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The Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Kansas City Chiefs 31-28, and the Chiefs are now 2-3. Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes ask if faith in the Chiefs has been shaken, and Nick Wright gives his QB hierarchy entering Week 6. Plus, they discuss which teams are in Must-Win mode, including the Green Bay Packers, Baltimore Ravens, and Philadelphia Eagles.

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We are back on. Live from New York. It’s a show that usually drinks like a nice green tea with a little dab of honey in it and now just shotgunning red freaking red bull. This guy had a weekend during the first time. Let’s get to it, baby. Let’s go. He’s been on tilt since the Ravens season. He was yelling at Greg on Monday all two days now a Red Bulls. Special edition of First Things first. Uh, we’re starting with the under 500 Chiefs. Loss to Jacksonville Monday night, although Mahomes did throw a 99 yard touchdown, uh, not preparing to take on the 4 and 1 Lions, who are on the longest winning streak in the NFL. Nick, did Monday’s did Monday’s loss. Shake your faith in Kansas City. And because we didn’t have a show, I already know the answer to this because guess what? I listened to the What’s Right podcast with Nick Wright. Wow. Had to get trying to get some tips on how to pod enterprise. Um, what do they call me Mr. Consistency. So I have to be consistent on this. I hated that loss so much. I hated it. And it feels like. The sports gods were a little cruel to me personally in that regard that I was not able to enjoy the greatest moment the Prince has had since the playoff victory against if I may steal a turn of phrase from Brew. Another one of everybody’s all-Americans, Matthew Stafford, or I’m sorry, Justin Herbert, pardon me, uh, because it came at the expense of my team. I all last year, I railed against. These stats that were like the Chiefs are the worst 5-0 team in 10 years. Those, you know what those same exact stats are saying this week? The Chiefs are the best 2 and 3 team in 10 years. I hate that. I don’t want to be the best 2 and 3 team. I’ve said forever on this show. I believe winning is a skill. I do not care about your, look at the. Guards per play. Look about the explosive, and so the things the Chiefs did well in that game are not things that A, I value immensely when it comes to winning a championship, and B, not concerns I had. If I went into that game worried about the Chiefs’ offense, then I would understand why that game would make one feel better. But I take as a given. That with a healthy Patrick Mahomes and a functional offensive line, and a receiving court with a pulse, the Chiefs are gonna be able to score points. So I was not shocked that they moved the ball, but I said on this show 3 weeks ago, what makes the Chiefs different from these other teams is while they might not blow people out the way other teams do, they don’t blow leads. They were up 14 points. I said all week they can’t lose that game if they don’t turn the ball over. And Patrick, listen, even the greats get got, that was, that was no one’s fault, and it was, I mean, it was Patrick’s mistake. It was a great play by Lloyd, and he got got. He didn’t see him. That’s rare, but it happened. I hate dumb penalties. It’s rife with them all over the game and special teams matter. And the Chiefs special teams this year, where it’s always been at an advantage, was a deficit. Again, it’s a 5th straight game. Bucker made a mistake and the same special teams player, Jack Cochran had back to back holding penalties on kick returns, the last of which I think cost him a chance to tie the game. If he doesn’t hold there, I think they get in field goal range. So I, it didn’t shake my faith, but it was madness. And it was incredibly damaging because they had the opportunity, brew to erase the 0 and 2 start divisionally and just be one game behind Buffalo and they had it. They had that game and they gave it away and I’m not used to the Chiefs giving away games, so that bothered me. I still think they have the ability to be a great team, but you got to win football games, and they didn’t win the football very fair. That is why they call memera Fair as well. Very fair. I said after they. Trampled on my Ravens, the Chiefs are back and now after that game I’m saying no they’re not, you know, like, like, and when I mean what I mean by back I, I still believe like they’re one of the best. I really do, they’re one of the best teams in the AFC, but when they beat the Ravens and you