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Why are you listening to this show?

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Mike Ryan wasn't here yesterday.

We'll get to Nick Wright in a second.

He's the host of What's Right with Nick Wright and FS1's First Things First.

He is the hottest thing in sports gas bagging these days.

Mike, did you object to anything that I did or the show did yesterday when you were off?

Because I suspect that you probably didn't like anything I had to say about the Chiefs.

Three things I took issue with.

Tom Brady conversation.

I think there's more meat on that bone.

We can revisit that later.

The phrase, Rex Grossman, dragged the Bears to the Super Bowl was uttered yesterday, and Dan went unchecked when it was quite literally the other way.

Totally fair.

Totally fair.

And Dan's obsession with calling Patrick Mahomes a dink-and-dunk quarterback,

even invoking Baker Mayfield.

When you look at yards per attempt, Patrick Mahomes has a better yards per attempt than Baker Mayfield.

If there is one person in the NFL that I am sure of that wants to go deep ball hunting, it's Patrick Mahomes.

And I think he will do that until we put dirt on his grave.

He doesn't have two important receivers.

That loss is entirely on Travis Kelsey.

And another thing, stop looking at yards per attempt, especially two weeks into the season.

You know who is last place by a wide margin in the league in yards per attempt at 4.7?

Cam Ward.

What do you know about Cam Ward that suggests he is all of a sudden Alex Smith?

I'm looking at since Tyreek Hill left, Patrick Mahomes, I think, is 39 and 12, and average yard per attempt.

The only one lower in the entire league over that stretch is Daniel Jones.

Can I just superb?

Am I invited in?

And Daniel Jones, by the way, first in yards per attempt right now in the league.

Welcome to the first one.

And also,

this is...

I am not going to allow what has happened to political discourse, happened to sports discourse.

That's Fox.

Where you were.

You're surrounded where you were.

Hey, hey, my turn.

Where we

pretend things that we watched happen didn't happen.

Dan, what happened the first year after Tyree Kill left?

Do you know?

Are you too soaked in tequila?

Patrick Mahomes won league MVP, Super Bowl MVP.

The Chiefs scored the most points in the league.

The Chiefs had the most yards in the league.

And if you look up on football reference, hey, what's the single season where a quarterback accounted for the most total yards?

It's Patrick Mahomes' first year after Tyreek Hill.

So I am not going to sit here on his 30th birthday, no less, and allow you to

peddle this false narrative that since Tyreek left, the Chiefs' offense hasn't been the same.

The first year after Tyreek, with Juju Smith Schuster, who wasn't good enough to be on the Patriots, and Mark Wesvaldez Scantling, who's got cut from multiple teams, and micole hardman that team scored more points than anybody right now they're stuck in the mud a bit after the disastrous season of last year where all they did was reach the third their third straight super bowl becoming the third team ever to do that but we're not going to recreate history hi thanks for having me on and thanks to hampton farms for sending me all these sweet nuts what happened to political discourse i appreciate that what'd you say he said what happened to political discourse well what happened to political discourse is we stopped arguing about what we should do about things and we started arguing about what actually happened in the past.

And it ruined everything.

Like, we used to agree that what had occurred, what the facts on the ground were, and then we disagreed about solutions or about root causes.

But now, every political discussion, you can't even get to the topic because we spend time arguing.

It would be as if every Jordan LeBron debate, somebody came out and they were like, well, how could Jordan be better?

He only won four championships.

And then someone's like, no, he won six.

They're like, actually, you're wrong.

Fake news.

And then we're just arguing about what happened.

Like,

so sports luckily has avoided that.

But if we're, but I saw this slippery slope, Dan, you're trying to walk down with this, you know, Patrick Mahomes post-Tyree Kill.

How good is he?

Patrick Mahomes post-Tyree Kill won an MV.

Well, I already explained it.

I'm I'm going to give the same stat I gave yesterday.

Sweet Christ.

Since 2023, games with 320-plus passing yards.

Patrick Mahomes has three.

Jake Browning has three.

Well, and listen,

that takes me aback a bit because I know.

And I'm sure

the shipping container does as well.

