WEBVTT - Best Of - Nightmare: Mahomes HURT & Chiefs ELIMINATED, what's wrong with Lamar Jackson? Jaguars-Broncos MONSTER matchup 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 in moments from this 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:11.840 week on the show. Enjoy. Chiefs Lose, Chiefs eliminated, Patrick injured. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.320 One of the weirdest, saddest reasons that I've had to 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.360 do for this show. It was very strange, Chiefs eliminated 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.000 from the playoffs after the loss of the Chargers, Patrick 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.639 mahomes with the torn ACL and LCL They're done. Yesterdayson 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:26.280 you said that this was the end of a chapter, 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:27.880 or in the vie chapter. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.880 So I'll get into that part in a second. First, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:39.680 I want to say this, this is pro football, and 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.479 this Yes, this is my hometown team, and yes I 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:51.239 have a personal relationship for with Patrick, and so Andy's 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.040 the face of the league and one of the defining 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.600 players in league history. All of those things make this 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:04.840 extra gutting in the short term, and we'll see what 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:12.160 it means in the long term. But I don't want 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:22.720 to overstate the how do I put this, because the 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:28.720 devastation of the moment is real. The sympathy or empathy 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:34.240 that folks should have for me, or for Chiefs fans 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:43.880 or whatever. Right now, I think that's overstated because this 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:49.640 is pro football, and this happens. And it was the 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.520 Chief's turn to have the year from hell, and it 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:59.760 was sadly Patrick's turned to roll craps and he was 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.160 through a knee injury the last few weeks. He was 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.400 on the injury report the last few weeks. You saw 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:12.680 him laboring. We said after Week one, man, he sure 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.960 ran a lot and sure took a lot of hits. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.000 And there's a tax to all of it. There just is. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:26.079 And there is a cost to the twenty game seasons. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.440 There is a cost to the offensive line injuries. There 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:35.320 is a cost to Patrick's refusal to sit out a 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:40.200 game when his knee was obviously bothering him. There is 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:46.520 a cost to the Chiefs being in must win, gotta 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.320 have it elimination games this early in the season. You 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.400 extend your body, you extend plays, you put yourself out there, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.000 and this happens. This is not I am sick for Patrick. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:03.600 I'm sick for myself, but I'm also the Patriots and 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.239 their fans watch Tom Brady go down the first week 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:11.080 of a season. The Colts and their fans watched Peyton 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.600 Manning miss a whole year with a neck injury. The 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.919 Packers and their fans watched Pete Aaron Rodgers knocked out 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.800 for half a season with a snapped collar bone, like 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:30.120 the Ravens twice have had Lamar late in a year, 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.600 get hurt and never come back. The Bengals and Joe 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:38.520 Burrow have had multiple seasons derailed by the guy getting hurt. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.800 Like this is pro sports and this sport in particular, 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:54.720 and so I am trying to balance how much it 0:03:54.960 --> 0:04:00.360 sucks that Patrick is going through this, how much the 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:06.000 reality of We now have a line of demarcation in 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.160 Patrick's career that's going to be before and after the 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:15.560 ACL and we're going to see how he recovers from it, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.039 how he attacks it, how it changes for good or 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:30.760 for bad, the player that he is, and I and 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:40.040 I can recognize that and do me a favorite. Guys, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:44.599 don't put questions in the rundown near the top of it. Sorry, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.320 this is a production note. While we're doing it. It's 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:56.360 good I lose my train of thought and I can 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.560 recognize all of that while also not feeling like woe 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:06.200 is me is appropriate. This has been as good of 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:13.400 a seven year run as any football fan base has 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:22.200 ever gotten seven years of conference championship games, five super 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:27.120 Bowl appearances, three Super Bowl victories. That you can put 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:33.280 it up against anything any team has done in the 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.920 history of the sport. This seven years matches any seven 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.760 years the Patriots had, any seven years the Niners in 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:45.279 the eighties had, and the Steelers in the seventies is 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.240 a weird one because they won four super Bowls, but 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.000 they didn't get to the conference championship game every year, 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.039 and they didn't get to five super Bowls. That that's 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.760 a tomato tomato thing. You can say that one was better, 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:02.480 but it's at least in the argument. And and now 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:16.080 the Chiefs received back into football general population, and then 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.279 see if they can emerge once again. 