were right, like your first, uh, it sounded foolish at the time. But the Ravens defense is just that bad. And 28 points against Jacksonville is not bad because they have a really good defense. But in that game against the Ravens, it’s like, like, oh my, and wait till Rice gets back like the offense is gonna be great. And a lot of that was just how bad the Ravens defense is, uh, although they, they have improved with worthy I thought the offense was excellent against Jacksonville. I mean, Patrick made a mistake that they’re 30, they’re one play from 35 points, you know, against a very good, I mean the bad but This loss, what it told me is they are, they’re a good team and I, I know the record isn’t good, but I view them as one of the best teams in the AFC but not head and shoulders above everybody else in the AFC and that’s really what they’ve been. For almost all of Mahome’s career since Brady left the AFC, that’s what they’ve been pretty much except for since 2021 when they started the season slowly. Now that year though, Kelsey was still in his prime, Tyreek Hill was still there. This year, while I, you know, like I said, obviously I’m still giving him a shot to get to the Super Bowl, but Mahomes has, that’s, that was a huge mistake, the, the pick six, Kelsey’s made the mistakes against Philly when he dropped the pass. That led to the interception in the red zone. Harrison Butker’s made mistakes and missed field goals, and Chris was just loafing, yeah, so there, you’re seeing some of their top guys. I, I’m not gonna say they’re not plugged in, but it’s just different like you usually don’t see that. So, and on top of that, Nick, there’s this they haven’t beaten the team, the, the three teams they played with winning records they have all beaten them. So look, I think they’ll bounce back. I think when they get Rice back there’s gonna be another jump, but right now for at least. They’re just another good team in the AFC. That’s fair. The Chris Jones thing made a lot of waves. I couldn’t tell like, is he hurt? Did he misread the play? Is there something else going on? No, I think, listen, I think he misread the like, I think that he thought it was he thought it was over. And then by the time it’s not, there’s so to me it’s worse aesthetically than it is impact because once He saw you don’t think he could have made no, no, no, I, I do. If he would have just kept going, he probably, I think he could have maybe don’t want him to hit him, hit him in the backfield, but I’m saying once he realized he wasn’t down there, I don’t if he would have started sprinting at that moment, it would have looked better. It would have changed nothing, you know what I mean, once he was is like almost parallel with him. So that listen, I have Chris Jones, we are. That game was 8 days removed from him going to a funeral for a family member, flying back moments later and playing in a game. I am not going to question that man’s commitment to winning and the team and all of that. It was a bad moment, you know what I mean? There’s no and I would almost put it in the same bucket as the. Play in the Super Bowl where Mahomes is running for his life. Kelsey thinks the play is over and Kelsey is just walking. I should have them pull the video and then Mahomes kind of escapes and then fumbles and has recovered himself and Kelsey is checked out on the play. It’s a bad look, but I don’t think it’s indicative of who they are. I. I do think that the 2021 example brew is a right one where they started 3 and 4 and this team now I think they were 22 and 3 at one point, I probably, I don’t remember. I know they, I know they started, they lost. They got blown out by the Titans to fall to 3 and 4 and then they had the pass heard around the world and the season turned around. The this, oh, I can’t even do my big about the tackle that turned the tide. Oh, the tackle that just the numbers, the Mahomes, that’s in jeopardy. Well see. turn the tide for the team or for Mahomes because Patrick has again, he made the mistake, but he was, I thought the passing offense was excellent in that game, so they’re gonna have to follow more of the model of the 2019 Chiefs be an explosive offense and have the defense come through in big spots rather than a dominant. All right, we are doing all of the segments and of course when you see the snow start to fall out in the studio, that means we’re headed up to a higher altitude. Let’s take a listen. Special Thursday edition of the mound and we’ve taken a more animated turn as Dack and the Cowboys have a bit of a pep in their step. Also gloves and a