That when we fell in love with sports and when we got into sports media, there were, you know, some hallowed statistical markers be it hank aaron's home run record before bonds broke it be it batting 400 and 320 yard passing games is just always been how i've weighed quarterbacks all right and it's not at all it's not at all an arbitrary marking

to fit your exact narrative fine let me do it another way then uh the first two weeks of the season because you're you're talking about what mahomes was after hill left and you're right that one season.

But that Chiefs offense that was always going to score 30 is dead.

And

2018 to 2022, his passing stats, Nick, in the first two weeks of the season, 35 touchdowns,

zero interceptions.

Hold on a second.

It's been different.

The last two years, nine touchdowns, six interceptions.

He's become a dink and dunk quarterback.

There are reasons for that.

I don't think it's his fault.

I think it's a lot of offensive pieces he's missing.

But you can't deny that that's not the same offense.

You can't deny that.

I didn't deny that at all.

I never denied that.

What Patrick Mahomes, what you're saying he's become is what he's always been, which is

I will be the perfect quarterback for the exact team I have.

And when I walk into the league and we have the league's worst defense and we have the fastest and best receiver in the league, I will fire it downfield.

And last year,

or two years ago, when we have maybe the league's best defense, all I need to do is not screw it up.

And last year, when they had an okay but not great defense, and they had the most injured receiving core and running back room and left tackle spot in football,

I will do whatever it takes to make sure we are within reaching distance in the fourth quarter when then I will go Superman mode.

He is a chameleon to winning.

Now, two weeks into the year, the Chiefs have not been good enough.

The offense hasn't been good enough.

Pat hasn't been good enough.

The fact that he is, right now, he's on pace for 1,000 yards rushing, which is horrifying.

He is having to activate the Patrick Mahomes hero mode, scramble mode, that he saves for the playoffs early.

I'm not sitting here.

arguing that the Chiefs through two weeks look like a juggernaut far from it And I'm not sitting here arguing that there are not fair concerns two weeks in for the Chiefs.

And if someone wants to argue the concerns are deeper than get Rice and Xavier Worthy back, that's totally fair.

What I will not abide is the revisionist history on who Patrick is and who he isn't.

And that's not just because I was an invited guest of his at his new steakhouse in Kansas City Friday night 1587 Prime.

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You don't have to abide those things.

You can simply could see that the Chiefs over the last four years have gone from being an elite offensive team to an elite defensive team.

And that's.

But it's just not, hold on.

Last year, they were not an elite defense.

Last year, call Mina Kimes and have her tell you about DVOA or EPA or any of those fancy stats that you can't sort on ESPN, and you'll see they were roughly the 10th best defense.

And last year, how did they go 17 and 2 in games Patrick played if we throw out the meaningless week 18 game?

It was because

he made every play when it mattered late.

And I know

the new age sports math is clutch doesn't exist.

Actually, when you think about it, Lamar's career and Patrick's career are very similar, but in our bones, we know that's not true.

And so it's just not accurate that last year they were carried by the defense.

Not when he was the best fourth quarter, the best third down, and the best fourth down quarterback in the league.

This year, the defense has been far better than the offense.

Now,

two games is two games, and there are things that go into it, but

there's no defending what they've been this season.

What is so irritating and what is so frustrating is we have done this now for four

years

where there is the and I and I'll try to be quick because I know we don't have you know as much time as we normally do.

They get blasted in the Super Bowl by the Bucs and we do the whole narrative of uh-oh, are the Chiefs in trouble?

Nobody remembers this but me.

They start the next year three and four, including a 27-3 loss to Ryan Tannehill.

And the Chiefs are dead and they end up in overtime of the AFC championship game.

But they lose it and they trade Tyree Kill and the narrative is, okay, now we're going to see, you know, what Patrick Mahomes is really made of.

He has the year that I said where he wins league MVP.

They win the Super Bowl.

And everyone says, all right, we're done doubting Patrick Mahomes this year for real.

But then the next year, they lose the opener to Detroit.

They have all the drops.

They have to go on the road in the playoffs.

And people going into that postseason are like, you know what?

The Cleveland Browns with that defense might be scarier than the Chiefs.

The Miami Dolphins might be able to go into Arrowhead and win.

They've never won a road playoff game.

And then he beats Lamar, he beats Josh, he beats the Niners, and everyone swears, all right, this time for real, we're serious, we're done.

And then last year, they have the best record in football every single day of the season, and the narrative is, yeah.

But they don't make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

And this is the Bills year.

