker 1: The Browns are the most talented roster that I've seen.

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Speaker 1: of the Colts or Justin Tucker. I'll put that we've

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Speaker 1: never seen in the last thirty years in terms of

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Speaker 1: miss kicks. Seven mc ferson even thought he won the game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: flag doesn't count over the upright might have count. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's hit our elite eight. We need some real closers. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's start this thing off. DJ. Who was a real

435
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Speaker 1: closer for you this week? Well, when I look at

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Speaker 1: a lot of different options here, Buck, you want to take,

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Speaker 1: you wanna take DeAndre Hopkins. I don't want to defer.

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Speaker 1: Let's take Let's take take care. DeAndre Hopkins is a

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Speaker 1: guy for me because when I think about this, Cardinal's

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Speaker 1: offense is about Calder Murray being able to serve it up.

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Speaker 1: But who's gonna serve it up to He's gonna serve

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Speaker 1: it up DeAndre Hopkins. DeAndre Hopkins is one of the

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Speaker 1: best clothes out guys. But it's not only that. Is

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Speaker 1: the awareness to understand time, score situation. He makes place.

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Speaker 1: He knows when to stand bounds, when he can go

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Speaker 1: out of bounds, what is needed, what is required, He

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Speaker 1: does it all of the time and the best fifty

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Speaker 1: fifty ball pass catcher that you're gonna find his number

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Speaker 1: ten right there in black. He gets it done over

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Speaker 1: and over and over again. That's what he go to

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Speaker 1: him in the clutch. Yeah, one on one, take your shots,

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Speaker 1: get an eleven yard or at the at the end

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Speaker 1: of the game. That really kind of ice things too.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, he's just a classic. When you're covered, you're open.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Austin Ekeler though in the game

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Speaker 1: I was at this is a couple of weeks in

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Speaker 1: a row he did against the Raiders. He does it

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Speaker 1: in this game as well. I know the last touchdown

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Speaker 1: he technically didn't want to score. He got pulled into

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Speaker 1: the end zone and pushed him the end zone with

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Speaker 1: the Browns but running receiving. He had three touchdowns in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and as great as Justin Herbert was,

463
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Speaker 1: what a weapon to have you see here on the

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Speaker 1: screen setting up his blocks and weaving his way into

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Speaker 1: the end zone. Austin Ekeler has proven to be a

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Speaker 1: closer for the Chargers. That's gonna be a key role

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Speaker 1: for them. They're gonna score a bunch of points this year.

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Speaker 1: But to put games away. You can put it in

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Speaker 1: thirties hands. Let's get to London where it turns out

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Speaker 1: that Greg Rosenthal and Dan Hands were not the only

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Speaker 1: international superstars out there. It was in fact, by the way,

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Speaker 1: did they come back, It doesn't matter. I was hopeful. Alright.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to Matt Ryan here as an absolute closer

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Speaker 1: for the Falcons. Okay, so Zach Wilson and the Jets

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Speaker 1: had come to close the gap in this game. It

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Speaker 1: was a seventeen to ten game here, and then Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan comes back. Uh and absolute really answers the Jets

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Speaker 1: touchdown drive with he goes five for five. Found Kyle

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Speaker 1: Pitts in this game in a big way. Uh. He

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Speaker 1: goes five for five on this drive. Uh, and that

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Speaker 1: made it twenty seven to seventeen with a two yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown from Mike Davis. So, Matt Ryan two yards two

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in this game was well over completing passes, Absolute closing,

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Speaker 1: the absolute closing. He did a fantastic job of closed

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Speaker 1: it out. It was big because the game was teetering

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Speaker 1: into balance. You don't want to lose to the Jest

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Speaker 1: because you felt like this is one that you kind

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Speaker 1: of already chug up five things. Though for Kyle Pitts,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to that here in a little bit. It

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Speaker 1: certainly helped him do it. And so after watching an

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Speaker 1: old quarterback like might run to it, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: back to the guy who was whipping father times till

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Speaker 1: how about Tom Brady been the ultimate closer. When I

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Speaker 1: look at Tom Brady four yards four in passing yards,

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Speaker 1: he throws it all over the yard. Anthony Brown decays

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Speaker 1: that he still wants to be an elite receiver even

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Speaker 1: though he's the third receiver in their situation. And Mike

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Speaker 1: Evins has a hundred yard day, but tom Brady is

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Speaker 1: dropping dime after dime after dime on this field. And

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Speaker 1: I know, I keep saying at some point he's going

501
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Speaker 1: to fall off the clip because you just can't play

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Speaker 1: quarterback into your fifty years of age. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Tom Brady just has found the found the youth