hat. Meanwhile, Baker and the Bucks mapping their way to an MVP. At the same time, Bo Nix and the Broncos continue to impress in Denver where he does have an unfair advantage because he plays at altitude. It’s in the mountain time zone. Nevertheless, let’s see where all the quarterbacks fall as we climb Mahomestown. There we go. We’re back, we’re back on the mountain and we’ve also welcomed, uh, Greg from base camp. Greg, welcome, of course. Good to be great to see you, buddy. It’s despite how mean you are to me on social media all the time, that you know it was unnecessary. It was unnecessary is how I felt to Greg. Is it what what are we talking you know what, since you mentioned it and I was muted in the first topic intentionally, what do you mean America because of I actually requested you come. You’re usually not in for the A block your fee is too high, and so I, I, I requested you be here for the mountain, but also before we even start the mountain. I just want to remind everyone what we’re talking about because I know you I I know we know but maybe not everyone who’s tuned in right now knows so if we can just take a, take a little transport back in time really quick and listen to what we’re talking about and what we’re saying I love it. I do Jags Chiefs I do give me the Jaguars. Very often when you pick against the Chiefs it’s on a Friday. And then you’re not, you don’t have to deal with the fallout of your erroneous prediction. I know we’re not on tomorrow because of baseball, but we are on again this week. Are you sure that’s the direction you wanna go? Yeah, I’ve never heard you be a big Jack are you sure? OK, you’re kinda, you know, you do erroneous predictions do you still feel that way? It doesn’t matter how you feel. I, we’re on the mountain. Let’s go. All right. Fair enough. Great to see you, Greg. Uh, all right, on the mountain also. Let’s just show who’s off the mountain so I can, and I’ll explain some things. I once you’ve missed a couple weeks, you’re off the mountain, but it will be designated for injury. So Lamar and Purdy are off. It is not based on play. Purdy maybe, um, but it’s based on injury. They just shouldn’t have a spot once it’s more than a one week absence. Jake Browning off the mountain. He also was off his starting job. Joe Flacco off the mountain, even though he’s starting for a new team. Cooper rush off the mountain. Carson Wentz almost got on. I know Wentz and Bryce got winds this weekend. They Wentz played better, not enough to get on the mountain. Bryce did not play that well. He’s still off the mountain now, by the way. I’m very curious to see if we’re able to upgrade our software so we don’t have to be as color coordinated reds on the left, greens, yes, uh, you know, where people implied that the mountain was left to right, and we all know it’s not bottom row. Hanging on for dear life, Geno Smith. It’s sad and it really, it, it, it’s upsetting to me. More on Geno and the Raiders in tears. Justin Field staying where he is. Shout out Dylan Gabriel. Got on the mountain, Kyler, I, I guess I can some, can one of our intrepid NFL reporters please get to the bottom of, did they check him for a concussion because the football hit him in the head? I want to know. Everyone wants to know Greg’s trying not to laugh. We need this information. Cam Ward, you got a victory, I guess. Michael Pinnick had the week off. Jackson Dart’s fine. That’s the bottom of the mountain. You OK, KW? Yeah, Jackson Dart also hanging on, hanging on. A lot of these guys are hanging on. Here guy Cam Ward. You know how we were talking about before the draft. He’s the least discussed. One pick of all time. That’s working out in your favor so far, buddy. I’m telling you right now it’s very nice for him that we don’t talk tight, really in everyday door. Hey Caleb, can you imagine Caleb having this start row 5 speaking up? Caleb and Aaron, they were off last week. They dropped because. There were some good enough performances by row 6 guys that we had to make room for some guys and we had to drop two guys who didn’t play. They have an opportunity obviously to move back up. It’s not really their fault. They were off, other people did well. Bo Nick’s really weird game. As bad as he’s played in a year for the 1st 3 quarters in the best football of his pro career in the 4th quarter, he stays where he is. KW. Look at who would have ever thought we never thought we’d see the day. Never thought we’d see. I didn’t think he’d ever be back on the mountain. I know, and climbing, climbing and he has played well enough. That I will call him by his nickname rather