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:19.760 And I. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:26.599 Hate that I have talked about this comp so much 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.679 and now it is even more apropos But you guys 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:36.120 have heard me whenever we have done the Brady Mahomes 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:41.880 career stuff, talk about in his eighth years a starter, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:48.240 Tom blew out his knee and then that team had 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.840 its only real lull. Obviously they missed the playoffs the 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.360 year Tom missed. They still want eleven games, by the way, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.800 which is shout out to how unbelievable, the seven Pats 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.640 and eight Pats or as a roster. And then in 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:08.040 two thousand and nine Tom wasn't his best. They won 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.680 ten games and got annihilated in round one of the playoffs. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:16.400 And in twenty ten Tom was exceptional. That team was 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.360 fourteen and two, and then they lost one of the 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.000 weirdest playoff games ever Mark Sanchez and the New York Jets. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:28.280 And then in twenty eleven they started their run and 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:43.120 I don't know what is I here is as far 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:48.400 as this not being what's the right way to put this? 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:54.920 In a weird way, I feel worse for Packer fans 0:07:54.960 --> 0:08:02.960 with the Mica injury than for Chief fans with the 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:09.800 Mahomes injury. In this regard, I was wrong about this team. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:15.560 They didn't have it this year. And so had they 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:23.960 been eleven and three in that game and or I 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.800 guess ten and three because that was right? How do 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.680 I have this right? I'm all scattered ten and three 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.520 going into that game and had looked great. It was like, man, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:39.320 this is another championship level team. I think this would 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:47.120 sting even more, but it was pretty clear it became 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:54.080 I came to terms with where this Chiefs team was 0:08:54.920 --> 0:09:00.680 about an hour and a half before Mahomes's injury drive 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:06.280 of the first half up thirteen to three, letting the 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.959 Chargers drive the length of the field the combo platter 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:14.920 of not being able to punch in the Herbert interception 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:20.840 and getting seven, and then later in the second quarter 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.880 allowing them to go the length of the field in 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:30.120 forty seconds to take what could have been a seventeen 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.680 to three or at the very least thirteen to three, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.319 or worst case scenario, thirteen to six lead into halftime 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.679 in a must win home game, letting the Chargers, whose 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.960 offense right now is not very good, go the length 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.680 of the field to make it thirteen to ten, and 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:55.800 then watching the Chiefs offense do nothing the entire second half. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.720 They didn't have it, And so this was not the 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:06.599 chief Thiefs leaving a man left as a potential championship 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.360 on the table because the quarterback got hurt. They were 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:16.000 not good enough this year, and I was wrong. I 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.600 talked a lot of shit, poked at a lot of 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.800 folks as soon as they looked like the Chiefs. Again, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.280 that was a brief mirage in who this scene was 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:34.240 this season, and I do feel demonse that they are 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:39.079 about to have a mirror held up to some of 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:48.400 their structural issues that Patrick was holding together over these 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.280 last three weeks of the year. Because I think they 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.400 are going to lose to the Tennessee Titans. I think 0:10:55.440 --> 0:11:01.559 they are going to get beat up by the Denver Broncos. Okay, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:09.960 and then we'll see Week eighteen Raiders Chiefs in Vegas. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.880 You know who shows up for that game. But I 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.480 think with these o line injuries, this lack of a 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:24.800 running game, and one of the bigger disappointments of this 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:35.839 season is the lack of development from the wide receivers, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:44.920 I think you're going to see what this offense looks 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.439 like with bad quarterback play. Because I understand Mahomes numbers 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:56.960 after the bye the Cowboys game notwithstanding, were ghastly. The 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.920 Cowboys game is the one thing propping them up. I 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:05.280 think you're about to see what actual bad quarterback play 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.520 would look like with the team right now with its issues, 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:14.000 and I do think that there needs to be some 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:26.240 real soul searching is too strong, but some personal accountability 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:33.640 by everyone involved in the team, and hey, how do 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:38.160 we make sure the next time Patrick takes the field 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:45.240 this team doesn't have as many glaring weaknesses as it 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:50.199 had in twenty twenty five. And listen, it's hard. There 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.880 is a reason only one team ever's gone to four 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.480 straight Super Bowls. There's a reason only one team ever 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:01.840 has gone to more than seven straight conference championship games. 