MNF Recap, Ravens Beat Cowboys & All-In or Fold

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what do you mean you're looking for him? She was like, she was like, I haven't talked to him recently enough, so you might want to get on that on you after the podcast. Sorry, we were having a great conversation. Sorry to kind of hit you with a little kind of one two combo. And then also and then your mom coming after you, uh, speaking of here, did you see this the video that was going around of the I It was probably a lot of people didn't see it.

My algorithm probably sends me more of this, but it was Chiefs players being asked like the viral TikTok question of the day, and it was when the last time you talked to your mother? And like the first nine guys were like this morning, this morning, last night. One guy was like, oh man, I didn't call her this morning. Hold on, I'm gonna call her right now. And they got to remind you how young these guys are. They're you know, they're twenty one, twenty two, twenty three years old.

But I so, I honestly think it might be my fault that your mom said that, because I showed her that video recently, and so it might she might have been feeling stuf. She was like, oh, my son doesn't call me every morning. One guy was like, I do my prayers and I call my mom and I'm like Okay, this kid was built in a lad like this guy's pro athlete wakes up every morning, does his prayers and calls his mother like he has he ever made a mistake.

If it sounds like I'm filibustering to avoid discussing Trevor Lawrence, I might be. Uh, this is episode two sixty five. Here's what's not on. Didn't make the show's Malik Neighbors just an unbelievable player, unbelievable bow and the Broncos beat Baker and the Bucks. That's well done with the alliteration. And Christian McCaffrey seeing a specialist in Germany that don't That usually means there are certain procedures, like I think it's PRP platelet rich plasma that is legal in Germany.

That is harder to do over here. Kobe did it, other guys have done it. So usually when you go to Germany it's to see a specialist for some stuff that you can't do as easily in the United States. It's usually effective. It also shows this might be a pretty significant or concerning injury for it to be week three and he's like, I gotta go to Germany to check this out. But none of that is the lead. The Chiefs are not the lead. The Cowboys loss is

not the lead. Because we had a Monday night football doubleheader that all four teams involved have serious implications for how we're and what happened last night for how we're gonna view this season. So demanse, let's start with the game that ended last in the game that had the most intrigue, the Bengals and Washington. Go ahead.

early because Joe Burrow was clearly not healthy. Now they did end up rallying, and then Joe Burrow got hurt again and they were done. This year is something different. Altogether. They have lost three games in three very unique ways. They lose to the Patriots in Week one when they simply cannot get the ball in the end zone. They lose to the Chiefs in Week two when they play really well and just get beat by the Champs at the very end because a rookie makes a mistake with

the pass interference. And then they lose to the Commanders last night because Jadeen Daniels more on him in a moment. Has quite literally, arguably, not definitively, but arguably the greatest game any rookie quarterback has ever had. The Bengals had no turn had no punts, and they lost to Washington. So here's my problem, Demonse. One of the reasons I was so much more concerned about the Ravens than I was the Bengals was because of the schedule, because who

the Ravens had coming up. The Ravens have had the Cowboys and then the Bills before they play Cincinnati. Well, the Bengals had Washington and then Carolina before they play Baltimore. Well, you've now lost to Washington, And while I believe you're going to beat Carolina, what I think is this because after Carolina they get the Giants, and after the Giants they get Cleveland. And I understand folks right now might be like Nick, they're zero to three, Stop talking about

them like they're a good team. It's in for me to believe a Cincinnati team with a healthy Joe Burrow, a healthy Jamar Chase and T Higgins coming back is not going to be dynamic offensively. So I am not going to right off the Bengals. I am not going to say they are finished, because they have a very real chance of a month from now being three and four just by beating three of the worst teams in football Carolina, New York and Cleveland. Get so, I think

that was temporary rejuvenation. That's a fair point. But I think that was temporary rejuvenation in part cause by playing the Raiders and in part cause by the momentary lift of we're not having Bryce play quarterback for us anymore. I just I don't think that's going to be I don't think all of a sudden they're a very good team. But listen, but I don't think Washington was a very

good team. Washington hung thirty eight on him. This Bengals defense has real problems right now, and Cam Taylor Brick can talk all this shit he wants and keep getting cooked in these games. And he's a good player, by the way, he is a legitimate good player, but he's kind of gotten out ahead of himself a little bit. But so I am not going to write off the Bengals.