than his given name. He’s always been McCorkel on the mountain, if that’s a Mac. I thought you were gonna say the was there and Spencer Rattler has played well. The team has not played very well. I know they got their the win, but he, his numbers are fine. Like he actually is not their problem. So shout out to him. Row 5. Jordan Love stays where he is again more. On him in a moment I’m sure. Justin Herbert has to fall. I, I understand the protection has been really shaky, but his play, particularly the last two weeks, but really most of the last 3 weeks, has been really shaky as well. Jayden Daniels back healthy, playing well. He, he moved up and we’ll probably move up further. CJ Stroud, here’s the thing. CJ got a little bit of benefit of the doubt. He probably should have been further down the mountain before the week 5 explosion given his play this year. So the week 5 performance didn’t propel him up higher. And shout out. To the prince, listen, it was a very princely game if you watched his whole career. There’s a few goofballs. Listen, the guy’s a rapscallion. He’s a bit of a goof at times. Some would say dopey surfer boy. I wouldn’t. Some would, regardless. You also saw some of the best of him and some of the some of those throws. He made are what and the comeback, the throw to Brian Thomas, and a little of Clemson Trevor using his legs. Coming out of school, he was a huge rushing threat. He hasn’t been as much in the pros. He was, he was on Monday night and in the biggest regular season game he’s played since his 2nd year. Top 10. Shout out KW here. Shout out, we are here. Shout out KWKW Greg KW. This is, this is their ro, bro. Uh, I mean, Drake May. Deserves it. Just flatly deserves it. It’s no grading on a curve. It’s no anything. He is, he’s been very impressive. Sam Darnold, who you know, Brew KW doesn’t get mad these days when we say he’s a darn old guy. Beginning of the year after that loss to the Niners, he was like, I’m not a darn old guy. I just like 14,000 yards. I’m not glow this is take your victory lap. I can’t take that many victory laps. Greg was not here and got very mad again. Greg, for a guy that has like real life muscles, he has even more Twitter muscles. He’s real aggressive on social media, particularly towards your old buddy Nick Wright. He gets a lot of tweets about me that he could. Just ignore and he’s like, great point XOX 32. Let me expand on it. And so last week Daniel Jones got dropped on the mountain. Greg got tweeted about it. He was like, I knew they would betray me while I’m gone. Well, you’re back. He played well. Jalen Hurts, hardest player in the league to Greg. We’ll see how it goes. We’ll see, yeah, Jalen Hurts stays where he is. All right, top 6. Dak still playing great. Matt Stafford, I gotta tell you, I didn’t feel awesome about dropping Matt Stafford because I think he’s played fantastic, but they were a huge favorite. They did lose. I think he’s been great this year, drop him just a tiny bit. Jared Goff continues to quietly just orchestrate one of the highest scoring offenses in the history of pro football. The mountain has always had a reputation for fairness contrary to what other people might say. And it will be further illustrated by this because we will have for the 4th consecutive week a different person on top of the mountain. This is because Patrick has to drop. Patrick threw a listen, I, I understand the yardage numbers were good and all of that. Patrick threw a pick 6 that ended up flipping the game. You dropped because of that, even if the rest. The game you played really well. You were a favorite. You lost fair is fair. Just stays where he is. And for the first time ever, and I believe only the 6th different person, I’ll have to check the full archives to ever be atop the mount. Wow, Baker Mayfield. Wow. Shout out to Baker and also shout out to Baker for one of my favorite quotes of the week, which was paraphrasing. Yeah, that thing that I did, yelling at the fans. I’ve been doing that my whole career. When I was in Cleveland, y’all hated it. Now y’all love it. It’s just because I’m playing better. That is the latest edition of Mahomes Mountain. You’re trying to figure out who’s been on top. Baker, Jalen, Josh, Lamar, Patrick. And I, I believe there was a mountain that Joe Burrow was in your whole time of all the years I mean we’ve only been doing it for 3.5 years still wow. Baker in the half dozen, yeah, I mean, and for some reason I feel like golf might have been a topic. He didn’t golf. I don’t think you’ve ever played golf on the mountain. OK, I, again, we’re gonna have to check