WEBVTT - QB Interventions: Joe Burrow TRADE? Hurts & Lamar STRUGGLING, Lakers KNOCKED OUT | Nick Wright 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.560 Welcome in What Driving the Great? Episode four O two. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:07.960 This episode of What Drapen the Grid is presented to 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:14.160 you by our dear friends at boost Mobile. Very busy, uh, 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.360 last forty eight hours or so for me, and a 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.079 lot to get to in today's show. So demanse great 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:21.760 to see. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.239 You with it. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:27.280 It looks like a crispy Fresh new T shirt. That's 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.200 that is Nosh tarn It. That's the guy's company. The 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:36.680 guy what's his name, Nipseysle. Yeah, the late Nipsey Hussele. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.159 That's what I thought. Uh, that's a I love that. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.839 If you're watching on YouTube, Demande's wearing a marathon T 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.839 shirt which just looks outstanding. You look great. You look 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.920 better rested than I would have expected. So it seems. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.320 Like last night was okay good, got all the big 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.800 cries out at like eight nine pm, So okay, two 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.560 three of the morning, we were good, okay, awesome. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.920 I'm glad you're getting some resk acclimated. If people are 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.399 like big cries, what are you guys talking about. Demand's 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.880 going through a really hard time and he's been emotional lately. No, 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.960 Demondy's got a one month old at home and so 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:13.720 he's dealing with that. Uh, let's get right to it straight. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.400 The voicemail brought to you by Boost Mobile. Mike Evans 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.440 is back. I'm gonna go ahead and say he's not 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.240 going to average two hundred and fifteen yards a game 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.560 over the final four. So the thousand yard streak is over. 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:30.360 Philip Rivers is returning. We will cover that in the 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:37.160 Gambling Show. And listen the producers saying, are Nick and 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:37.959 Pablo beefing? 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:38.240 Again? 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:44.959 Listen, Nick and Pablo were never beefing. I have also 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:54.760 never been shy or ambivalent about the fact that maybe 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.440 there is something psychologically wrong with me. But I have 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.840 a list, and it's through no fault of their own, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:05.400 of what I consider to be media rivals, which is 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.400 anyone in my field or my field adjacent who is 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.520 my age or younger. And I have said many a 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:22.680 time that I must vanquish them, and after yesterday, one 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.680 less person to vanquish. Let's get to the Chiefs, sa Bonse, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:27.680 go ahead. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.120 So your Chiefs are almost facing elimination. They are at 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.200 a rough spot. There is a must win against the 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.919 Chargers this weekend. They are plus five hundred to make 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.919 the playoffs. You said with this game, you would believe 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.360 in them. Again, you also had a crazy take about 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.560 this being a must win for the Chargers on your show. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.440 Did you care to explain both of those? 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:53.639 Okay, sure, so listen. All plus five hundred doesn't seem 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.240 like as long of a shot as it feels like 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.040 plus five hundred. It feels like the way. And what 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.680 I said about what I would believe in is I 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:12.720 understand it is irrational, so to speak, but what is 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.560 definitively true is if I know myself and if the 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.680 Chiefs win this weekend, within the Titans on deck, with 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.200 the possibility of a Chargers collapse, I will be just 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.560 when I think I'm out, they pull me back in 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:34.320 Godfather threes style like that. That is true. It's also 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.160 noteworthy to me that this line is up to I 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.000 think five and a half. The Chiefs, that haven't played 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:48.920 a good sixty minute four quarter football game in a 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.840 month and a half are a five and a half 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.200 point favorite over the nine and four Los Angeles Chargers, 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:01.840 and so I will get more to the chief side 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.000 in a second, but I do want to explain what 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.160 I was saying yesterday about this being a must win 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.640 for the Chargers, and I suppose that is a matter 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:17.599 of perspective. But if your perspective is that the Chargers 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:23.240 in an AFC that will likely never again be this 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:29.960 wide open in a playoff field, where Herbert walks into 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:36.200 it likely as essentially the second most experienced quarterback to 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.599 Josh Allen. In the AFC, well, Aaron Rodgers would be 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.520 