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Nick Bolton Reacts to Josh Allen's 6-TD Game, How Lions stopped Eagles Tush Push _ B_R Handoff Ep. 2 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the br Handoff presented by Verizon. I'm your
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  Speaker 1: host Nick Bolton. For the next few weeks, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of NFL starts will tune in and give you the highlights,
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  Speaker 1: the storylines and performances up during the week. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of the show, I'm going to handoff hosting duties
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  Speaker 1: to the next player. Stay tuned to the end to
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  Speaker 1: see who it is. Fashion Team hosted last week and
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  Speaker 1: he had a question for me to start off the
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  Speaker 1: show with.
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  Speaker 2: Each week, the hosts will ask the next host of question.
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  Speaker 2: So my question to Nick is what is your pregame routine?
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  Speaker 2: What does that look like like? Who's your favorite artists
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  Speaker 2: you like to listen to before the game? Do you
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  Speaker 2: have a pregame meal, etc. I would like to know
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  Speaker 2: the answer. My dog, obviously you're a baller doing your
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  Speaker 2: thing in Kansas City. Shout out to you. Can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to hear that answer.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of mix it up Pat a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of everything, kind of depending on what the day is.
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  Speaker 3: Sleep is big for me.
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  Speaker 1: I sleep a lot, regardless of the noon game or
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  Speaker 1: night game, so I do a lot of sleeping. Food wise,
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  Speaker 1: ranola bar, maybe a little fruit yo grid if I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling a little special today. But other than that that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty basic. Music wise. It depends on the day,
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  Speaker 1: kind of wake up, how I feel. Majority rap music.
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  Speaker 1: Might throw a little country in there if I need
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  Speaker 1: to calm down. I'm too well for the game. But
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, just a little little baby, a
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  Speaker 1: little Dirk, just a little mixer, a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: everybody trying to get ready for the game. Chiefs Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: starting off for the positive note. Travis Kelsey set the
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  Speaker 1: all time Chiefs touchdown record versus the Broncos. Just want
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  Speaker 1: to give a shout out shout to him for everything
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  Speaker 1: he's done for our community, our team, and our organization.
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  Speaker 1: He's been the post I've been on leader, emotional leader,
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  Speaker 1: was there every day a day in and day out.
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  Speaker 3: Putting the extra work.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of teaches the young guys, including myself, on what
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  Speaker 1: it meant to be a true pro. So I just
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  Speaker 1: want to give him a special shout out for all
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  Speaker 1: things he's done and being an extra Chiefs Kingdom's history
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  Speaker 1: for forever. Looking ahead for the rest of the season,
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs fans, I feel like overall as a team.
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  Speaker 3: We just got to play a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: We got a lot of young guys and vet guys
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  Speaker 1: meshing together, and we're getting to that part of season
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  Speaker 1: where every win counts, every week counts, and.
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  Speaker 3: It starts this week at home.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've got to find a way to shrink
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  Speaker 1: train together a couple of wins and give usself the
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  Speaker 1: chance in the playoffs. Okay, let's whiskers now. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are talking about the Mark Andrews first rushing touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: He said it was a perfect scenario, and after washing
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  Speaker 1: the tape, I kind of have to agree. The tist
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  Speaker 1: push is hard to stop, but fake test push is
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  Speaker 1: even harder. So let's break down as Mark Andrews thirty
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  Speaker 1: five yard fake test push touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they start off.
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  Speaker 1: They have three tight ends, fullback, running back in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson's at the deep back here, he's at
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  Speaker 1: the running back position. They start off, Cleveland does a
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  Speaker 1: great job of taking all their interior gaps away with
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  Speaker 1: all their bigger bodies trying to take away the sneak
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  Speaker 1: and possible to be gaps. With the linebacker walking up,
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  Speaker 1: it appears to me that they're in man. Assuming that
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  Speaker 1: thirty three has Lamar Jackson based off his alignment being
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  Speaker 1: at four yards and so he's probably a man coverage
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  Speaker 1: taking Lamar Jackson out. They recognized it, had a great
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  Speaker 1: play call. A little misdirection kind of got thirty three
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  Speaker 1: to come over to the side.