the archives, Greg the mountain. Go ahead. Go into the mountain was is very interesting. I, I could mess around with a couple of names, but the one that I wanna focus on is Dak. I feel like if I were able to move a guy up, I would move Dak up and again this is not knocking anybody above Dak, but he has an argument that can be made that there’s been no other player if if you’re in Tampa, you’re definitely gonna have this argument as well with Baker, but for Dak there’s no other player in the National Football League that has entered into this this. Year with more expectation to do more and to be more for his club and he has delivered not in not in in terms of wins like some of these other guys like Baker but in terms of productivity absolutely he’s had the most completions, the most attempts because they’re asking him to do more. Their running game is benefiting because of what he’s able to do in the passing game. He’s about to get George Pickens paid. That is true. I mean he’s elevating the guys around him and I can’t speak more to it, but I, I could, but I’m not. Even when you look at the defense, the defense is poor. They’re giving up the most yards. They’re giving up are like top 4 or bottom 4, I should say in points, yet alone this guy because of what he’s able to do all. Offensively and with the weapons that he’s been provided, no CDLAM, may I add cap this team averaging over 30 points a game, the, the most yards in in football as far as total offense. It’s been impressive to see what he has been able to do. I know the record doesn’t suggest that he should be because of its. tapestry and what you’re saying is fair because he has two wins as far as the record goes. Patrick has 2 wins. What I, yeah, 22 and 12 and 3. I, what I, again, it’s not left to right. However, if I were ranking the guys on that third row, I would coincidentally have Dak first. And what Dak, Josh, Patrick, and Baker all have in common this year is, in my opinion. Their offense asks them to basically do everything. I understand Josh has James Cook, but everything runs through him. The bakery has Emeco Buu who’s been unbelievable, but he’s been orchestrating the comebacks. Patrick still leads the Chiefs in rushing, which is again not a good. and Dak has had, Dak again has good weapons, great when CDs there, good when he’s not, but they, the defense is so bad he has to do everything. So I, I understand the point. I think the three guys above him are deserve to be above him, but I have no issue with what you said about Dak. I wanna talk about Jay. Why so low? Jay, why so low? J Lo can the Red Bull. I Y’all know y’all are not feeling JLo on this show. I’m the only one. I mean, I’m the only one, and I’m not saying he should be in the second row. Move him up a row. I don’t think anybody in that row above him made Donald Jones hurts is playing better than him. What? Only Jones has a higher passer rating. He’s got Jackson’s, I mean, uh, Donald, I’m sorry, has a higher passer rating, and he’s got Jackson Smith. Jig who’s playing like might be the best receiver in the league and only Daniel Jones has a higher yards per attempt than J Lo but JLo has 2 more touchdowns than Jones does while playing one fewer game, right, not to mention, let’s see, Sam Darnold I mentioned Jackson Smith and Jigle. Daniel Jones has Jonathan Jonathan Taylor doing his thing. Drake May has a rejuvenated Stefon Diggs. Now some of that’s made, but still Diggs is an elite talent. We know that J Lo does not have a wide receiver in the top 65 as far as yards, total yards, but is that partially because they’re spreading it out and they they just have a bunch of you got one great one or even close. to great, you feed them, you know that like you, I get it. They do have about 4 good good receivers, but if he had one great one or even close to that, he would be getting him the ball more. He doesn’t have a wide receiver in the top 90 as far as reception. You’re not arguing that he that Drake May has better weapons than JLo, are you? Well, Stefon Diggs is having a very good. Season and uh J Lo’s top rusher Josh Jacobs, who I do like, he’s only averaging 3 yards a carry. He’s only a 3 yards a carry. So I’m just saying like 8 touchdowns, 1 pick, he’s top 5 in passer rating. I think J Lo should be uh listen, it’s hard to move up off a buy and the other and, and so that’s the other thing that hurts him. So maybe and but I know you thought he should have been moved up last week. I, I think this group, I don’t think it’s that we’re not in love with Jlo like you. I think it’s more we are more bothered by it’s, they