And then once again, they play the AFC championship game.

He outplays Josh he beats Josh Josh has the ball in his hands with a chance to go win the game gets 17 yards and everyone swears we're done doubting him he's proven it and that lasted three games of football and now we're back here it's just it it's I expect it yeah I honestly the gist of this is I'm disappointed in you Dan yeah but it's not the same offense and I'm disappointed in you too because you did your quarterback tears on your podcast yesterday and what you haven't admitted to everybody you finally admitted it once on your podcast yesterday you had mahomes after lamar jackson on your quarterback tears even patrick mahomes most fervent biased supporter

downgraded patrick mahomes you did you put lamar ahead of him don't tell me you didn't did you or did you yes or no

yes or no

On my podcast, no, I did not.

On my highly rated, very successful television show, yes, I did.

And that's where we do not our quarterback tears, but Mahomes Mountain trademarked.

And here is the thing.

I have to be fair, I have to be honest, and I also, and what I took issue with was you calling me biased.

I'm not biased on anything, I'm a truth teller, and I'll take the slings and arrows for it.

What is also true is, as I mentioned here at the beginning of our interview, what is today?

Patrick Mahomes's 30th birthday.

What do you get the man who has everything?

My answer was motivation.

And I decided what better present to give Patrick Patrick than when they play the Giants this week.

And then who comes to town 10 days from now?

Oh, is that Lamar Jackson?

Is that the guy that all of a sudden I'm looking up at on Mahomes Mountain?

Is that potentially, possibly the thing the Chiefs need to snap out of their funk?

Maybe.

Also, Lamar has been great.

And nobody's ever doubted that Lamar is an all-time great regular season quarterback.

Nobody's ever doubted that.

And he's earned it.

That's a great gift.

Put it on the poll at Lebatard Show.

Greater truth-teller, Nick Wright or Pablo Torre?

Oh, sweet Christ.

Do you put motivation in a box and wrap it?

Like, how do you present someone motivation?

Why does your hair look like Razor Ramon's?

Oh, thanks.

Hi, Mike.

I missed you, buddy.

Present-day Razor Ramon.

Yeah, I mean.

Is he Nash or Halt?

I don't remember Hall power.

Did he pat?

He did pat.

That's why Billy did that.

He's legend.

Billy's me.

I am going for that look, by the way.

The jewelry, the hair, the look.

It's a good look.

He needs a toothpick.

Can I?

Yeah, for sure.

What was I going to say?

Oh, yeah, Dan, or Mike, by the way, Team Baker.

Let's go, buddy.

He's streaking towards the one seed, as predicted by me, the Super Bowl, as predicted by me, and maybe an MVP.

He was the best third-down quarterback last year, not Patrick.

He was the best third-down quarterback.

Nick Reippa was.

Nick Wright is always right about quarterbacks.

He's always maintained his support for Baker Mayfield, and he does deserve to be in the MVP conversation.

Continue.

Nick, can you believe that Dan, as Patrick Mahomes, of all people, be the quarterback that's looking for the four-yard drag route?

As if he's not the guy that is always going to be looking for the deepest.

He's not looking for it.

He's just throwing that one.

That's what he's throwing the last two years.

I mean, he made it.

Made it to a Super Bowl, taking what the deepest is.

He's doing what he needs to do.

Oh, wow.

What a look.

I like that.

It's awesome.

If I took my shirt off, it'd probably look the same.

Do it.

That's a good one.

I was about to tell you guys something.

Pablo, Pablo.

Pablo is a good person.

No, it definitely was not about Pablo.

Motivation boxes.

The only thing I'm going to say, I don't want to do the Pablo thing.

It's just,

him tweeting to Mark Cuban, oh, you have time to tweet, but not have time to come on my podcast.

This is, that is fruit of the same poisonous tree as to why I'm banned from his podcast.

Pablo, and Pablo's doing great work here.

But Pablo somehow got in his head that everyone has some type of odd obligation to his podcast.

Like Mark Cuban, you want to opine on this and you won't do it on my podcast where I make money?

Where my main story is, like, how dare you?

Like,

it's just...

A meaner person would call it entitlement.

I wouldn't do that.

It's just odd to me.

Like, I don't...

I would never...