What I am going to say is this, going into their rubber match, not their rubber match, their second meeting with Baltimore, which is Week ten, they need to be a minimum of four and five, which means they got to go four and two through there and probably have to be five and four. So what they have is Carolina, Baltimore, New York, Cleveland, Philly, Vegas, so that's their next six, so they have to go at least four and two and probably five and one. I just think they can

do that. So I'm not going to write them off entirely.

and the Jags are the only winless teams. So you're right, Like, I get every team that I listed that I say stinks has more wins than the Bengals, do I get that? But seeing the offense move the way it did yesterday, when that's what they have to be, It's why I am not going to just say they're dead in the water. What I want to see is what Vegas thinks right now? Vegas, right now, Oh, Steelers fans have to be furious about this. The Bengals right now have better odds to win the

AFC than the three and o Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, that's a space, that's gotta be Yeah, it owned three Bengals, three and oh Steelers. So right now, odds to win the AFC the Chiefs plus two forty, the Bills more on them in a moment, plus three ninety, the Ravens plus six point fifty, the Texans plus seven hundred, the Jets plus nine to fifty, and then the only two teams that aren't at least thirty five to one are the Bengals at sixteen to one and the Steelers at

seventeen to one. So I don't think the Bengals are dead yet, but my goodness, gracious, they are on absolute life support.

too much punishment? Because it's not only that he was one of the skinniest quarterbacks I'd ever seen go in the first round. He also took massive hits in his college career, almost like cartoonish hits, sometimes running the football. But I watched him at LSU win the Damn Heisman, and I like Heisman Trophy winners in general. I like Baker, I like Trevor never wanted he could have Kalb obviously, Like so, I am predisposed to excellent college quarterbacks in

that regard. What he did last night, though, he is better than I thought he would be, and he is better quicker than I thought he would be. That's two games in a row now where they don't punt. Against the Giants, they I mean, it was field goals every time, but they scored on seven drives. Last night. They scored every time. And so that is what he and that past to McLaurin when he was taking a massive hit to win the damn football game is one of the

plays of the year in the NFL. And if you remember before the season, one of the reasons I picked Washington to finish second in the NFC East was because I thought Jaden could be good this year. I worry about his long term viability and I still worry about that, but right now he has been head and shoulders the most impressive rookie quarterback. That's not even a question. As much as I love Caleb, that's not a debate who's

been more impressive right now, Jaden or Caleb. Now. I also don't think it's a debate right now on if the Bears made the right choice. I think Caleb is going to be the better player of the two and have the longer career of the two. But through three games, Jaden's been spectacular. He's gotten better every week, and last night he.

not very good, the Browns offense is miserable. I mean I can go past that. The Washington's next half dozen games Cardinals, Browns, Ravens. That's a tough one. But that'll be fun Jaden and Lamar, that'll be really fun. Yeah, and then after that Panthers Bears, Giants. So what like, Washington keep an eye on him. Now. Now the schedule gets way tougher later in the year. They haven't played

any of their divisional games. They have four games against the Eagles and Cowboys second half of the season, along with games against the Steelers, Saints, Falcons, and a Titans game. That's fine, but they could get out to a hot start. And Jaden, there's gonna be no hate for me on Jayden, there's nothing to hate on with that performance. That was well through three weeks. It's no question through three weeks.

The only person who's in the argument is neighbors, like through like right now through well neighbors, Yeah, I mean neighbors been the week ago he was pretty good too, but that he had the big drop. But right now I would think and I don't know if the producers because I can't get individual Player Award odds. It's like a weird New York thing. I think they won't show up.

I would guess the odds for offensive Rookie the year demons a go like this right now, Jaden a big favorite, followed by Neighbors, followed by Marvin Harrison Junior, followed by Caleb. I would think those are the top four and then a very significant drop off after that. If they put that in the dock all I'll respond to it. Okay, they're in there now, Oh, there they are. It is

exactly what I wait, yeah, no, you're it's left to right. Yeah, Jaden at plus one fifty, Neighbors at plus two fifty, Marvin at plus three point fifty, Caleb at plus six fifty. And that makes sense, Like that's and Caleb. Well, we'll talk Caleb later in the show. Caleb is not so much based on no the Caleb is not so much based on how he's played to this moment, more based on the projection sim to league MVP odds right now. Mahomes is second. That's not based on how he's played

to now. It's that we're three of eighteen weeks through and they think Mahomes will play better. All right, now to the MVP favorite Josh Allen and the Bills go ahead.