the most experienced, But I almost feel like at this point, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.080 like that circle has come all the way around to 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.040 where his experience works against him because he's so damn old, 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.440 and so let me put it like this, this is 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.440 maybe the better way to put it. In this playoff field, 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:07.520 Herbert will be one of only three quarterbacks that are 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:12.280 in the prime of their careers, with it being Josh, 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:18.480 him and the Prince. Most people believe he's better than 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.880 the Prince. He's obviously older, you know, more experienced than 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.200 the young guys. So in that regard that really works 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:31.360 in their favor. They are coming on, They are, while 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:36.000 still dealing with injuries, getting healthier. They just got their 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:40.640 running back back for their Omari and Hampton, their first 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:45.760 round pick. When Jim Harbaugh got there, he talked about 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:50.520 winning multiple Super Bowls, right he talked about this being 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:55.440 a championship operation. And so if you are looking at 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.760 the Chargers from through the prism of can they for 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:05.159 the first time since Philip Rivers was there, go on 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.520 a real playoff run, can they for the first time 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:17.960 since the mid nineteen ninety four potentially make a Super Bowl? 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:24.919 Then in order for you to believe they have that gear, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:32.760 they absolutely must go into Arrowhead and end the chief season. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:43.000 This Chiefs team is playing its worst football, is wildly 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.920 banged up, and in fact, I do want I meant 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.320 to check this before. I want to see if they've 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.919 updated it real quick. Yes they have, so the Chiefs 0:06:55.560 --> 0:07:02.000 injury report Trey Smith back, but Juwan Taylor still has 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:06.280 not practiced. So much like the Chargers, the Chiefs are 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:10.840 gonna be going potentially going into this game without either 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:15.200 of their starting tackles or their top backup tackle in 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:23.640 Wanya Morris. So and the Chargers have the opportunity to 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:33.160 end the Chiefs officially put them out, and if they don't, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:41.520 then I will feel like I know one thing and 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.320 start to be concerned on the Chargers' behalf of another thing. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.520 The thing I will feel like I know is this 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:56.320 team doesn't have win three straight playoff games get to 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:01.120 the super Bowl gear it because I don't think they 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.360 There are parts of that Eagles game that they should 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.400 feel great about, and then there are parts of that 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:13.040 Eagles game where they should feel very, very fortunate that 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.280 Jalen Hurts gave it away at the very end. So 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.120 I will feel like, I know, they don't have a 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.520 super Bowl gear. And the thing that I would be 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:28.840 concerned about Demons if they lose this game is that 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.920 they might be playing in Week eighteen with the playoffs 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:42.920 on the line. So that is the wrinkle here. The 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:48.080 wrinkle here is and there's a lot of ifs here. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:53.679 This is why it's plus five hundred. But if we 0:08:53.800 --> 0:09:00.320 assume the Colts are not going to go I guess 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.280 for the Chargers case, this doesn't really the Cults doesn't 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.400 really matter, but I'm gonna include him anyway. Aren't gonna 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:15.640 go three and one or better down the stretch, Then 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:26.320 that final AFC playoff spot likely comes down to Chiefs Chargers. Again. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.880 If the Chiefs win this weekend, and if they do 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:36.800 and then we assume Kansas City is going to beat 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:42.160 Tennessee the following week, then it can start to get 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:47.440 a little tight for the Chargers because after the Chiefs game, 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:54.880 they have three straight brutal opponents. They are at the 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:59.080 Cowboys home for the Texans, and then this is the 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:04.480 game that I'm focused on at Denver in a game 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:10.600 that might for the Broncos be win this game and 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:17.120 you are the one seed Denver, and the Chargers will 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.840 be in a position of if they lose to the 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:24.199 Chiefs that if again I said, there were gonna be 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:30.160 a lot of ifs they don't win both of Cowboys Texans. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:34.680 If they lose just one of those games, then Week 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:40.000 eighteen in Denver could be winning. You go to the playoffs, 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:45.600 lose and the Chiefs take your playoff spot again. That is, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:53.080 assuming the Chiefs beat the Titans and Raiders and they 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.480 win a home game against Denver in Week seventeen, that'll 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:02.240 be very difficult. So that's the for a team that 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:08.840 I think has as far as its organizational DNA has 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.560 a lot of hitting tight in big spots. Yeah, and 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.240 whose quarterback in the three biggest the two playoff games 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.040 and the one other if you remember when and your 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:26.040 in Week eighteen game that he's played in has not 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.280 played anything close to his best ball. I'd be a 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:30.360 little nervous about it. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.200 Go ahead, Yeah, I was about to say, I feel 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:33.560 like the last time he was in that spot, he 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:35.360 threw like four picks could be. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.440 The playoff game. The playoff game was four picks. 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.280 Yeah, okay the last year. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:46.880 So the three there's been one winning you're in and 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.560 two playoff games. The winning you're in was against the 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:57.920 Raiders in Week eighteen, where he had an eighty passer rating, 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:03.280 completed fifty three percent of his passes. They lost in overtime, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.079 and the Raiders, with their interim head coach, went to 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:11.800 the playoffs. The playoff games were a twenty seven point 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:16.760 lead late in the first half and then did absolutely 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.880 nothing the entire second half and they lost by a 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:23.160 point to the Prince. And then last year a one touchdown, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.760 four interception, forty passer rating playoff game where he completed 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:32.600 forty four percent of his passes. So the chart flip 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:38.960 side is Chargers win this weekend and it's all good. 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:44.480 You essentially lock up a playoff spot, you definitionally knocked 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:49.319 the Chiefs out of the postseason, and it's good. And 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.520 so that's why this is such a huge game. For 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.720 the Chargers and for Kansas City. We are just gonna 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.199 find out if the three time defind the AFC champs 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:05.400 have any fight left in them, or if the last 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.120 three years in Lark you know bigger, the last seven 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:14.080 years have taken a toll and you know this is 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.880 it for the year. It'll be a sad way to 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.920 go out if that's how they go out. But given 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.199 how they've played the last month, I'm not going to 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.480 sit here and project this confidence that there's no chance 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:28.800 they go out that way. 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:30.800 Is that game going to have a roof on it? 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.920 Is there going to be in a dome? Or is 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:40.319 which game when they play the Chargers? Oh yeah, all right, no, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.439 no, no curious. I mean, if it wasn't a dome, I'm 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.840 definitely taking the Chiefs. But it's not a dome, so 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:46.959 I don't know. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.760 Oh no, no, no, no. The So this the Chiefs have 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:56.959 two home games left the Chargers and the Broncos, two 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.880 very tough games, and then two road games left the 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.920 Titans and the Raiders, the two worst teams in football. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.280 So the benefit is your home games are your tough 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.560 games are at home. But they just had a home 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:17.160 game against the Texans that they weren't able to figure 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.320 out a way to win on So after being a 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.080 great home team all year, that has been fractured a bit. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:27.000 Today's show is brought to you by our new presenting sponsor, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.040 hard Rock Bet. 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First off? 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.320 And who do you expect to bounce with a bounce back? 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:37.960 Bounce back? First from. 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.480 Listen. I think Baker will bounce back. But this has 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.360 been a really grizzly stretch for Baker. But I think 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:50.760 Baker that I don't know if there's a positive or negative, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.680 but I'm gonna, at least in my mind make it 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.720 a positive. With Baker, it's very simple. He's just not 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.720 playing well, and he's had these little peaks and valleys 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.560 in his career. Like now he is dealing with left 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.560 shoulder injury, and so that does make you a little 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.720 concern because that can linger, and it's an injury he's 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:16.880 dealt with before. But I think Baker will bounce back 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:21.480 at least enough to where they stabilize they win that division. 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.600 And Baker's been a gamer in the playoffs his whole career. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:30.399 So Baker is the one I'm least concerned about Hurts. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.959 I'm not so much concerned about him demands as I 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:42.479 am just accepting of what I feel like are some 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:48.480 his pretty obvious limitations, which again, limitations doesn't mean you're 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:55.119 bad and it limitation. Having limitations does not mean that, uh, 0:17:55.600 --> 0:18:00.280 you're not a good quarterback or obviously the guy's the rains. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.040 You're not good at something, though, is a limitation. 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.960 Right, It means there are It means you are not 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:13.680 a come complete. Yeah, well you're not excellent at everything. 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:16.359 Let me put it as kindly as I can. And 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.439 I think what we're seeing and what we saw in 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:28.119 four K Monday night was Jalen Hurts limitations as a 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:32.200 hit every quadrant of the field, drop back, passer, or 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:38.840 glaring and when he is in the situation he's in 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:43.800 now where it's like, oh, the offensive line went from 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.600 maybe the best in the league to mediocre. The running 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.800 game went from the best in the league to mediocre, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.879 and we are going to need the quarterback to go 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.639 out there and make plays If Jay Ellen is not 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:07.200 willing to activate the quarterback driven runs and scrambles. More 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.800 than that, Eagles offense is going to be very, very laborious. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:19.399 Everything is going to be hard. And so that is 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:24.080 to me just the a reality that is not going 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:30.080 to change. He's not going to get any taller. He's 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.080 not going to all of a sudden become a pinpoint 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.920 intermediate over the middle of the field passer. And you've 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:41.760 got to find ways to scheme and coach and work 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:47.480 around that. But I am really concerned about Philadelphia, and 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.479 I am not writing in pen that they are winning 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:59.400 that division because again, there are some ifs here I understand. 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:06.760 But if you believe that the Cowboys are going to 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:11.080 beat the Vikings this weekend, I do beat the Chargers 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.840 in Dallas next weekend, they certainly could, and then win 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:22.760 at the Commanders. And then if you believe that the Eagles, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.160 let's just give them the next two wins, that they're 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:31.280 gonna win against the Raiders and win against the Commanders, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.879 but then believe they are going to lose to the 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.480 Buffalo Bills. So if the Cowboys go three to zero 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.480 and the Eagles go two and one with a loss 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:48.800 in Buffalo, then the Eagles will enter Week eighteen facing 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.800 the situation of if Dallas beats the Giants and those 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:57.440 games would be played simultaneously, the Eagles win the division 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.920 by beating the Commanders, and their season is over by 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:06.920 losing that game, and this Eagles team that has been 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:12.120 hanging by a thread emotionally throughout the year, I would 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:19.560 be very nervous about that that becoming reality. And so 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:24.320 it doesn't take some massive swoon for them to be 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:28.280 facing a winning your end losing your out Week eighteen game. 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.960 It's a somewhat to me likely scenario. So I'd be 0:21:34.040 --> 0:21:39.120 worried about that. With all that said, Demonsey, I am 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:46.200 most worried about what's going on in Baltimore. So Lamar 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:50.720 didn't practice again yesterday, So that's now five straight weeks 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.800 he's missed at least one day of practice. It was 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:59.400 not he was not listed as missing practice with an injury. 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:06.240 It was listed as rest, and Harball was asked about 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:09.720 it and said, listen, basically, if the player, you gotta 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.880 trust the player, and if the player says he needs it, 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.879 then we're giving him the day. I think it is 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:24.120 also very fair to say that this I don't even 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:25.679 know if I want to call it a strategy, but 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:30.879 this trend of Lamar missing one of the practices in 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:34.400 the week leading up to a game has not let 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:38.439 has has shown it sure appears to impact his play. 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.320 He is in the midst of the worst stretch of 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:54.600 football he's ever played. And this is just a blind theory, Demons, 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:01.920 But I think Lamar is over Harball, and I think 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:08.439 Lamar is resigned to a degree to the fate of 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:12.600 the season. And I think that Lamar is ready for 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.680 the next chapter in Baltimore. And so I don't think 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:20.040 we're all of a sudden about to see great Lamar. 