played weeks 134. Week 3, he threw a pick to lose the game, and week 4, they almost blew that game as well at his hands. So I just think that he had he had a great game. No, no, that he had a great game and then at the end there was that. I understand what you’re saying. I, if I were to flip him with anybody. Again, it’s not left to right, but oddly I’d probably flip him with Jalen Hurst, but I didn’t want to argue with. Jared Goff Greg, this is a little bit for you. Also echoes one of my friends who is from Detroit who just randomly sends me Jared Goff data wasn’t asking for it. It’s like, here’s a 3 page text on Jared Goff. I said, you know what? I’ll have a little bit of Jared Gofflo. I would flip golf in my homes. Uh, they’re, they’re playing each other, um, they’re like one that game is Sunday night. Uh, Mahomes has never beaten Gl once with the Lions in that opening game. The other game was with the Rams, so we didn’t really do a huge thing about it. So this is golf this year, and I know that Danny likes to do a lot of Herbert Peyton Manning stuff. Here’s Goff and Peyton Manning, 12 passing touchdowns and a 75% completion percentage in the 1st 5 games. Peyton won MVP, made the Super Bowl. Golf. He talks. I know I’m like Mr. MVP talks guy, but like golf is in the mix. Then it’s this season, Goff versus Mahomes. Goff has got him in everything except passing yards. Well, since the tackle that turned the tide, I didn’t do the tackle that turned the tide because I didn’t know if it was totally fair because he doesn’t have a tackle that turned the tide, but if there was, I would, uh, you know, pro rate the tackle post tackle the tide and pre tackle the turn of the tide, uh. And then last three seasons just so it’s again, this is pre tech to turn the tide, but Jared Goff has just been so good and he we just kind of, you know, wins points, yards also just as an added little bonus. We were very worried that the Ben Johnson effect would take everybody down a notch and it hasn’t seemed maybe that first game against the Packers, but since then he’s been has been cooked. He’s been awesome. Unfortunately you’re not giving enough credit to tackle tackle to turn the tide. I mean, I do have the numbers oddly you pulled up tackle there it is. I mean, again, since the tackle that turned the tide, he’s been. Listen, they still in golf. I’m not, I’m not giving him a pass for the pick 6. The pick 6 hurts him. 66 to 1 and 12-2 line up. Yeah, but that’s that’s that’s oddly not including his rushing touchdowns, which I saw Josh made you put at the very bottom of your fancy graphic where Patrick had more passing yards and then an additional 38 rushing yards in. You. That’s fine. I’m not here. This tackle that’s on the tide. So I’m just saying luckily they get to play each other this Sunday night and we’ll see. See that little fancy thing? See, Alma Holmes has more passing yards and then an additional 38 rushing yards, and Jared Goff doesn’t run 1 when he’s running. I’m just telling you, actually 12 if you count the pick to the other team. Exactly right, they’re tied. Time now for a segment that grows more literal by the day, and it is scored must win. First up, the Eagles and their bipolar offense taking on the Giants tonight, looking to bounce back from their first loss of the year. Saquaan going up against his old team, which he feasted on, remember, in his last home. Coming to the tune of 176 yards, Syria is like, wanna break the record? He’s like, I’m fine. I got plenty of yards. Well, not this year, down from 125 to 53. Who won last week? Do you remember? Coach, Coach one, so Greg, that is your seat. You can choose to pass or play. I will play. OK, here we go. This is definitely a must win. Look, this is, uh, this is a team that was setting the pace for not only the league but definitely the NFC in terms of the one seed, and now you, you tripped up obviously against the Broncos and the style of which you have been playing is being in in question. You have an opponent where. You just gotta win the games you’re supposed to win. This is a game that you’re supposed to win. I don’t care how it’s I don’t care how it looks, but you can’t put yourself in a situation where you’re fighting at the end of the season to get home playoff games because road Eagles in the playoffs is different than home Eagles in the playoffs. The two old games that just Jalen Hurts has had, he’s lost both against the Tampa Bay B. Years when they play at home it’s, it’s a different team and you’re supposed to win this game. Go out there and get it. Yeah, so I don’t think a win in and of