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Speaker 1: and he will play forever. He closed it early. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things you don't have to come

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Speaker 1: into the ninth Then in the closest games, sometimes the

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Speaker 1: quarterback and give them away early. And that's what Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott did as well for Cowboys had a couple of

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Speaker 1: turnovers early in this game, and then quickly recovered and

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Speaker 1: then pushed his foot on the gas pedal and it

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Speaker 1: was full vertical attack mode. By the way, some sweet

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Speaker 1: play design from Kellen Moore in this game too, on

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Speaker 1: a little swing pass touchdown that they had earlier. To me,

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Speaker 1: you've got the creativity, the play calling and the execution

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Speaker 1: of Dak Prescott. He puts teams away. He does put

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Speaker 1: teams away. But I think having the running back Ezekiel Elliott,

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Speaker 1: he's not meant necessarily a close but maybe he's like

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Speaker 1: that long reliever that you can send up because he

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Speaker 1: is back to form. He is going over a hundred

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Speaker 1: yards the last three games in the row. He looks

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Speaker 1: like he's kind of kind of finding himself again. And look,

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Speaker 1: it felt like in five games last year before Dad

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Speaker 1: got hurt that we still didn't really know what his

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Speaker 1: relationship was gonna be like with Kellen Moore as the

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Speaker 1: play caller, right with Mike McCarthy's influence. And now it

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Speaker 1: feels like we're starting to see what this offense is

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Speaker 1: really all about. So let's move on to another closer.

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Speaker 1: Adam Feeland was held without a target in this game

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Speaker 1: up until the final minute, without a catch in this

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Speaker 1: game up until the final minute. This goes after the

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions decided to go for the win, go for two,

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins suddenly found his favorite target, Adam Feeland, went

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Speaker 1: for nineteen here, then went for twenty one and got

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Speaker 1: Greg Joseph in line for a fifty yard game winning

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Speaker 1: field goal. Just to break the hearts once again of

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, who thought they had won the game

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Speaker 1: on a bold coaching move from Dan Campbell. Turns out

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Speaker 1: the Vikings just had a pair of closers and Cousins

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Speaker 1: and team. You know, it has to be really frustrating

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Speaker 1: if the Detroit Lions to see that you lost two

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Speaker 1: games in that man, and you lose to the Baltimore

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Speaker 1: Ravens because you can't close it. Then you lose to

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Speaker 1: the Vikings because of it to catch the whole game

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Speaker 1: in the final minute, know, and then he gets open.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give you a big body closing. How

546
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Speaker 1: about Derrick Henry from the Tennessee Titans. We talked about

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Speaker 1: being able to close games out by getting a four

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Speaker 1: minute offense. Some coaches would call it turtal offense where

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Speaker 1: you slow it down. Man, I want a two pound

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Speaker 1: bang or someone who can just run over everybody, the

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Speaker 1: whole crowd. It doesn't matter whether you're blocking form or not.

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Speaker 1: He consistently finds a way to get it done. And

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Speaker 1: the longevity that Derrick Henry has shown year after year

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Speaker 1: when he's getting thwo ns in the fifty carriers, he

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Speaker 1: doesn't slow down. He is a brute force. You certainly

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Speaker 1: don't want to have to deal with him in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. On the Amazon Thursday Nights stream that we do,

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Speaker 1: we talk about unicorns, and he's one of the true

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Speaker 1: unicorns in the NFL. There's nothing like Derrick Henry. He

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Speaker 1: has the one and only out there. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Eagles. Really kind of a collective effort,

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Speaker 1: all three phases of the team figuring out a way

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Speaker 1: to close out that game which Carolina was in control of.

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Speaker 1: It starts right here with the block punt. That's the

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Speaker 1: way you want to turn a football game around. Do

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Speaker 1: it on special teams. We saw that in the Houston

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Speaker 1: game as well, with a with a block punt changing

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Speaker 1: that game. Jalen here at the we just missed it.

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Speaker 1: They did the Superman yeah exactly, So then you're able

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Speaker 1: to close out offensively, you get the big play here

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Speaker 1: to Watkins down the field, and then defensively, I thought

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Speaker 1: this defensive front did a nice job of containing and

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Speaker 1: then getting that pass rush cranked up when they needed

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Speaker 1: to get after. Sam Darald forced the three turnovers in

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Speaker 1: this ball game. So really, I think closing from all

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Speaker 1: three phases that's what made Philadelphia come out of the

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Speaker 1: winning end of a football game. They were in bad

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Speaker 1: shape for a goodwhile. Darius Slay a couple of picks

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Speaker 1: in this one too, it was nice to see. I

