WEBVTT - NFL Week 4 Reaction: Chiefs CRUSH Ravens, Eagles ISSUES? Cowboys & Packers TIE? | Nick Wright 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:05.080 Welcome in What's Driving Nick Great Episode three seventy two, 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:08.160 and as always, this episode is brought to you by 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:16.480 our friends at boost Mobile. So much to do today, Demons, Sorry, 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:23.360 pale your your team. It's not sometimes in sports you'll 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:28.000 you know, lose the battle but win the war. I 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.400 fear the Ravens might have lost the battle and the 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:37.120 war on Sunday. I fear they could be in real 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:44.080 trouble moving forward. Now they have a division that's winnable, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.960 and I don't really believe in Aaron Rodgers, and so 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.880 they have time to ready to steady the ship. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.600 But the Chiefs have our number. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.760 If the moment is this era of football, Yes, that 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.880 is true, So we will get to that. We will 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.960 also get to listen the Monday Night The Monday Night 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:10.720 doubleheader was terrible. Those were not great games, and sadly 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.960 the only real news from those games is a absolutely 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:22.560 catastrophic injury to one of the greatest players of the 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.679 era in Tyreek Kill. So we will get to that 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.240 in a bit. Also, of course, a bizarre Cowboys Packers 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:35.240 game where the offer did hit by the way, demand's 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.240 demand hold on. Before we get to Chiefs, Ravens can 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:42.520 I tell demon's a occasionally. I don't know. Do you 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.200 like dream about a bet you want to make late? 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.400 Or do you have a couple couple cocktails on a 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.000 Saturday night and you're like, I want to get this 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:56.280 bet in? So is this do I have about? Right? 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.720 Just it just gets super late, and I don't know. 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.080 I think it's what everybody's sleep. My brain is the 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.400 most active. Mike, this all makes sense. I'm gonna lock 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.520 it in. But obviously I'm in California. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.760 So Demand's in California. So he can't put these teasers 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.240 in on his own. And while he has been great, 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.440 up did your teaser hit this week? 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.600 Yeah? Back to a cover by the Jets last night? 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.800 Okay, perfect, Well that's why listen, that's why you tease 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.560 up those points. He has been great on following all 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:35.240 teaser rules consistently for the show pick. However, he in 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.679 the middle of the night Saturday night text me, can 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.360 you put this in for me? My biggest wager of 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:48.720 the season, and not only did he not follow any 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.240 of the teaser rules, it's just an abomination of a bet. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.040 It's the Eagles from minus three and a half to 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.560 plus four and a half, the Chiefs up to plus 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.799 ten and a half playing against his team, and then 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.239 the Pace Day resistance because he loves eight point teasers. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.520 The Packers, who are were a perfect teaser candidate that 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:12.400 actually wouldn't have won a six point teaser. Yeah, I 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:17.360 told that wouldn't have won. Oddly, teasing through the zero 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.400 is the only reason this one, because it was a 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.280 tie the Packers the plus one and a half. He 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.519 put it in. By the way, I paid you this morning. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.400 I don't know if you saw it, but I paid 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.519 you this morning. I wake up to that at seven 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.120 am Sunday morning, that this guy wants the worst teaser ever, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.120 but it worked, So what he has he cash props 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.520 to you. All right, let's get to straight. The voicemail 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.160 brought to you by Boost Mobile. We are not on 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.880 the show today, getting to NBA Media Day reactions. We 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.520 are not going to do baseball playoffs today. We will 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.400 do some of that on Thursday. And JJ Reddick evidently 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:03.040 has ninety minute conversations with his friend Cha which chat GPT. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:06.160 I'm not gonna judge it. I know a lot of people, 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.680 you know, have a lot of you know, are very productive. