‘No clear favorite in AFC’ after Bills loss, Patriots, Rams highlight Parkins’ Week 12 picks | FTF

‘No clear favorite in AFC’ after Bills loss, Patriots, Rams highlight Parkins’ Week 12 picks | FTF

All right, Danny, the question that I originally had was, are you ready to bail on the Bills being your Super Bowl pick? I feel like that answer is obviously no. So when I thought about it, I’m good time to change the question. Have you considered? Changing your Super Bowl pick after last night’s performance. Well, it’s not allowed, right? It’s not it’s allowed. It’s frowned. It’s allowed, but it’s you’re just covered in shame, you will be ridiculed to no end. But what would that, I’m sure, no, like. Who feels good about their AFC pick? Oh, about their AFC pick. You, your AFC pick was the Ravens, buddy. I feel OK about that. And I mean, I feel OK, but it’s right now they’re still, you know, they’re still in kind of, well, that’s what I’m saying. Like you all kind of get staggered on your feet when you ask the question, right? Like I think we maybe have to come. To a little bit of a realization that there’s not gonna be a clear cut favorite team in the AFC and a lot of teams believe that they can make a run. Like I, we could play the hypothetical game here and talk about last night, whichever you want, but like if it ended today, which it doesn’t, but if it did. The only quarterback who would have more playoff success, who would make it in the AFC than Josh Allen is Aaron is Aaron Rodgers. Like the most likely path, I think you would agree, because the Chargers have a better conference record than the Bills, is the Bills would get the 6th seed right now. Like, their path could be, no, hold on, you don’t think the Bills are gonna get this. You think the Bills are gonna get the 5 seed. I think I, I, I, I do. I do. But like, there’s a world where they’re both, right, the Chargers and Bills are both 7 and 4. I like both the teams. There’s a chance that the path is, you’ve got to beat Daniel Jones, Bo Nixon, Drake May. And I love Drake May, but they have one combined playoff victory among those three guys. It’s, it’s not exactly like even in the NFC where it’s like, oh, the champs are the 1 seed and a former. Super Bowl champion with an MVP and Matt Stafford could be the 2 seed. It’s just a different type of year. All the AFC teams have flaws. Here’s the pro I, I agree with that last part, but here’s the problem with the, hey, here’s the optimistic look on what the Bills’ playoff path would be. We just saw them lose to Davis Mills. We just saw a team that had a kick return touchdown, broke off a 50-yard touchdown run, and was despite that, thoroughly outplayed by a Texans team that has not looked good all year. Even on this winning streak, one of the three games is a Jags game. They were down 29 to 10 entering the fourth quarter in that game, and then they were, to their credit, brilliant at the very end of that game. Like, the, the question I, because I have been. Of the belief that the Patriots are the 2nd best team in the AFC to the Chiefs. The Chiefs have, you know, no longer earned that, right, earned that, uh, stature. But we have all talked about, we have all discussed the Chiefs the last few weeks as, man, what’s wrong? What’s going on? What a, you know, this is a, they have 5 losses. The Bills all of a sudden have 4 with, I don’t know if we can throw it up, this schedule coming up. If I, if I’m a Bills fan this morning, I am like, wait a minute. Uh, how, how marrow, deep confident am I that we are going to have any playoff path? Like, probably, but at Pittsburgh, that ain’t easy, especially as the Bills suffered some injuries last night. They obviously, you know, they, they’re out on Keyon Coleman, home for the Bengals with Joe Burrow. At New England who beat them, the Browns are not. Good that that defense is unbelievable. And Philly, like, I just think, and the, aside from the Chiefs game, have the Bills looked awesome in a game in 2 months? No, listen, they, they haven’t. That’s my, I mean, Josh Allen has been sacked 14 times in his last 4 games. He was sacked 14 times all of last season. He has they have 9 turnovers in their last 3 games. They had 8 last year. Like it’s, it’s, it’s going poorly, like point conceded. My thing is just all, I can’t imagine there’s an AFC fan base right now. Maybe that, obviously there’s some that feel better about their chance of getting into the tournament, obviously, in Denver, in New England, in Indianapolis, but like, feel really confident that they’re going to. Colts feel confident. Colts. I’m not a Colts fan, but you know, I said, and I, I think those, those three teams are very confident Denver, New England, yeah, that they’re gonna make it because they’re they’re gonna win the AFC. They’re new to the party. There are no expectations, right? with Josh. He had Patrick obviously