itself does much for Philly. We’ve seen them be plenty, you know, you know, upset or dysfunctional might be too strong, but post a win. I know post this loss they had a two hour meeting, Jalen, AJ and Saquan, and this is really a Kevin Wild stake that I’ve co-opted. That meeting’s too long. Anything marriage counseling is 55 minutes, guys. Anything that wasn’t accomplished in the 1st 45 minutes of that meeting is not going to be accomplished in minute 102, but that’s neither here nor there. The answer is this KW, and you alluded to it. It’s a must-have Saquan go off game. If Saquan Barkley against the league’s 6th worst rushing defense in a game where he should be fresh since he got one second half carry last week, cannot go off, then we just need to. OK, this is going to be a down year for Sean. They are not going, and in his career, his super high usage years have been followed by at least slight, if not significant dips, and last year was his highest usage year by a mile. So it’s a must-win with Sean having a monster game if if we are still going to think about him as anything close to last year’s Sawan. Definitely a must win after that. Players only meeting whatever it was, um, you don’t wanna lose that momentum coming out of a meeting like that. You come out of that where everybody’s talked about it like, oh wow, OK, this is gonna solve something and lose to the hapless giants, not good. Secondly, Nick was right about Saquan. The problem is he didn’t name it. It’s the musts squared game, must salvage eququan game. All right. You got your, your former team you’re playing against, right? And they’re one of the worst rushing defenses in the league. I said well you didn’t say that. They give up 140 yards a game. OK and they allow 5.5 yards of carry. You go in there getting 3 yards of pop. Something’s wrong. Saquan hadn’t had a 100 yard game all season, only 73 yards rushing in the last two games combined. Thank you in the towel, guys, yikes, wave it off. Obviously one nothing. Oh sorry. Sunday at one on Fox, uh, Rams at Ravens, uh, favored by more than a touchdown. Now Brew, you retired a show mainstay and it might not come back against this powerful Rams offense. Let’s look at the Rams offense. It’s excellent with the power by everybody’s all-American, Matthew Stafford. Ravens defense continues to be terrible. Uh, here of course is. What you retired all the raven stuff. Well, we’re just waiting for the day that we can bring it back up. This would be a win worthy of bringing it back, but Lamar is not here, so OK, I mean that’d be great. Nick, it’s your turn. You’re down one nothing. It is not a must win because if they lose. Everyone’s just gonna say, all right, after the by, Lamar’s back and you have Bears, Dolphins, Vikings, Browns, Jets, Bengals, rip off 5 out of 6 or something and you’re right back in it. However, a win would. Flip the season for them because if they steal this win and then have that exact schedule coming up and Lamar coming back, they can sit there and say, guys, we’re 2 and 4 like we’re 2 and 4 we we as bad as that. It would have sounded going into the season. It wouldn’t have sounded that bad at all 3 days ago, knowing this is what was coming up in front of us, and the Chiefs, who nobody’s given up on, are going to go into week 7, either 2 and 4 or 3 and 3, and people are going to think they’re fine, so. I don’t think they have to win. If they do win, I think they undergo a bit of a transformation psychologically of guys, it’s gonna be fine. Lamar is gonna come back. The defense isn’t gonna stay the worst in the least. No, that, that, and if they won, it would, their defense would have to play well, right? I mean, I don’t Cooper Rush not putting up 40 points. I don’t think. So that’s true. Not a must win. Nobody expects them to win without Lamar like Knicks said the schedule 1 out of 6, he, he named the teams, but only one of those 6 teams has a winning record. So they’re, I mean they I said it that Chicago game a couple of weeks ago, that Chicago game, that’s really their season that could be their season so that. That’s a huge game out of the assuming Lamar will be back. Here’s the other thing. It’s also, it is not a must win for the Ravens, but it is a must-win for the Rams. Rams have lost two of their last three. People think they’re a Super Bowl contender, but they lost to San Francisco as banged up as they are with no offense with Mac Jones at quarterback, and so they got it. They look. Stafford has been putting up 400 yards a game almost over the last two. He’s got, if he, he’s got a cook against the team, if