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The work that Pablo Torre is doing is extraordinary but the funny part of that particular exchange that did have some entitlement in it is that Mark Cuban is answering questions from Channing Fry and Kendrick Perkins about something that he doesn't have actual knowledge on except other instead of talking to the person who actually can rebut some of the things that he's saying.

Well, yeah, I understand that, but I also, this,

it's not a congressional subpoena.

It's a podcast in lower Manhattan.

Like, I, the, I don't, you don't, Cuban can do whatever the hell he wants.

Like, it's a free-form conversation.

Uh, can I, I don't know how much time we have.

Can I say something about Tua?

Have you guys talked about this?

Yeah, I got one more.

Before you get into Tua,

we have a total of four minutes left with you here.

So Mike's got a question.

No, we'll do Mike's question and then Tua.

Real quick about Tua.

Is Travis Kelsey, is he kind of skating on this?

Because Patrick Mahomes probably beats the reigning Super Bowl champions without his two leading wide receivers.

If Travis Kelsey just holds on to a touchdown pass and ended up turning into an interception, all right?

He hurts Xavier Worthy week one.

Travis had a rough start to the year.

Listen,

now I am am of the belief that Travis maybe was covering for Xavier because he said he ran the wrong route.

Travis said Travis ran the wrong route, that he needed more depth.

I think it's on the board that that could have been Xavier's screw-up and he's covering for him, but I don't know.

But that happens week one.

The other thing that happens week one is when they're trying to come back late, he and Patrick have a bit of a miscommunication down by the goal line.

And then obviously in week two, I agree with you, Mike.

I think they win that game if he holds onto the ball.

It's been a rough start to the year.

I am going to give the greatest tight end in the history of the league some grace,

and I think he will recover from it.

But yeah, I mean, it's been, and Travis will be the first to tell you, it hasn't been a great start to the year for Travis Kelsey, despite the fact that he seems, you know, kind of more agile and slimmer than last season.

He's also old, and there's a lot on that body.

Wedding planning is stressful as hell, too.

Well, how about when you say old, this is like one of my favorite facts.

He and Gronk are the same age.

Yep.

Like six months of each other.

That's true.

Gronk retired for the first time six years ago.

Yep.

Gronk retired six years ago and then retired again for good three years ago.

And Travis is still out here, you know, churning out thousand-yard or near thousand-yard seasons.

I would say, though.

You can't say he's not good.

We'll get to two in a second, but to expect Travis Kelsey at, what is is it, 36, 35?

36.

To expect a thousand-yard season from him at 36 would be to expect something from a 36-year-old tight end that 36-year-old tight ends historically simply can't do.

He's done it, but not at 36.

No, that's correct.

And I mean, last year he had, I think, you know,

almost 900.

The year before, he had 980.

This year, he's actually on pace, you know, yardage-wise for 1,000.

But agree, listen, he has broken all those types of tight end records.

I think Tony Gonzalez is the only old tight end to have, you know, really prolific seasons like that.

But right now they need him, and they're going to need him until they get their guys back.

And they're going to need to...

When your guys' season fully goes to hell, you think we can trade for A-chan?

I'd like that.

I'd like him.

More than Hill?

You don't want Hill back?

Honest to God.

I...

Only because I don't want to further your narrative.

I would otherwise.

But I don't know if you're not.

So you don't want 30-point games anymore because you don't want the 30-point offense anymore that's always going over 30 points.

That's not for you.

You'd rather win.

In four years with Tyree Kill on this team, the Chiefs won one Super Bowl, went to two.

In three years without him, they've went to three Super Bowls and won two.

They've been just fine.

And what they need right now is a running game.

To be totally honest.

But I know that's not all sexy for you.

Get Brashard Smith in there.

You do have H-Han.

It's Brashard Smith, baby.

Jalen Wright's available.

You guys don't like Pacheco?

We're done with Pacheco.

He's just a bad man.

Pacheco broke his leg and sadly hasn't been the same since then.

Can I say my one-tua take?

Yes.

He can't, he's got to stop doing press conferences, man.

He's so bad.

He's so bad at them consistently.

And he can't be like, listen, you can't say about the quarterback you're about to play.

Obviously, he runs it and throws it better than me.

I'm half the quarterback he is

I'm not I'm not anything close that guy man

how much fun would it be to have a quarterback that good bro you make almost as much money as him you're in the same division you can't say you then have to at least add in be like but he can't do what I can do with but the problem is the answer that's nothing There's nothing Dua can do that Josh can't do.

