WEBVTT - Best Of - Nick Wright reacts to SHREDDED Luka Doncic, Lamar Jackson PLAYOFF FAILURES, Browns MUST START Shedeur 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.520 Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.240 with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.240 week on the show Enjoy. 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.760 Luca was on the cover of Men's Health magazine, looking 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.560 very slender. He came out with a quote saying, just visually, 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.520 I would say that my whole body looks better. How 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.720 are you feeling about Luca's transitions? 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.239 So a couple things. One is, first, sorry to I 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.880 pointed this out on TV, and I'm not trying to 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.960 pick on anybody, but this, to me is one of 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.920 the main takeaways from the article. Remember I told you 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:38.400 guys Ai doesn't know sports and that Ai hallucinates sports. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:44.279 This article got marred a bit by the fact that 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:49.360 the author included in it an anecdote about how Luca, 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.279 when he came into the league had a forty two 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:59.480 inch vertical that was measured at the NBA Combine. The 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:04.400 problem with that is twofold. One is anyone that's watched 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.080 ten minutes of Lukadanic at any moment of his career 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.880 knows he never had a forty two inch vertical. The 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:17.399 other problem is Lukdancic did not go to the combine, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.759 so there is no place to measure his vertical, So 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:27.160 what happened there? The most obvious answer, is figured out 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:35.200 by some Internet sleuths, was if you googled Lukdanciic vertical, 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.959 the top AI result was that Luk Adancic had a 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.479 forty two inch vertical measured at the NBA Combine, which 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.520 then links you to an article about Dante Divincenzo's forty 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:53.000 two inch vertical at the NBA Combine. But AI hallucinated it. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:57.040 I guess they saw the chu in both names, white guys, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.480 the same draft class, and they just made it up. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.600 So again, I'm not saying AI can't be used for things. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.520 I'm not saying it's not you know, the next, the future, 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.640 all of that. I am saying, for some reason, AI 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.320 does not know sports and can't figure it out. That's 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.760 first thing. Second thing is this my other takeaway from 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.400 that article demands. I'm going to read you a line 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:29.640 in it which I found fascinating. The facility which is 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.360 located in the town where Doncic is vacationed every summer 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:38.000 since he was a teen. That's important. The facility which 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.960 is located in the town where Doncic has vacationed every 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:46.840 summer since he was a teen, didn't have weights until 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.560 earlier this month, when he had dumbbells, barbells, weight plates 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:54.320 and medballs trucked in. So here's why that's noteworthy to me. 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.960 Luke every summer goes back to this town in Slovenia 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.720 UH and trains. But his training has always just included 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.480 hoop it, you know what I mean. He plays ball 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.359 and does drills, all of it. Weight draining was never 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.239 a big part of it for him. And so now 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.840 you guys know, I feel like the go ahead. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.480 Oh, it's so cool just being able to get a 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:21.160 bus of. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:26.400 Uh weights, Oh just yet to wherever you're Yeah, yeah. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:37.360 Of course. But the the I felt that the whiplash 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.840 effect of you know, Luca's fat, out of shape drinking 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:47.200 problem was far too strong, considering that without ever being 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.720 in peak physical condition, he had one of the greatest 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.680 opening six year stretches of a career. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:52.920 Ever. 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.400 This is where I am contractually obligated to remind the 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:02.120 audience that Luka Doncic all ready has made more first 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.360 team All nbas than either Steph Curry or Chris Paul 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:11.920 and only has one less than Kevin freaking Durant. He's 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.920 twenty six years old. That's how great he's been. Now, 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.480 he did have a down year, and part of it 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.640 was he was a little out of shape. He was 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.960 also sad. He also got hurt, He also got traded, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:31.200 and all, you know, all of those things. So I 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:36.839 think that is I think that is important. It's not 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.200 giving him an excuse. But I just thought twelve months 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.800 ago today, before Luca got hurt, before Luca got traded, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.960 when Luca was coming off a finals appearance, nobody thought 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.039 and he had beaten in round two Shay and in 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.360 round three Anthony Edwards, and had averaged thirty four to 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.760 nine and ten in the regular season. Nobody thought Shay 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.240 or Anthony Edwards was better than him. Now I think 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.200 it's like conventional wisdom that those guys are better than him, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.560 and Shade certainly has earned it. I guess Anthony. I 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.520 don't think Quhite has. But whatever, the point I'm making 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:17.800 is this, Luca, in non tip top physical condition, was 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.920 already well on his way to being one of the 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:26.360 greatest players ever. Luca like this should be the early 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.599 favorite for League MVP. