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Very terms 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:36.680 apply All State Fire and Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates, Northbrook, Illinois. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:46.560 Welcome in What Drive with Nick Wright, Episode one e eight. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.559 You know, let's just get right into it. If the 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.559 NBA starts tonight, the Chiefs are in first place in 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.200 the whole league, the Bills are falling apart, and yet 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.240 none of that. I had a winning weekend of Picks, 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.160 even though I gave Demond's a terrible teaser advice that 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:08.440 cost him. None of that is the lead story today. Instead, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.440 of course, we'll talk Monday Night football. First, let me 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.920 get to what missed the cut not On today's show. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.319 Caleb Williams and the USC Trojans lose again. B Jean 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.640 Robinson sick, the NFL's investigating in case you had props 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.120 or fantasy on it, and Nick's apology to Tyson Bagent. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.000 You'll yeah, listen, Tyson, you were better than I thought 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.399 you would be. Cost you know what. My apologies in 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.280 the form of how much money you cost me this weekend? Demonse, 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.679 how are you doing this morning? We were texting during 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.399 the game, You're calling me a hater? You were, you 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:44.800 know you were. I think a little disappointed in me. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:49.120 But be honest, before we get into the actual story. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.920 When you were watching that, did you have a moment 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.200 where you're like, God, dog it. He can be annoying, 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.640 he can be obnoxious, but my dad might know what 0:01:58.720 --> 0:01:59.920 he's talking about sometime. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:04.480 Be honest, Yeah, I mean I think that happens all 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.200 the time. It's just your delivery makes it hard to accept. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:13.160 You know, that is correct, story of my life, more 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.480 often than not proven correct. People though, don't want to 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.760 accept it because I'm so abrasive with how I deliver 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.280 the information. Speaking of delivering the information, demonsay, what happened 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:25.680 on Monday Night football last night? 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.000 Well so brock Party lost to the Vikings twenty two 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:33.520 to seventeen. This was in Minnesota though. Yeah, so he 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.480 threw a pick at the end when he had a 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.440 chance to go down there and win the game. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.120 But that was followed by a. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.440 Two nice passes that got them in that position. But 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.560 when I were to talk about that obviously, So this 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.920 is kind of falling into her eventually, right column. Do 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.079 you think that the party train of the party hype 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.720 has come to a sudden stop or is there a 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:53.360 way out of this? 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.840 You think you know? Rally? 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.480 Well? No, I mean listen, I Mahomes Mountain on TV 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.799 today and people were like, Oh, how far is perty 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:09.959 gonna fall? Uh? Probably won't fall because he is who 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:14.160 I told you he was. Oh, Nick, what more do 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.600 you need to see? Well, I told you exactly what 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:25.040 I wanted to see. Brock Purty down a score, chance 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:29.200 to drive the field. We saw it last week down two, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.080 and on the very first play of the drive, he 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:37.160 threw it right Greg Newsom, who dropped it. He then 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.520 threw a dump off pass to Brandon Ayuku took it 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.400 forty yards and people were like, Oh, what more do 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.080 you want from him? It's not his fault they missed 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.640 the kick, And I was like, I don't know. Over 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:47.600 the first fifty eight minutes of the game, not get 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.160 out played by PJ. Walker just because you're down a 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:53.840 couple of Avengers due to injury. Then this week against 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:59.720 the Minnesota Vikings and that defensive personnel, it's Danell Hunter, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.360 Harrison Smith and a bunch of guys all of a sudden, 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:12.040 no debo, no Trent Williams looking awful pedestrian, and even 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.280 over the course of that game he was fine. Over 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.479 the course of the game, brock Purty was doing brock 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.360 Purty things, throwing the open Brandon Ayuk, throwing to an 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.280 open George Kittle. He really only had one bad play 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.640 early right after his best throw of the night, right 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.760 as Troy Aikman was saying he threw that ball as 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.359 well as anyone can throw one. He threw George Kittle 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.360 a hospital ball that Kittle was lucky only resulted in 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.599 him getting hit in the groin and not getting spun 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.919 over on his head. But he had played well. He 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.719 had a really nice scramble early in the game. It's like, oh, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:53.880 Perty's doing some nice things. However, he then found himself 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.320 in the exact scenario with the day after he went 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.640 twenty of twenty one, and I came on this show 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.960 and demonse on behalf of the entire football world said 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.000 to me, what more do you want? What do you 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.919 want him to do? And I said more? I said, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.000 I want to see him in a situation where the 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.080 other team knows he has to pass, where they are 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.360 down late, and see how he comes through. And what 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.320 did he do. He threw one of the worst picks 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.600 of the NFL season, then his defense got to stop. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.760 He got the ball back and he threw another one. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.440 And the drive before that, the reason they were punting 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.960 was because on third and six he had it would 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.200 have been a good play, but he was scrambling, had 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.800 a guy open across the middle of the field, and 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.440 he skipped the ball to him. You know why, because 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.239 fact of the matter is he's a physically limited guy 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.440 who couldn't get enough arm on the football. And late 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.200 in that game, it is a lot of guys when 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.360 everyone is exactly where they're supposed to be, when the 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.159 defense is more worried about the run. When you have 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.919 a skill advantage all over the field, a lot of 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.400 guys can look sharp, but all of a sudden you're down. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.800 Somebody all of a sudden, the other team is teeing 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:23.440 off against the pass all of a sudden, You've got 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:28.080 to stand there and make throws. And it's not that 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.839 he just didn't come through. He gave the game away 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.839 on the first pick, got a reprieve thanks to his defense, 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.279 and gave it away again. So what more, what did 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.400 I want to see from Brock Purdy? How he would 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:50.560 respond in the exact situation that you have to be 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.680 able to come through in if you're going to be 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.400 the quarterback of a Super Bowl champion. And that is 0:06:55.480 --> 0:07:01.000 where the Niners standard is. And thus far, he's had 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.839 three opportunities in his young career, three drives the last 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:10.320 three weeks, and he's over three. So I'm not here 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.680 to say I told you so, And I'm not here 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:16.280 to take a victory lap about a guy who has 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:20.760 overachieved for the fact that he was the final pick 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.400 of the draft. This is not so much about Brock 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:31.000 Purdy as much as it is about my frustration with 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:37.560 my colleagues, most of whom I think deep down agreed 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:43.560 with me, but it was not a popular opinion. Well, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.920 am I really gonna go on TV and say the 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.720 guy who's never lost and leads the league in passer rating. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.160 I don't know if he's that good. Well, I don't 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:56.239 know what what what is the job? Is the job 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.160 to say literally what anyone could say if you and 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.400 never watch the games as looked at the box score 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:03.920 and be like, well, the guy's never lost, he has 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.440 great stats, he must be awesome. Or is the job 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:11.960 to actually look evaluate and give a thought on what 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:17.400 is duplicable and what is not? Is the job to 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:23.120 use data points? Such as Jimmy Garoppolo had similar levels 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.560 of success. He then left and now leads the league 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:31.080 in interceptions even though he's missed time with the Vonte Adams? 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:38.120 What is the What is the job? And it was 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:43.240 unpopular and people were upset with me, Well, no, their 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:48.959 job might be that. My job is to evaluate and folks, 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.960 I said it two weeks ago, and I or three 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.800 weeks ago, and I retweeted the clip of it so 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.440 people could see the replies. When I said I trust 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:04.160 Genosi more than brock Party, the responses to that are 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:10.120 unanimous in that this guy no one actually believes that. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.439 How can you take him seriously? I trust you know 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.080 Smith more than brock Party. When I said, folks were 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:22.040 writing off the Seattle Seahawks as potential division winners a 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.840 bit too early. Well, you wake up this morning. The 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.440 Seahawks have two losses. The forty nine ers have two losses. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.440 You wake up today and all of a sudden, the 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.920 idea that they are just going to run away with 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:43.160 the division that's gone. And I'm gonna tell you one 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.640 other thing right now, this moment. You know what Kyle 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:52.680 Shanahan Demonsay saw on that football field for three hours 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:53.280 last night. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.280 He looked pretty sad quarterback that he wished he had. 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:05.600 Yeah, yeah, the and god, I have I have such 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.480 a galaxy brain. Perty Kirk Cousins take that I have. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:11.520 Cousins was kind of dealing too. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.679 Well, we're gonna talk about that as well. We're gonna 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:19.880 talk about it. But there is I might I might 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.800 wait for this afternoon on TV to say what I'm 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.079 thinking right now. I need to. Actually, I don't want 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:27.040 to say it off the cuff. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.600 I've got something I tell you guys. Oh wait, I'm 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.000 not gonna tell you right now. I'm gonna tell you later. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:33.360 No. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.720 Well, so here's the thing. Here's the thing in a 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:44.400 world of aggregation and of you know, a half dozen anonymous, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:51.040 totally unaccountable football Twitter accounts that post other people's clips 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.600 and other people's news so they can get Elon's money 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.480 for their blue check mark. I want, I don't want 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.960 to say something Flip Bentley if it's an impossibility, So 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.560 let me actually look into the well, listen, it's not 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:10.440 a bad business model. I mean there's I'm not gonna 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.080 it's just all these guys and they fight with each other, 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:19.920 these these anonymous not even necessarily real people football accounts. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:24.319 They're like, hey, you stole well, it's like you stole 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.200 my tweet. But that tweet that you're saying was stolen, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.320 that guy just stole from someone who actually did the work. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:36.760 And so like the and one of them the do 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.840 you see last week the news story, the news story 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.640 that Caleb Williams wants an equity stake in a team 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:49.160 if he gets drafted. That was a story from July 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.720 from Florio that got very little traction when it happened. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.360 Then one of these places posted it like it was 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:03.040 new information right after Caleb had the brutal game against 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.560 Notre Dame, and it caught on like wildfire. So I'm 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:11.280 just gonna be caught, So I'm gonna I there is 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.760 a there is an intriguing brock Purty Kirk Cousins question 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.800 that applies to this season that I'm gonna make sure 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.280 I'm right on and then maybe discuss on television. Now 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.199 to the kirk Cousins side of things, he was brilliant 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:34.920 Demonsey No Justin Jefferson against an excellent defense. And I 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.200 thought the way he navigated the pocket on that second 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.120 on that last drive they had, they ended up getting points, 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:46.880 but they you know, they wound very important clock. There 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.160 was a third down play where I was certain and 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.480 so was Troy on the call that he was sacked, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.280 and then all of a sudden he still had the 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.160 ball and he had I think it was Addison, it 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.000 might have been Osborn, I'm not sure. Up on the 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.360 near side of the field, he like disappeared in the 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.959 pocket for a moment, then he came through with it. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:09.880 I thought he was excellent. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:10.880 I thought that was. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.320 Because they weren't getting pressure, correct, and it's not because 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.920 they weren't getting pressure. He was. He was great man. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.000 I thought Cousins was excellent, and to do that with 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:28.640 no George Jefferson yeah, on prime time with your season 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.440 on the line, three and four. They're alive. And I 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:37.400 don't know if you've looked at what their next handful 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:43.160 of games are. They're at Green Bay, at Atlanta home 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.880 for the Saints, at the Broncos, home for the Bears, 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:50.400 at the Raiders. That's their next six. Yeah. Four. I 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.520 mean you've got four on the road. But none of 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.240 those teams are above five hundred, None of those teams 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.800 right now or and then at the end of the 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:03.320 year year Bengals, Lions, Packers Lions. So at the end 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.160 of the year, it gets hard, but they're alive, man, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.920 And maybe Jordan Jefferson comes back. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:08.920 Like. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.520 Just they're alive if they want to be. And so 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:19.720 credit to Kirk and Jordan Addison was awesome, man, he 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:23.400 was awesome rookie wide receiver doing that. And the really 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:28.520 cool dichotomy of Charvarius Wards stealing the ball away from 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.840 him on the very first drive of the game and 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.680 then him making the biggest play of the game stealing 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.480 it away from Ward before halftime. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.400 Yeah, no, it was just really like that. 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.720 That play was kind of confusing because like I saw 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.320 them all jumbled up and then he just takes off 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.000 with it like it was just really cool to see 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:45.560 in lifetime. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:46.200 I thought it was. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.800 It was more impressive than the Yeah. I thought that 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.000 play was a lot more interesting and fun than the pick. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.480 Obviously he fell down immediately, Yeah, but it was just 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:54.920 cool to see him run away with that. 