So that's a bad press conference.

This is a bad one.

Bad, bad, bad one.

Host of What's Right with Nick Wright and FS1's First Things First.

You can watch him, as I said, First Things First, weekdays at 3 p.m.

Eastern on FS1.

But I would recommend more strongly the podcast he does with his son just because I love your father-son dynamic and I love that you're showing that side of yourself to people.

I appreciate that.

This is, listen,

I learned from the best as far as doing, you know, bringing your family into your sports media orbit.

So I appreciate that.

I would apologize for my tone at the beginning of this and for implying that you drank too much tequila and yelling at you, but

this is dumb.

You said we were done with this, and I don't have the full screen up.

But did you guys have this picture as like a lower bottom corner thumbnail the whole time?

Nick, we're out of time.

I'm sorry.

We're out of time.

We'll see you.

We'll see you.

We'll see you soon.

We'll see you soon.

It seems as though the Kansas City Chiefs' legacy is on the line headed into Sunday night football against

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I'm going to betray Nick Wright right now because of how we began that interview and read a text exchange that Nick Wright and I had.

I texted him simply last week the word Pablo with an exclamation point.

And this was the day that he had the second Kawhi Leonard story, which I'm I'm not going to assume is the last of the Kawhi Leonard stories.

And Nick's response to that was, what about him?

And I'm like, well, he's unspooling seven-month investigations while you fart clicks.

And his response was, counterpoint.

I'm providing content that is helping provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of sports fans a fun respite in this interminable hellscape we currently live in.

While he is getting applause from the absolute most boring people in the world about a story that even the most die-hard NBA fans can only pretend to kind of care about.

Bonus counterpoint: My farted-out Mahomes takes will result in the exact same number of real sanctions as his seven months of Kawhi reporting, zero.

That part he's probably right about.

But it is good journalism, and I applaud him for it.

He better get his tux ready for the two on E26 Peabody.

It's a real feud.

My favorite part was: only the most boring people care about this.

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Do you guys know that hockey, the Panthers are playing an exhibition game in four days?

Dan.

I was sitting at the table before our pre-production meeting this morning.

I'm on ESPN.com.

I want to check out what's going on in our world.

And it says right there there under my favorites that the Florida Panthers have a game, a preseason game against the Predators on the date 921.

And so I thought about it for a second.

Hold on.

Today, I believe is 9-17.

And I did some quick math.

And it appears to me the Panthers have a preseason game in four days.

We are so back.

Oh my God.

That made me, damn, it made me so happy.

Four days?

Did you think that you had your months wrong and that it was nine and nine was next month?

Well, I get confused sometimes.

Is nine September?

Is nine August?

You can't tell me you always know immediately the number of the month.

When's the month you get most confused with the number?

Probably around August, September.

I think that's the first time.

Like August.

Also, April is a little bit confusing to me, too.

I'm a little worried.

I put the date down and I was like, okay, nine to 17.

I don't know what's happening.

Why is April hard for you?

April 17th.

I would have thought July.

I would have thought something in the the middle of June, July.

We all have our shortcomings.

Okay.

December, Billy, is the hard one for you.

We never got to his steakhouse.

You got invited to Patrick Mahomes' steakhouse.

I saw he posted pictures of

the thing,

you know, thanks to Patrick and Trav.

Trav.

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Mike Ryan's in there and he's the one with a baby.

He's the one who's got to like worry about what the future is.

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Putting up a billboard in Edmonton.

Stugats.

I care more about Matthew Kachuck than I do my daughter.

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The telephone number, if you want to make the boldest take better than the Boldest Takes have been is 305-486-GATS.

486, 4689.

Every time I play some of the calls, I'm reminded of how good our competitive, creative community used to be competing with each other to have the best and the funniest of the takes.

The boldest take has not quite lived up to what used to be our golden heyday.

It's inconsistent, but very often it's strong.

Chris, how do you feel about this particular batch of boldest takes?

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Hello, it's me, Mario.

Mario Christeborn.

The U is a bag.

Woo-hoo!

No, it's only been two games, but Indiana Jones for Daniel Jones is the second most perfect sports nickname behind AK-47.