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.120 Well you don't, and. 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.240 You don't think with his play style that him being 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.120 a little bit thinner might affect it. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:40.200 So I don't know he's going yeah, but I think 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.400 I think that if he is, I don't think he's 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.799 going to be skinny. I think he's going to be lean, 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:46.960 you know what I mean. I think if you just 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:52.279 replace some of what was fat the Lakers, Yeah, you 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.359 know what I mean, Like, I would bet he weighs 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.040 about the same, but look at me, if not. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.440 More, Yeah, I mean, muscle weighs more than fat, right, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.760 I mean, so he looks a lot thinner than he was. 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.560 He looks a lot thinner, you know what I mean. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.320 So I just, yeah, I don't think you want actually 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:13.120 skinny Luca, but thinner Luca. I think what is. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.279 Helpful. And I think that he has taken this, you 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.599 know what happened last year to heart. And this was 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.240 the thing that I warned the MAVs about after the 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.479 trade that even if they were going to be right, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.200 they're going to be wrong. Even if they were right, 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.600 that if they didn't trade him and they signed him 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.479 to an extension, he was just gonna get fat and 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:44.160 out of shape and all these things. He by trading 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:50.040 him and motivating him and insulting him. They then put 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.440 this extra chip on his shoulder. Now people can say, 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.120 why didn't he do it during the year. I don't 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.320 think you can do this type of thing during a season, 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.160 you know what I mean? I think you have to this. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.320 You n need an offseason. And he's about to be 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.840 playing a ton of ball at euro Basket at for 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.880 Slovenia and I right now he would be my early 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.920 season pick to win League MVP next year. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.600 And if he just torched Dallas every single time they 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:19.960 play and it just doesn't even matter. 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.080 God, I just can't wait if that were to happen. Also, 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.480 by the way, shout out to Marco in the chat 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.480 watching from Slovenia. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.080 Yes, shout out Marco. Very cool. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.240 Let's do Matt Stafford here and then we get to 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:40.080 the listeners. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.880 Yeah, so Matt st Everett has been dealing with some 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.360 backsword on this and is set to miss another week 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.120 of camp. You've been high on the RAMS. Does this 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.040 affect it at all? 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:50.640 I think the guy just doesn't want to go to 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.880 training camp. He's old. Oh old. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.160 I hope that's it. That would be great. That would 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.440 be an awesome result here. If it's just old guy 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:08.280 doesn't want to practice. So here is before training camp, 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:17.600 there was one story of potential contender that hit my radar, 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:22.880 and that was the CJ. Stroud's shoulder soreness. I was like, ooh, 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:27.440 that's something to watch CJ Stroud, you know, like that 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.520 he wasn't able to do full throwing practice or whatever, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.880 like that's something watch. That seems to have subsided. Okay, 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.760 but it was. It hit my radar in training camp. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.320 We've been lucky so far, fingers crossed. There hasn't been 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:48.120 the like devastating superstar injury, and there hasn't been the 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.079 contender that has just been hit with a bunch of 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.839 you know, contributor injuries, at least not yet. So there 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.360 have been to me two made stories out of training 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:05.280 camp so far for contenders. One is a positive one. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.800 One is a worrisome one. The positive one and people 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.520 can say this is you know, Chiefs colored glasses, but 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:18.439 I'm not wrong about this. The Chiefs rookie first round 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:24.160 pick Get who was considered a top ten talent, who 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:29.120 fell because people thought his knee was not right and 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.600 he might not be healthy for a good portion of 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:35.680 his rookie year. Not only being healthy the first day 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:40.040 of camp, but being slotted as the starting left tackle, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.720 not competing with Jalen Moore, who they signed to be 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.120 the left tackle for that spot, and just being their 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.000 left tackle from day one of camp today to right 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:54.240 now is one of the biggest positive stories for any 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.160 true contender this training camp, because if they have that 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.600 spot locked down, and then you have Jail Moore, the 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.600 guy they signed from San Francisco, and Juwan Taylor, the 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.840 right tackle who's been a bit of a disappointment with 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.960 Kansas City since they signed him from Jacksonville, competing on 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.559 the right side, then all of a sudden, the Chiefs 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.600 offensive line is totally different. So and there was everyone 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.320 agreed that Josh Simmons had the talent to potentially be 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.800 the number one tackle in his draft class, but the 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.560 injury was so worried some he slid. If the knee 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:31.000 is really right, then the Chiefs dealing at taking care 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.280 of one of the most important and one of the 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:38.680 most expensive spots in football by drafting a guy at 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.880 thirty two is a game changer that's in the positive 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.439 direction for a contender, in a negative direction for a contender. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:56.840 It's this Stafford story because aside from confidence for your 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.440 team's secondary, there is nothing positive that comes out of 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.600 Jimmy G practicing and playing in trailing camp. And you 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:13.679 need desperately healthy Matt Stafford in order to contend, and 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.839 I think the Rams can contend. I liked now poor 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.240 DeVante Adams. He's like, you got to be kidding me. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.440 I got massive, I got Jimmy G throwing me the 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:26.480 wall again. I love Puka, I really like their d line. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.960 I obviously love McVeigh. I think DeVante is good as 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.920 a number two with the Rams, but it all comes 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.960 undone without Stafford, and Stafford is thirty seven. 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Josh Allen Lamar Jackson are the two 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.760 eight both f ninety nine ratings? Yeah, how do you 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.840 feel about this? Is this legit? I think it's pretty fair. 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.680 I think that Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen are much 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.600 more Madden type quarterbacks than Patrick Mahomes is. Like Patrick 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.720 Mahomes is more of an improviser. Lamar Jackson's obviously like 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.400 super fast, and Josh Allen's like a freak athlete. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:13:59.760 He's huge running through dudes. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.520 So it's like as far as games, like, if you 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.800 want to play Madden, like you're thinking, like you want 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.640 to play, you would rather play with Lamar Jackson or 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.560 Josh how Okay. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.520 So that's a really interesting way to look at it. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:14.480 And if that's the argument, that so be it. Listen, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:21.400 Mahomes coming into this year, in the six Maddens post, 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.960 his rookie post, his first year as a starter, he 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.080 was a ninety nine to four times, he was the 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.600 highest rated quarterback five times. The one time he wasn't 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:38.840 he was the third highest rated quarterback behind Brady and Rogers, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:43.600 and that was after the AFC Championship Game loss to Cincinnati. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.280 And he responded by having more yards than any player 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.400 in the history of the league, winning the Super Bowl MVP, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.360 winning the regular season MVP, and having arguably the greatest 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.600 quarterback season anyone's ever had. So I'm I'm not even 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.360 mad at Madden. Maybe they motivated him. I act actually, 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.840 I I want to use this as an opportunity and listen, 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.000 Josh just won Super Bowl or I'm sorry, regular season 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.680 MVP had, you know, for a team that a lot 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.160 of people thought was not going to be good. Some 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.880 people who had always been called a Bill's hater for 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.680 just being right about the Bills then last year thought 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.560 the Bills could be really good and that person was me, 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.280 but that it was because of Josh Allen, So it's fine. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.240 And Lamar has had basically back to back perfect regular season, 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:36.920 so you want to give him a ninety nine rating, 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:42.600 it's fine. I actually want to use this time here 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.880 to talk a little bit about Lamar and the Ravens, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:53.840 because I was on Mina's podcast and she was a 0:15:53.880 --> 0:16:05.000 gog that I was skeptical of the rape Vins and Mena, 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:10.280 you know, said Lamar didn't play poorly in the playoff game, 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:21.200 which I find unbelievable, and said that basically she thought 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:28.920 I was being unfair to Lamar or the Ravens by 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.960 not I guess chalking up the same exact thing happening 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:42.000 every single year to just dumb luck and said, oh, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:47.120 I didn't know you were a Ravens hater. And this 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.880 is where as I said with her, I will break 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.280 k fabe for a moment. I adore Mina times. I know, 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.840 I call her my rival that I want to vanquish. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.480 I think she's outstanding. It's the only reason I went 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.640 on a podcast with her at seven o'clock New York 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.720 City time on the night before I was going to 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:09.439 the Bahamas for a few days, and I think she 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:10.280 does great work. 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:12.080 But I. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.880 There are two major points I want to make here. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:22.720 The first one is this, at what point does someone 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:28.879 stop being a hater if they are constantly one of 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:34.719 the only people provencorrect at what I'm just curious for 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:38.760 the for the media and internet at large, at what 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:52.199 point does hating transition to accurate skepticism or is the answer? 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:57.440 Never is the answer? Nope? If the whole world acknowledges 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:02.760 this guy is just you know, dan close to a 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.919 perfect player, who's had a couple perfect regular seasons, who's 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:13.480 just bad timing for these awful moments and now twenty 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.560 twenty three for Lamar, it was an awful game. Twenty 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:19.159 twenty four, it was not an awful game. It was 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:24.560 a couple really awful moments that ruined an otherwise really 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.600 good game by him. But I am and so because 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:33.240 I didn't think Lamar was terrible in the Divisional round 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.800 game against Buffalo. What I did think was a guy 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:42.000 who was historically good all year about protecting the football 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.400 having two turnovers in the first twenty minutes of that 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:50.000 game made it to where the best grade he could 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:55.680 get for the games, like a C plus and especially 0:18:55.760 --> 0:19:05.000 because they end up losing. And so the the question 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:10.199 I truly have, and the question I truly have for 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:19.359 the audiences is that hating is. And I'll use the 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:25.320 Bills thing as an example. Every single year people called 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.399 me a Bill's hater. Now I was a Bill's troll 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.359 to a degree, and I said drop the banner, and 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.280 I poked fun and I did all that stuff. But 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.399 I was also right every single time. And then this 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.560 past year when I thought the pendulum had swung too 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.280 far in the other direction, and I said, I actually 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:46.800 think the Bills are going to be excellent. I think 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:52.359 they're once again the biggest threat to the Chiefs, And 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.040 that's the opposite of hating, and it was just correct. Right. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:20:01.719 So then the and yes, guys, when I say Mahomes 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:03.920 at the most yards in the single season ever, that's 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.560 that is exactly the It's exactly what I'm saying. 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:07.879 It is. 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.639 It's total yards for the full season, everything all put together. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.919 The most yards any players I ever accounted for was 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:19.480 twenty twenty two Patrick Mahomes. So the Lamar stuff to 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:28.119 me is interesting because I it's not only that I 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:32.320 don't think I'm a hater, but I think a lot 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:39.480 of other really smart people who cover this league are 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:48.480 in willful denial because they like him and because they 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:53.840 want it to be different than it is, and because 0:20:53.960 --> 0:21:00.320 and this part I really empathize with, because they detectest 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:07.919 so much, so many of his original actual haters, the 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:11.000 people who said he should change positions coming in the league, 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.760 or he'd never be any good or any of that stuff, 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:19.119 and so all of that has created this very odd 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:31.800 world where folks patronize him a bit in a way. 