just has the winning pedigree, but Josh has all this baggage of losing year after year in the playoffs, so that makes it tough. You are right in that if the Chiefs don’t make the playoffs. Yeah, uh, you can get the Bills have as good a shot as anybody at that point, uh, all 7 teams that make it should feel, I mean, Drake May, he mentioned them, Daniel Jones, Bo Nix, none of them have proven anything in the postseason. So now to your point, here’s some of the quarterbacks you’ve lost to Tua, Davis Mills, and Michael Pennox. So you guys aren’t looking across the field and, and, and, you know, laughing at anybody. The experience card is the last card to play in the deck. Here’s the bill. It’s a card, but when you’re already at like, well, you know, our defense, like, no, I can’t play that card. Our offense can’t play that card. Our turnovers can’t play that card and like, oh shoot, home field advantage, can’t play that like, oh. Experience like that’s the like that’s it though and Josh Allen and Josh Allen is like I, I know you’ve been taking shots at the media and how they feel about Josh and I agree with like 80% of it. I just one more just that I talked about this earlier, Danny. If you say, think that it’s Daniel Jones, if this was the playoff matchup, Daniel Jones versus, uh, the Bills. When they’re the 30th ranked rushing defense and Jonathan Taylor is just gonna run and it’s gonna be in Indy, I don’t care if Josh Allen played 50 playoff games. I think that is just a recipe for disaster. I think that, listen, I think that’s a terrible X’s and O’s matchup and that game for the Bills to win would probably have to go like Bills Ravens in week one. Hold on, before we move on, Christina, what’s the, because you, you were saying something about the, what Josh Allen and the media and all of it. I wanna hear it. You think he’s the 2nd best player in football. So how wrong can the media criticism be? Well, here’s what I think. I mean, I’m just like, no, I, I, do you think Patrick Mahomes has had a good season? He’s been fine. OK. Do you, if, and if I came out here, if I came out here today and said Josh Allen this year, he’s been fine, it would be considered outrageous, outrageous. Patrick has, but I think I think accurate. He’s been fine. He’s had his moments, his highs. Josh, right now, but he’s. That’s my point. I, Patrick this year is averaging more yards per game passing. They have the same amount of passing touchdowns despite Patrick playing one less game. Patrick has fewer turnovers. Obviously, Josh has more, uh, rushing touchdowns. Patrick also has been very good running the football this year. And it is every, every moment when Josh has the game he had a week ago, it is, he is probably the MVP again. And in the game surrounding it, Danny, when he plays terribly against Miami and they lose, and he throws a game losing interception there yesterday, they’re 4th and 5th in MVP odds. They both get the benefit of the doubt, but they, the, hold on. You think the conversation, that, no, the, the odds are where they are, that, that, because I think Vegas is afraid of those guys going on a push. You think that the narrative surrounding Patrick Mahomes’ season and the Chiefs’ season for that matter, is just one loss worse right now than the narrative surrounding Josh Allen and the Bills’ season? You think that? I, I mean like the overall media criticism point, like, yeah, I actually do think it’s pretty close. I don’t think Mahomes is catching a ton of heat right now. People aren’t killing Mahomes. They just aren’t like they are giving Josh a lot of excuses. That’s where I’ll side with Nick. I agree. Nobody’s killing Mahomes, but I, I said to him earlier, I think the problem is Mahomes’ standard is so high and the Chiefs too. We are looking at them as. My goodness, they’re 5 and 5. The, the, and I do think holistically Josh is the 2nd best quarterback in the league. I don’t think he has played anywhere close to it this season, and I think that it is, he’s the only quarterback in the league that to me, when he’s awesome, we all, we stop, we’re like, man, no one’s ever played the position like him. And when he’s bad, which it’s one thing to lose and not. Be bad. Like Baker last week against against Buffalo, I think is a good example. They lost. He was not bad. But when he’s bad and they lose games where they’re big favorites against inferior teams, it’s everyone’s fault but his. Everyone’s fault but his. I think that’s outrageous. I just think that’s outrageous. No pushback there. I mean, the Shakir fumble is not on him. We agree with that. No, the other turnovers are, yeah, the, the game losing interception. Uh, Colts in Kansas City Sunday at 1. A loss would drop the Chiefs’ playoff odds to around 37, a win 67. Picked around the Chiefs losing what it would mean. If they win, do you think they go back to being the team to beat