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.680 No, I thought it was picked. I thought threw a 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.560 pick right before the half. I also, if I'm gonna, 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:06.680 I thought Kevin O'Connell game management wise made a bunch 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.920 of errors. I thought their field goals inside the five. 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:16.240 I thought they needed to be more aggressive. Here's the thing, though. 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.920 Yo, in the double the back to back tush push. 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:26.000 I mean I did that, by the way, touch push guy, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:26.800 but that was bad. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.800 But here's the thing on that you had first and 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.760 goal from the one and a half. You want to 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.120 try it one time, so be it. Yeah, once it 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:41.320 doesn't work, Once it doesn't work, just just be like 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.120 you know what, now we're inside the one, because they 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.320 did get a little bit of yardage, you're just gonna 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.000 run the ball three times. We've got to be able 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.560 to get a single yard like hand it off to 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:54.280 your running back. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.920 The So. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.960 But what I'll say is this real quick about Kevin 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:06.680 O'Connell being that conservative. That is, whether people want to 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.840 acknowledge it or not, a bit of an indictment on Party. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:15.840 The fact that O'Connell felt we can take three points, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.920 we can take three points, we can punt the ball. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:25.400 Those think that is him saying I'm not that worried 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:31.400 about the forty nine Ers offense. And here is also 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.600 why it is important to actually watch the games. Like, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:40.920 let's just say that on the first Party pick it 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.160 had gotten dropped by the defender and then McCaffrey rips 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.160 off a run and the Niners win. Not only did 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.120 the Niners win, Purdy's stats would have looked really like, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.360 they would have looked amazing. And prior to the picks, 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:56.520 he hadn't played poorly. I'm not saying that at all. 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.480 But the only super like, the most impactful pass the 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.720 game was that little swing pass to Christian McCaffrey that 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.800 was blocked up perfectly. McCaffrey takes it forty five yards 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.919 to the house, like you just gotta you've got to 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.159 be able to have some nuance to this stuff. All right, 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.080 what's the follow up here on the Niners? 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.119 Do you think the forty nine Ers are still at 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.560 the top tier of NFC teams, or is Philly and 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.640 everybody else right now? 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:29.640 Philly deserves to be considered the best team in the NFC. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.320 They won the conference last year, they lost one game 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.960 last year with Jalen Hurts as their starter, and they've 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.040 been excellent that I don't know that they've been excellent 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.160 all year, but they have found a way to win. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:45.600 And you know what I mean, it's to me not 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.040 that the two teams that were in the Super Bowl 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.320 last year, there's not a lot of games this year 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.120 where they have start to finish played their A game, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.400 the Chiefs and the Eagles. Yet they are the two 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.160 teams that are six and one. They're the two teams 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.920 that have found ways to win in a way that 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:08.439 the you know, other teams haven't. I don't. I tried 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.680 to Sirianni. He's annoying, but he's been excellent. He lost 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.280 both his coordinators, Like, I gotta give him credit. I 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.880 guess I probably feel about Sirianni the way a lot 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.960 of people feel about me. Annoying but grudgingly admit he's 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:29.040 excell Yeah, but uh that Here's what I was trying 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.760 to say when everyone was trying to just annoint the 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:38.080 Niners and Eagles though long season guys. The Lions were 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:42.200 the hot team a week ago, they get whacked by Baltimore. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:46.320 Talk about them in a bit the the There's a 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.119 lot of ebbs and flows to it. No one is 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.679 going here's what I know. No one's running away with 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:57.760 the NFC. The Eagles haven't looked so dominant that it's like, oh, 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.840 they're gonna go fourteen and three and run away with 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.000 the conference, not with the schedule they of coming up. 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:08.399 The Niners desperately need their guys back. And I know 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.720 you can say that about you know, every team. To 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.320 a degree that's true. But they also play such a 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.399 physical style of football that they are more susceptible to 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.960 injuries than a lot of other teams are. And so 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.359 it is the Yes, the Niners were not going to 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.840 overreact and act like they're, you know, some second rate team. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:39.920 But any team in all of NFL history, if your 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.240 biggest question mark on your team is your quarterback, you 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:50.080 can always get got you just can't. And the Niners, 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:55.719 even before last night, everyone would have had to acknowledge 0:19:56.119 --> 0:20:02.000 the biggest question mark was their quarterback and now, and 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:07.520 this is the part of when you have nothing but success, 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.359 it starts to be a ball rolling downhill in a 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:17.359 positive direction. Now, the next time brock Purty finds himself 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:23.840 in this situation, it instantly becomes the biggest moment of 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:29.119 his career. And he knows it right. There is a 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:34.440 level of in sports. If the first time you ever 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:38.840 take a potential game winning shot, you make it, you 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.479 are so much more likely to then be good at 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:45.040 those in the short term. And if the first time 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:50.399 you whiff, then the next time it gets harder, and 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.000 then it gets way harder, and then all of a 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.000 sudden you're a guy who just can't do it. And 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:00.399 so this is where I. 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.240 Just like pas like downfall. 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.560 No, No, I'm not No, it's just I'm not trying. 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.600 I'm not truth in the psychology to it. I get 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:10.480 what you're saying, But. 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.280 What I this is not this is not fair, but 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.040 I think it's true. It's not It shouldn't say it's 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:21.719 not fair. It seemed well, whatever it is. If the 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:27.359 Browns kicker hadn't made the field goal against Cleveland, party 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.800 might have been better on those final drives last night. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.320 If the previous week he was in this spot and 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:39.160 he did everything the exact same, but it had resulted 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:43.720 in a win, then maybe he's a little less anxious 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:46.840 on these two drives at the end. But instead the 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:51.840 kicker missed. Then perty made big mistakes and now we'll see, now. 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.159 We see very well could get that same opportunity in 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.480 the Bengals game, I feel absolutely. 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:02.000 And by the way, it's gonna be another game with 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:05.600 no debo, hopefully for them. Trent Williams is back, but 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.320 another game with no deba All right, next. 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.040 All right, man, the Chiefs took care of business and 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:15.960 they beat a struggling Chargers team that's done everything except 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:19.360 for lock up the division. You've already hung up the banners. 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:22.119 When has that ever gone wrong? So is your fear 0:22:22.240 --> 0:22:24.640 that for the Chiefs that their biggest threat is being 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:28.000 too complacent or being stagnant, given that they haven't really 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:29.600 played you know. 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:30.639 Super Bowl teams. 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:37.080 No, because that's coming. Listen. They're gonna beat the Broncos 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:43.840 this weekend, and then they have over their final nine 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:51.320 games four games against pardon me, legitimate teams Dolphins, Eagles, 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:54.720 and back to back games the Bills and the Bengals, 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:58.720 and so they're not going I would have been a 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.800 little nervous about that. If the chief schedule had been 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:05.480 reversed where the softest part was at the end instead 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.040 of the beginning, that would make me a little nervous 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.400 for the playoffs, that they wouldn't be sharp. But they're 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:13.560 gonna have to be sharp. And here's the other thing. 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.919 And I don't know if you're gonna agree with me 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:24.880 or not not, but I do truly believe this. Travis 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:31.439 Kelcey trying to impress his new girlfriend is great for 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:35.920 the Chiefs avoiding complacency. This is the greatest tight end ever. 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:45.520 Who's wildly wealthy, wildly famous, wildly successful. Yeah, and thirty yes, 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:50.399 and but now at thirty four years old, he listen, 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:55.120 it can go wrong, but you in that. You saw 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:57.800 the touchdown he scored where he thought he was at 0:23:57.840 --> 0:23:59.920 the one inch line, but was at the three yard 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.360 line and put the ball over his head and then 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.240 somehow must have the strongest hands in football, held onto 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:09.160 it and scored. He doesn't do that if Taylor Swift's 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:11.800 not at the game. He was like, oh man, this 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:14.760 might be my only chance score touchdown. I gotta do it. 0:24:15.000 --> 0:24:18.720 He when he finally didn't catch a pass and he 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:22.320 was so furious. Like, I do think there is, and 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:27.760 I think that basically anyone who's ever played sports knows 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:33.680 there is an added little sharpness. If someone that you're 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:37.119 talking to or want to talk to is in the 0:24:37.200 --> 0:24:41.400 crowd demons, truth, listen, you played sports at a far 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:44.959 higher level than me. True or false, there's an added 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.680 something if your girl or you want to be girl. 0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:50.240 Isn't completely correct. 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:52.479 And it's just really funny because I've never heard it 0:24:52.560 --> 0:24:55.600 like worded like that. But yeah, I do think you 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:57.480 get plus three on your attributes. 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:02.440 Yes, if you great, If you're a great player. Now 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:05.800 if you're not, it can go in the opposite, exact 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:09.840