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:09.040 There is a reason only three other teams ever had 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:14.400 gone to three straight Super Bowls. What the Chiefs accomplished 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:21.160 was certain things were unprecedented, and certain things were only 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.439 you know, had only been accomplished by one or two 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:32.240 of the other greatest dynasties ever. But you saw some 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:41.280 of the where of the late draft picks, of guys 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:48.160 not developing, of some a draft miss here, a free 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:56.800 agency missed there, a poorly timed injury there. And they 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.280 couldn't run the ball, and they couldn't rush the passer 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:07.040 all year long. And these receivers who I like, I 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.480 think Rashid Rice has the ability to be excellent. I 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:15.120 saw him be exceptional for the second half of his 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:19.760 rookie season. I know the talent Xavier Worthy has. But 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:26.200 those guys not developing into fully formed, legitimate man beating 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:31.000 wide receivers hurt this team a lot too. And so 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:37.720 those are the things that you address moving forward for 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:45.400 the Chiefs, and then you see what version of Patrick 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.000 we have when he comes back. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:51.280 I believe. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:59.560 The type of competitor and legendary athlete he is, that 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.480 there is a very good chance he comes back as 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:10.080 a better player as a player that if he especially 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:18.240 if he can't early on rely as much on his athleticism, 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:26.040 is even more precise in the pocket and traditional drop 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.960 back since then he's been the last couple of years, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.120 and so I'm not worried about Patrick, and I would 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:38.040 put I understand it was a terrible injury and he 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:44.040 tore two ligaments. I would put all my money on 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.360 him being back for Week one next year. It's right 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:52.360 at nine months, and I think he'll do it. And 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.640 what will the team around him look like? Is the question? 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.160 Demonds knows some follow ups here before we get to 0:15:59.160 --> 0:15:59.680 other stuff. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.400 Yeah, you were talking about making sure the roster was 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.440 good from homes whenever he comes back. If Brett Vich 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.120 hit you up today and asked what they should do 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.560 to retool the team, how would you go about it? 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.480 I mean, I listen, I think the biggest weakness right 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.880 now is not being able to get a pass rush 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:22.320 outside of Chris Jones, and they spent a first round 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.960 pick on a player a couple of years ago who 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.400 was put on the IR. This year, they spent a 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.160 second round pick on Omar Norman Lot, a d tackle 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.040 who was put on the IR early in the year. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:40.840 This was not a good Karloff this year, and they 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:47.040 just paid him. So I think that that is the 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.080 first thing that I would address, and the other one 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:58.200 is they need to have listen. Isaiah Pacheco was an 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.120 unbelievable story as a seventh round pick, and he was 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:06.600 very productive and then and again it's pro football man, 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.080 he broke his leg and has him been the same, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.640 and I feel sick for him. I hate the fact 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.639 that he never really got paid. I and he's a 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:22.120 champion and you know, really helped the team before those injuries, 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.480 but he hasn't been the same since then. And they 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:30.080 can't run the ball effectively. So what they are going 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:34.080 to have demons next year is a third place schedule 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.199 and something like the tenth, eleventh, twelfth pick of the draft, 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:43.800 which are two things that you never would have thought 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:48.480 they would have going into this year. And so you 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:53.080 have to take advantage of those things, and you also 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:58.479 have to prepare for life after Travis Kelcey. Even though 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:04.960 it seems like a lot of people are fully convinced 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:10.560 Travis's retire I am not fully convinced of that. I 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.160 obviously not only is it possible, you could say it's likely, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.000 but I don't know that he has made up his mind. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:24.199 And I because I don't want to, right, And so 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.040 now you don't always get to pick how you go out. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:33.960 Travis's brother played in the Super Bowl against the Chiefs, 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.760 the famous you know when they the first Eagle Chief 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:41.840 Super Bowl. They lost that Super Bowl. He decided to 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.639 come back for one more year, and that was the 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:48.199 year of the Eagles supernatural funk and meltdown and quitting 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.160 in the playoff game. And that's how he went out. 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:54.879 One of the greatest sinners ever. Travis lost in the 0:18:54.920 --> 0:19:00.399 Super Bowl, decided to come back. And now, like last 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.960 moments with Mahomes on the field are dark, that what 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:07.080 that was, and so I don't know. I don't know 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.000 what he's going to do. He is still a good player, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.840 Is he a dominant player anymore? 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:13.200 No? 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.639 Is he still one of the this year? Was he 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.400 one of the five best tight ends in football, yes, 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.119 and so he still has football left in him. The 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.040 question is if he wants to keep doing go ahead? 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.119 Do you think if it's a note that his brother 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.080 he sat out that year and then his team won 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.280 the Super Bowl the next year, I think his brother's 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.400 got to tell him to stick in and stay with him. Maye, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:34.960 you guys will get this. 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:38.399 Oh that's interesting. Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean, I 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:40.240 guess that's right. Is the first year. 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:45.600 After Yeah, they won Super Bowl? Yeah, what's your predictions 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:46.480 for the next chapter? 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:55.040 Listen, I think that I think that as long as 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.280 you have the as long as you have Patrick Mahomes 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:02.119 and Andy's not anywhere. And I understand there's been some 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.720 criticism of Andy. I don't think this was his best year. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:09.280 I think Andy will is one of the greatest coaches 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:13.119 in NFL history. And I do think that they, you know, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:17.680 the Chiefs offense post b enemy with Matt Nagy, hasn't 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.960 been as guys are not running as wide open as 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.639 they once were and things aren't quite as easy, and 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:30.080 so they do need to address that. But I believe 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.680 Andy Reid is going to be the coach of the 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.440 Chiefs as long as he wants to be the coach 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:39.640 of the Chiefs and I'm good with that. And Spags 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:43.480 isn't going anywhere, and I believe Mahomes will come back 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:47.719 and still be Mahomes, and so I do think that 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:53.400 they can snap back to top tier contender. They were 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.720 the favorites to win the super Bowl twenty nine days ago. 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.240 But it's the NFL man like. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.480 Shit hacks crazy. I mean, ago, wait on. 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:11.240 The super Bowl twenty nine days but you know, you 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:13.440 gotta win games, you gotta play better, you gotta get 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:22.560 lucky on the injury stuff, and so I will. I 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:26.600 think that they will be the favorites in the AFC 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:30.959 West again the start of next year. I think that. 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:34.760 And you know, we'll get to Denver and the Chargers 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:40.520 later in the show. I think that they will. If 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:44.440 Buffalo does what it looks like Buffalo could do, they 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.680 might have someone to go chase, which you know what, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:53.800 like that's how it's supposed to be. And I am 0:21:53.960 --> 0:22:00.680 not worried at all that the Chiefs are not going 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:05.160 to get back to being the scariest team in football. 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:13.359 I am acknowledging that this year will across the board 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:19.399 is looked at as a failure, and then you double 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.720 that up with the pain of the injury to Patrick, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:29.679 and you double that up with the Broncos in the 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.600 Chargers having the years they've had, and it's like, Okay, 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:36.520 they're gonna have a fight on their hands every year, 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:46.480 so be it. I am. 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Gambling problem called one eight hundred gambler 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:38.840 in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, or Virginia. 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:42.640 All right, demand let's get to Pats Ravens. 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.960 Uh yeah, so Lamar Jackson's missing practice I think he's 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:49.800 sick again. It's that time of year. The Patriots are 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:53.200 super relevant, Denver and Jacksonville are in the top teams 0:24:53.200 --> 0:24:55.320 of the AFC. You tie that in with Kansas City 0:24:55.320 --> 0:24:58.360 and Cincinnati missing the playoffs. Is there a new class 0:24:58.440 --> 0:24:59.200 of the AFC? 