WEBVTT - Best Of - Nick Wright's MAJOR Caleb Williams concerns, Lamar & Ravens Super Bowl hopes in JEOPARDY, Eagles-Chiefs REMATCH 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 --> 0:00:09.440 week on the show. Enjoy all right, Monday Night football 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:10.920 de Monsday, and we might have a problem. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.200 Uh yeah, So the Bears came. It came out looking 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.280 pretty good. Caleb had that nice drive in the beginning 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.760 of the game. Seemed like they were controlling it. Even 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.119 JJ McCarthy threw a pick six, but they still turned 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.960 it around and won. So obviously Caleb Williams lost last night. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.560 What was your biggest takeaway from this game? 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:37.040 All right, I'm officially a little concerned about Caleb. I 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:42.720 was not at any point last year, but the sequence 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.760 of the last ninety six hours where I listen, I'm 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.600 a subscriber. I was already a subscriber to Tyler Dunn substack. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:57.120 It's like fifty bucks for the whole year support real journalism. 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:58.840 He is the guy. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.840 If people are like, oh, let me it's go long TD. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.840 Let me see if you go to golongtd dot com 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.480 if that takes you there, I actually don't know the 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.160 answer that no, so hold on, let me see what 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.400 the actual was. So oh no, it does Oh maybe, yeah, 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:19.160 golongtd dot com, but it's on substack. He is the 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.119 guy who broke the story a year ago, demons that 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.840 Sean McDermott tried to rally the troops by being like 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.400 the nine to eleven hijackers thing. He has real sources, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.399 he is a real journalist. He's totally independent, so I 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.640 was already a subscriber of his. He has released a 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:45.920 three part book on Caleb's first year with the Bears. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:54.480 It Ain't Great and it is to me highly concerning. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.400 It also discusses it's a The person who comes out 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.120 looking the worst is Ryan the GM. Caleb doesn't look 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.080 great though in it either, and it talks about a 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:15.920 shaky work ethic, not necessarily galvanizing leadership, and then a 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:21.640 shocking statement from some of his sources that there is 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:26.960 a belief within the front office that was kept from 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:32.880 the coaching staff that Caleb might have the learning disability dyslexia, 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:39.800 which there is obviously no shame in that at all. However, 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.040 one of the ways dyslexia can manifest itself, obviously is 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:49.200 you transpose words or letters, and that one of the 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:55.760 reasons they postulate he might have trouble translating the play 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.080 call from his headset to his wristband, getting it in, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.360 getting plays in on time is a confusion. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.080 About what he's reading. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:10.840 And that is not something that is you know, you 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.080 can't overcome, but it is something that has to be 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.920 accounted for. And the reporting is that the front office 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:19.840 kept it from. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:21.000 His coaches last year. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.880 Now, obviously, Ben Johnson, one would think has all this information. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:31.280 And if you watched last night, you saw most notably 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:36.240 that play on the sideline when Caleb spun out of trouble, 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:42.680 went to the sideline and then ripped an absolute laser 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.680 to I don't know if it was DJ Moore or Rome. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:54.520 I'm not sure why the talent demands is undeniable and hypnotizing. 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.880 It just is like and you saw that obviously throughout 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.360 his remarkable collegiate career. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.440 But his. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:15.920 Right now deficit on the pre snap parts of being 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:23.480 an NFL quarterback to me, are going to slow his development. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:29.640 And you saw that left and right last night that 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:34.760 getting plays in was still a problem. Motioning guys when 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.200 there's a few seconds on the shot on the shot clock, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.279 on the game clock or play clock was still a problem. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:47.160 Like some things that he really needs to be at 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:52.000 this point, in my opinion, better at those things have 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:58.120 become one game in have not improved, And. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.760 You don't think his decision making it all improved a 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:02.880 little bit from last year. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.240 So I do think his decision making improved. I'm talking 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:13.120 about the pre snap operation. I'm talking about getting the 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.839 team out of the huddle, conveying the play call in time, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:22.040 doing the things necessary to prevent these five yard pre 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.080 snap penalties. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:24.359 That was brutal. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:29.279 The whole night just was. And while his decision making 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.720 I thought was better and he was quicker getting the 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:36.400 ball out, his accuracy was shaky. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.240 Yeah, he's putting a lot he missed, putting a lot 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:40.800 on them. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.520 Putting a lot on the lot on the ball, and 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.000 also just missing. There were a couple spots he missed. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.280 Guys wide open. And so. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.640 If I am being. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.760 Fair, which I have to be. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:07.480 I I still believe in Caleb Williams. I am less 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:17.160 certain that super stardom is in his future. And I 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:21.320 think that is for me, as a guy who said 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.159 he would come into the league as a top ten quarterback, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.160 tough pill to swallow, trust me. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.039 But you don't think it might be a little a 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.400 little early with it being game one, Like if they 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.920 were to go and put it on the Lions, what 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:38.919 would that change stuff? 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.560 Immediately? 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.440 Maybe I'm going to look back on this and say 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.800 I was, you know, ten hours after the game in 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:52.919 his reactionary. But I am like I am. I understand 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.239 most of the audience has not read the Tyler Dunn story, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.920 and again his substacks go long TV dot com. I 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.760 highly encourage people. It's worth the six bucks a month. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:11.960 It's less than that four bucks a month. It's worth 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.160 it just to read this story. To be totally honest 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:25.920 with you, that story shook my faith in a real way. 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:31.000 And then this game. You of course, listen, he started 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.360 ten of ten. It started great, it ended so poorly. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:43.640 And listen, he's not the only culprit in this, which 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:52.120 brings us to Ben Johnson, where there were I didn't 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:58.120 like Ben Johnson's decision early to not kick the field goal. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:02.600 I just think you don't have the Lions team from 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.480 last year. You're also playing a team that is going 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.400 to be hard to accumulate points on as evidence by 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.320 the fact your offense, you know, struggled to score points 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.160 throughout the night. I know they finished with twenty four. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.720 One touchdown came with two minutes left, and another one was. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:21.320 A pick six. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.800 But JJ at that, you know what I mean? There 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.679 was reason to believe JJ would struggle early, and he did. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:34.560 But the bigger problem is and evidently Peyton Manning peeped 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.079 this on the Manning cast, because of course he did. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.320 I was surprised Joe and Troy didn't. But this is 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.760 going to This is a coaching note that is simply 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.320 it listen, nobody's in the Brian Callahan category. More on 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.000 him later, But this was a mistake by Ben. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:54.959 So here's situation. 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.880 He understood, we've got a score before the two minute one. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.560 Caleb almost ran it in before the two minute warning 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.600 at two oh four, two oh five. They end up 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.200 ruling him, you know, out of bounds at the six 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.880 inch line. They then do a quick pass score. They 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:17.880 score it two oh two. They have one timeout. With 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.199 the two minute warning and one timeout. If you force 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.280 a three and out, you're gonna get the ball back 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.080 without a minute left, down three points and be alive. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.280 Without the two minute warning and one timeout, you're gonna 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.560 get the ball back with about twenty seconds left and 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:38.160 be dead it's that simple. The two minute warning must 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:43.560 be retained in part because I think Ben challenged a 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:48.360 play because he didn't understand the rule. Now that's a 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.200 tricky rule because so let me back up to it. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.720 The rule is if someone is knee is on the 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:04.120 ground and you touch them, they're down immediately. What Ben 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.880 saw or his guy in the booth saw, is, oh, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:13.480 we didn't touch the player with who was down. We 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.400 punched the ball, and we punched the ball so cleanly. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:22.680 It did not We never touched the player until the 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:27.800 ball was loose. So is that a fumble? And so 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.880 he challenged it and the answer is no, it's not 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:36.240 even just touching the ball. When a player is down 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.800 on the ground, he's down. So that's like a nuance 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.199 of the rule. Head coach needs to know that. So 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.240 like that was so that's why they only had one 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.880 time out instead of two. But now we get to 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:57.120 two h two left and Cairo Santos, who missed the 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:02.560 field goal earlier and is not known for the strongest 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.760 of legs, Demonse Ben Johnson tells him kick it out 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.120 of the back of the end zone to retain the 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.960 two minute warning. Kevin O'Connell tells his guy, if you 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.439 can return it, return it, don't worry about the yardage, 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.440 just return it to burn these two seconds sidebar. No 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.680 one's ever done this, but I would encourage it. The 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.560 actual sharpest play there for that returner, if he only 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.080 has to burn two seconds, is to catch it and 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:40.640 run sideways, staying in the end zone to burn as 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.320 much time as possible, and then just step out the 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.360 back of the end zone for a touchback or kneel 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.000 it for a touchback. Then you still get the thirty 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.280 five yard line. You don't risk a fumble, you burn 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.680 more time because the guys have to get to you. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:01.080 But again, that is PhD level coaching, of which you 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:06.120 know not everyone is here yet. That's fine, Kevin O'Connell 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.520 did a great job with it. But here is the 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:14.600 nuanced part that matters, in particular with the new touchback 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:20.600 rules Demonse. The new touchback rule is if you kneel 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.439 it in the end zone. If you kick it into 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.640 the end zone and they kneel it, they get it 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.920 on the thirty five. They did not change the fact 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.880 that if you kick it out of bounds, you get 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:39.120 it at the forty. So the oh if the single 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.280 most important thing to your team is that they not 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.800 be able to return this kick. And you don't have 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.079 a cannon legged kicker who can kick it out in 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.440 the back of the end zone on command, Then you 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.160 don't ask him to kick it out the back of 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.839 the end zone, which he might not be able to do. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:04.839 You ask him fire that thing forty five degree angle 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.920 right out of bounce, which everyone can do. You give 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:13.679 up five yards who cares you guarantee? So instead of 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.840 the thirty five, it's the forty that doesn't matter. What 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.520 matters is now that next play happens at two two, 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.360 there's nothing they can do about it. That was a 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.240 mistake by Ben Johnson. I saw it in real time. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.800 Peyton Manning on the Manning cast evidently saw it in 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:38.520 real time and I and I thought that that was 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.840 a mistake. So listen, I thought, I don't think that 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.640 was like an awful first game by Ben Johnson. But 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:53.880 the bad challenge and the trusting that Cairo Santos can 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:55.560 just boom it out in the back of the end zone, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.840 we're very costly mistakes. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.559 So why are you giving him as in his first game. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.560 Blew a big lead offense, didn't really get going after 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:12.040 the opening script those mistakes C plus C plus C plus, 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.320 giving him a C plus. All right, let's spend a 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:16.560 second on JJ. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.080 Yeah, I was about to say so after seeing that 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.640 performance by JJ, what do you expect from him moving forward? 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:28.800 Well, listen, I think that the comeback and his role 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.440 in it and the confidence he's going to get from it. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.400 You know, if they if they didn't get that comeback 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:37.960 at the end and was just he threw a pick 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.680 six and they lose, I think the next few weeks 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:46.280 could be real rough. Instead, a guy whose rep coming 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:53.680 in was just a winner, makes big plays, galvanizing force 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.400 just adds to it in his first ever NFL game. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:03.200 Pretty good Like that, Art is really good. So I 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.240 didn't think he was that impressive. I didn't think he 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.520 was that good, but he had the moments which I think, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:17.120 are you know, super relevant and super you know, useful, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.560 and so I want to give. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:20.760 Him credit for that. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:25.320 Am I am? I sold entirely that, like you know, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.760 he's going to be a franchise quarterback. No, of course, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.720 not yet after one game, but for what his rep 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.880 was demans, that was an awesome start. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.600 That was yes, for sure. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.320 Well, you're giving let's go ahead. Will Caleb be getting 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.200 similar treatment to the Prince? You know how Trevor had 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.120 bad coaching and then he had his coach and that 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:53.360 was officially his first year. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:55.280 Well let's listen. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.320 I mean, if Trevor does what the Prince did, which 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.920 is have an awesome second year, make the playoffs, win 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.800 a playoff game, then yeah, we can just say if 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.760 Caleb does, sorry, if Caleb does what Trevor did, we 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.160 can just say, yeah, it was it was all on Eberflus. 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:14.600 And I think a lot of it was on bears 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:19.120 ysfunction in Eberflus. Again, I'm not saying like I'm out 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:25.840 on Caleb. 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The bigger 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.879 story here is that the Bills win, or is it 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:33.760 the Ravens loss? 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.159 What do you think the bigger story is? 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:41.520 The bigger story here is, Oh my gosh, the Ravens 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.840 gotta stop shooting themselves in the foot. The penalties and 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:50.040 just the fun. The penalties are just so frustrating. The 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.359 penalties and just how we move when we need something. 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.600 The Bills have the momentum, they're coming back, and we're 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:57.520 running indo rounds. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.720 With Zay Flowers just rather get a first down. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.800 Well, I'm glad you did you bring up that end 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:09.159 around with Jay Flowers the because I from what I 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.439 said on the show yesterday, or did that bother you 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:12.800 organic much? 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:13.560 Yeah? 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:19.440 That that play demonse is like lost in the conversation 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:24.360 surrounding the game that was insane, like you need one 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:29.359 first down to win the game. Derrick Henry is killing me. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.960 I understand, Henry got stuffed on first down. You cannot 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.480 use one of your downs on save Flowers. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:38.520 He just can't. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:42.000 It's got to be lamar ball in his hands, you know, 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.080 if see someone open throws it or run or Derrick Henry. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.639 So that I agree with entirely, and I also. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:48.800 Agree with you. 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:53.119 The biggest stories the Ravens loss because the Bills listen. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.080 Josh Allen is an unbelievable player, and since he stopped 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.879 turning the ball over, he stopped being roller coaster and 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:05.280 I stopped calling him one. Like I've been fair about Josh. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.480 Josh always had this amazing talent. He was a little 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.679 too high variants of a player early. He removes some 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:12.680 of that variants and now. 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:13.399 He's just a killer. 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:19.080 So the Bill's coming back is not that shocking. The 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.119 Bill's defense looking as bad as it did for the 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.399 vast majority of that game is actually a little concerning. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.760 Like weirdly, if I were a Bills fan, Demons, I 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.240 would be over the moon thrilled about the win. And 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.119 you have the tiebreaker and you have the easier schedule. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.280 You've never had the one seed since you've been since 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.399 you've had Josh Allen, you now have a real shot 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.320 at it this year. Like all of that is super positive, 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.280 but deep down I'd be like, yikes, that defense, Like 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.840 that's that's a bit of a concern. But the story 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:54.639 is Baltimore once again inventing a way to lose because 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.600 they this is what they do. And I know Harbaugh 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:06.800 Harball tried to make the point essentially that Harbaugh tried 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.760 to make the point that yeah, we've blown a lot 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.080 of big leads, but we have a lot of big leads, 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.640 Like how fair, you know what I mean, Like we 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:23.320 were in this position more than most. Mike Sando has 0:21:23.359 --> 0:21:27.639 this these figures. I think it's good. Since the start 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:34.000 of the twenty twenty two season, there are seven teams 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:43.840 demons who have had multiple score fourth quarter leads at 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:48.919 least twenty times. Okay, so seven teams have had multiple 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.040 score fourth quarter leads at least twenty times, and Harbaugh 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.240 is right that the Ravens have the most most of them. 