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Tamar 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.160 Hamlin released from the Buffalo hospital. I ang there's a 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.440 chance he's at the game this weekend, and that would 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:07.200 be one of the greatest loudest moments ever. I also 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.760 think there's a chance maybe they wait on that moment 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.679 and do it in the next round when they would 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.320 be playing Cincinnati. But I think it's happening at some 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.600 point that Damar is leading them out of the tunnel, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.640 the heat set a record shooting forty or forty from 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.600 the free throw line. I'm not interested in that at all. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.839 And of course, listen, this is the college football National 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:33.840 championship game. Was a great example of even though I 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:38.520 don't talk about something regularly, it doesn't know doesn't mean 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.000 that I don't know a ton about it. Told you, guys, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.560 Georgia is gonna roll TCU, told you Georgia has twenty 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.480 to twenty five pro guys. TCU's got five. Who's the 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.600 most lopsided national championship game in history? Sixty five to seven. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.200 Put that in the same bucket as do you remember 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.840 to Monsey about four months ago, I'm not off to 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.240 a great start on hitting the cluck, by the way, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.440 because I'm about to go on minor tangent. Do you 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.640 remember about four months ago when I randomly did about 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:12.239 ten minutes about Walgreens locking up everything, claiming they were 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.400 just being ruined by thefts, and how I thought they 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.200 were crying wolf and they were getting the American public, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.320 you know, up in arms about shoplifting, you know, as 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.600 I know you do. I was reading the Wall Street 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.920 Journal a few days ago on the Walgreens CEO had 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.960 some nice quotes about how maybe we over exaggerated, you know, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.440 the amount of thefts we you know, we shoot for 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.800 we say it again. No it was I think it was. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:42.160 I don't think it was about race. I think it 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.480 was about them just crying wolf saying, oh no, we're 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.240 gonna be going bankruptcy due to the thefts, when in reality, 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.320 any of those large chains they hope for a shrinkage 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.880 rate of about two and a half percent, and Walgreens 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.800 was a touch over three percent. Meanwhile, they also don't 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.480 look here, but had to pay hundreds of millions of 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.840 dollars in the settlement because oh yeah, our pharmacists were 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.200 just passing out opioids like candy, and we have a 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.760 giant drug crisis in America. But hey, it's in all 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.040 of those things. Nick doesn't talk about a lot. Doesn't 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.200 mean I'm not on top of the whole thing. All right, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.000 let's get to the show, demonse. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.960 All right, So, so we all know Lamar Jackson's been 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.920 out with an injury for the last month or yes, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.640 still very questionable for the game Sunday, but it seems 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:24.880 highly unlikely. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:25.640 That he plays crazy. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.760 Yeah, Tyler Huntley didn't throw on Wednesday either, So that's 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.440 not great news for Baltimore. It means their third string 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.680 quarterbacks when you're playing. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.440 Old Anthony Brown. Demonte doesn't want to say Anthony Brown's 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.320 name because he's worried Anthony Brown might watch the show 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:39.400 and have his feelings hurt. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.400 But go ahead. Baltimore made the playoffs this year, but 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.679 Lamar had a mediocre to bad season. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.520 Sure, after a great start through three weeks mediocre, Yeah, 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.719 through three weeks looked like League MVP, then tailed off 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.480 a bit, particularly passing the ball. Now granted he had 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.200 no receivers once again, and now he's heard at the end. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:58.440 But go ahead, all right, but. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.159 They basically have no shot to win anything without Lamar. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.480 Was this season? I mean, was this season or worst 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:05.800 case scenario for both sides? 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.640 I mean, I think it's a good way to put it, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.560 and I think it's trending towards that. Yeah, I think 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.960 the worst case for Lamar would be other than catastrophic injury, right, 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.520 was he gets injured and he's unable to finish the 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.640 year for the second straight year. The worst case scenario 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:27.560 for Baltimore was he gets injured and we want to improved. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.200 We can't survive without. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:29.960 Him, so. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:35.640 I don't This is one of those spots where I 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:42.440 don't think either side is being wholly unreasonable. I don't 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:48.280 think it is unreasonable for Lamar to say I want 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:53.400 the same contract structure Deshaun Watson. I've accomplished more in 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.559 this league than to Shawn. I've certainly been a better 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:00.240 citizen than to Shawn. I'm not on my second team. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.039 I'm better. I want a fully guaranteed deal. I think 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.880 that's reasonable. I also, and this is something a lot 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:12.360 of the media seems afraid to say, and I don't 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.159 know why. I have an idea why, but I'm gonna 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:16.520 try to stick to the clock, so I'm not going 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.920 to get into the full depth of it. I think 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.120 a lot of people agree with me when I say this. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.680 If I were Baltimore, I would be very nervous about 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:33.880 giving Lamar Jackson two hundred plus million fully guaranteed, because 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:39.599 you do worry about his style of play leading to injury. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.599 You do worry about the fact that he has not 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.279 seemingly evolved as a passer, and you do worry that 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:51.159 if you pay him at that level, is are you 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.640 going to be able to put the requisite pieces around 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.520 him on both sides of the ball to compete for 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.719 a championship. And you do worry that he's not gonna 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:05.680 have a prime that goes deep into his thirties. And 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.719 I understand a contract you wouldn't have to worry about 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.360 that you don't have to r the next four or 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.480 five years. So I get why Lamar wants it, and 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.160 I get why Baltimore would be hesitant to give it. However, 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.480 I think if Lamar doesn't play in these playoffs, I 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.720 think anyone that is acting like it's not on the 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.640 board of potential outcomes that Lamar has played his last 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.960 game as a Raven are kidding themselves. So I understand. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.800 I talked with Chris Brussard about this on television yesterday. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.400 He was like, they'll just franchise tag him. I want 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:45.239 the audience to understand something. Lamar didn't get the contract 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.640 he wanted going into this year. Some people suggested he 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:55.080 hold out, just not show up right. That is incredibly 0:07:55.480 --> 0:08:00.760 unwieldy and incredibly punitive for the player under the current 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.680 collective bargaining agreement. I hate to be so in the 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.720 weeds here, but this is something we don't have the 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:10.800 space to give the full details on on television, but 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.600 I can. I have a little more time to do 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:17.320 it here. If you hold out when you're under contract, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.440 the fines are upwards of forty thousand dollars a day, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.400 and if you are you hold out long enough, your 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.960 contract can toll, meaning it's not like, Okay, I'll hold 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.880 out all year and then that'll count for a year 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.680 on my contract and then next year I'm a free agent. No, 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:40.160 the contract can toll, meaning it's like this year didn't happen, 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:42.720 and then you have the exact same one year left 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.600 under contract for next season. So that's the initial problem. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.800 The other problem is this. It is one thing to 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.200 hold out, and again this is nerdy CBA stuff, but 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.720 I think it helps people understand the real nuances of this. 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.440 It's one thing to hold out, meaning to never show 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.160 up if you but Lamar showed up to training camp 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.280 I think believing he was gonna get a new deal. 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:13.840 They were negotiating right, but then it didn't get done. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:18.800 If you show up and then hold out, that is 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.120 even worse as far as how punitive it can be, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:27.640 because that's called leaving the team. So if you show 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.360 up to the facilities for weeks and then leave because 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.800 you're holding out. It is even more damaging as far 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.360 as what the team can do to you from a 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.640 punitive standpoint, because it's like you're a wall. So once 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.920 Lamar showed up, he was always going to end up 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:50.120 playing this year because he's under contract. The franchise tag, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:54.240 on the other hand, is a totally different situation. And 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.720 what I mean by that is this, they can franchise 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.800 tag him. It will be like forty five million bucks, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.079 but he he's not under contract until he signs it. 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.600 If he refuses to sign it, they can do nothing 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.320 to him. He just can't play. They can't find him. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:18.040 There is no contract to toll. It's not even a holdout. Interesting, 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.920 it's just him saying I won't sign this. You can 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.360 tag me, but I won't sign it, and if he 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:31.120 doesn't sign it then they have no recourse. Now would 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.840 he be willing to sit out a full season? I 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:38.160 don't know. Lashaw uh, who was it not Lachelle McCoy 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.760 Le'Veon Bell did it and ended up getting a great 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.360 contract from the Jets. Now his career went sideways after that. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.280 We've seen guys do it. I think the last I 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.640 think his name was Gilbert Sean Gilbert. Maybe there was 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.160 a d D tackle for the Panthers that did a 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.880 long time ago. They will be playing a very dangerous game. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.800 One other note here that is saying why we are 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:08.040 trending towards a split between the Ravens and Lamar. There's 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.880 a lot of reasons people have agents, Demonse. I think 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.640 you'll find this really interesting, and most people think, get oh, 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.600 they negotiate my deals for me, they give me the 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.320 most money, all of it. The other reason people have 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:27.520 agents is to protect the relationship between the employee and 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:33.960 the employer. So when you are in contract negotiations, the 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:39.520 employer who wants to pay you less makes the case 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.559 as to why you're not as valuable as you think. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.839 So I'll give a real life example, but I won't 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.840 name names. I have a good friend of mine who's 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.559 in the media business, who just went through what ended 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.880 up being a pretty contentious contract negotiations. Now, his agent 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.200 told him this. I would argue his agent probably shouldn't 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.320 have told him this. But when he was saying, you know, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.720 I thought I was gonna get paid X, why are 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.360 they offering why his agent's like, well, you know, they said, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.120 the last six months your ratings might have been three 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.960 months have been not. You know, your ratings haven't been 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.920 in the spot they wanted it to be in. They 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.079 were arguing why he wasn't quite as valuable as he 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.400 thought he was. Now his agents shouldn't have told him that, 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.839 but set that aside. But that pissed him off, made 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.280 him dig in. Here's why I bring this up with Lamar. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:36.120 Lamar's representing himself. So when Lamar goes in to negotiate, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.160 and Lamar's family goes in and negotiate with him, and 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:44.040 he's like, I want two hundred million dollars guaranteed, Why 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.199 won't you give it to me? The answer as well, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.120 and then they list his weaknesses as a player. He's 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.960 the one hearing that right. So for all of those reasons, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:00.000 I think it is on the board that a team 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.440 that wants to pay Lamar makes a Godfather offer to 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.040 the Ravens and he is traded. And I think it 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.720 is on the board if he does not play this 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.640 weekend that he has played his last game as a Raven, 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:16.120 Because if the Ravens didn't want to give him a 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.000 fully guaranteed contract before this year. You think they're gonna 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.480 be more apt to when he's hurt again and once 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.760 again doesn't evolve as a passer. I don't, all right, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.360 I said we're gonna go faster. I just went ten 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:29.280 minutes on the first topic. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.200 Next crazy all right? With questions that quarterback and head 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.560 coach Dallas is gonna make it or break a game 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.640 against the Bucks on Monday after a hot start to 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.880 the season, hope of hopes of a deep playoff front 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.840 or swindling. Yeah, what's the best case scenario for Dallas fans? 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.120 A playoff win and validation for the of the season 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.440 for the first time since twenty seventeen. Or a blowout 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.840 to Tom Brady and a reason to fire Mike McCarthy 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:54.600 for Sean Payton. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.360 Okay, go ahead. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.520 Even our resident Cowboys fan and producer Karen doesn't know 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:02.200 what to root for. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:07.160 All right, here's the deal. I think you're in the playoffs. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.600 I think you have to root for the win, especially 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.640 because you are not guaranteed to get Sean Payton. Right 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.080 A lot of you, now, would I trade a playoff 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.360 win for Sean Payton over Mike McCarthy Probably now? It 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.760 should be noted Sean Payton and Mike McCarthy have almost 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.640 identical win loss records in this league. They both have 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.480 won won Super Bowl. They both had four seasons where 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.840 they were under five hundred. But I do think Sean 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.000 Payton's better and he would get the most out of Dak. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.680 The problem for the Cowboy and if you win, you're 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.680 probably going to Philly, and I think the Cowboys can 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.360 win that game, right and then all of a sudden, 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.800 you're in the conference championship game for the first time 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.080 in twenty seven years since Troy Aikman was there, So 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:54.400 you're rooting for a win. The problem is, the bigger 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.880 picture question for the Cowboys is have they did Dak 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:03.520 Prescott as a rookie. You weren't watching football at this time, 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.040 but Dak Prescott was not supposed to be the starter. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:07.880 He was fourth round pick. Tony Roll was supposed to 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.840 be the starter. Tony Rowell got hurt. They had to 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.720 go to Dank. He got hurt in the preseason. They 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.360 had to go to Dak. Right before the year. Dak 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.880 had twenty three touchdowns four interceptions. They went thirteen and three, 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.400 had the number one seed and lost an epic playoff 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.800 game Darren Rodgers, where Dak was fantastic. So that year, 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.920 his rookie year, he made the Divisional Round. He made 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.960 a Pro Bowl. That was twenty sixteen. So now we 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:37.080 have season seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one, twenty two, 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:42.240 so his rookie season, Pro Bowl, Divisional Round. In the 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.840 six years since then, he has made the Pro Bowl 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:50.000 one other time. He's been the Divisional Round one other time. 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.440 He has led the league in any major passing category 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.080 one time, and that was this year and the category 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:04.440 was interceptions. Dak Prescott is fine? Is he great? 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:05.240 No? 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.360 Is Dak Prescott Kirk Cousins with a better marketing agent. 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:15.440 Maybe Dak Prescott. Forget throwing for five thousand yards. He's 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.720 thrown for two thousand yards twice. He's thrown for more 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:24.440 than thirty touchdowns once. This should be his moment. He's 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:29.720 the veteran quarterback in the conference with no quarterbacks. You 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.840 name the best quarterbacks in football other than Jalen Hurts, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:34.880 who had a great year. How many you got a 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.560 list before? You have a second NFC quarterback. You say Mahomes, 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.320 you say Burrow, you say Alan, you say Lamar, you 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:46.360 say Herbert, you say the Prince. Jalen Hurts is mixed 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:51.280 in there. There's so Deshaun Watson. He's in the AFC. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.040 Though Deshaun was terrible this year, hasn't been good in 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:58.280 a couple of years leading played, And so the Cowboys 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.760 paid Dak like he's great. If he's just Kirk as 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.600 Bill Simmons was on this, and I give him credit. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:10.640 If he's just Kirk Cousins with better pr are you stuck? Maybe? 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.960 And I think they lose to the Bucks. I think 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.240 the Bucks are gonna be in the NFC Championship game. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.359 Bucks Niners, NFC Championship game. It's just a nightmare for me. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.640 Next, all right, your NFC Super Bowl pick is San Francisco. Yeah, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.000 they're huge favorites this weekend against Seattle obviously, but after 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.040 this weekend, I can't decide if they're a Super Bowl 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.720 lock or a risky bet. Yeah. On one hand, their 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.720 defense is the best in the league, and they faced 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.800 Geno and then maybe Cousins. On the other hand, no 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.200 rookie quarterback has ever made it to the Super Bowl, 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.119 let alone a third string rookie. Yeah. Not enough people 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.440 are talking about brock perty Is there a chance for 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.560 watching an all time sports story unfold in front of 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.200 our eyes? Or will he melt down in the playoffs 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.240 like every other rookie quarterback in they no Philly Street. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:59.760 Okay, so the rookie part is interesting because so five 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.680 game games, first five games as a starter. The only 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.600 quarterbacks to put up the numbers party has put up 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.679 his first five games a starter are Kurt Warner and 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:16.720 Patrick Mahomes. Okay, both of those guys were not technically rookies. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:22.199 Mahomes sat his rookie year, remember, and Kurt Warner. You 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.160 don't know the Kurt Warner story having the year after 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:30.120 you were born, Kurt Warner was literally bagging groceries. 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:31.600 Was he the quarterback for the Vikings? 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:36.840 For the Rams, he was literally bagging groceries. Was thing 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.640 like got on a practice squad, bounced around a bit, 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:43.439 never played. Was the backup quarterback for the Rams in 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:48.520 ninety nine in the preseason, Trent Green goes down, He 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:52.800 comes in and demons they are the highest scoring team 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.439 at that point in NFL history. He wins League MVP, 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:01.800 he wins the super Bowl. That's really fun, unbelievable. Then 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.760 by the way. Two years later, they make another Super 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.400 Bowl as a huge favorite. They lose to a kid 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.080 named Tom Brady and the Patriots, who again Brady not 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.720 a rookie, a second year guy, but technically a rookie. 