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:05.840 So I listen, I don't. I think this is a 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:10.600 weird year. Yeah, and in a lot of different ways, 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:13.639 because it's not just the Chiefs, and we've talked of 0:25:13.800 --> 0:25:19.280 and every year there's big turnover, but there's not typically 0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:26.280 this level of turnover year to year. Where the the 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:30.439 best teams in the NFL last year the teams and 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:35.520 we've talked about this a bit, the twelve plus win 0:25:35.640 --> 0:25:40.320 teams last year, Detroit won fifteen. They're on the outside 0:25:40.359 --> 0:25:44.040 looking in on the playoffs. Kansas City won fifteen, they're 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:49.080 eliminated from the playoffs. Minnesota one fourteen. They've been terrible. 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:52.879 Baltimore won twelve, they're on the outside looking in on 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:56.960 the playoffs. The Commander's won twelve. They've had season from hell. 0:25:57.400 --> 0:26:01.560 The two twelve plus win teams that have maintained some 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:04.800 level is Philly, which I think it's fair to say 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:07.400 is not the caliber of team they were last year 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:12.000 and Buffalo, which might be you know, Buffalo surging at 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:14.800 the end of the year. So that part is uh. 0:26:15.440 --> 0:26:21.000 I have talked a lot about how this year reminds 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:26.800 me a lot of eight sadly in that that the 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:30.919 Patriots coming off the undefeated season, Brady blows out his knee, 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:38.000 they missed the playoffs, Peyton manning the with the Colts, 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:42.640 they're a wild card team because the Tennessee Titans, God, 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:45.440 I think that was the Carrie was that Carrie Collins 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:50.160 Tennessee Titans. They end up uh being the one seed 0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:55.200 overall the and it feels like there's a lot of upheaval, 0:26:55.720 --> 0:27:00.800 which then led to one of the weirdest Super Bowls 0:27:00.840 --> 0:27:03.919 ever where the Steelers make it, which isn't that weird, 0:27:04.000 --> 0:27:08.600 but they were pretty clear going into the season third 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:12.280 choice if that in the AFC, behind the Patriots and 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:16.200 the steel and the Colts, with really the Ravens being 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:20.080 right there in that conversation. And then in the NFC 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:25.000 a nine win Arizona Cardinals team made it and that 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:29.680 was that Super Bowl. So I say that because then 0:27:29.760 --> 0:27:33.480 the next year things kind of went back to normal. 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:37.080 The Patriots won their division again, the Colts won fourteen 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:40.120 games and won their division again. The Steelers ended up 0:27:40.160 --> 0:27:45.160 missing the playoffs. The in the NFC, it drew Brees 0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:49.680 and the Saints were dominant the so it was things 0:27:50.600 --> 0:27:54.119 got back to normal to a degree. So this is 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:57.639 a weird year and there are now you do have 0:27:57.720 --> 0:28:02.000 to take more seriously. The young gun quarterback led teams 0:28:02.520 --> 0:28:04.880 in the AFC. But I don't think it's a full 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:07.840 blown changing of the guard. So that's first of all. 0:28:08.840 --> 0:28:16.720 Now let's talk about this game specifically. Come, I'm gonna 0:28:16.720 --> 0:28:23.399 start with Lamar and I do not care if people 0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:32.639 think I'm a hater. I just don't. This is gonna 0:28:32.640 --> 0:28:38.920 sound that whatever. Gotta grow up. Man can't get sick 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:40.080 every year in misswork. 0:28:40.560 --> 0:28:41.000 Just can't. 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:46.160 What other quarterbacks demand? What other quarterbacks. Since we've been 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:50.160 doing the show, can you remember us talking about, oh, 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:56.600 critical playoff push time and he's sick again. I can't. 0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:59.280 It's it's every years. 0:29:00.280 --> 0:29:02.719 I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking something else is going on, 0:29:02.840 --> 0:29:05.280 but uh, but yeah, I mean. 0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:06.400 Every year. 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:09.000 As soon as it gets called out. 0:29:09.640 --> 0:29:12.920 Every year, when it gets called out, if you're a 0:29:12.960 --> 0:29:18.600 pro athlete, he just can't. It's every year. The guy 0:29:18.680 --> 0:29:22.000 is sick and we could you can't be like, ah, well, 0:29:22.040 --> 0:29:25.600 what does it matter? He plays on Sunday, Like missing 0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:29.840 practice this year has hurt him. He missed four weeks 0:29:29.840 --> 0:29:33.160 of practice with different injuries, or four weeks of in 0:29:33.600 --> 0:29:36.560 four weeks in a row. He missed a practice he 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:40.720 didn't was you know? Then last week he missed a 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:45.800 practice because of a rest day. Yesterday flew like symptoms. 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:54.400 Like I'm sorry the but I know that this is 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:59.520 this is me being an old man, and I understand 0:29:59.640 --> 0:30:03.200 I I I say this walking into it knowing that. 0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:09.200 Ravens and Lamar fans are going to clip this and 0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:12.920 see it and say, this guy, he's the only quarterback 0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:15.880 in the league that would get criticized for getting sick. 0:30:16.200 --> 0:30:19.600 And it's like, you know what, that's true because it's 0:30:19.680 --> 0:30:24.280 every year the guy got COVID a dozen times and 0:30:24.360 --> 0:30:28.840 then and since then, every year has the seasonal flu. 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:33.800 Can't have it. So that's like, I know I'm right. 0:30:34.360 --> 0:30:37.000 I don't care if it sounds bad. I know I'm right. 0:30:37.280 --> 0:30:41.680 So that's first of all. Second of all, I'm not 0:30:41.840 --> 0:30:45.720 sure whether or not Lamar healthy or not is back. 0:30:46.600 --> 0:30:49.440 This past week was such a weird game because he's 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:53.160