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Speaker 1: just one more thing. I just want to go back

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Speaker 1: and Chris Barnes, the linebacker for the Packers and the

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Speaker 1: Packers Bengals game, how to stop on third and two,

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Speaker 1: kept Joe Mixon to a one yard game which didn't

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Speaker 1: allow the first down, and then made Evan McPherson come

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Speaker 1: on for what was one of the missed game winning

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Speaker 1: field goals. Those little things like that can help the

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Speaker 1: team close out of game all the time. For one

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Speaker 1: of our favorite segments here of the week, we do

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Speaker 1: it every Monday, it's our rookie report Card. We actually

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Speaker 1: had six rookie quarterbacks starting this for the first time

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Speaker 1: this season, all five of the first round quarterbacks got

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Speaker 1: to start after Trey Lance entered the Fray will get

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Speaker 1: his grade in here in just a moment. But as

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Speaker 1: we have started each week with this segment, it's the

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Speaker 1: number one overall picked Trevor Lawrence. Look, Jack's are still winless,

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Speaker 1: but is he showing some signs of progress here? But

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Speaker 1: he is showing signs of progress. And so if I'm

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, I'm frustrated because I'm taking an independent study class.

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Speaker 1: I'm not getting to grade did I deserve. So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give him a B for his efforts, even though

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Speaker 1: the people around the necessarily look man, Trevor Lawrence is

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Speaker 1: ready to make a jump. He's ready to have more

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Speaker 1: things put on his plate, but unfortunately, right now he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the necessary support to maybe get it done,

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Speaker 1: whether he's coaching with us, the people around him, the playmakers.

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Speaker 1: He needs more, But he's showing promise. He just has

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Speaker 1: to continue to stick to the script and it will

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Speaker 1: eventually happen for him. But each and every week, this

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Speaker 1: guy flashes and shows the football world why he was

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Speaker 1: the number one. Overall, people want that red zone and

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Speaker 1: interception back. That was. Yeah, man, he's gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be a really good player. You can see

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Speaker 1: the progress that he's making, the ability that's there. Um

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Speaker 1: is my turn, right, Am I enjoy to hit Zach Wilson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can hit Zach Wilson. Look, I'm gonna give him

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Speaker 1: maybe a generous see generous, see here a little bit generous.

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Speaker 1: One thing about Zach he's late the class every week

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Speaker 1: because they cannot get anything going in the first half

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Speaker 1: of the games. You see the flashes, you see the talent,

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Speaker 1: the arm strength that gets you excited. But man, footwork wise,

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Speaker 1: his feet are not following his eyes, which has led

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Speaker 1: to some inaccuracies. He's pulling the string on some underneath passes,

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Speaker 1: which has led to some inaccuracy. And the timing. He's late.

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Speaker 1: They've had some opportunities down the field. He's just like

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Speaker 1: to pull the trigger. So there's a lot of things

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Speaker 1: you can work on for Zack. That's one right there

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Speaker 1: where he just pulls a string. It's it's an easy,

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Speaker 1: simple completion. So he's got it. He's got to clean

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Speaker 1: this stuff up. And to me, I think it starts

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Speaker 1: with the feet. Well, I think I think you're disciplined

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Speaker 1: in the classroom is not of depart So I think

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Speaker 1: we need to go back to the way it used

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Speaker 1: to be done. I think we need to have Zach

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Speaker 1: come in to class early and maybe he can write

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Speaker 1: some sentences on the wall. Maybe we can just have

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Speaker 1: you write au centences and just kind of get some

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Speaker 1: of that stuff so he gets you up on time.

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Speaker 1: I will have my feet fallow my eyes. I will

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Speaker 1: have my feet fallow my eyes. I will have my

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Speaker 1: feet follow my eyes. Yeah, got it. Okay, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: move on to mac Jones and uh on time rhythm

642
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: got the ball on quick? Does that sound familiar? But

643
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 1: we've been saying, you know is thinking. This is the

644
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: same report card everywhere, everywhere, nothing if not consistent. Let's

645
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: give him a B plus again. He forced the couple,

646
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: got away with a couple that might have been picked off.

647
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: But here's here's the thing. He made some real hey

648
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: on some play action passes. That middle of the field

649
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: was the Houston Texas said. You get to see a

650
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: play action pass. If they don't get sucked up on,

651
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 1: they might hit that ten times in this game. But

652
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. He was clutched down the stretch

653
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: when they were down. Now we'll get to the whole

654
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,239
Speaker 1: punt issue here and just his the minute, but they

655
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: took advantage of some opportunities here the game tying touchdown

656
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: past the hunter Henry and then he gets them down

657
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: in position for the game winning fuel goal try, which

658
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: Nick Folk did. Make some credit to you, Nick Folk.

