WEBVTT - Best Of - Chiefs will BEAT Bills, Mahomes vs. Allen, did Ravens PRESSURE Lamar + Nick's 5 Best Bets NFL Week 9 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.480 Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.200 with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:10.959 week on the show. Enjoy. Let's get to the annual 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.280 the Bill's annual super Bowl, their regular season game against 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:15.800 the Chiefs. 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:18.919 Uh yeah, it is super Bowl week over there in 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:23.919 Buffalo and Buffalo's home home dogs this time. I know what, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.159 what do you think we're gonna learn more from? Or 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.080 which team do you think we're gonna learn more from 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:28.720 in this game? 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:38.400 So a lot here, right, and the Bill's likely without 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.960 Ed Oliver, which is brutal for them. The Chiefs definitely 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.919 without their starting left tackle Josh Simmons. I do expect 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.879 him back, by the way in November, but he's not 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:55.000 going to be there for this game. Trey Smith should 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.440 be back, which is important. Those are the maybe most 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:05.280 noteworthy injuries or absences for the Bills. The real question 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.640 to me is can this defense slow down what has 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.440 become the most with respect to the Colts, the most 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:18.160 prolific offense in the NFL. Is that that's the question 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:22.880 for Buffalo and for Kansas City. It is actually a 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:29.160 similar question in this regard, which is the Chiefs have 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:34.480 the defense the last two weeks has been unbelievable. But 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.960 you're playing Mariota and you're playing the Raiders when they 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:47.160 have played legitimate quarterbacks. Those teams have moved the ball. Now, listen, 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:52.000 the Lions only scored seventeen points, but they moved the ball. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:58.360 The Prince and the Jags moved the ball. Baltimore in 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:03.040 the three quarters Lamar play moved the ball. Philly actually 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.280 struggled a bit moving the ball, but the Chargers moved 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:11.200 the ball. So this Chiefs defense can't generate enough of 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.880 a pass rush without having to send blitz after blitz 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.920 after blitz to disrupt Josh Allen. So those are the 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:24.280 real The focus is going to be on Allen and Mahomes, 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:30.519 But as far as learning more about either of these teams, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.400 it's going to be more about the defensive side of 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:37.160 the game. But I will also say this, if I 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:44.760 were just to name a few Bill Simmons or Mike 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:53.640 Greenberg or Jim Rome or Joe Montana or Steven Ruiz 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:59.600 or Dominique Foxworth, some of these people are my good 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:07.600 friends or colleague or Colin Cowhert m mentor and dear 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:14.639 dear friend, any of a dozen people who in September 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:22.400 or August definitively declared that the best quarterback in football 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.600 is Josh Allen. I'd be a little nervous this week 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:33.640 because twenty some million people are going to watch the 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:38.480 Chiefs go to Buffalo and what very well might be 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:43.760 the last time Mahomes and Allen ever play in that stadium, 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:50.480 and I think they're going to watch Patrick put on 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:59.200 an absolute masterclass. And I understand that it was very 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.800 in vogue, as it is every September, and again, I 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:08.240 have been very complimentary of Josh the last couple of years, 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:16.839 but it was very in vogue to just flatly assert, oh, 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.880 Josh Allen's the best player in the league after the 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:27.080 first few weeks of the season, and since then he's 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:33.520 been good, but not great. The team has been just 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.240 fine since that three and zero start two and two, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:42.120 and right now this year, the only win the Bills 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.599 have to hang their hat on is a Ravens win. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.280 That Ravens win that has not I guess I think 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:55.680 it's fair to say aged amazingly because the Ravens were 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.800 such a mess the first six weeks of the year. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:04.159 And this gets us to demons the rivalry question, So 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.839 go ahead, I'll let you yes. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.760 Like, like you said, this is going to be the 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.560 tenth time that they face each other, So what would 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.599 Allen need to do in this game for it to 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.200 be considered a rivalry or a true rivalry. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:23.880 So I under it is a rivalry. I want to like, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:29.240 I don't think it's not a rivalry. It's the two 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:35.240 best quarterbacks in the league. And it is two of 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.799 the three best teams in the league over the last 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.440 five years. I don't think you can call it the 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:41.719 two best teams in the league because I think you 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.520 have to get Philadelphia. It's credit, they've been to two 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:51.520 Super Bowls, they've won one, But it is It is 0:05:51.800 --> 0:06:01.160 unlike any rivalry we've seen in NFL history, where despite 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:05.599 the fact that the teams are you know, in any 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:10.560 given year, even or one guy just has a slight advantage. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:14.480 Early on, when they were playing, the Chiefs clearly had 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.400 the better offensive weapons. The Bills clearly had the better defense. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:25.680 The last couple of years, the Bills probably had the 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:30.400 better offensive weapons, offensive line, running back, core tight ends, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.880 you know, and the Chiefs might have actually had the 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:39.680 better defense. And on one team has consistently won the 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:44.719 regular season matchups, and one team has won every single 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:50.800 one of the postseason matchups. And it is and I, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.040 you know, ranted about this on the TV show yesterday, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.560 so I don't have to spend too much time on 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:04.760 it here. But people so badly wanted to be Brady 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.280 Peyton and it has just been nothing like Brady Peyton, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.680 and it's maddening to me. Brady Peyton. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:16.120 Was. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.160 Peyton was the guy with the multiple MVPs. Peyton was 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.760 the guy with the crazy stats, and Brady was the 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:31.080 one with the rings in this instance. And by the way, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.840 Peyton in their third playoff matchup beat Brady, and in 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.560 their fourth playoff matchup beat Brady, and in their fifth 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:44.880 and final playoff matchup beat Brady. Fact that nobody seems 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.800 to remember but me is Peyton finished the Brady Peyton 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:53.680 playoff rivalry with a winning record. He was one and 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.280 two with the Colts and two and zero with the Broncos. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:04.440 But set that aside Josh and Patrick, Josh is the 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.480 Patrick is the one with multiple MVPs. Patrick is the 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.960 one with the gaudier stats, and Patrick is the only 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:17.520 one that's ever won, so it is far closer to 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:28.560 Jordan Ewing or Lebron Toronto than it is bird Magic 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.240 or Peyton Brady. What are you laughing at? 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.359 Le Bron Toronto is crazy? 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.200 Yeah, I mean that's what it's been. I mean, that's 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.520 what that they even when Toronto had the better regular 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:46.880 season record than Cleveland, even when they were the favorite 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.520 in the series, which people will pretend didn't happen. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:54.000 But twenty eighteen what Mahomes has always had the gaudier stats. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:56.600 I feel like some years Josh Allen has beating Patrick 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:57.240 Mahomes out. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.840 No. I mean, last year Josh was literally League MVP, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.040 and the year before Josh had better individual numbers. But 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:10.200 I'm talking about for the totality of their careers. Patrick 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:14.199 has more passing yards, more touchdowns, fewer turnovers, a higher 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.280 passer rating and no, no, no, the last two years Josh 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:24.719 has had the the better numbers, and the last two 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.040 years they've played in the playoffs, once in Josh's building, 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.040 once in Patrick's. The last two years, Josh has had 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.920 the ball in his hands less than five minutes, remaining 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:41.160 down three points, chance to go slay the dragon, and 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.080 the last two years the Bills have walked off the 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.840 field getting zero points from those drives and the chief celebrate. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:51.960 I mean, that's just what's happened. And so I just 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:58.760 people so badly want Patrick to have peer and he 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:05.120 just doesn't at this point. And as far as can 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:09.439 this game change that, no could They would the Bills 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.880 beating the Chiefs in the playoffs finally change that? Sure, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.400 but we're far a long way from it. All right, 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:16.280 let's talk MVP. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.800 Uh yeah, how far do you think that this game 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:25.319 will go and decide in the MVP? Well, and also 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.120 another follow up on this, could the loser still be 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.040 eligible for v Oh? 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.560 Yeah? I mean again, we do too much. It's week 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.160 eight or we just finished Week eight. A lot of 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.640 people are still eligible for MVP. They're not knocked out 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:44.360 of it here. But Josh's MVP case right now to 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:52.080 me is very shaky. And listen, I was on the 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:56.720 record throughout last season that I thought at the end 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.680 of last season he was the MVP. But right now 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:06.560 this moment, Josh's team has a good but not great record. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.839 But that's the same with Patrick. They both have five wins. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:16.280 Josh is, however, twentieth in the NFL in passing yards. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:22.920 He is tied for fourteenth in the NFL in passing touchdowns. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:29.760 He is ninth in the NFL in passer rating. And 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.360 you can say, well, you know we've got to and 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.400 we do have to give Josh credit for the rushing 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.599 piece of it. So he's rushed for two hundred and 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:44.119 sixty yards and has rushed for five touchdowns. The touchdowns 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.200 more impressive than the yards. Obviously, on that note, Josh 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:53.720 has not up to this point played like an MVP, 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.680 and the point I was making earlier after he was 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.600 unbelievable in that Ravens game, and he was unbelievable in 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.400 the Dolphins game. That was the game after the Dolphins 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.840 game when Mike Greenberg said he's never seen anyone play 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.280 the position better than Josh Allen. Since those three game, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:20.400 those opening three weeks, he's been mediocre. Against the Saints, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.720 threw for two hundred yards, two touchdowns and a pick 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.679 against the Patriots and a loss. Threw for two touchdowns 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.839 or two touchdowns, one pick and two hundred and fifty 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.280 three yards against the Falcons and a loss. Was bad 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.480 two touchdowns, two picks at seventy three rating one hundred 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.520 and eighty yards. And against the Panthers last week didn't 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.320 have to do anything, and I mean they won forty 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.000 to nine. You don't hold it against him. He threw 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:50.920 for one hundred and sixty yards. So it is right 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:55.880 now if we were talking NFL MVP as far as 0:12:56.520 --> 0:13:00.480 not projection demons on who's going to win it, but 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:07.840 on who if the award were given out, if we 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:15.120 had a mid season MVP, better candidates than Josh would 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:21.000 be Drake May, who honestly I think would be the 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.040 mid season MVP. I think right now this moment, Drake 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.880 May has you could argue has been the MVP. Drake 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.439 has a better case. Jonathan Taylor, if we're going to 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.960 open it up to running backs, has a better case. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:43.160 Matthew Stafford fly isn't Baker like I know, he got 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.559 knocked out, but given the totality his his season has 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.560 been Yes, cool, if not better than Josh Allen's. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.640 Up to this point, yes, I And so the right now, 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:57.040 if again, if we're voted on right now, my my 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:06.520 top five would be Drake, Stafford, Taylor, Baker and Patrick 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:14.920 And then I think you well, I'm going with Jonathan 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.240 Taylor as the MVP of that team. If it's a 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.200 quarterback only then Daniel Jones would have to be involved. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:27.320 Jared Goff some would argue, and Jalen hurts. I wouldn't argue, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:31.120 But the twenty touchdowns to two turnovers, something else, and 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.600 the insane passer rating, you know, with something else. It's 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.520 just his yards are so low. It's a tough one. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:43.720 But all those guys set Jalen aside because it's such 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:49.320 a unique case, have stronger MVP cases at this moment 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:55.000 than Josh. Uh. All right, let's a couple more questions 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:55.320 on this. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.680 So you joked on Tuesday Show that if the Chiefs 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.400 lost the or won the regular season matchup, that they 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.040 might be in jeopardy to lose the postseason matchup. Are 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.880 you all worried about that with this game coming? 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.840 Well, here's what I find really interesting. This is the 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.520 first time these two teams since Patrick and Josh have 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.880 been there are playing in the regular season with neither 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:24.480 one of them in first in their own division. Usually 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.480 both are in first. This is the only time that 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:33.480 neither's been in first. And I do feel that the 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:40.800 Chiefs historically have had an edge in the playoff matchup 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:47.600 against Buffalo Demonse because Buffalo goes all out for that 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.920 regular season game, and the Chiefs to me, have a 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.840 pretty vanilla game plan. They obviously want to win and 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.560 they've been important games, but a pretty vanilla game plan 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:02.120 and try to use that regular season game as a 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:07.680 scouting opportunity for the postseason game. I don't know that 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:13.400 Kansas City or Buffalo for that matter, really has that 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:20.400 luxury this matchup because neither one of these teams say 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:21.000 it again. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.360 Oh, I was gonna assume with folks being hurt, like 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.080 you can't. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.920 No, no, no, it's because both of these teams are in 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.240 a real divisional fight. Neither one of these teams wants 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.160 to be a wild card. Since Josh and Patrick have 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.920 been there, they've never neither one of them ever has 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.840 been a wild card like and so that where you 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.800 have to start the postseason on the road. Both of 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.520 these teams, I'm sure believe they are still very alive 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.840 for the number one seed. The Chiefs get to play 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.000 the Colts. That. I don't think the Bills and Colts 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.200 play each other, do they? 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.640 They don't say both of them are going to be 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:02.360 going going as I would think. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:08.560 I yeah, because it's the Chiefs lose this game. I 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.600 mean they'll be going into Week ten to seven seed. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.239 The Bills lose this game and New England takes an 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.840 even stronger hold on the division. 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.359 So it is. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:26.240 It's a super important spot for both teams. And I 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:35.159 am pleasantly surprised that the Chiefs are road favorites, like 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.119 we've seen the Bills come to Arrowhead and the Bills 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.200 be road favorites. 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What 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:45.320 what was? 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:50.800 Yeah, so listen, I don't I understand why of all 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.600 the weeks to be like, oh, our bad our quarterback 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.240 that we said was a full participant was actually limited 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.199 and he didn't take any reps with the ones. He 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.840 was actually out with the scout team, and that everybody 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.280 thinks he's playing is not playing. Why this was the 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:10.600 worst week imaginable to make that mistake From a conspiratorial perspective, 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:15.800 I understand that, but I do not think that's the story. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:23.800 I think that's secondary to the story, and the story 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:33.000 is I believe the Ravens lied on the injury report 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:38.560 not to get a competitive advantage, but they lied on 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:44.200 the injury report as a way to pressure Lamar Jackson 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:52.840 into playing and this demands follows a pattern, and I 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.520 am going to lay it all out for you with 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:02.320 John Harbaugh's own words in twin. And keep in mind, 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:08.800 Lamar has no agent, Lamar is self represented. There's mom 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:11.280 does it. And the reason I say that is because 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:16.480 whenever you hear reports about Lamar's status, it only can 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:20.400 come from the team. He doesn't have an agent feeding 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:27.720 rap reporter schefter stuff and so. And by the way, 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:33.760 can we please get just a sidebark? Can we please 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:38.399 get real news at some point? Again, I mean we 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.440 Carson Wentz evidently has been at a broken entire left 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.840 side of his body for three weeks, not reported anywhere. 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:51.560 Trayvon Diggs it suffered a concussion at home that has 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:54.280 now put him on the IR We have no info 0:21:54.320 --> 0:22:01.080 about it. Lamar Jackson, nobody had a clue he might 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:05.600 actually miss time and didn't really practice until Saturday morning. 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:10.760 And yet in place of that, instead of getting that 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:15.280 real info, what we get is the same five people 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:20.720 racing to publish the exact same information seconds ahead of 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:25.919 each other about extensions and undrafted free agents signing with 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:31.880 practice squads, with agents cited, and agencies credited, it's just gross. 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:37.720 And you also, I like, you saw it again yesterday 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:44.920 with with who is it that? Oh uh, what's his name? 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:51.639 The great Sir Tan, Sir Tan, Sir Tan got hurt 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:56.280 and Jordan Schultz, to his credit, had it first and 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.399 it's like, hey, this is multi week four to six weeks. 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:05.560 Maybe I are is a question and then we get 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:11.600 this and this might seem unfair, but from one of 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:15.880 the you know, biggest insiders, Patcher Tan, the reigning defensive 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:18.000 player of the Year, suffered a pecking strain in the 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:21.399 win over the Cowboys. He's considered weak to weak and 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:26.680 could land on IR But solid news what that's not 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:31.520 solid again? That's not a positive news story. It sucks. 