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:37.000 They discuss what is the only hole on his resume, 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:41.479 but it's the hole that matters the most, which is 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.600 in that league, for that position, how you play in 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:49.639 the postseason. And so this is the question that I 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:53.439 would just have to everyone, Folks on Ravens Twitter who 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.800 are mad at me because they think the team is 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:00.560 absolutely stacked, and I have questions about its received position, 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:08.480 and folks in the media that think I'm unfair in 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:12.240 my skepticism. Because one of the other things that happened 0:22:12.240 --> 0:22:14.800 when I was talking again I think Mina is outstanding 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:20.840 with Mina was Stafford came up and I talked about 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:25.600 how if I were like I kind of impromptu was 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:31.320 talking about how he might be my third pick of 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:35.280 any quarterback in the league to have in the postseason. 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:40.240 That would go Mahomes Alan Stafford, And she seemed legitimately 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:45.280 a ghast that I was not including Lamar in the 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:49.000 math for that, and I was legitimately aghast that she 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:53.280 possibly could include Lamar in the math for that specific question. 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:57.240 You could have any quarterback for a playoff run, like, well, 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.800 I'm not going to pick the guy who's literally never 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:04.240 like shown us that he can do that. It would 0:23:04.280 --> 0:23:07.080 seem that would seem silly to me. You might be like, well, 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:09.679 Josh hasn't shown it. Josh has had plenty of playoff 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:13.000 runs where he's played excellent throughout. He just the team 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:15.000 wasn't good enough or did see that from Lamar? But 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:17.359 that's fine. This is kind of an old hat. We've 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:20.360 talked about this each of the last few years, because each 0:23:20.400 --> 0:23:23.200 of the last few years it has gone exactly like this 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:27.080 unbelievable regular season that I look at with a quizzical 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:28.399 eye because I want to see how it works in 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:32.720 the postseason. Then Lamar has one of, if not his 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:36.480 downright worst game in the postseason, and then everybody has 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:39.040 this moment of clarity for about three days, where after 0:23:39.080 --> 0:23:43.200 the year people are like, damn, Nick was right without 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:45.640 saying Nick was right, and then come this time of year, 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:47.639 it's like, no, this will year will be different. So 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:52.000 this is my question because Raven's Twitter, Raven's Twitter thinks 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:56.640 the team is absolutely loaded, so obviously like there shouldn't 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.399 be any excuses there. But my question in the media 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:06.960 is this, if it were to happen again, same be 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.720 to the last couple of years, is Lamar gonna win MVP? 0:24:09.920 --> 0:24:12.600 He is the MVP's top two MVP, all of it, 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:16.200 and then once again the Ravens don't play to their 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.960 seed or don't play to their talent or you know, 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:26.280 and it's because of massive quarterback mistakes early in a 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:28.360 playoff game that puts him in a hole that they 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:31.640 can't quite dig themselves out of. Will this year then 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:35.880 be enough? Is it, like before, the sample is too 0:24:35.920 --> 0:24:40.080 small or will it still just be a randomness, dumb 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:44.840 luck of the playoffs? I find it really fascinating because 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:51.320 it is absolutely true that the only thing standing between 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:58.199 Lamar and being in the discussion demanse as one of 0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:06.400 the Mixer seven greatest quarterbacks of all time, is one 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:09.600 great playoff run. That's all that's standing between It's just 0:25:09.720 --> 0:25:15.000 one because the regular season stuff is so unbelievable. But 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:24.800 the only thing standing between him and being in a 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:30.919 very unique class of all time athletes in a in 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:35.880 a not great sense, is deja vu all over again 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:38.680 one more time. And it makes this year one of 0:25:38.720 --> 0:25:41.320 the most fascinating. It makes it makes the Ravens and 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:45.639 Lamar one of the most fascinating stories of the season. Uh. 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:53.800 And it also I am I'm really excited to watch it, 0:25:54.640 --> 0:26:01.880 and I am really excited to see how people react 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:11.119 myself included to how this full season plays out. And 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:15.440 so like it was, it's back to back years. It's 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:19.800 all been right there, all been. And that's one other 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:21.520 thing I want to say, because one of the things 0:26:21.560 --> 0:26:26.080 Mena pointed out was Dvoa has over the last quarter 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:30.280 century de Monday, the two best teams, the two best 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:34.320 five year stretches by any team to not make a 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:38.280 Super Bowl are the last five years of the Buffalo 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:41.960 Bills and the last five years of the Baltimore Ravens. 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:49.040 And the point there that Mina made was, you know, 0:26:49.680 --> 0:26:53.919 basically that's an Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes stat, and 0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:56.560 it's that these two teams were good enough to be 0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:59.639 all time greats. They were just blocked by one of 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:02.240 the great is, if not the greatest duo in NFL history. 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:05.400 And I pushed back on that too, because I think 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:08.800