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.680 We get a lot of things done through AI and 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.760 through talking with AI and working with AI. I have 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:20.320 not fully embraced that technology as of yet. I'm sure 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.440 at some point I will. Once upon a time, I 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.960 used to be on the radio making fun of the 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.600 concept of Twitter and how I would never be on Twitter, 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.800 And you know now it's my only social media platform. 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.200 So I recognize I'll get there one day. I'm just 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:40.520 not there yet. Where I am, though, Demons is fully 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:46.960 relaxed and comfortable and relieved about the Chiefs. Let's get 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.039 right to the game of the weekend. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.360 Yeah, so we all saw what happened on Sunday. Your 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.320 Chiefs crushed my Ravens. We were obviously riddled with injuries. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.320 Our quarterback went down very early into the third quarter, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:01.840 she said, after starting two. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.200 That is not hold on. Your quarterback did not go 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.479 down early in the third. He went down at the 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.120 end of the third quarter when when he tapped out 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.680 when they were down seventeen. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.480 But go ahead, all right, you said your Chiefs had 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.880 the chance to rewrite history after starting oh and two, 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.360 after this game, do you think they did so? Well? 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.599 Listen, they studied themselves and the ow and to start 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.360 what they had to do was beat the Giants. That 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.480 was an ugly game that obviously turned on the tackle 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:39.440 that turned the tide. And then they had to go 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.480 take care of business against the Ravens, and take care 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:50.400 of business they did, and not shockingly, the moment the 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:56.440 Chiefs had close to a competent receiving corps, the offense 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:01.520 looked good again. And we don't have to do this 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.880 full history in depth, but it is worth mentioning that 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:11.839 the Chiefs traded away Tyreek Hill Mahomes snap in an offseason, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.640 changed the way he played based on the receivers they 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:20.400 had one league MVP. The very next year, dealt with 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:25.320 more drops than any quarterback literally in modern NFL history, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.960 figured it out by the playoffs, won the Super Bowl. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:34.560 The next year, dealt with the most injured wide receiver 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.120 and running back room in the NFL, got all the 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.560 way to the Super Bowl. And the next year, which 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.320 was this year, walked into the season with his number 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:49.160 one receiver suspended for six games and his number two 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.920 receiver knocked out of Game one three plays in. And 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.280 it looked shaky for a bit. And I told you 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:04.320 guys that I knew real like I guess insight that 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.760 that Chargers Week one game plan. Xavier Worthy was the 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.000 EPI center of it, and him being knocked out three 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:17.640 plays in threw everything off. But this, the fatalism surrounding 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:22.880 the Chiefs from almost everyone else in the media was 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:25.960 And I don't want to be a scold, and I 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.360 don't want to be more annoying than I naturally am, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:36.600 but it was embarrassing, and it was so fickle and 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:44.600 so myopic, my opic, pardon me, as if they don't 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:49.840 have a Hall of Fame head coach, a Hall of 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:54.800 Fame caliber decordinator, and the most talented quarterback to ever live, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.120 that they couldn't figure it out. And it was as 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:03.800 if they were getting boat raced in these early games, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.160 or as if they were playing terrible teams and losing. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.480 Neither were true. Now I want to make this clear. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.120 I don't think the Chiefs are, you know, quote fully back. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.800 If back means being the highest scoring team in the league, 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.800 I don't think that's who they're going to be. I 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.000 don't think the Chiefs have solved all their issues. I 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.480 still think the running back room leaves a lot to 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.840 be desired, and their ability to get pressure on the 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.320 opposing quarterback without sending a blitz at the moment leaves 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:41.800 a lot to be desired. But you look, if you 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:47.319 going into the Baltimore game, if you looked around the AFC, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:55.760 the only team that really you could say had no 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.440 holes to poke at it was the Chargers going into 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:05.599 Week four, but they already were dealing with some potentially 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:10.280 mounting injuries that sadly, they dealt with more of during 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.880 Week four in a game they had no business losing, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.440 but lost, And so the Bills were undefeated. But the 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.360 Bills defense had looked shaky, and they they had and 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:25.600 have played three consecutive games against just bottom feeders. The 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.720 Ravens were given this huge benefit of the doubt despite 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.600 having the same record as the Chiefs, and then every 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.559 other team that had a good record, like the Steelers 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:40.839 or the Jags, you had real reason to be concerned about. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.800 And so who's first, I mean, I don't know if 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.559 this matters whose first slay to games. Who do you 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.439 think has had the tougher schedule through the first four 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.480 weeks between the Ravens and the Chiefs. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.199 I think it's been almost identical. Okay, so like they 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.840 played each other. So if we want to call that 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.520 like I so call the Chiefs Ravens game, you know, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.199 a war so to speak. The Ravens played the Browns. 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.040 The Chiefs played the Giants, which is, I think the 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.360 Giants are better than the Browns, but the Browns have 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.600 a better defense than you know what I mean. Call 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.760 that a wash. And then the Ravens played the Bills. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.800 The Chiefs played the Eagles. The Ravens player, I guess 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.760 we could do Bills, Chargers, Eagles, Lions, you know what 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.800 I mean, Like, I think the Bills are a little 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.720 better than the Chargers, but I think the Eagles are 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.120 a little better than the Lions. So to me, it's 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:33.040 very very similar. Like as far as what the opening 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.880 slate was, now you could argue the Chief Ravens game 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.199 being in Kansas City, like the Ravens having to go 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.199 on the road for that tilts it. But the other 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.520 piece of it that was maddening to me and has 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.480 been even more maddening in the after There have been 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.560 two things that have happened in the aftermath of this 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:55.120 game that really drive me crazy. And I had kind 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.960 of a rough moment near the end of yesterday's show 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.160 on TV with why yesterday I'll apologize to him when 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.720 I see him today. It's not really the tone of 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.120 our show. But I got I got angry when I 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:12.200 shouldn't have the And I mean, I don't think he 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.040 took it like terribly. Like I think he might be 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.600 surprised when I apologize to him, but maybe not. But 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.400 it Two things have happened that to me are so frustrating. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:29.360 The first one is I understand the Ravens during the 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:34.120 game lost Rokwan Smith and late in the game lost 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.920 Humphrey and once the game was over over over lost 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:44.600 Nate Wiggins. But they went into the game missing four starters. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.319 Everyone and the defense already had been bad all year. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:55.120 Everyone knew that and picked them. That's fine, by the way, 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.920 Like you can pick whoever you want. And I'm not 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.080 acting like that game was a lot for the the 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.400 way it played out. The Chiefs at full control, but 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.920 you know, something goes differently. Maybe not, but to know 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:10.920 the team has those injuries going in and then afterwards 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.120 be like, well, of course Kansas City did that. Look 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:19.120 at all the injuries on defense. It's just bullshit. It's 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:26.200 that if your handicap going into the game was I 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.920 think the Ravens at full strength are better, but they're 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.000 not full strength. Therefore, I think the Chiefs will win. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:34.800 And then you see that game be like, yeah, that's 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.679 what I thought, so be it. But that wasn't anyone's handicap. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:43.679 The handicap was even with the Ravens defensive injuries, the 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:48.600 Chiefs offense, with Patrick freaking Mahomes on it and Andy 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.960 Reid calling the plays, is so broken that they're not 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:54.160 gonna be able to move the ball. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:13:00.760 I mean Vegas had them as underdogs as well, correct money, Yeah. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:06.280 Like, which it's so again, two and a half one 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.760 underdogs at home to a one and two team that 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.280 the two competent offenses that they had played moved the 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:20.239 ball at will and so to then Monday morning quarterback 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.560 be like, oh, well, obviously this was gonna happen. That's 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.240 not what you believed. That wasn't people's picks. That wasn't 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:31.040 people's opinion. The conversation going into the game was who 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.120 needed it more? Kansas City? Who do you trust more? 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:41.000 Baltimore Good I watched Orlowski do the Ravens are built 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:45.839 to beat the Chiefs? What it's like, No, they're built 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.760 to beat the Chiefs In the Bengals. They're just they 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.080 they're not built to beat the I think he said 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.400 the Chargers in the line something I don't know. I 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.280 it was consent, and the other piece of it was 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.160 And this is my other level of frustrating, because while 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.199 Ronnie Stanley did go out during this game, the Ravens 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.960 offense is healthy, and it was that, well, the Chiefs 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.280 aren't gonna be able to slow down a Ravens offense 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.720 that no one's been able to slow down. They score 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:21.480 thirty plus in every game, and that, of course is 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:26.160 not what happened. And so that frustrated me. And the 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.280 other thing that frustrated me had nothing to do with 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:36.080 Brewer Wilds, but it had to do with me listening 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.800 to Simmons Pod as I do every Monday morning, listening 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.440 to Greg Rosenthal's NFL Daily Pod, as I do every day, 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:49.400 listening to you know a lot of them, and watching 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.880 the Monday morning shows and all of it, and I 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:59.960 was like, I could not believe that I was going 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:04.760 going to once again have to be I guess, the 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:10.920 bad guy in pointing out the obvious fact that this 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:22.560 game turned on a totally predictable, yet inexplicable horrific Lamar 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:29.880 pick and the Ravens were up seven to three with 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:37.880 the ball on first down around midfield, and Lamar re 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.120 pedaled backwards and then threw up a prayer for no 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:50.840 reason whatsoever, a guy who has he and and again 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.120 people can be mad at me, but here are the 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:58.040 facts of it. And every year people get mad at me, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.560 And then every year we get another piece of evidence 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.560 that I'm stone right about this. And then every year 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.960 I have to listen to folks stick their fingers in 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.960 the ears and be like, Nope, actually wrong. Lamar is 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.000 the greatest passer of the football we've ever seen. His 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.960 hires passer rating ever, never turns the ball over, and 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.440 all the big game, playoffs, games against the chief stuff 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:26.560 is just dumb random luck. In the last thirty games 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:32.600 Lamar is played, he has multiple turnovers in three of them, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:38.320 the AFC Championship game against Kansas City, the Divisional round 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:42.800 against Buffalo, and Sunday against Kansas City. I guess that's 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:53.680 a coincidence. In the last thirty games Lamar is played, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:58.040 he has thrown seven interceptions, which is remarkable that he's 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.880 only thrown seven. He had like a fifty to four 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.680 touchdown interception ratio. You know, in this stretch you moved 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.600 the playoffs. It was crazy. The interceptions are as follows 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:13.560 four regular season interceptions prior to Sunday, three of which 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.440 we played the video hit his receiver in the hands 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.520 and then either got like bobbled or stolen, one of 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.240 which Bateman just stopped running his route. But four passes 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.000 that did not need to be picked, the only three 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:35.320 in the last thirty games, the only three interceptions Lamar 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:37.960 has thrown where it's like, what the hell was that 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.160 AFC Championship game into triple coverage in the fourth quarter 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:48.119 against Kansas City Divisional round game, early against both against 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:53.120 Buffalo and the one Sunday. He also in those three 0:17:53.160 --> 0:18:02.719 games had inexplicable fumbles out of nowhere. To pretend like 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:07.480 that is coincidental when we once again saw Lamark throwing 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:14.479 his helmet out of sorts, it's just dishonest. And I 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:19.720 know Bill Pollion was mean in his commentary towards the 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:26.600 guy eight years ago, and I know some of the 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:32.320 worst actors in media, sports or otherwise tried to pigeonhole 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:38.040 him as a wide receiver in a pretty nakedly at 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:42.840 times racist way. I get that, and I understand because 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:48.560 of that there has been a almost protectionism and a 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.560 want for folks to see him succeed at the highest level. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:19:01.800 I don't disagree with that, But why do we have 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:08.480 to pretend what is obviously true is not? Why do 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.120 we have to pretend that this is a unique thing 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:17.600 we haven't seen across sports? Our whole lives the all 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:25.000 time great, legendary player who sadly gets tight in his 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:29.120 biggest spots and plays his worst in his biggest moments. 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:35.879 That's part of sports man. And nobody was going back 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:42.440 and taking away Peyton Manning's MVPs and his records because 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.119 he struggled massively in the biggest spots. But we weren't 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:52.640 pretending it was coincidental either, talking about the Peyton Manning face, 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.800 talked about how he got anxious, talked about how his 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.920 brother was like the bizarro version of him, a holy meeting, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:06.399 theocre player for giant expanses of his career, who somehow, 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:11.320 in the biggest spots played his absolute best, and for 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.960 some reason with Lamar, we gotta pretend it's not happening. 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:18.679 I gotta and listen, I don't know this guy but 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.560 I think he does good work. I think he's a 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:31.560 smart commentator. But I Deontay Lee at the ringer. I 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:37.960 before the Lamar fumble, I tweeted, Lamar's basically gone two 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.160 years without making that this was on the pick, without 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:43.600 making that exact type of mistake except for in the 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.320 twenty three AFC Championship game, of the twenty four Divisional 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.600 round and just now against Kansas City probably a coincidence, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:56.120 and Deontay Lee quote tweets it right. Nobody can identify 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.880 the intrinsic traits of a winner and loser like Nick Wright. 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:04.080 He is the seer. It's like, no, bro, I'm not 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.199 trying to tell you, I'm not trying to act like 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.600 I look in at guy's eyes and can determine whether 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.560 he has the IT factor. I'm just trying to act 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:20.520 like I've watched this guy's whole fucking career, and from 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:30.239 day one, he has been a guy who, in the 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:35.160 postseason or in these instances now when he sees Patrick 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.920 across the field, plays his worst football. And we can 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.240 act like it's a small sample, but he's played the 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:47.879 Chiefs seven times. He's played I think ten playoff games, 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:54.560 like it's not a small sample. And I my frustration 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:57.600 is and again, so this is the other thing, demand say, 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.280 And this is what I'll say before we keep it moving, 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:06.040 and maybe demands you'll tell me this is unfair. I 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:10.480 don't think if I'm a Ravens fan, I don't think. 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:15.480 The thing that I came out of that game most 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:21.439 disheartened about was the defense. And the reason for that 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:26.359 is obviously, if the defense is this bad, they are 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:28.320 drawing dead, you know what I mean. They can't have 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:32.000 the worst defense in football. But what to me was 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.879 so disheartening about it if you're a Ravens fan, is 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:37.600 you're now gonna have in the back of your head, 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:43.640 even if we get the defense fixed by when we 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:48.560 get to these moments against Josh or Patrick, are we 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:54.120 getting MVP Lamar Or are we getting throwing his head back, 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:59.120 slamming the helmet, taking terrible sacks, throwing off his back 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:04.120 foot lamar I That to me is the concern defense. 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:06.640 Defense definitely has to get better. Think that will help 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:10.439 a lot, obviously, but it's it's every single time you 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:12.399 are realizing more and more that I think it's a 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:15.720 mental thing. It's not like a physical he's pretty I 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:17.520 don't want to say he I don't want to put 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.360 it all on themar but seems pretty checked out from 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:22.800 the start. I don't want to say checked out, like disinterested, 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:25.119 but I mean there was a nice third and eleven 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:27.720 that he picked up one when they were still up, 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:29.600 and he still just kind of walked back to the 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:34.240 huddle looked a little sad. He's, yeah, he's his emotions. 