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:18.040 He played fine. Kurt Warner's career then falls apart, goes 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.800 to the Giants, is no good. Gets another chance with 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:26.320 the Cardinals when everyone's written them off, makes another Super Bowl. 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.680 They lose it to the Steelers, and it's an unbelievable 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.280 story from out of nowhere. So here's why I mention it. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.040 Mahomes was not a rookie, but he essentially was and 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.159 was awesome his first playoff run. Kurt Warner was not 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.760 a rookie, but essentially was was awesome his first playoff run. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.679 Perdy is on a list with those guys as far 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.240 as first five starts. Is Perdy, Mahomes or Kurt Warner? 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:56.520 Obviously not, However he doesn't need to be. The Niners 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.760 have the best skill position guys in the league, Dave 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.719 running game in the league. They are far and away 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.760 the best defense in the league. Do I think there's 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.480 a chance he has a playoff meltdown? 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:09.359 Sure? 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:15.439 However not in week one against Seattle, and once he 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.040 gets a playoff win, he's in great shape as far 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.080 as feeling more confident. The next game is guaranteed to 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.000 be at home. Now, would I be nervous for party 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.359 against the Eagles defense on the road. Sure, But I 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.800 think the Eagles are gonna lose before then, So I 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.840 think Perty's gonna be at home the whole time. So 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:37.760 I think they're gonna be fine. I think they're gonna 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.119 be in the super Bowl. I think I'm gonna cash 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.640 my fifty to one Chiefs Niner super Bowl future. What's up? 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.439 So we've got a pull. Will brock Perty make it 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.639 to the Super Bowl? Fifty two percent say yes, forty 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.080 eight percent say no. Yeah. 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:55.639 I mean but think about that means that means half 0:20:55.720 --> 0:21:00.520 our audience will take San Francisco over the field. Half 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:04.240 our audience will say San Francisco versus any other all 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:06.720 the other teams in the NFC, they'll take San Francisco. 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.120 That's the clock. I said we were gonna be efficient, 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:11.800 and we're in overtime already. All right, last one? 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:13.359 All right, so we know you're picking the Jags and 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:14.359 the Prince. That was problem. 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:15.720 You don't know how do you know that you don't 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:17.439 know that? All right, I'm picking the Jags. 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.679 Go ahead, Yeah, but are we sure you have the 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:24.600 right prince tall, big arm, flowing golden hair quarterback. Are 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.200 you sure the prophecy wasn't just talking about Justin Herbert? 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.159 They do got a lot of similarities. Obviously, you're not 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.680 switching up your Jags pick. But if Herbert wins, isn't 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.439 he the real quarterback prodigy and not Trevor Lawrence. 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.720 No, Herbert's awesome. I'm not one of these lunatics that 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.520 was already I shouldn't say that. This is some of 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:47.480 my good friends that were doing this. I take I'm 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:50.000 not one of these folks that we're arguing to us 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:56.480 better than Herbert. Herbert's excellent. However, when it comes to prodigy, 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:58.520 I know people don't like when I do this, but 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:03.040 I will do it anyway. Justin Herbert was the number 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.800 out of high school, the number eight player in the 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.760 state of Oregon. Trevor Lawrence was the number one player 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:16.680 in the world. In college. Justin Herbert won a PAC 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:22.119 twelve championship one time. Trevor Lawrence won the ACC Championships 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:27.080 championship three times and a national championship one time and 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:31.480 played for another. Now the Jags are flat lee. The 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:33.800 Chargers are a better team than the Jacks. They have 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:36.480 more weapons, they have a better defense, They're getting healthier. 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:40.239 So if Trevor were to lose, that is not an 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:44.439 indictment on him. I don't think he's going to lose. 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:49.679 But this is another example. Like Mahomes has won a 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:51.720 Super Bowl, been to another, one's about to have a second. 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:55.560 League MVP burrowin is one year as a starter, went 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.600 to the Super Bowl this year as im positioned great 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:04.040 Alan played two of the best playoff games any quarterbacks 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:06.840 ever played in his two playoff games last year, He's 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.359 been to a conference championship game. They're poised to go 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:12.159 on another run this year. Those guys are all in 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:17.719 the AFC, with Herbert and Lawrence plus Lamar. Like the 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:22.400