in the AFC? Um, listen, I think they will, if they win, be the literal favorite. In the AFC right now, yeah, right now, Indy’s 4 to 1. Uh, the Bills and, is it Pats? No, the Bills and Broncos are 5 to 1, and the Chiefs and Pats are 5.5 to 1. So all very close, but the only team that’s really had is Indy. If they beat them, uh, you know, on Sunday, that hurts Indy. It elevates the Chiefs. And I also think the Chiefs are really odd in how they’re viewed in that. And now they’re in a spot where they just have to win. But earlier in the year when they weren’t winning, when the record was bad, but you saw the like the Jags game is the example. No, the Jags game. The Chiefs Super Bowl odds got better after losing to the Jags because it was another game where the offense looked good. People judge how scary the Chiefs team is based on how prolific does that offense look, and I think their way to beat the Colts, Danny, is going to be a prolific offensive game and to. The point is everything you just said about the AFC that right now there is, there is not a clear-cut team to beat, and I think people are waiting for someone to grab it. Yeah, so I don’t think we’ll come in here Monday feeling like they are the team to beat because everything else will just be still so fresh in our minds about the Chiefs, the Jaguars game, the Broncos game, all of it. But if the Chiefs make the playoffs, there are 3 ways it can happen. They finish 5 and 2, they finish 6-1, or they finish 7-0. In any of those scenarios, the Chiefs in the play will be like, well, they’re playing well. Like they’re, they’re in, they’re playing well, they figured it out, they’re scary. So I don’t think there’s a world where I’ll, they, I think they could win 35-0, and I don’t think I’d come in and say they’re the clear favorite in the AFC on Monday. Yeah, I don’t, I don’t think so because I, I, I get what you’re saying because it’d still be like we’re not 100% sure they’re gonna make the playoffs, so I get that, but like the Ravens. I feel supremely confident about the Ravens winning the AFC North, and I think a lot of people do, even though they’re not, you know, even close to that yet. So I think if the Chiefs, I won’t even go 35-0. If they beat Indy like they beat Baltimore, where they beat them handily, 10 points, 13 points, whatever it is, I think most people would be like, now they gotta get in, we understand that, but they are going to be the team to beat in the AFC. Yeah, I, I’ll just think, well, they gotta play the Texans who just beat the Bills, or they gotta win a shootout with the Cowboys, or they gotta play the Chargers again who they lost to, or the Broncos again who they lost to. Like I just, I, I have a hard time saying that what we’ve seen through 10 games gets erased by 1 game. Hm, not me. I erase it immediately. Immediately it was 16-0 at halftime. Like, looks like the Chiefs are going back. I better get some banners going. Uh, time now for one of the hot, hot picks. OK? We know you were 1 and 2. Do we still do these segments? Yes, they’re gonna heat up. I mean, this guy, I am seeing the NFL. Very clearly, this is the official pick segment. I plug in the matrix. I see the league clearly. I’m not going to let 3-0 change me. I’m not scared of picking big games, taking the points with Detroit, play in the wood with the Chicago Bears. Easy, easier, and easiest. I know that I’m right. That’s so stupid. What is so stupid? Wild going 1 and 2. Wow. What, what? I didn’t see that Chargers Jags game. Herbert played great. He’s got out. Betting on a quarterback who is your top two favorite player in the NFL and he throws for 80 yards and you wear this costume. Not a great feeling. No. Just quick, just quickly, Danny, can I, yeah, you got a follow-up question? Sure, go ahead. The leader of the show. I didn’t realize. Titans covered against the Texans. Yeah, yeah, that was a very interesting. That was a tough moment. That was a tough, a win, but not that was my pick. Yeah, yeah, winning without covering, very painful. Dolphins took care of me in Spain after I yelled them national TV in Spanish last week. But hey, 17 and 16, am I proud of it? No. Is it still much better than this guy? Go get money. You’re like running away. From me, yeah, that’s what I’m saying, and we are 13-0 versus 0 and 3 week away from being right there. We’ve heard this from you still being right there. You’ve been, I, I watched the pod. I know you got some, uh, liquidity issues, so here, here, here you go. I need it. I need it, right? I, I, I know you do. Uh, let’s get to the week 12 picks if you don’t mind. Wild, I think you’ll like this one. Patriots -6.5 in Cincy. Joe Burrow, oh yeah, right, because you kind of want them to lose. I can’t, I can’t keep it straight at this point. Uh, you always shout out your gambling friends. You’re right, Nacho and everybody. So I’ll shout out my