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:36.639 He's just not up in spry like I see him 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.959 in other games, and it's just it is a little disfunte. 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.919 He tried to take it back, but he said a 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:47.320 few years ago that Mahomes had been as kryptonite and 0:23:47.400 --> 0:23:49.960 he was asked like member, and it was like the 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:53.080 how you know, excited do you get to play the 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:55.399 Chiefs And he's like, I'm not excited at all, like 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.199 and it was kind of charming almost, but then he 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:00.439 tried to pull it back later He's like, no, I 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:05.760 don't feel that way. It it's in his head and 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:10.080 I don't think his team And this is what I 0:24:10.080 --> 0:24:17.960 want your take on. I don't think the play calling 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:21.720 in these spots does him any favors by trying to 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:25.200 put the whole game on him, you have Derrick Henry. 0:24:25.280 --> 0:24:27.679 Derrick, Yeah, exactly. We weren't using him as much as 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:28.920 we should have in the game. 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:31.680 And it was the same story in the AFC Championship game. 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:33.439 They didn't have Derrick Henry then, but they had a 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.720 great running game. They wouldn't run the ball like it's 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:41.000 it's like they it sometimes feels like they go into 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:44.280 these games like trying to prove a point that Lamar 0:24:44.440 --> 0:24:48.439 can just do it Patrick, like just go get the 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:49.440 get the win. 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.359 And then even in a couple instances where he would 0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:57.600 have normally evaded, he just kind of I don't know, 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:00.199 he just seemed like he almost took the sac. I 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:02.399 see Lamar getting out of some of those situations that 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:03.200 he got trapped in. 0:25:04.119 --> 0:25:06.879 But well, it's been two weeks in a row, where 0:25:06.920 --> 0:25:09.760 like they yeah, and so listen, and I'm not going 0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:11.719 to kill him too much on some of those sacks 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:16.919 because some of the greatest Lamar plays ever are plays 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:19.520 it looks like he should have been sacked, somehow gets 0:25:19.520 --> 0:25:22.400 away and then makes a crazy throw. So to keep 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:26.240 those available, sometimes you're just not gonna get away. But yeah, 0:25:26.280 --> 0:25:29.440 I mean, he wasn't good and I just don't think 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:32.880 it's coincidental. Let's get to some of these follow ups here. 0:25:32.880 --> 0:25:37.920 Pal, So with Baltimore, do you think that Kansas City 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:40.199 isn't a good spot right now, because obviously Baltimore is 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:44.600 super down, So like, is Kansas City humming or is Baltimore, 0:25:44.720 --> 0:25:47.240 you know, just at a heavy disadvantage right now. 0:25:48.600 --> 0:25:57.320 So listen, I think that I don't think everything is 0:25:57.400 --> 0:26:01.119 you know, the sky is falling in Baltimore, because I 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:05.560 do think that Lamar is going to instantly be back 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:09.640 to being regular season Lamar. Like I expect Lamar against 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:14.040 a great Texans defense to be excellent. I expect Lamar 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:16.600 against the Rams to be excellent. Like I don't. I'm 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:20.000 not too worried about the hamstring. That was a weird 0:26:20.040 --> 0:26:26.760 one because he got no treatment and he's like the trainers. Yeah, 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:29.560 it was like he wrapped a that was a weird one. 0:26:31.440 --> 0:26:33.560 So I think he's gonna play and I think he'll 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:36.080 be good. But I think the defense, you know, they're 0:26:36.080 --> 0:26:38.280 gonna just have to outscore people and hope the defense 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:40.439 gets healthy by the end of the year. And I 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:43.520 don't think Kansas City is fully fixed, but I think 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:48.440 Kansas City has now fully steadied themselves, and the Chargers 0:26:48.440 --> 0:26:50.720 did them a huge favorite by blowing that game to 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:54.600 the Giants. And now it's like, you know, in short order, 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:59.439 the Chargers could theoretically be or the Chiefs could be 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:00.840 back in for plays. 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:06.200 What else do we have, so chat Andy asks Nick. 0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:09.679 Nick worried that the chief success is seemingly tied to 0:27:09.720 --> 0:27:13.160 a skinny wire receiver's health Worthy. Yeah, I mean big 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:13.800 focal point. 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:17.240 It was huge. Now listen, Xavier was healthy all last 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:20.520 year and took some big shots. Yes, but I am 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:25.120