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John Middlecoff former NFL scout has his own podcast, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.640 Three and Out. Can't tell you how many people come 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.560 up to me in Chicago GMS. They're like, oh, I 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.840 love I love middle Cough so much. They never say 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:26.280 that about me. They love you. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.280 To tell him. I don't know if middle Coff's going 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.680 to the Hall of Fame, like like you so congratulations, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:32.720 by the way, that's that's pretty cool. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.880 I appreciate it. Buffalo twenty eight Kansas City twenty one. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.679 I looked at this number today. To me, this was 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.959 this was really the game is that Mahomes was uncomfortable 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:48.880 and Josh Allen was really comfortable. He was sacked three times, 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:54.000 hit fifteen times. And when Mahomes John doesn't trust his 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.840 offensive line, it changes, it changes the way he plays, 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.480 He presses, takes more risks. And I thought the game 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.360 really came down to that is that. I just thought 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.720 Josh was really comfortable and Patrick wasn't. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.240 I just know this, if the Bills can find a 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.120 way to play like they do against the Kansas City 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.560 Chiefs in the regular season in the postseason, they will 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.440 win the Super Bowl because they thoroughly outplayed him today, 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.760 outgained to by one hundred yards. We're up double digits 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.079 in the fourth quarter. I mean it took a fourth 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.360 and seventeen, which well, only Andy Reid would have a 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.519 fourth and seventeen play that would come wide open. But listen, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.400 that Bills team that we just saw. That team can 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.480 win the Super Bowl. Yeah, but we see them on 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.880 a weekly basis now look as good on defense, the 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.079 pass rush isn't always there. Joey Bosa looked like, I 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.600 don't know his third year with the Chargers today, so 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.920 I don't know where that version of the Bills is 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.440 always because they make a ton of plays when they 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.960 have to against the Ravens and in the regular season. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.040 I mean, Colin, this is now kind of a theme 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.320 obviously at home and this is why I've been I've 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.240 said from the jump, getting a home field for the 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.119 Bills is really big, and today was a bigger game 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:04.600 for them because at the end of the day, like 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.200 Chiefs have already won Super Bowl, so I think they 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.919 will eventually win another one. But if they get bounced 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.280 in the first or second round one year, whatever. This 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.320 year for the Bills, you just have to hold serve. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.720 With the Patriots, they have an easier schedule than you 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.880 they keep taking care of business. If they would have 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.480 lost today, they would have been out of one game 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.120 Deficis and they've already lost to them, So there was 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.960 a lot of pressure. And in fairness, I thought they 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.120 answered the bell. Beside a couple of plays in the 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.520 second half, right, they were really good going. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.240 Well, I mean, And the other thing that's I mean, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:37.240 Bosa is healthy. He's thirty, Greg Russo is twenty five. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:41.280 Aj Epeniza is twenty seven. These guys are in their 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.560 athletic prime and they've drafted pretty well in the back end. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.160 So Denver is now on a heater. Denver's nine and 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:53.080 two and now plays Kansas City next, and Kansas City 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.360 is five and four, and so now Joe all got 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.280 banged up today, but the Chargers are six and three. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.560 So you get into a really weird situation here where 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.680 if Denver beats, I mean, it was the worst thing 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.920 possible for Denver. I don't know what the line is, 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.520 I'm taking Kansas City against Denver when Kansas City loses. 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:15.640 But I think the thing that jumped out to me 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.040 today was, you know, we've talked a lot about the 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:23.760 defense at Oliver didn't play, but we talk a lot 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:27.800 about Buffalo's defense all year. So much of defense is 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.080 effort right. Like I was talking to somebody the other 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.400 day about this, is that you know, offensive players on 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.479 a high school they'll follow a coach. Offensive players want 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:39.920 the coach. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:40.719 You know. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.120 Defensive players, you know they high schoolers, they want to 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.680 go to big schools, right they most defensive coaches they 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.920 see is the same thing. Defensive players are about wrecking things. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.200 And I do think when you take that Buffalo defensive 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.960 front and they play Mahomes, they play differently. It's just 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:05.280 a different It's different than playing Michael Pennix. And I've 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.640 always felt offense is about choreography. But I felt like 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:13.599 I felt like the defensive front today for Buffalo knew 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.840 the red light was on. That's what it felt like 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:19.680 to me. It felt like they played with way more energy. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.240 Many of the same players played above what they've been 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.640 playing at all year. I just I feel like defensive 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.520 players can play at a different intensity level depending on 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:33.360 the opponent. Ten times they've played five and five, and 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.320 I don't know, I thought that was the difference. I 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.719 thought the defensive line for Buffalo was great. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.320 Well, can I piggyback off what you just said about 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:43.920 the defense, I think, and I've said this now for 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.320 a while that when you look at the NFL and 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.280 they've tried to clean up the game, right, so now 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.479 when you watch, you know, guys are much safer. They 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.839 take a very conscious effort to officiate dirty calls. And 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.680 I think most guys, now, if you're twenty five, you 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.440 have gone through college in the NFL being taught how 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.400 to hit right and not use your helmet. But I 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.159 do think if we miked up defensive coordinators, like if 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.800 you got the defensive meeting room on Saturday night and 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.440 before the team came out this week and probably all week, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:17.679 fans would be uncomfortable what's being said in there, especially 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.480 from the Buffalo side, And you could go around the league. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.039 I bet if you got Brian Flores micd up this 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.840 week on Wednesday night, on Saturday night, it would make 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.080 a lot of people uncomfortable with what they want. I 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.440 enjoy that, and I know what I'm on, but I 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.480 still think that the way they talk and what they 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.279 preach is still has similarities going back to the eighties 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.359 and the nineties. Yeah, and you know, Buffalo's front is 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.040 really talented and they just lost at Oliver the first 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.080 round draft pick from Kentucky. I mean Patrick Mahomes. Listen, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.479 I'm with you. His offensive line was at tatters. You 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.680 can't throw that interception late in the game because they 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.080 never got the ball back, you know, essentially, right, So 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.360 it's like that was killer and they just need some 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.440 more impact plays on defense. We'll talk about the Steelers, well, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.520 what happened today. Their high priced guys, especially upfront, made 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.960 huge play huge. So when you're playing in playoff games, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.640 I'm sure we'll talk about the baseball game too. Sometimes 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.320 you just need a random guy to make a big 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.200 ass play, whether that's a tip ball for a pick, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.160 whether that's a fumble, and obviously your stars to make 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.520 big plays. So you know, Buffalo in coach Reid and 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.320 all the Bret Veetz, all those guys will tell you 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.800 Josh Allen is the best player they play, Yeah, and 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.160 has been for now five years. I mean he because 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.200 not only he matches his play against the other randoms 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.400 against them, and he's one of the rare ones, if 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.880 not the only guy who has consistently done that now 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:36.720 for four or five years. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.280 Well, they were sixty percent on third down. They had 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.440 one hundred forty yards rushing. I thought, you know, and 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.440 I thought it was going to be high scoring, and 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:50.200 I said, I'll take Kansas City. But when these two 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.720 teams play, you know, you never count Kansas City out. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.160 But I felt like today this was this was Buffalo's 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.520 day because Buffalo had lost at home to New England. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.520 So again I watched that game. The intensity felt different today. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.600 It feels different in the stadium when Kansas City plays there, 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.320 you get NaNs, get Romo. It just feels different. And 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.720 you know, Josh Allen, they said this during the game, 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.440 seventy nine rushing touchdowns in eight years. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:19.800 Jesus, that's just insane. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.280 He is one of the things when I watch, and 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.080 I feel this way to a lesser degree with Lamar Jackson, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.760 but I do think there are certain things I guess 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.400 I would say this. I feel generally Kansas City has 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:41.640 slightly better personnel than Buffalo, But right now, does Buffalo 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:48.160 have the right ingredients star running back Mahomes doesn't better 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:53.000 defensive front with more high level guys. Right Chris Jones 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.880 has not had a great year. So we know Buffalo 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.600 and Kansas City have good gms and great quarterbacks and 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.640 We know Andy's very clever in these games, but a 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.760 lot of times John it's units. You know, the two 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.000 times Mahomes has been blown out in Super Bowls, he 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.000 had a bad old line. The old lines are both fine. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.880 Although Kansas City's got overwhelmed today, but that defensive front 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.640 right now for Buffalo, it reminds me. It just there's 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.240 just a lot of guys. I feel like there's just 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.520 a lot of guys that play. I must throw Milano 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.959 in there when he's healthy. I mean, Josh is only 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.880 twenty nine. He's going to have six more cracks at 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.960 the super Bowl minimum. But I felt today watching him, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.600 I'm like, that's they've got it. They've had it before. 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.559 But Cook playing at this level, Buffalo's got all the ingredients. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.040 I would say this too. If Kincaid is going to 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.439 look like that, SHA's what they drafted him high, to 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.200 look like a Laporta, to look like a Tucker Craft, Yes, 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.240 a Kittle, a Kelsey. So if he's going to play 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.840 like that, I mean Cook, If you had to look 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.400 at twenty twenty five, you would say Jonathan Taylor's had 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.080 the best year at running back. McCaffrey is just week 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.920 in week out bringing, and you would put Cook. I mean, 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.600 he's been one of the best running backs in the 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.880 NFL this year and you watch him on a weekly 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.160 basis not really debatable. So you get high level tight 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.640 end play, you get high level running back play. I 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.280 would say since Cook has become a high end starter, 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.880 it's really changed the Bills offense and it's made Joe 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:20.400 Brady look a lot better. The other thing is if 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.720 you have a good defensive line. The Chiefs are missing 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.560 their star rookie left tackle who's been gone now for 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.959 several weeks. Today they had multiple injuries at right guard, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.600 at right or at left guard, and at right tackle. Well, 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.840 if that means your backup left tackle is starting because 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.520 Simmons is gone, so you actually are going to like 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.160 a backups backup. The Domino effect was pretty big, and 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.400 you just saw him kind of under duress, and the 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.000 reality is sometimes when he's under duress, he will make 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.480 decisions like you know, other run of the mill quarterbacks 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.000 and not one of the great players we've ever seen. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.120 And he did today all. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.719 Right, Minnesota twenty seven, Detroit twenty four. Before we get 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.480 to JJ McCarthy, golf got sacked five times, hit eleven 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.560 ten tackles for loss. Brian Flores was on his game today. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.040 They couldn't run the football at all, so it was 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.920 amor on. Saint Brown and Sam Laporta were excellent, but 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.360 Detroit could not run the ball. And that's kind of 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.800 the engine that makes everything slick and click there. JJ 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.400 McCarthy was after the first couple of drives, he was 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.319 about fifty percent again, but I got two touchdowns, ran 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:27.599 for another okay on third down. I thought he was 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.600 very good in the script and stuff early. Overall, he 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:31.720 moves well. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:32.440 He looks. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.400 It's funny about size. He looks a little small to me. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.000 It's so funny. Mahomes is six one and a half. 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.679 He feels huge to me, I don't Aaron Rodgers is 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.119 six one and a half. He feels six to four. McCarthy, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.200 it sometimes feels like he gets engulfed. But overall, I 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.480 thought he moved well and played pretty well. Did you 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:50.960 have a strong take on him? 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:52.760 I think your take on the waight, I think it's 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.280 a girth thing, you know, the side of the thickness, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.160 because Russell Wilson never felt like he was small, right, 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.000 even though he's five ten yearl because he's two hundred 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.880 twenty pounds. Yeah, Caleb's a good example. Yeah, shorter, but 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.679 feels like he's two sixteen. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.600 And Caleb's six feet to I'm taller than Caleb by 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:07.160 like an inch. 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.920 One thing we said about JJ last year during the injury, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.760 and I think Albert Breer and a bunch of guys, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.000 he lost a bunch of weight and was like one 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.640 hundred and eighty five pounds, So I think it's harder 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.480 for Mahomes probably wised to earn thirty pounds. So I 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.040 think that factors in the number one thing with JJ 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.600 today were the good plays were touchdowns. So if you're 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.400 gonna count for three touchdowns, you could have twenty in 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.680 completions and have some terrible plays. It's when you're not 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.439 scoring and bringing none to that to the table, it's 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.240 just a complete disaster. Flora, As I thought, if you're 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.800 gonna give one game ball to a coach, same it'd 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.080 probably have to go to him because you're on the 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:49.720 road in Detroit. That was that was excellent. I mean, 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.200 his guys were flying around. Gof's good against the blitz 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.520 and early on I think they had blitzed like five 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.600 or six times it sacked them. On two of them, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.600 Gough was all out of sink where offense was out 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.880 of sink, and it felt like he gave the speech, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.400 we're going to have to win this thing because in 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.640 fairness coming into that game and they kept hitting on it. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:13.000 On the broadcast of I thought Tom did a good job. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.640 He said, there's no one disputing his arm strength. But 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.600 you know, Burkhardt must have come in late from the 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.840 baseball game last night. Was there talking about a guy grinding, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:28.160 And Brady's big thing was clearly he knows Kevin pretty well. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:29.800 It's like, sometimes you need to do a change up. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.560 Sometimes we need to get some off speed. Sometimes you 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.320 need touch balls. Yes, because you watch the arm strength 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.560 is fine, but on some of these balls over the 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.080 middle on third and eight, and even at his interception 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.520 was a little behind. His accuracy like some of these 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:45.840 guys is a work in progress. 