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Colt Miller's got to play a little bit better.

DJ Glaze, I like him as a player, but can he be more consistent? But Tyler Linderbaum is in the center of this offensive line, and I just think other teams are stacking the box.

You see linebackers right behind the defensive tackles.

Yeah.

Right.

I know that Clint Kubiak wants to run the ball.

That's something that he's always done no matter where he's been.

He's had a really good run game.

You know, Howie Roseman, we always say he's playing chess while others are playing checkers, right? I don't know if that's true right now, but he's always thinking about now, next year, and three to five years down the line.

And this Cam Juergens trade tells me, A, they like Drew Kendall, tells me, B, they have confidence in Willie Lampkin, but C, that he's got his eye on the long-term vision and goal of this team.

Will it work? I don't know.

We'll talk about more of it tomorrow, guys.

Jalen Carter, dealing with a f- a hairline fracture in his left wrist, playing one-handed.

In linebacker, Zach Baun, All Pro, center, heart of our defense, out with a concussion.

Could not make it back in time to get cleared for Sunday's matchup.

In the DB room, Quinyon Mitchell, all, first team All-Pro corner, leaves the game in the second quarter.

Um, didn't return to the game.

Cooper DeJean also missed some time in this game with an injury.

Um-

Did you say that?

Yep.

Your thoughts on that, Tyler, as an offensive lineman getting yanked out for the rest of the game? And George, where's that C on his jersey that he earned and to get yanked after

a 15-yard? I mean, it's crazy to me.

I do not get it.

I

think too, it's just, you know, if you're, if you're going to make a boneheaded penalty, that's not a penalty of aggression.

Cause like if it's a pass interference, you know, you're just, you're trying to be aggressive on a call or on a play and coaches can often live with that.

But if it's a personal foul, cause you're doing something stupid and you've done something stupid before and a number of times, you're, I can see the coaches like, look, we've given you a long leash.

He might be riding that, or he might be trying to blow it up, just eating blocks, whatever it is.

He might be coming in both A gaps might be his responsibility, right? Linebacker might have the B gap with the F having the C or B.

The F could go for the B gap, linebacker loops around, and he's going for the C gap.

Whatever it is, because, again, everybody's going to be coached to do things differently, got to keep that discipline.

Because when you lose discipline defending outside zone, that's when real explosives happen.

You could try, and there's times where it's like, hey, feel free to shoot gaps, right? There's times where you're telling, I don't know, Brendan Bett.

You'd be like, hey, Brendan Bett, feel free to shoot a gap, right? If you could blow it up from the A gap and you can throw everything off, cool.

Cool with that.

So half slide, and we can already tell we're pointing there.

Okay, right tackle will slide to C gap.

Right guard will slide to B gap.

Okay, your center will slide to A gap.

So that means you're gonna be big on big, uh, your right guard will be on the D tackle, and then your r- um, and your...

I'm sorry, your left guard will be on the D tackle.

Okay, your left, uh, tackle will be on the defensive end, or whoever shows in the C gap.

Or the, the first man who shows in C gap, if that makes sense.

The biggest thing that I took away from this game [lips smack] was that their play action game for the Chiefs is legit.

They have an under center threat of running the football with Kenneth Walker.

Get this.

Play action passing.

Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes were 14 of 14.

His highest completion percentage ever, every single one of their passes on play action, he completed.

They have that threat because the Dolphins were in this two high safety look, now they're getting the one high.

Mahomes' offensive line, a little shaky.

I'm saying, there is talent here, but it needs to prove itself.

My grade? C+.

And that grade can change quickly.

If this running game gets healthy and starts producing 120 yards a game, we're having a different conversation.

Wide receiver.

Now we're getting into something I like.

Christian Watson.

Ladies and gentlemen, Christian Watson is making me very happy.