buddy Kidd, smartest gambler I know. This is what he would say and name the number game. You need him to score 35 points, they can do it. 42 points, they can do it. I don’t think since he can stop them. Joe Burrow doesn’t play linebacker. He doesn’t rush the passer. Patriots’ offense against Bengals’ defense since week 4. It’s just, I mean, the Bengals, they’re in that category with the Cowboys’ defense. Before they got guys back from injury and some of the trades, the Washington defense right now, they can’t stop anyone. Bengals 1 and 6 since week 4. Patriots obviously undefeated. It is remarkable the Bengals only won 1 game with Flacco because it feels like they played so well, right? The Bears game for 470 yards, and 4 touchdowns against the Bears in a loss. All right, well, laying 6.5 points. It’s a big number to lay. I like it. Let’s do it again. Rams minus 6.5 in Tampa. Here’s the thing, the Bucks, I told you guys 2.5 weeks ago, they’re going from 6-2 to 6-5. This is the completion of it. Baker is nice, but they beat up on the NFC South. Brew, what are they? The Bucks, they’re cute. They’re cute. How about when they play teams that are in the playoffs? When the Bucks play playoff teams, they give up 31 a game and allow teams to have a passer rating of 101. That’s games against the Eagles, Seahawks, Niners, Patriots, and Bills. Doesn’t include the Lions game from a couple of weeks ago, who also put up nearly 400 yards of those games, correct? Yeah, I’m saying. Oh, of course they, they, they want, but in terms of what the defense is going to be able to do, what the defense is going to be able to do against the Rams, you think they’re scoring 30 against the Rams? No, I actually oddly think the Rams are gonna win. I, I agree with you, and I got the bucks. Yeah, he has the bucks. It’s very confusing. We have very confusing there. All right, well, 6.5 point favorite, 6.5 point favorite. Am I afraid of laying big numbers? No, you just love the square picks. Lions minus 12.5 gambling against Giants deserves to be 0 and 30, this deserves to be 0-3. Nick, you’re going to love the reason because you know I am not a trends bet, never, except why do I like the Lions so much? Why do I respect them? They’re resilient, they’re tough. When’s the last time the Lions lost back to back games? The beginning of the 2022 season. Lions after a loss since 2023, they’re 10-0 straight up, 10-0 against the spread, winning by an. Average of 16 points golf with a 25 to 4 touchdown to interception ratio. Jameis Winston’s throwing a touchdown to the Lions. That’ll help the cover. Can I ask you a gambling question like in the weeds of it, since all the sharp bets know that the Lions are. 10-0 against the spread and has that affected the spread? I don’t think so that kind of like, no, I think it’s just like a, a thing that’s out there in the gambling universe, maybe by a point in some direction, but I don’t, I don’t think that that matters much. Do you, this, this line got keeps going up. Yeah, you got the, the worst of the number, the worst of the number, yeah, the worst of the number. I mean the, if you want to check my account, no, I got no. Got it. I just, I’m just saying this, America, please, just for the sake of the show, go ahead. Let’s just have the Lions, Rams, and Pats all win and none of them cover and a nice real stomach punch 0 and 3 for the court jester over here with friends like these. If I had just a little bit stashed aside and I could only bet 1. Hm, which would be your lock of the week? Not that we’re keeping track of locks just in case you guys go under 500. I can say the locks are 2-0. 0, Rams minus 6.5. Rams, it is. Rams minus 6.5. They’re going against your upset a little. I know that’s a lot. Yeah, that’s a lot. That’s, you know what though, with their rec, with that record, I feel good, 17 and 16, you can always, uh, confident than ever beat it. Yeah, there you go. His lock is on Shado Sanders. No, it’s on Miles Garrett Garrett. It’s on Miles Garrett MVP candidate. Yeah, that’s right. Wow, it’s been a long time since we’ve talked about AJ Brown and the Eagles drama. The count is 0. We’re literal hours since the last interesting comment, but they are the 8 and 2 defending champs, AJ Brown. I don’t know if he agrees. He spoke yesterday ahead of this big game against the Cowboys. I mean, he’s interesting. Uh, do you think, Willie, I mean, your reaction and how you think it impacts the game Sunday? I mean, I just, I’m fascinated by all of it. I’m gonna be honest with you, DP, at this point, this, this feels bigger than football. This feels personal, um, because, you know, as a player you do have. You do have bear the responsibility of keeping the sanctity of the locker room tight, right? You’re 8 and 2. You just came off a signature win against the Lions. They actually got you the ball from all the prime. You sat down with