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.640 Yeah, JJ's interception was low and down it and the 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:53.280 Lions player came over it. No, that's that's Matt Stafford 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.599 is the master of tempo. Like he can sling it 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.280 side arm, he can throw a heat and I think 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.160 of it. It's just it is a little bit like 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:04.280 being a baseball pitcher. I what I worry about what 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.160 JJ McCarthy is, And I felt like this was Brock Purtty. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.599 You know, when the Niners, Christian McCaffrey is upright, I 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:12.560 don't even care who the quarterback is. I mean like, 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.800 if Christian McCaffrey plays today at half their yards, it 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.400 doesn't matter if it's Mac Jones or Brock pretty. I 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.080 do feel with Kevin O'Connell justin Jefferson good left tackle. 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.880 I kind of feel like it's hard to evaluate JJ 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.920 because the coach, the left tackle, and the receiver are 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.640 so good. It's like San Francisco with Kyle and Christian McCaffrey. 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.920 And then when Kittle is healthy and Jennings can be, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.360 you know, highly productive, how valuable is the quarterback? So 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.560 this is an anti J McCarthy. I just think I 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.160 think again, I think I just need more of him. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.600 I just have to see more games. I thought Brian 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.080 Flores was game ball Brian Flores. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.520 That's why I think it's fair for JJ McCarthy. The 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.440 bar of how he's being judged should be higher than 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.800 a lot of random young quarterbacks on bad teams. When 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.680 you play for crappy franchises and you lose. I expect that, 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.280 Like whoever the Carolina Panthers draft, I don't expect it 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.560 to look great. But when you get Justin Jefferson in 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.560 his prime, Howkinson, Jordan Addison, Kevin o'connoff. We had a 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.920 coaching draft, where would Kevin o' he'd go in the 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.560 top five? Yes, so everything, And this was Trey Lance's thing. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.960 When you get drafted to a team whose expectations are, yeah, 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.840 let's win fourteen games and compete for the conference championship, you. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.200 Just get judged a lot differently. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.760 And I'll give JJ credit in the Bears game, he 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.680 had huge moments in a big time today. At the 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.000 end of the game, with the game on the line, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.240 his coach put in his hands and he delivered. And 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.160 that's where I think a lot of his defenders go 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.120 with the quote unquote he's a winner. There is some 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.800 winning characteristics when you're comfortable in big moments. You go 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.400 back to that moment against Alabama where it looked like 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.240 Harbaugh had this all time great roster and he was 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.360 gonna lose in the in the playoffs. To Nick saban 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.520 On probably, I bet Nick would say one of his 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.840 worst ever playoff teams. JJ made some great plays. You 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.160 watched his first start against the Bears, Big Spot made 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:13.080 some great plays. And today on I thought they were 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.000 just gonna run it and just hey, lean it on floors. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.560 They put in his hands. Great throw, Colin, not a 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.000 good throw, a great deal. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.040 Yeah, Well, when I watched him at Michigan, that was 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.840 always my take. Moves, Well, gritty kid didn't make a 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:27.960 ton of big throws, but he'd make one or two 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.120 NFL Sunday throws. He can make the big throws. So 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.520 I just don't have a ton you know. I mean, like, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.720 say what you want about bow knicks. I've got like 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.200 a six game winning streak and he's got a one 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.520 nineteen passer rating, nine touchdowns, no pick in the fourth quarter. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.480 I've got a lot of samples of bow knicks. He 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.000 can have gaps, but late he's really good. So I 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:53.760 with JJ, I've never been a huge believer, but I thought, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.480 you know what, to go to Detroit, you got the deal. Well, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.520 you know, you win in a lot of different ways. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.400 Every Sunday for Brady was great. That Teddy Bruski crew. 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.720 There were days that Tom didn't do a lot of 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.960 heavy lifting. He was twenty at twenty eight with a 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:10.199 lot of underneath stuff. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.600 So yeah, if I was going to defend, you know, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.720 JJ hasn't been playing, Carson has or but definitely Caleb Williams. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.960 They're i mean Caleb's defense. Sometimes you watch the Bears 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.439 on defense and they just look atrocious in Minnesota till today. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.159 They had been pretty bad this season, Colin, I mean 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:30.960 today was and even today they gave it. It's not 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.480 like they gave up ten points. I mean, and they 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.560 had some drop balls. I mean there were plays to 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.320 be made. Like the defense is on those two teams, 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.000 I mean, bow Knicks. We might have just watched the 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:43.000 two best defense in the league play each other today, right, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.920 The physicality of Denver and Houston and how good their 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.280 defensive lines are. So anytime you have a defense that 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.080 is that good does back you up when you're not 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.639 making plays. But I'd say all three of these guys 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.440 have one thing going for him, JJ McCarthy. Now, obviously 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.800 Caleb and bow Knicks making plays in big spots. And 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.080 I think when you look at Caleb and Bonnicks, they've 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:05.639 had a lot of snaps now in their career. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.600 Well, they also have Sean Payton. 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