659
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, here's the biggest revelation, revelation DJ

660
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: mac Jones and the Patriots finally did what they got explosive.

661
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: We we begged for that last weekend people. Well, you know,

662
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: maybe some of the criticism mac Jones he can't push

663
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: the ball. I saw him push the ball down the

664
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: field at Alabama. They haven't asked him and they haven't

665
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: had opportunities. I thought they did a good job with

666
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: this game plan with Josh McDaniels of scripting some opportunities

667
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: and Matt cashed him in. I'll be honest. I watched

668
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: that tape back to back with Joe Burrow. There's a

669
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: lot of similarities and how we're saying this a little bit.

670
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: You watch him back to back, You're like, okay, okay,

671
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: you kind of get this, and now I want to

672
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: see them get him some playmakers and some speed. I mean,

673
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: they still they need some help for them. And as

674
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: far as rookies go from that processing ability, because he's

675
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: been the best man he's been. He's been from through

676
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: through five games, he's clearly been the best rookie quarterback.

677
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: So you guys remember in school when you know, you're

678
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: kind of like a quarter into the to the year

679
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: and you had like a new student come in. You know,

680
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: it was a little awkward at first, and you're like, oh,

681
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: do we do we like this guy? Are we into

682
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: this thing? Tray Lance welcome to the party as a

683
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the first time. And you know what,

684
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: tray Land showed up on a day we had a

685
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: pop quiz. So Trey Lanz didn't get enough time to

686
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: necessarily fully preprepped. So I'm gonna give him a C

687
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: plus were his work. And here's what I'll say, Trade

688
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: When you come in, it's kind of like a progress report.

689
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: It's just a check to see where you are. The

690
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: athleticism and playmaking ability that's there, but a little inconsistent

691
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: because he doesn't understand the rules of the classroom. Right. Yet,

692
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: so once we get him acclimated to the classroom and

693
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: build it around him, he understands where did things go,

694
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: where the trash can is and audited other stuff. Trade

695
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: lance will be better because the talent is there, more time,

696
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: more experienced. The end, he developed expertise that we want

697
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: to see the position. I can tell you, as someone

698
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: who dropped a lot of classes in college, they had

699
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: he had team mates dropping passes. I mean a couple

700
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: of big time throws. Help him out. You got a

701
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: young quarterback and make some place for him. And you

702
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: know what, I was a little bit, just a tiny

703
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: bit disappointing the creativity. I thought we'd see some more

704
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 1: games that we saw in this game. Maybe there's more

705
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: to come. But man, you can't question this dude's toughness. Yeah,

706
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: not afraid that. I don't do that anymore. Like that

707
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 1: that made me hurt, Like in the back. We we

708
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: call this second the rookie report. This this little kid

709
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: like he's still a kid, youngest sixteen, carries eighty nine yards,

710
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: was the leading rusher for the forty nine. Did not

711
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: see and have not seen as much running the football

712
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: from justin fields now in his third start here. Yeah,

713
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: and when I go to the letter, I mean, this

714
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: is a win. So you'll take rookie wins. I gave

715
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 1: him a beat. You could say the bat maybe stands

716
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: for boring because it was just kind of an easy,

717
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: boring offensive game plan. But he was very safe, he

718
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: was very smart, protected the football took some big shots

719
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: in this game. The one thing I want to see

720
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: is just be a little bit more decisive when you

721
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: decide you want to run, see it and go. When

722
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: you watch Josh Allen the other last night man, when

723
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: he sees it, he is gone and and fields has that.

724
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: Plus he's got more speeds. So if he just be

725
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: a little more decisive with his legs, Buck, I think

726
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: you'll see some more big plays. You will see some

727
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: more big plays. But look two and out like he's

728
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: one of his last two stars. He gets, he gets

729
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: on the field. He's been able to do some positive things,

730
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: and so you like that part of it because some

731
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: coaches like boring, and maybe Matt and he likes to

732
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: drive a boring car. He doesn't want a lot of

733
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: got the win. He's doing his job. Here we go

734
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: for the Chicago Bears, staying alive, here. All right, let's

735
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: move on to Davis Mills, the pick of the Houston Texans,

736
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: making his third start here for Houston. This DJ was

737
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: not only much better, it was downright impressive. First of all,

738
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: Davis Mills was taking a course with the toughest professor

739
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: on campus. No kidding, this is Bill Belichick, who has

740
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: dominated rookie quarterback at the moment. He can drive the football,

741
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: He's got outstanding touch. I looked for the negatives on

742
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: my paper when I'm taking notes. I didn't really have any.