When they went from showing Marcus Freeman to showing Mike Elko in the pregame interviews, it was the biggest coaching looks discrepancy of all time.

Why do gas stations still have a credit card price and for 10 cents less you can pay cash?

What are you?

A bunch of Dan Levittards dropping a hundred down at the counter to save 10 cents a gallon?

I was just wondering if anybody else has ever had any back problems after taking a huge dump.

It's not a debate.

The best celebration is the big balls dance.

Good ranch sauce needs to be drizzly, not thick and blobby.

Is most game broadcasting people just saying what you already thought just a second ago?

My boldest take is that you should not be able in the NFL to put junior on your jersey unless your father played in the NFL.

Stop acting like sideline reporters are real journalists.

They are reporters who have literally been sidelined.

Do you have a collect call from

one Danny Woodhead here on the Patriots?

But other than that, are the Fortune's the greatest white football team to ever play?

Running back, quarterback, wide receiver, tight end, and pass rusher?

All white.

To accept charges, please say yes or say no.

Is that guy in jail?

Good take by him, though.

305-486-GOTS.

Could it have been a payphone?

305-486-4689.

That's incredible.

I didn't notice that since the Great Monday Night Football Race War of two years ago between the Niners and Ravens, the Niners have only gotten more white.

Billy has a football take that I haven't heard anyone else

have, and he wants injuries more acknowledged during football instead of everything that's done during football to make sure that we skip right past the player.

Sort of.

No, I was complaining that, you know, plays result in injuries, and if there's a flag, then the play doesn't count, but the injury still does count.

And I don't think that that's right.

You can't just, you know, pretend that a play didn't happen, but then all of a sudden someone's out six to eight months because they broke a collarbone or something.

So I feel like if an injury happens, play stands.

Yeah, stupid.

What?

What was that?

You heard me.

You sick?

Is it a little sniffle?

What was that?

No.

What was that?

That was a real word.

Say it with your chest.

No, that was a real word that came out of your chest.

What did you say?

How about you admit that you heard it?

I didn't hear anything.

For a little boy over there making some noises.

I mean, I'm not sure.

Trying to cough and say something.

Say it.

I said something.

You're playing dumb as if you didn't hear it.

What did you say?

Listen, five.

I don't repeat myself.

Four.

Three, three, one, two, one.

Timeout.

You're in timeout.

That works with my daughter every time.

You're in timeout.

Does it work?

The countdown?

Yeah.

She's never tested you to get to the end of it?

It's just go up to your room and clean.

You start slowing down the numbers.

Clean up your room.

Dad, you're still here.

Gracelyn, five, four, and she starts moving.

Yeah.

One and a half.

One.

I'll repeat it for him even though he will not do it because

I can count it down.

He thought it was stupid, what you suggested, which is a play should stand.

I want to explore your idea, though.

A broken collar, if you break your collarbone to make a catch,

you can't have an offensive holding.

I don't know how serious the injury has to be, but I do think there's a place where we have to allow for the play to stand because you can't cancel it based on some sort of stupidity that happened 45 yards away.

Did you see Jaden Reed's IG live after he came out of the surgery?

He was like, we're winning the Super Bowl.

Indiana Jones is a great name for Daniel Jones and his reinvention.

It's so early in the season.

It's not going to last.

But this is looking good, boy.

Possibly, right?

He just became like Steve Young all of a sudden.

Is it possible Daniel Jones continues to play really well?

And we're in week like six, seven, eight.

He's really good.

Maybe he's even MVP candidate, Tony.

And as a result, Brian Dayball gets fired.

I think Dayball will be fired for whatever's happening in New York now.

But I like this.

The Giants end up having a decent season, but they're just like, no,

because of that.

Dayball did more with Daniel Jones than McDaniel did with U.S.

Look what he's doing with Russell Wilson.

Yards per attempt, monster.

I don't believe that Dayball did more than Daniel with Daniel Jones, even though he won a playoff game.

That right there, he did more.

No, but you got, that's not a stat.

A playoff win is not a stat?

Not for just the quarterback.

Yards per attempt is a stat, but playoff wins isn't.

Okay.

Playoff wins.

Yes, yards per attempt from the person using the arm for yards per attempt.

That's an isolated measurement.

Playoff wins is not an isolated measurement.

Here's a stat.

In that game, the Giants had a higher point differential than their opponent.