they don’t and they lose, your morale is really dropping in a tough division that is gonna be hard to survive. So yeah, must win for the Rams. No it’s a must win for the Ravens. Look, I don’t care who’s playing. Number one, are you going to compete as a player? Are you gonna compete? Who are you? Because we don’t recognize who you are right now. As raven flock nation, whatever you used to be, we need to see it. So with or without Lamar, you need to win. You need to show up and play like a Raven, whatever that means to you in that building, do it, must win. Give me that point. Well, you guys are like, well, you know, they’re gonna be like 1 and 14. They can make a run. Like they’re they’re losing a lot of games. It’s gotta be a must know theatrics got that’s all. Well, it’s time now for the bonus round. This is worth 3 points, so it’s still anybody’s ball. No, it’s actually worth 2 points. So it’s anybody’s ballgame. I’m sorry, I thought it was worth 3 points. Bengals and Green Bay. Flacco making his sincey debut as a 14 point underdog. Now the weird part is he’s already beaten the Packers, but it was the worst win by any quarterback this season, but it still counts in the win column. Here he was against the Packers’ defense. That was enough for Cincinnati to sign him. Uh, so is this a must win for the Packers? Again, this is the bonus round, but Brew, you’re leading off. Absolutely right, it’s definitely a must win. They haven’t won in their last two games. I know they tied one, but still they haven’t won. They’ve lost that momentum from the great start with the two big wins over Detroit and Washington, and it is a get back game at Joe Flacco, a payback game because he beat them with Cleveland. On top of it being a must-win for Green Bay. It is a must turn back the clock game for Joe Flacco. 2 weeks ago. No, 2, a couple years ago. He has turned back the clock before. 2 years ago in Cleveland, he was left for dead. He was old. Everybody had written him off. He goes out there, has a great run and leads them to the. Playoffs. He must turn back the clock and play well to keep Jamar Chase and T Higgins engaged and really the rest of the team, if they go out there and lose their fourth straight game and Flacco plays poorly, he’s supposed to be the cavalry and then if he doesn’t have it, then those guys might zone out for the rest of the season. Was mark this point down. Uh, it’s a must win. You’re coming off a bike. Clearly we know that you got extra time to prepare for a team that everybody in your division who has played them thus far, uh, AKA Detroit, Minnesota has smacked him. And just for, just for giggles, real talk guys, I’m gonna be there. I’m gonna be in the building, get it done. Look, we want antics. I’ll give you antics. You better not lose this game. And when I come to practice on Saturday, I better see effort like I’m going to see that translates to winning a game against the Bengals. We don’t care about no stinking Bengals. Who they? Nobody cares. Win the game. What type of practice they do the day before the game throughout the whole. Oh yeah, yeah, no, is that is that I don’t even know that they should go. They’re not on the road. They how how they’re just gonna be walking you’re like, I, I wanna see it in your eyes. I wanna see the attention to detail. They don’t know what that is. I know what it looks like. Coach W hold on, run that again. Walk through repeat it. I didn’t like the way I saw it. You’re in a tough spot. You’re tough spot. I’m, I’m not even gonna try to get the point. I’m just gonna try to get two quick pieces of analysis. One is, what is a must-have is the Packer defense look like it looked the 1st 3 weeks and not the game. We saw them tie against the Cowboys. Their path to the Super Bowl is having a top 3 defense in football. We thought they were gonna have that. And the last one, this is an oldie but a goodie that I just, I can’t, I can’t help myself but to bring up whenever something like this happens. Once upon a time, a lot of our friends and family in the media swore you could never sign a quarterback off the street and ask him to play within 1 or 2 or 3 weeks. It was impossible. They needed a month. Colin Kaepernick’s not getting blackballed. It’s just that you, there’s no, it takes them a month. Pick up a game plan. Since then, Baker flew southwest to LA, won a game 6 hours later. Joe Flacco was a Brown this week and he’s playing for the Bengals in 2 days. Everyone’s like, Oh, see, let’s see how it works. That was always a farce. Give Greg the point. That wasn’t bad though. That wasn’t bad. Thank you, Greg.