743
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: He used his legs, showed some athleticism. We talked about

744
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: that during the draft process. Had that big knee brace

745
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: at Stanford. Then he goes to the Pro day. He's

746
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: healthy that he braces off and he's moving. So I

747
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: saw him moving inside outside the pocket, making plays. Um,

748
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: it was impressive. I think we have the stats of

749
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. I'll show you here, and just versus rookies,

750
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what he did was pretty incredible.

751
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: Rookie quarterbacks in starts against the Patriots in the Bill

752
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: Belichick era, the other quarterbacks but man interceptions to just

753
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: twenty one touchdown is a pass awating just over sixty

754
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,239
Speaker 1: Davis Mills three touchdowns, and all of those touchdowns come

755
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: on passes more than ten yards in the air. Even

756
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: though I've already given him his paperback, I might after

757
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: seeing that put now that you've seen the car, nobody

758
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: does that. Nobody does that against Bill Belichick. And I'll

759
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: tell you what if the Houston Texans end up hitting

760
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: on Davis Mills, Oh my goodness, can you imagine when

761
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: they eventually do. Right this DeShawn Watson trade, all the

762
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: players are going to be able to add around him.

763
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: Man that you talk about Jackpott. If they get that,

764
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: and if they had just punted the dang ball, that

765
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: was bizarre. Let's take one quick look at it. I

766
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: don't even know what that really we're trying to fool.

767
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: What's the upside with that formation? No, no, no upside.

768
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: That thing must have really worked in practice. And he

769
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: didn't snap the Chintz strap off when he tried in

770
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: the protectors in the game went all the way downhill

771
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: for giving a game away right there. All right, let's

772
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: move on rookie pass catchers in the NFL All out

773
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: of Field Day in Week five, and man, let's start

774
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: with Kyle Pitts. In London, DJ, Finally we got that

775
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts game that we've really been waiting for. Yeah,

776
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: I've been waiting for. To me, I watched him buck

777
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: with with all those rookies when I was in the

778
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: top twenty five lists. I'm like, there's nothing wrong with

779
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts. He just needs targets, needs targus and finally

780
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 1: he was able to get targets. Part of was because

781
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: Calvin really wasn't there, so they really focused the passing

782
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: game around Kyle Pittson. We saw him explode, not from

783
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: one night team. We saw him get his first touchdown

784
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,800
Speaker 1: and he is every bit of the unicorn that we

785
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: talked about when he was coming out in the draft.

786
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 1: Big Buddy tied in who has wide receiver like skills.

787
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: We saw that on display when they were playing in London. Yeah,

788
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: he's just so long and so explosive, and he's gonna

789
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: be a mismatch problem for everybody they play against. And

790
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: I mentioned it earlier, but I feel like not having

791
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley there kind of targets his way and they're like, okay,

792
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: light bulbing off. Chase not too bad either, Yeah, J

793
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: Mar Chase. I think is continuing to show us why

794
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: these Cincinnati Bengals made the choice to take him over

795
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: the tackle at the top of the draft here for

796
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: them this year, and this play at the end of

797
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: the first half was phenomenal. Jamar Chase starts on the

798
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: top of the screen outside the US and he ends

799
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: up all the way back on the right side of

800
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: the field. You think that connection from college might have

801
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: played a little bit of a role. Scramble. I think

802
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: he could have had more in this game. Joe Burrow

803
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: missed him on one rebeat the defender right off the ball.

804
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: Chase dropped one and probably should have had another. So

805
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: Darius Tony, by the way, also showing up these last

806
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Look, all the attention is gonna be

807
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: on the punch and the injection, but when you watch

808
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: the tape, you get excited about what he's doing for

809
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 1: the Giants. He gives them something they don't have with

810
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: just pure explosiveness. You don't even have to push it

811
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: vertically down the field because of what he can do

812
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: after the catch. Plus when you watch the tape, you

813
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: can play Tony, Tony, Tony, which makes it more fun.

814
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: But no, he's gonna be a nice weapon for them

815
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: going forward. Not a lot of good news come out

816
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: of the Giants with all the injuries and the losses,

817
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: but man, that's that's gonna be a big piece of

818
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: their future. I just might want to keep that right

819
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: hook holster. Yeah, that forward especially not smarter, no question,

820
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 1: and but some serious injuries here for the Giants. Hopefully

821
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: they can get some guys back healthy here real soon.

822
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: That is going to do it here for this Monday

823
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,919
Speaker 1: edition of Move the Stakes, Febucky d J, I am Rhett.

824
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: We will see you back here, same time, same place

825
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: next week.