the owner, and it seems right now he has a problem with two people, and that’s Jalen Hurts and Saquan Barkley. Um, you think that’s a Saquan issue because, so I’m gonna start here. I think one with Jalen Hurts, I think he’s mad at Jalen’s. Um, lack of ability to get him the ball when he feels like he needs the ball. We all understand that. I think the issue with Saquan is solely because the organization and its offense seems more loyal and more focused on getting him on the right page than AJ Brown. You know, there’s, there’s more of a concise, concisive effort of saying, hey man, we gotta get Saquan going when AJ is like, Hey man. I, I’ve, I’ve had 3 1000 yard seasons. I’ve been your guy in the RedZone. I’ve been that juggernaut you’ve needed me to be, but yet you still wanna get back to, to Saquan, and I understand he was the bell cow, he won the Super Bowl all in on, on all his accolades, but I, I’ve been here, like I’ve, I’ve been loyal. Why is there, why, why am I being ignored as being the cod to get this thing going and I’m gonna say this, so what? Get over it. The Eagles need to get over it. AJ Brown needs to get over it. They can win the Super Bowl with AJ Brown being messy and noisy. Now what happens after the end of, at the end of the season is a different story, but right now I would ignore it, um, because he’s not gonna change. Like if, if you sit down with the head of this company and he said, hey DP pull it back a little bit and you still continue, like I’d be gone. it could possibly imagine. So it’s like it is what it is. Yeah, so I, I, I don’t think it’s gonna impact the game Sunday because why would it impact this game when it hasn’t impacted the game before? And even if sometimes it has impacted it with frustration or things on the sideline or book reading or whatever it’s been, like they seem to thrive in the chaos. What I do think is fascinating is you alluded to, like, it was reported that he got pulled out of practice and went and had a conversation with the owner. The owner of the team. And then he’s saying these things, so I don’t know if it’s that he has the support of the locker room to say it. If he was like, well, I told the owner I wouldn’t say anything on social media, but I didn’t say that I wouldn’t say like I, I don’t know if it’s like an act of defiance there, but what I’m curious from your perspective is, because I tend to think largely. One of the superpowers of athletes, and you guys have many of them, is that you got those blinders, is that the noise stuff is more for people like me, for media, for talking heads, for the fans, but for the guys at bars, right? Like that, that to me and. Uh, AJ Brown’s gotta beat Deron Bland, and you, you know what I mean, and he’s thinking about that, and so generally speaking, that’s been my experience with athletes. You were in locker rooms with Brandon Marshall and Antonio Brown, albeit before Antonio Brown kind of went off the deep end, uh, Santonio Holmes. If you are an offensive lineman for AJ Brown, and this is legitimately now his 5th thing of the year. What’s happening? Well, one, I’m annoyed by it 100%. This is, this is definitely annoying because now we have to one address you and your feelings rather than address the fact that we are clearly running away with the division. We have the Cowboys ahead of us who we have to show up against because they can score points, but at the end of the day, nobody can get through to you. So is there, is it at all possible, does it, is it at all possible that silently they’re being like, yeah, keep going. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, because that’s ridiculous, because the, the issue with this offense is the offensive line, and the, the between the injuries they’re both tackles. Lane Johnson’s out right now. Malalata hasn’t played up to the all-pro level that he, we, we are accustomed to him, uh, playing like, and so which leads to, it’s a ripple effect. Jalen Hurts is not sitting up. Pocket making those key throws cause he does trust the protection. Saquan’s not able to get off cause they’re not blocking as, you know, aggressively and, and, and precisely as they did last year. So it, there’s ripple effects to all of it. But once again, this is a team game, right? So they’re all going through it. It’s not about him. I think the, the most selfish thing a player could do is thinking after a loss that he only lost. The Eagles lost and when you start separating yourself from that type of philosophy, then you’re saying, alright, you’re, you’re a legit me guy. You’re not listening to everything we’re trying to do and try to put together. So I’m, for me it’s just be, be done with it. AJ is gonna be AJ and we just gotta keep him winning. Alright, to the more dramatic FTFOT Bowl, Willie Steelers, my Bears. Aaron Rodgers, he’s listed as questionable. He’s got a fractured wrist, non-throwing