The pick to DeMar Hamlin was as bad of a throw as any veteran quarterback will make all year. He wasn't pressured, he wasn't panicked, the guy was wide open, and he just missed him by five yards. Just absolutely brutal. So I am I'm gonna make a plea to the Jacksonville Jaguars organization. That is out of the box and unprecedented because we have seen coach firings midyear and early and when that happens, they upgrade, you know, they promote someone on the staff to interim head coach. That's not

what I'm asking for here. I am asking the Jacksonville Jaguars to fire Doug Peterson and immediately, as of that day, hire Belichick and tell Belichick you know what, Bill, you can be the one to tell Doug he's fired. He beats you in a Super Bowl. I'm sure you have a little one to get back from that and let him take over and bulk he's out to the organization. Because I still believe in the talent of Trevor Lawrence. But everything about the Jags right now is a mess.

Trevor's play is a mess, the roster is a mess, the coaching is a mess. They they had two incredibly winnable football games in weeks one and two, they found ways to lose both of them, and then they came out last night and got embarrassed and annihilated. And I don't know what can fix that, but if anything can, it's the greatest coach of all time. I know Bill will have to resign from a half dozen media opportunities, but I also know he wants to be coaching and

probably would rather not wait all full year. I get what I'm saying right now is not realistic and unprecedent for someone to come in from outside the organization mid season, but I am the prince is drowning, and I want to make it clear I am not putting all of this or even most of this on Doug Peterson. I think Trevor has been bad. He hasn't been mid He's been bad, There's no denying it. He also is Remember what I was saying about the age thing, He also

is twenty four years old. He's twenty four. I just told you Jade and Daniels turns twenty four in a couple months. Trevor's twenty four. I know how talented he is, and we've seen the flashes, but at year four, with that salary, that contract, it's gotta be more than flashes. There's no escaping that. And so I hate everything about the offense. I hate the way he's playing, and Peterson seems resigned to his fate, and if anything could get

Bill Belichick excited. It would be to vanquish one of the guys who beat him in a Super Bowl and take over a team that's underachieved with an excellent quarterback. But at this point, I don't know what to tell you. I know people want me to say I was wrong about Trevor. Up to this point, I have been wrong. I think he's got all the traits and all the talent of an excellent quarterback. But you get this deep into your career, you need to produce like one. And

he has not done that. And now he has paid like one. And now he's going to be on his third head coach and his third offensive coordinator. And this is how she goes sideways on guys. So I always mus and I can't believe I'm going to make this comp And it's not a fair comp to Trevor because this player never had you know, the success Trevor did, the season he had, near to the playoff win, all

of that. But you know, time is a flat circle, and it would be somewhat poetic if, much like my professional mentor, Colin Cowherd, has Sam Darnold, the top three pick, amazing college player who he simply cannot quit who eight years into his career, He's now like, this is the I told you this was in him, and I mock him for not being able to, you know, let go of it. Maybe that'll be Trevor for me. Maybe in six years I'll be on TV and Trevor Olvi's who knows.

But I'm not defending him, and I get that the audience right now thinks this is gonna be my loudest and wrongest Classic three. I still believe in the player, but there is no basis to defend the player or the team, which right now looks like a helpless and hopeless team. Was that enough?

best team in the AFC East. They could miss the playoffs and all all off season. I said, they're still clearly the best team in the AFC East, and this version of Josh Allen is still a terrifying version of Josh Allen, and they're gonna be fine. And now people, now I do fear today we are now going to overcorrect in the other direction where I think you're gonna see a bunch demanse. You're gonna see a lot of power rankings that have the Bills is the best team

in the NFL. Now that's obviously Domino Bridge too far, but it's fine to call him second. You're going to see some quarterback rankings that have Josh Allen is the best quarterback in the league. Now that's gonna be Dombin too far, but it's totally fair to call him second. I now I am going to say something that Bills fans are going to love to hear. There are some striking similarities between this Bills team and this version of Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs from two

years ago. So Mahomes and the Chiefs two years ago had come off to heart wrenching playoff defeats, a Super Bowl loss where they got destroyed, and a home AFC Championship loss that they feel like they felt like they blew the game. And then in the offseason they traded Tyreek Hill, and people really wondered, Ah, man, is this are the Chiefs in the midst of a reb build,

retool on the fly. The Buffalo Bills two years prior get blasted in the playoffs by the Bengals embarrassingly last year and absolutely gut wrenching three point home playoff loss. They trade digs, they retool, people question or they rebuilding. The Chiefs that year won fourteen games, Mahomes won league MVP. They have the highest scoring offense in all of football. They won the Super Bowl. Josh Allen this year right now, he's the MVP. They have the highest scoring team in