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  Speaker 3: Right here, they're man coverage. This guy gets blocked out.
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  Speaker 1: They steal the backer with all sudden I believe right there,
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  Speaker 1: and after that's eighty eight out the gate. The other
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  Speaker 1: man covers. He has the down tight end. Twenty one
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  Speaker 1: has a down tight end. I believes in me. The
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  Speaker 1: thirty's puntl for the Derrick Henny right there, thirty three
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  Speaker 1: has a quarterback and then they walked this guy up.
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  Speaker 1: It's either a man coverage or he's the blitzer in
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  Speaker 1: this specific scheme. He puts in the B gap. So
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  Speaker 1: they kind of got everybody has a man, everybody has
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  Speaker 1: a gap, and started to play. That's off in good shape.
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  Speaker 1: The misdirection kind of fools him a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: theylliles alson and carve up the backside backer baseb off
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  Speaker 1: the linement at the d N right there it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's sealed.
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  Speaker 1: So they got everybody block, got a hat for a hat,
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  Speaker 1: and you've lost the post player with the direction of
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson going out to the right. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a great play call of versus the perfect play. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Andrews got his first rushing touchdown of his career. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of the test push, this past offseason, the Lions voted
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  Speaker 1: not to ban the test push, and Dan Campbell shows
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  Speaker 1: us why although the Lions didn't win the game, they
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  Speaker 1: still find a way to successfully defend two test pushes
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  Speaker 1: back to back. I'll just take a look at this
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  Speaker 1: thirty one. We can figure out highly able to get
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  Speaker 1: a stop here. So in the last one you kind
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  Speaker 1: of see the safety was a little deeper. He's back there,
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  Speaker 1: So I believe in that probably playing some either a single
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  Speaker 1: hot man or playing some cover three with the post safety.
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  Speaker 1: They do a great job similar to the video before
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  Speaker 1: of these guys taking away the sneak, putting those guys
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  Speaker 1: in there and taking away the A gaps, B gaps.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately to go a couple of gaps water, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe that kind of helps us to get this guy
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  Speaker 1: involved in the play right here, So try out to
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  Speaker 1: play got a touch push. They do a great job
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  Speaker 1: from knock back guy taking the legs out down here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm stopping the middle push from the old line, and
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  Speaker 1: it causes a kind of a wrecking ball of a play,
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  Speaker 1: and this gives Acelonia a chance right here to come
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  Speaker 1: by and hit it and hurting his legs. He's on
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  Speaker 1: the block. He's gonna be the guy that's not in
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  Speaker 1: the fit. I guess in their count. So him coming
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  Speaker 1: from the side angle right here, stopping his legs completely
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  Speaker 1: kills the touch push right here.
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  Speaker 3: He gets in there.
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  Speaker 1: Mid target tackle, takes his legs out, stops momentum, and
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  Speaker 1: creates a fourth down to one for the next down.
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  Speaker 1: And then as you fast forward, we're going to his
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one. Similar play. Similar everybody's line up, the same,
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  Speaker 1: same bodies got the D line taking away the A
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  Speaker 1: gaps in the B gaps, got pushed bodies in the
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  Speaker 1: back right behind, just kind of match the force that
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  Speaker 1: the two back bodies are gonna push on. Jalen Hurts,
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  Speaker 1: we changed bodies up here. I've still got the linebacker
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  Speaker 1: off the edge. I'm blocking out a count of four,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have a thirty two branch. He's in
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  Speaker 1: there playing this gap, so they're gonna come down and
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  Speaker 1: come block him or count him into the count.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna sample the ball.
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  Speaker 1: You see the same thing on the on the from
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  Speaker 1: the first play, middle push calls him to stop his feet.
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  Speaker 1: Linebacker comes off the edge, hits him in the legs,
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  Speaker 1: stop his full momentum. And then after that you see
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  Speaker 1: the guys rally pushing the guys from behind, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you got it, man, you got a fourth and one stop.