It's a good stat.

You've brought me around now.

I agree.

I now lay my sword down at your feet and say, yes, Dayball did more with Daniel Jones because he won a playoff game with Daniel Jones.

Dolphins haven't done that in 25 years.

So we're laughing at this.

This Dolphin fan poo-pooing.

Yeah.

Brian Dayball winning a playoff game.

Dollo wins is not a quarterback stat.

But it's a coach stat.

It's not a quarterback stat, but it's a coach that.

Brian Dayball won.

Hang on.

Mike McDaniel, zero.

It becomes a playoff stat.

It becomes a quarterback stat when the quarterback also plays well in that playoff victory, which Daniel Jones did.

So you can say, like, Daniel Jones played really, really well as an underdog in the playoffs.

It should be a quarterback stat in the playoffs.

I'm with you on regular season.

In the playoffs, quarterback stat wins.

Different from the regular season.

Because it means more.

You know who's second to last in yards per attempt right now?

Who?

Joe Burrow.

What about Joe Burrow tells you he's Alex Smith?

Well, that's not going to go up anytime soon.

Except for his inability to stay healthy.

So, Jalen, all of you rather have Jalen Hurts than Patrick Mahomes because he won the last playoff.

I'm a Jalen Hurts kind of guy, though, bro.

Jalen Hurts seems to be pretty good.

I'd rather have Patrick Mahomes, though, because I, again, to my last...

breath on this earth, I will know that Patrick Mahomes looks to show off that deep arm talent that is unparalleled, perhaps in the history of the game, first.

first tony why are you shaking your head no because i agree with you but it's a bad it's a bad position for everybody in that everybody's like yeah he wants to throw the ball deep yeah he does but he doesn't it was also the wrong question because if we were just saying that's a coach's stat the question would be do you want nick siriani over andy reid

but andy reid has more super bowls

and he's lovable

i i do enjoy the dark side i

no way

i do enjoy well his i mean he what's his relationship with the devil he's like a coach i would look at and say that's one guy i know doesn't have a dark side.

Well, his family life is a.

We don't have to go there.

No, it's not what we're doing.

No.

No, no, no.

We're just holding on to the side of the day or something.

Go on.

He's jolly.

Don't do it.

Who are you telling to go on?

To be determined.

What do you mean to be determined?

You don't want Dan to go down this road.

What do you mean to determine?

You might be new around these parts.

We were having fun.

Man, we were having fun.

Yeah, I just, anytime I think of Andy Reid, I think of

hamburgers, cheeseburgers.

How about

the guy going down the stairs?

How about this Tom Brady thing?

He looked funny in those headphones.

Is how much he enjoys cheese whiz.

There we go.

And it says that he enjoys cheese whiz.

You guys are doing the best, and I think it really is my favorite of the football analysis, which is guy who wins all the time, he's the best.

Or guy, guy.

How do you do it?

Yeah.

Whoever loses the best.

Tell me how he's the best.

Tell me how I'm stupid for doing that.

That's a good formula.

Yeah, Yeah, Tom Brady won a lot.

He seems pretty good.

There are a lot of ways to measure individual performance.

Rings.

And you guys, when you're doing analysis of people, there is no insight in they won, therefore he's the best.

But Patrick Mahomes is the best and has been the best ever since like Tom Brady went away.

And he also does the conventional winning.

And we were doing this last year when they had a point differential that like the New York Giants.

And what happened?

Patrick Mahomes found a way.

Like he makes the plays.

He made the plays against Philadelphia.

You can put that loss on literally anyone else on that roster, not Patrick Mahomes.

Well, what are you doing there?

Because the other guys won.

Like, what are you doing there?

If wins are the quarterback stat, what are you doing where Patrick Mahomes loses and he's not responsible for?

I'm merely saying, like, you're taking the strange position that the problem is Patrick Mahomes when it's very clearly not.

I'm not taking the position the problem is Patrick Mahomes.

I'm saying that team's no longer what it was on offense.

And I'm saying you did that last year and they made it to a Super Bowl.

And I know that that quarterback can fix it if he has his full complement of the offense.

The offense is still not the same.

They can make it to the Super Bowl, but the offense isn't the same.

Let him get his receivers back.

Okay.

We've been waiting for two years for that to happen.

And they've been literally gone for two years.

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