the league. They're undefeated. There are a lot of similarities, and I'm not going to ignore them or pretend they're not there. I'm not even going to congratulate the Bills this week on winning their third straight September championship, which was a lock that was going to happen. They are a dominant September team, and we've talked about that. All I'm saying is, and I've said this before, Oh man, Okay,

in my back, we're good. Okay, the Bills, when they put the game in Josh Allen's hands and let him run, they're terrifying. Now, it's terrifying in both directions because you worry he's gonna get banged up. But when they do that, they are as dangerous as any team in the league. And so I've got all the This Bills team was considered oh they're good but not great by all almost everyone before the year. I disagreed with them. Then I thought it was insulting that the Jets were the favorites

to win the AFC East, And yeah, there are. I'm gonna make this point on TV today in full, and Bill's fans are gonna be shocked by it. There are a lot of similarities between the twenty twenty four Buffalo Bills and the twenty twenty two Kansas City Chiefs. That ended up having the highest scoring offense in the league, league MVP at quarterback, and they did win the Super Bowl. So just something to keep in mind, all right, speaking of the Chiefs.

like that same feed is not showing you that. On the Falcons touchdown drive, they it was extended after a third and long incompletion, there was a phantom roughing the passer penalty, or if you want to act like we didn't see last year, the single most egregious missed defensive pass interference penalty of the season happened in the Packers Chiefs game that demonds you and I watched from Wayne's

house in Los Angeles. And if you want to act like we didn't just see a damn Monday night football game last night, we're on a vertical two point conversion. The exact type of past interference that was committed by the Chiefs with four minutes left was committed by Washington

in the end zone. There, those calls get missed. And lastly, if you want to pretend that if they had called that past interference and then if Cincinnati had scored, I'm sorry, if Atlanta had scored and gone up by either one or let's you know, and if they got the two point conversion that you really believe in your heart of hearts that Patrick Mahomes getting the ball back down three with four minutes left means oh, the Falcons were gonna win. Then go ahead, live your life that way. I think

it's a dumb way to consume sports. I also think this The Chiefs haven't played a great game. They played pretty well for most of the Baltimore game. They played poorly against Cincinnati. They had moments against Atlanta. Mahomes hasn't had a great season. He played really well save one pass against Baltimore, played terribly against Cincinnati, was hit or miss against Atlanta. Travis Kelcey hasn't done anything. Isaiah Pacheco

is out injured. All of these things are true. They have also had one of preseason rankings wise, the hardest schedule of anyone to open the season. They haven't played well, incredibly hard schedule, dealing with injuries, and they're undefeated. And so here's the thing about the Chiefs. They don't lose. It might not be pretty, it might not be the way you're used to it, but you take every other

We did this yesterday on the show. The next the biggest Super Bowl contenders, Right, So who Vegas thinks the best teams are after the Chiefs, Niners, Bills, Eagles, Ravens, Lions, Texans, Cowboys since the Chiefs last lost, Because the Chiefs have won nine in a row, those seven teams, so that's seven to those six teams. Pardon me, oh, and the Bengals include them in that. Those seven teams are twenty six and twenty two, while the Chiefs are nine to zero.

I say that to say this, like other teams lose, and the Chiefs have this crazy ability not to lose, which is what makes them great. And unless they have to play a Chiefs team of a previous era, comparing them to previous Chiefs teams is kind of foolish Against today's NFL. We'll see what the Bills turn en two. Right now, they look great. The Chiefs also have a decided and massive psychological edge over Buffalo, and we'll see how that plays out. But no one else in the

league is within spitting distance of this team. The Bengals are falling apart. The Texans haven't looked good on both sides of the ball once all year. Week one, the offense looked great, the defense looked terrible. Week two, the defense looked excellent, the offense looked mediocre. Week three, they looked bad in both spots. The Niners are falling apart. The Eagles might have the single most clueless coach in the league today. The Lions Jared goff is Jared Goffing

a bit lately. The Ravens are hanging on by a thread. There's nobody out there. The Bills have my attention and my respect. Everybody else you're playing for a bronze medal, and so say all you want about the Chiefs and how lucky they are. It's crazy how the team with the best quarterback, the best coach, most well prepared, most well rounded roster, they're also the luckiest. It's crazy how

that works out. But we'll see you in January when the games actually matter for Kansas City, when they finished the year around fourteen and three.