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  Speaker 1: I was huge for them in this game. Yeah, moving
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  Speaker 1: forward as season progresses, this is a copycat league, so
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  Speaker 1: I definitely see guys trying to take an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: repeat similar success sending guys off the edge. See they
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  Speaker 1: can get some negative plays and stop some of the
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  Speaker 1: test push charged from the old line. But yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I think this is great for for for them. I
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  Speaker 1: honestly don't think they'll stop teams fro running the test push.
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  Speaker 1: It's been such a great play. It's effective, especially near
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  Speaker 1: the goal line. It's a high reward, low risk play
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  Speaker 1: for the offense. So I feel like they're going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to run the touch push, find different ways of
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  Speaker 1: innovate it make it difficult for us on defense to adjust.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously having this having the linebackers off the edge
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  Speaker 1: stopping the quarterback from moving his body two or three yards.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a great, great idea and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: guys us it going forward. Now it's time for the
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  Speaker 1: better deal segment, and today I'm picking between one guy's
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  Speaker 1: six touchdowns. So we're trying to figure out what's more impressive,
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen's three rushing tds or his three passing tds. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we've gone against Josh several times. I had a great
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  Speaker 1: lot of great opportunities to go against him, and he's
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  Speaker 1: a great quarterback, great athlete. His vision IQ of the game,
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  Speaker 1: you definitely can tell that he's on his on his
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  Speaker 1: stuff weekend and week out and makes it very hard
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  Speaker 1: for defenses. But personally, if I'm going to pick between
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  Speaker 1: his three rushing tds or his three passing tds, I
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  Speaker 1: got to go to the passing tds. Uh running Russian tds.
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  Speaker 1: As a quarterback, I mean, they're good, but the past
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  Speaker 1: city is where you're making money, and those he's giving
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  Speaker 1: the ball to his guys out in space give an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to make plays with their legs and their feet. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: reading coverages is not the easiest thing in the world
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  Speaker 1: to do a touchdown Right here with Dalvin Cook, being
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  Speaker 1: able to run play action, recognize his man coverage, found
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  Speaker 1: the one on one he was looking for the liverball
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  Speaker 1: on time, went on target. So that gotta give credit
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  Speaker 1: to the passing touchdowns this week. So I feel like
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  Speaker 1: everybody has seen it. But there's a viral clip of
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  Speaker 1: Washington for some misstackles everywhere this past week. I saw
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  Speaker 1: two of them. There was one play where he's hurtling guys.
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  Speaker 1: There's one play where's stive farming guys and running guys over.
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  Speaker 1: So this kind of had me thinking this week, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out who's the top five hardest guys
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  Speaker 1: for me to tackle. I'm a little objective a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm a linebacker. But here's my list. Is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm want to go with. Number five. We're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: with Amar Jackson. Everybody knows that that guy's electricity with
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  Speaker 1: the ball, making guys miss out in space zone reeves
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  Speaker 1: while he's dropping back design run design runs or ab
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  Speaker 1: living and making plays with his feet. I do his
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  Speaker 1: electric with the football before. I'm gonna go with Jonathan Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably one of the one of the best backs
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  Speaker 1: in the league this year, if not the best. A
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  Speaker 1: lot with the football, making guys miss yards with the contact,
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  Speaker 1: yards before contact, a little bit of everything. Uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: a great player. I look actually look forward to his
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  Speaker 1: talents this week. Come in at number three. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do a b John Robinson. That guy's been a hard
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  Speaker 1: tackle for everybody in the lease since he's been here
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. It's electricity with the football, out the
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  Speaker 1: backfield in past game, uh, inside zone, outside zone, perimeter plays.
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  Speaker 1: Put him out there, Roy receiver does a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of everything for those guys. So I'm gonna put him
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  Speaker 1: at number three, number two, number two, and go, say
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  Speaker 1: Kwan Barkley, I all understand how electric he is with the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Saw him spin and hurdle and the same play last
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  Speaker 1: year that was pretty crazy. But also the small things
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  Speaker 1: he does breaking making guys missed in the box and
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  Speaker 1: taking to the house, jump jump cuts out the backfield,
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  Speaker 1: real routes. I just a little bit of everything as well.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. The number one, I'm gon to go with Jamyer Gibbs.