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:23.200 I think he'll be better than he's been the last month, 0:23:23.680 --> 0:23:28.160 but I don't think I think Lamar is ready for 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:33.360 the Harball Todd Mounkin mini era and the long Harbaugh 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:37.560 era to be over. And I think the fact that 0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:45.080 John Harbaugh cannot seem to get a handle on the 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:52.600 health and practice status of his star quarterback is an ominous, 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:57.160 ominous sign. So the. 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:00.879 I'm surprised you said it's hard like some of the 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:03.919 stuff that I see going all with Lebron or Lebron Lamar, 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:06.960 it doesn't really seem like a like a Harball problem. 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:08.720 It kind of seems like a Lamar problem. But you're 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.040 you're saying that he might be despondent to him, and 0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:12.240 it's just like, yeah. 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:14.680 I mean, I just I agree with I think the 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:19.240 biggest problem right now for Baltimore is their star quarterbacks 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.000 having the worst stretch of his career. But it just 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:25.720 feels to me like it's more than that right now. 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:29.600 At play here, do you do you have a Baltimore 0:24:29.680 --> 0:24:30.520 Super Bowl take? 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.320 Well, well, I can feel like it kind of feeds 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:38.280 into sag here, It kind of feeds into the betting 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.200 show later. I think it would, you know it would 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:44.280 It would require me to reveal one of my legs. 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:47.399 Oh okay, so we see I think. 0:24:47.320 --> 0:24:50.920 Yeah, yeah, exactly, I'll save it for the next show. Okay, 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:52.440 cause it'll make more sense. 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:59.959 Okay. Uh, here is the glass one tenth full version 0:25:00.320 --> 0:25:06.560 of the Ravens moving forward. They're gonna win just enough 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:13.920 to win that terrible division. They win the final game 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:16.440 against Pittsburgh and they get in at nine and eight 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:22.679 or something, and a Ravens team that has very consistently 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:31.399 been this regular season juggernaut and then playoff underachiever reverses 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:35.880 it this year where they are a regular season underachiever, 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:41.280 go into the playoffs with no expectation, with people not 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:45.440 believing in them, and that is why they end up 0:25:45.800 --> 0:25:49.480 going on a run. Do I believe that is likely. 0:25:50.160 --> 0:25:53.679 Absolutely not do I even know if that is possible? 0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:57.520 Not really, but that would be if I were a 0:25:57.640 --> 0:26:00.920 Ravens fan. That's what I would be trying to convince 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:04.399 myself is going to happen. All right, let's talk Joe Burrow. 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:08.000 So we all know Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow's had it 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:10.440 pretty rough over there in Cincinnati. He had a press 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:12.560 conference yesterday and here's what he had to say. 0:26:13.440 --> 0:26:15.680 You know, if I want to I want to keep 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:21.119 doing this, I have to have fun doing it. You know, 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:23.520 I've been through a lot and if it's not fun, 0:26:23.560 --> 0:26:24.399 then what am I doing it for? 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:28.159 I have the Bengals broken. Joe Burrow. 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:37.879 You really don't like when your franchise quarterback who's not 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:43.160 yet turned thirty says if I want to keep doing this, 0:26:45.080 --> 0:26:49.160 that is, if I'm a Bengal fan. That's a five 0:26:49.240 --> 0:26:59.360 alarm fire, and it is a shocking It's a shocking 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:02.520 enough quote. I thought about leading the show with it, 0:27:03.080 --> 0:27:07.320 but I I feel like you guys, when the Chiefs 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:10.280 are down, want to hear my chiefs pain and cope. 0:27:10.640 --> 0:27:14.680 So I led with the Chiefs. But Joe Burrow, who 0:27:15.960 --> 0:27:20.159 you know, still has what does he have four years 0:27:20.280 --> 0:27:26.919 left on his massive deal. Uh yeah, four years left 0:27:27.040 --> 0:27:30.560 on his five year, two hundred and seventy five million 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:35.200 dollar contract. Him talking about if I want to keep 0:27:35.240 --> 0:27:45.320 doing this, Uh I, I would be lying if I 0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:52.480 did not say it at least briefly gave me Andrew 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:57.119 luck vibes of oh man, has this guy just his 0:27:57.320 --> 0:28:02.439 body's been through so much. He was so close so 0:28:02.800 --> 0:28:06.439 early and now the team seems to be getting further 0:28:06.560 --> 0:28:11.520 away that he's like, I don't I'm not enjoying this. 0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:16.040 Then also seeing his predecessors continuously, you know, make it 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:18.160 to the postseason and battle it out, and he's had 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:20.680 to sit out a couple of them, probably. 0:28:20.680 --> 0:28:25.600 Right, three playoffs in a row. And I also think 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:33.480 there is the emotional toll of man. My second year 0:28:33.520 --> 0:28:37.560 in the league, I have the ball in my hands 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:40.920 in the super Bowl with a chance to go win 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:46.360 it after beating Mahomes. My third year in the league, 0:28:46.560 --> 0:28:51.040 I have the ball in my hands in Arrowhead with 0:28:51.160 --> 0:28:55.040 a chance to go back to the Super Bowl tie game. 0:28:55.720 --> 0:29:03.440 And really myself above Patrick been in the league three years, 0:29:03.480 --> 0:29:06.400 made back to back Super Bowls. You have it, You've lost. 0:29:06.080 --> 0:29:06.400 To me. 0:29:08.160 --> 0:29:12.680 And those two moments those two drives where his blocking 0:29:12.760 --> 0:29:15.800 broke down, by the way on both he got hit 0:29:16.320 --> 0:29:20.840 on the final pass of both seasons. In the Chiefs game, 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:22.720 he didn't even it wasn't even a final pass. Chris 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:26.560