the same guy. So he misses that kick. Yeah, so he's also he was the greatest kicker of all time. But here's the point I'm making. Lamar puts him in position to Monte to go up four scores. It's twenty eight to six. A field goal puts you up thirty one to six. Put the hay in the barn. Game over. Between that moment and when it was twenty eight to twenty five, Lamar threw one pass. It went like this, touchdown Dallas on side kick recovered, touchdown Dallas, Ray on

side kick not recovered. Evens get the ball, run, run Lamar in completion, touchdown Dallas. So that's not on the offense. The Devens allowed three straight scores and the special teams allowed a on side kick recovery. What should Lamar should feel great about is everyone's focusing on the run to ice the game. And that was a great play by Lamar. But if he doesn't pick that up, Demons, the Cowboys are getting the and they don't pick up the next one,

the Cowboys are getting the ball. Back with like thirty seconds left, down three. Now Aubrey can kick from eighty it seems like but they're still okay. It was the series before when I was like, oh my god, the Ravens are going to lose in the most devastating fashion imaginable. We were north of the two minute warning, the Cowboys

had timeouts. It was third and six, and if the Ravens don't pick that up, I believe they lose that game because I think the Cowboys, with that much time, the way they'd been marching down the field, were gonna We're gonna go score. And Lamar threw a perfect pass to Jay Flowers on the sideline to pick up the first down. So Lamar did his thing, Derrick Henry did his thing. This defense is shaky, the receiving court is shaky. Mark Andrews has not shown up yet this year, and

Isaiah likely hasn't shown up since Week one. So I want to give Lamar massive credit. I thought he played awesome and Derrick Henry was awesome. But the Ravens are That wasn't that. That looked like the type of win

that was gonna restore all confidence. Then they did a very ravensy thing, which is almost blow another huge lead, and so oh, I'm not writing them off, of course, And I was wrong because I picked the Cowboys to win and the Cowboys, you know, just got run all over for three quarters and their offense could do nothing until the end. But that was a little jekylin hide from the Ravens there. All right, let's go last topic of the block.

weren't paying attention. Let me set the scene. The Eagles have the ball around the fifteen yard line. There is fourteen seconds left, they have one timeout. It is fourth and one. The score is three to nothing in that spot. It is one one hundred percent of the time, the most obvious field goal you've ever seen. Why well, because if there's fourteen seconds left, you have one time out. So if you go for it and it works and you get it, you're almost assuredly still just kicking a

field goal. Let play it out. You go for it, you get it, you use your last timeout. You now have first and ten from the thirteen yard line with ten seconds left. Yeah, I suppose you get one shot into the end zone, but that is an easy play to defend when the other team knows you can't come up short of the end zone, you can't take a sack because you have no timeouts, and then you just kick a field goal instead. He went for it seemingly on a tush push, but it was an end a

round to Berkley. He gets stuffed and they get no points. I'm all for risk reward decision. If the risk and the reward are properly accounted for. This is the second time in two weeks Nick Sirianni has made a decision that is all risk, no reward. If you pick that up, you're still almost assuredly just kicking a field goal. And if you don't pick it up, you lose zero, you lose three points. So I just think I think he's

pressing and I think he's in over his head. And the other the Eagles defense shout out to him, they played a good game, Jalen hurts Man, that's another bad turnover for him. We're now at six turnovers through three weeks for jailing. So I don't believe in the Eagles. I don't believe in their coach, and I'm starting not to believe in their quarterback. Quick break right back, what's right? Welcome back in? What that's right? With Nick? Right? And

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anything with airbnb demands. Before we get back to the show, I surprisingly I didn't realize it it, but I a clip from this show went like semi viral with the Swifties in a negative way because they're very mad that they think I'm writing off Travis Kelcey, and I think that it is a misunderstanding of what I think is a smart use of the oldest skilled position player in

the league by far. And when I say the oldest by far, like don't I don't think people also understand that the spot we're in with Kelsey, the only guy close to his age is Adam theln and what happened to Adam Thielen this week. By the way, Adam Feeling had an unbelievable catch, but he had to all out sprint for it and ended up, instead of celebrating touchdown, holding his hamstring because thirty four year old wide receiver

is just not a thing, really. And Travis Kelcey, as we've discussed, is the same age as Gronk, who retired for the first time six years ago. Gronk, if Travis kelce in a month is going to be playing the Bills, Gronk in a month is going to be enjoying the second year of his second retirement, playing poker with me in Vegas the like. And so this is this, This

is what we're dealing with here. And so when I said I think he has six to ten excellent games left in him, the point that I am making is not that he has six to ten games left in him. It's that Kelsey doing what he did in the playoffs was to me not a coincidence that it was the playoffs, Meaning last year he didn't have many huge games and then went four for four in kicking ass in the playoffs.