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.720 The Bengals and the Bills have twenty one, the Lions 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:03.000 have twenty two, the Chiefs have twenty four, the Niners 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.879 have twenty five, the Eagles have twenty eight, and the 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.920 Ravens have thirty one, So that is a lot. Here's 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:17.600 the problem, though, record in those games from best to worst, 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:24.560 the Chiefs are twenty four and oh, and honestly, I 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.040 just did a home mahmes thing. I don't need to 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:28.600 do it again. That's the least surprising stat in the 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.879 world because while it's been a while since the Chiefs 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:35.200 have been able to generate some big lead, the idea, 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.639 I can't even conceptualize what it would look like for 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.840 the Chiefs to blow a big lead. No, for you 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:44.920 know what I mean, for the Chiefs to be up 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:49.280 thirteen in the fourth and lose like with Patrick. It 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:52.480 just doesn't happen. Like they're not gonna make those mistakes. 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.159 And Andy obviously deserves credit for that too. But the 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:58.639 Chiefs are twenty four and oh. The next best is 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:05.720 the Eagles and one, then the Lions twenty one and one, 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:11.720 the Bengals twenty and one, the Niners twenty three and two, 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:19.919 and the second worst is the Bills at nineteen and two, 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:25.840 and then the Ravens at twenty five and six. So yes, 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:30.359 the Ravens have had more slightly more opportunities, but the 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:34.600 Chiefs have never lost in the last three years in 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.320 that spot. The Eagles, Lions, and Bengals have lost once, 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.600 the Niners and Bills have lost twice, and the Ravens 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:47.919 have lost six times. That's not nothing. It's just not nothing. 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:53.560 And I don't. 0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:59.760 I don't know that the Hardball Lamar combo is gonna 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:00.800 get over for the hump Man. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.399 I just don't. 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.879 And it's Lamar's obviously, you know, just getting better as 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:10.800 a player, getting better in the playoffs. 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:12.680 Like I also. 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:17.880 Thought demands, how did you feel when you saw Hardball 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:19.960 was punting on fourth and two and a half. 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:26.119 I mean, it's easy to say, looking back at the game, like, 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:29.080 definitely got to go for that, but also we weren't 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:32.639 stopping them, so it probably does make more sense to 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:34.560 go for it in that situation because the Bills have 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:37.600 just been They've been doing everything they wanted, so it's 0:24:37.640 --> 0:24:38.720 it's not fourth and five. 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:41.560 Well, and here's the other piece. 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:44.680 And I got Lamar and Derrick Henry, and I. 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:47.280 Know Lamar said he was cramping. But what you can 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:50.640 do there is because the Bills used a timeout, they 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:52.680 use the timeout. You get two minutes there to kind 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:56.199 of recover. You then trot your offense out, try to 0:24:56.280 --> 0:25:00.480 draw him off sides forty seconds to recover. If you 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:04.040 don't call time out, another two minutes to recover, and 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:04.960 then you got to go for. 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:09.000 It because if you. 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:14.520 If you don't get it, you might get the ball back, 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:16.359 you know what I mean. If you don't get it 0:25:16.400 --> 0:25:19.640 and they score, you get the ball back. And if 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:22.240 you do get it, the game's over. And here's my 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:25.840 only criticism of Lamar from that game, My only criticism. 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:31.159 When he threw the pass on third and nine where 0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:36.359 he did three yards short of this I assumed, I 0:25:36.359 --> 0:25:37.800 think it was actually the Hopkins I. 0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:40.600 Think and talked to Yeah it was. 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:42.400 Yeah. 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:51.359 I assumed he threw it there because he like obviously correct, 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:54.120 but he was comfortable throwing it short of the sticks 0:25:54.440 --> 0:25:57.600 because it's four down territory, you know what I mean, Like, 0:25:57.640 --> 0:26:00.840 that's what I assumed was the case. If you're not 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:04.040 if you don't know you're going for it, you can't 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:06.679 and you can't throw short of the sticks there, like 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:09.600 you've got to try to go get the first down. 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:13.119 I also have a question for you to want and 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:15.240 if the answer is had nothing to do with the game, 0:26:15.280 --> 0:26:20.680 that's fine. You sent out a tweet an hour into 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:28.040 the game that said that that had a superhero, a 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:34.600