hand, limited participant in practice. Caleb Williams has multiple times throughout his life called Aaron Rodgers his favorite player and a guy that he models his game after. However, Caleb Williams was really not feeding into that storyline this week. So I don’t believe him. What do you mean? Well, you don’t believe him because you have, I mean, this is your team. Yeah, right, that, that is definitely part of it because I know about the history for Bears fans and Aaron Rodgers, which we can get. To if you want, but like, Caleb, before he was a bear, said he modeled his game after Rodgers. Since he’s been a Bear, said that he’s his goat and that he’s modeled like, so I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. Like I, for the Bears, it gets them to 8 and 3. They remain in first place. They become a pretty heavy favorite to make the playoffs. They would, they’re, they’ve won what, 7 of their last 8. It would be 8 of their last yeah, yeah, it, it would be 8 wins in their last 9 games, so. For the Bears, it’s another step towards 10 wins and making the playoffs. For Bears fans, it’s probably gonna be the most satisfying moment of the year. If Caleb Williams gets to be lifetime 1-0 against Aaron Rodgers and Aaron Rodgers goes out with a loss, it would be amazing, but I just, I have to think that this means a little bit more for Caleb because he’s his football idol. I agree with you from that aspect. Yeah, anytime you get a chance to dethrone your goat or your god, yeah, that, that means something, but I think. I, I kind of pivot back and say if Caleb is able to put the boost to Aaron Rodgers, this is Aaron Rodgers, this is Caleb Williams’ uh, eviction notice to, to, uh, Aaron Rodgers because this Bears organization. Throughout the year, I mean, you being a Bear fan, when they looked at their season, they didn’t, they know there’s two losses coming from Aaron Rodgers. Bottom line, it, it is forever, forever. So this gives them an opportunity not only to shift the franchise and say, hey, we potentially have a new face of the NFC North with Caleb Williams, but also for this organization to say, hey man, there’s a, there’s a new change under the guard. And if I’m, if I’m Caleb Williams, this isn’t just about. Winning, this is about letting everybody know in the league that the Bears are legit. You view them differently, especially Aaron Rodgers. You beat the Steelers. It means more, but I’m gonna be honest with you. Through everything we’ve talked about right now, I’m not afraid of Caleb Williams. I’m not afraid of who he is and what he’s done thus far. He’s struggled. They’ve had their woes, but they’ve won. I’m gonna tell you one thing I’m scared of, and that’s their run game. I’m, I got a graphic right here. This is what the, the Bears’ run game looks like. That’s what they ranked, and that’s the Steelers’ deal on the other side. The Steelers can’t stop the run. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know why, and I, quite frankly, I don’t care, but it needs to stop. And when you go against the Chicago Bears, when they have the ball on the ground, they are dominant. So, I’m more worried about what the Bears do rushing the ball than what they look like with Caleb Williams throwing the ball. Yeah, I listen, I think that that is a much more like the Ben Johnson during the bye week tried to fix the Bears’ run game because he felt like he could fix that faster than he could get Caleb Williams to being an MVP player and he knew that a running game would help his quarterback. And by the way, it’s worked. Their run game has been elite and Caleb has gotten better incrementally over the course of the season, so there’s no question that they are a run first team and that’s what they are going to do. Try to do, but just for anyone who didn’t see my monologue and my commentary about this, like Aaron Rodgers is 25-5 lifetime against the landlord. He’s, he’s, he’s right, he did the whole I own you thing, right, which was very upsetting because it was true, but you know, you know, like it was just, it was, he’s 12-3 lifetime at Soldier Field, so I know that he’s not a Packer and I know that he’s got a broken wrist and I know. That this isn’t that version of him, but there is something to the symbolic passing of the torch because he’s not, he’s not just a man, he’s Aaron Rodgers, right? Like, like he 4-time MVP, the, the boogeyman, like everything you think about the reaper, whatever you wanna call him, he is that for the Chicago Bears. Well, and, and I know that many people have written Caleb off for this. I do think that his talent is such that he still can be an MVP of the league. If he is, it’ll look like Aaron Rodgers. Like he, he plays that style of football. But you know what Aaron did? Yeah, he won. Right, Bears are 7 and 3. Just in case, you know.

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