I think what it takes to get his body ready and to perform at that level for three and a half hours consistently is something he flatley cannot do every week anymore. It's why guys don't play this position at this age hardly ever, And so I think that they are and he is not like running on a governor right now, because I also think he might want to

play not just this year but one year. So if he has two years left, then he should, you know, theoretically, he absolutely should be judicious with how often he hits the accelerator to the floor. And it's not a bad thing for the Chiefs early on in a season to figure out how not to be so Kelsey reliant. And so I don't think it's a bad thing. And I don't think it's surprising that this is where Travis is where I still in the playoffs, he was the best

weapon in football. That was a few months ago. I don't think he has drastically changed his caliber as a player from a few months ago. I think he is just ramping up to that and I think that's the smart thing to do. All right. Next, let's go to our next topic.

I you want to put the first two weeks. They won Week one, but Caleb was awful. Week two they could have won, but he wasn't that good. Week three. The mistakes, yes, listen. He made one terrible pick down the sideline trying to do too much. The other one he got a little unlucky on the strip. Sack. Gotta

have more awareness. Also, just a whift block by the tight end on the d end, but the Bears not being able to run the ball on the Colts, who were giving up two hundred and forty yards per game rushing is absolutely categorically insane, and the Bears right now offensive play designing coaching staff is driving me nuts. They were doing at the goal line running a speed option like all of that that the offensive coaching for the Bears and the lack of a running game in this

last game against the Colts is an abomination. The defense has been awesome. Caleb has been not quite as good as I thought he would be initially, but he's been fine. My Bears belief was that early in the year they had a super soft schedule, Caleb could go through his struggles early get better and better and better. My hope though, was that through three weeks they'd be two to one, that they'd beat the Titans, and that they'd beat the Colts,

probably lose in Houston. Losing this Colts game is painful and it means they've got to steal one back. I'm if people though, again, if people right now the stocks at a bit of a low, want to sell me some more. Caleb Williams Stock. I'll take it. He went from like seventy yards passing to one hundred and twenty yards passing to three hundred and sixty yards passing. It's exponential growth. So I'm okay with where Caleb is at, but I the offensive line and the offensive coaching has

been highly problematic. All right, let's go to all inn.

to you, so let me just explain it. Vegas thinks it's more likely that Pittsburgh is a playoff team, but not by a ton. But they also clearly believe if Cincinnati makes the playoffs, they are way more likely to be a viable contender than Pittsburgh is. So that's how a team that has somewhat significantly worse odds to make the playoffs has better odds to win the actual Super Bowl. But that is my problem, Demond s. I don't think three AFC North teams are making the playoffs. They did

last year. I understand. I don't think that's happening again, So that doesn't happen again. Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. Even though Pittsburgh's three and zero and the other teams are combined one and five, I still don't know how I feel about Pittsburgh being able to hold on. I do think Field's gonna be able to hold onto the job. All right, next, all right.

some terrible decisions and his accuracy is awful. But you don't draft a guy in the top five, you know what I mean, and not give him at least two seasons unless it's Bryce Young level bat. And so I mean, I'm not Trey Lance is a different example, because no, I mean, you're right they. I mean Trey Lance. They sat his first year, then his secondary broke his leg, and you know what I mean, So he was in a different and they and they had their quarterback, So

you're right, Trey Lance. They did do it too, but the culture not in the spot where it's like, right, Richardson got hurt, but they don't. Right. They had a chance to come back. And Richardson also had more college not a lot more, but more college tape than Tray and at least he played D one. Trey is kind of an outlier situation. And there's nobody. There's no brock Purty in Indianapolis, all right.

San Francisco. The injuries are just mounting and mounting and mounting, and the Niners are The Rams were the one team more injured, and the Rams just stole a victory from him. It's not on party. Party played very well in that game. That was an egregious loss, a truly horrifying loss for San Francisco. There's still probably the smart money bet to win the division, but it's not a bet I would make. All right, last.

mean it is it's double, it's twice as many. I mean, it's the difference between one and two is significantly more than the difference between eight and nine, Like I understand, it's like, well, it's actually just one more than the other. Yeah, but comparatively speaking, it is significantly ratio. Also the yeah, yes correct. Also the fact that I think Burrow was a far far better college player and the number one pick the draft vers the second round pick certainly helps him.

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