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  Speaker 1: I have a chance to play play this guy his
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  Speaker 1: rookie year, his very first game, and I understand that
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be a hard tackle in this league. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he just a little at everything, kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: last last couple of guys I've mentioned on the list,
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  Speaker 1: But for me, I think his speed takes him to
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  Speaker 1: a different level. He's a fast guy, he's a smaller guy.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of lose him in traffic and then he
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  Speaker 1: makes one cove and he's gone. So I got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of props for that guy. Jamier giz Me is
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  Speaker 1: probably the hardest to tackle the NFL. College football fans,
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  Speaker 1: especially Ray Raider fans, the linebacker Jacob bartd Riguez this
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  Speaker 1: season has been completely outstanding. We're trying to get him
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  Speaker 1: in a Harvard conversation, especially Pat, but he's put up
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  Speaker 1: extremely high numbers.
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  Speaker 3: He's got ninety seven.
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  Speaker 1: Total tackles, seven forced fumbles, six pass reflections, four interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: and last week they got him in the end zone
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  Speaker 1: with a rushing touchdown. So I'm with Pat man, I
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  Speaker 1: get this guy down there in New York. Yeah, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys get the opportunity on defense and when
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  Speaker 1: that win that award. So I think it'd be really
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  Speaker 1: cool to see him go out there. Obviously knowing my
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  Speaker 1: teammate Pat went to Texas Tech and and I was
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  Speaker 1: watched him up in close and personal. But having a
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  Speaker 1: linebacker defensive player up for that award again, that's been
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  Speaker 1: a while, I think since maybe two thousand and one
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  Speaker 1: when Charles Woodson won it. I had to have a
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  Speaker 1: defensive guy up there win the Heisman. So I'm a linebacker,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a defensive player. I'm all for it, So hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we get him down there. With that being said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to build the ideal linebacker. I think that will
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  Speaker 1: win the Heisman. But y'all let me know what your
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  Speaker 1: opinions are and if you had any changes. I started
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  Speaker 1: first tackling ray Lewis, NFL leading tackler, had a billion
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  Speaker 1: one tackles at the U. So I'm going to start
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  Speaker 1: off the list with ray Lewis football IQ. Everybody loves
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  Speaker 1: this guy's IQ, including myself. Everybody talked about it at
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  Speaker 1: BC all they opportunities at Carolina. I'm going with Louke
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  Speaker 1: Kinckley for football IQ. Following Louke Kinckley, we have toughness
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  Speaker 1: and actually he's one of his running mates. Thomas Davis.
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  Speaker 1: The dude came into the league, had three I believe
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  Speaker 1: three A cl injuries on his knee and still still
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  Speaker 1: play I think close to ten eleven years in the
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  Speaker 1: league and I had successful career, so toughness I could
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  Speaker 1: give that one. With Thomas Davis. Following Thomas Davis, we
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  Speaker 1: got leadership. He's been doing it for very long time.
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  Speaker 1: It's been on or three different franchises. I'm getting it
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  Speaker 1: done in Seattle at the Commanders and also at the Rams.
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  Speaker 3: Bobby Wagner.
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  Speaker 1: I actually had a chance to talk to Bobby in
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  Speaker 1: my pre draft and then my first couple of years
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  Speaker 1: in the league. Definitely a great leader. I motivated this guys.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's going weekend and week out. So I got
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  Speaker 1: to go leadership with Bobby. And then coverage. Everybody loves coverage,
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  Speaker 1: especially how the game is played in the modern area.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm going with Fred Warner as my covers backer.
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  Speaker 1: I think with those five qualities, with those five guys,
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  Speaker 1: I think I got a great backer with a great
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  Speaker 1: chance win the Heisman.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I got for today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm handing it off to day On Henley for next
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  Speaker 1: week's episode of bur Handoff. Last week, Pastor Tan ask
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  Speaker 1: me my question, and now this week my question goes
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  Speaker 1: out to you would you rather have thirty degree weather
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: and sunny or eighty degree weather and rainy. I know
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: you're a south South Cali guy. I just want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you got got your mind in the
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  Speaker 1: right spot. Hopefully you picking the right answer, but we'll
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