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:35.320 It's football. There's injuries. But everything doesn't have to be 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:42.200 framed as avoiding catastrophe. Better than expected. The team is relieved. 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.760 If everything is better than expected, then nothing is better 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:51.480 than expected. But I digress to go to the Harball 0:23:51.560 --> 0:23:58.800 Ravens thing, a Harball Lamar Thing twenty twenty one. Lamar 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:08.160 hurts his ankle Week fourteen, John Harbass says about him 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:11.840 playing Week fifteen again, there are games Week fifteen, sixteen 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:17.639 seventeen eighteen about him playing Week fifteen, I'd say he 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:21.040 has a chance. It's one of those things. It's an 0:24:21.080 --> 0:24:24.280 ankle spring. If he starts feeling good and everything is 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:29.000 all right, we'll check him out, probably pregame. So Harbaugh's 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:32.040 saying he's going to be a true game time decision. 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:35.240 He's in all the preparations and all of that. We'll 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:40.600 see where we're at. Lamar did not play again that season, 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:46.760 and then after the year, John Harbaugh says, quote, Lamar 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:50.280 felt like he was going to be back. The first week, 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:53.199 he thought he had a chance. The second week he 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:58.200 assured me, he said, I'll be back. He missed four 0:24:58.200 --> 0:25:03.800 straight weeks. Then next year, Lamar gets hurt in Week 0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:10.520 thirteen during the game. There are five games left plus 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:16.320 the playoffs. Harbaugh says, it's not a season ending type 0:25:16.359 --> 0:25:20.000 of knee. Will get more tests tomorrow and let you 0:25:20.080 --> 0:25:22.960 know how long it's going to be. We'll see if 0:25:23.000 --> 0:25:26.359 he can go back. If he can go back this 0:25:26.840 --> 0:25:32.000 week for Week fourteen, if not, he'll be some time 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:37.320 after that. Shortly, Lamar missed the rest of the regular season, 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:44.760 missed five straight games. The Ravens schefter than reports because 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:49.919 Ravens made the playoffs anyway that Lamar is expected to 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:55.440 play in the playoff game according to sources. Again, there 0:25:55.480 --> 0:26:00.800 are no Lamar's sources other than the Ravens. Then misses 0:26:00.840 --> 0:26:04.200 the playoff game, and then if you remember tweets out 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:06.800 about how it's a grade to almost a grade three 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:11.200 PCL strain, and a lot of us, my self included, 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:14.439 speculated I do with remember he didn't have a contract, 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:17.120 that he was protecting himself because of the contract, which 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:23.720 is totally reasonable. Then there's the hamstring injury this year. 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:31.000 After the Rams game sixteen days ago, John Harbaugh was 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:37.000 asked about Lamar about his optimism surrounding the team going 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:41.840 into the buy and he said, quote, our quarterback is 0:26:41.880 --> 0:26:46.160 going to be back. That's probably a big one. And 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:53.399 then Friday after practice, Harbaugh said, full practice today for Lamar, 0:26:53.920 --> 0:27:01.960 So that was good. There is only one way to 0:27:02.080 --> 0:27:07.960 read those sequence of events. That sequence of events. Lamar 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:14.840 and the Ravens are consistently not on the same page 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:23.800 about Lamar's injury timelines, and I believe the Ravens listed 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:27.960 him as a full participant and talked about him as 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:31.159 if it was a certainty that he was going to 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:37.720 play on Sunday as a way to pressure him into playing, 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:44.800 and then Saturday morning Lamar shut it all down. I'm 0:27:44.880 --> 0:27:48.640 not saying who's right and who's wrong in this. It's 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:51.880 certainly in play. The Ravens are just far too optimistic, 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:56.840 and it's in play that Lamar is the type of 0:27:56.920 --> 0:28:01.760 player who if he just doesn't feel close to one 0:28:01.800 --> 0:28:05.359 hundred percent, he doesn't feel comfortable going out there, so 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:10.680 be it. I'm not judging any of that. I am 0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:19.240 saying failing to acknowledge that that is the clear cut 0:28:19.560 --> 0:28:27.120 inarguable history year is failing to just read the transcripts. 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:34.040 And it is because of that demanse that I while 0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:40.080 I think Lamar is going to play Thursday night, I 0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:46.040 am not certain of it. And even though Harbass said 0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:50.640 yesterday it's full practice or expecting him to play, I 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:52.200 don't think you. 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:55.080 Can understand that. There's like you're saying, Lamar doesn't have 0:28:55.120 --> 0:28:57.440 an agent, but Lamar has somebody that's looking at his 0:28:57.520 --> 0:28:59.960 body when he goes to get checked on on the this 0:29:00.160 --> 0:29:03.120 type of stuff. Why are they not just talking into 0:29:03.160 --> 0:29:05.880 the Ravens. I'm kind of confused on why there's not 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:09.080 just a doctor or somebody telling oh, he's out for 0:29:09.280 --> 0:29:10.080 X amount of weeks. 0:29:11.400 --> 0:29:18.200 Because what's pretty clear is to me because yeah, he 0:29:18.240 --> 0:29:22.160 has a doctor. It's the Ravens doctor. And Todd Munkin 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:26.400 alluded to this a week ago about whether or not 0:29:26.520 --> 0:29:33.480 Lamar had been cleared. What is pretty clear, given Harbaugh's comments, 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:39.680 is throughout all of these injuries and again, maybe the 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:43.960 Ravens team doctor is doing a bad job, but he 0:29:44.160 --> 0:29:45.480