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No amount of sitting behind a veteran is going to make Jordan Love better at football

Jordan Love... He wasn't ready. I don't think any amount of sitting is going to make him better at football. ... He needs to play less football, and then pretty soon he'll be better at football.

Love eventually became the starter in 2023 and had a breakout season, suggesting the developmental time may have actually helped.

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Nov 8, 2021
#5090
Big CatBig Cat

The Tennessee Titans are for real, for real

I saw some people saying that the Rams stink, but I think that was more the Titans are for real, for real. And we've got to start taking them as such because no Derrick Henry. Their defense steps up. They can still play offense when they need to. I'm putting the Titans as for real, for real.

The Titans finished the 2021 season as the #1 seed in the AFC despite Henry's injury, proving they were indeed 'for real.'
Void
Nov 8, 2021
#23384
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Teddy Bridgewater is a good quarterback when the offense allows him to throw deep

Teddy Bridgewater is actually good when you let him throw the ball deep. ... I think his problem is Teddy is very, very accurate on short passes and so then they just have him throw those all the time ... but just let him throw the ball deep and the offense actually looks competent.

Bridgewater's performance was statistically efficient but the Broncos offense remained middle-of-the-pack, making the 'good' label subjective.
Loss
Nov 8, 2021
#23385
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The Jaguars are currently a dangerous team

We're in a window right now with the Jaguars. The Jaguars are a dangerous team right now.

The Jaguars finished the season 3-14 and were the worst team in the league, proving they were not actually dangerous.

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The Ravens' fourth-quarter problems are moving earlier

Historically, the fourth-quarter Ravens have not been a great team. That fourth-quarter Ravens has started to creep its way into the third-quarter Ravens. And I think eventually it's going to keep creeping earlier and earlier in the game. I don't think it's going to get better because the defense does not look good.

This is a season-long assessment that can only be judged against Baltimore's eventual 2026 performance.
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Baker Mayfield has a real revenge game against Cleveland

This is like a big Baker revenge spot too. This is not a made-up Baker—I have a perceived slight against me because some team didn't trade for me when I was on the market. This is Baker Mayfield against Stefanski, and they haven't talked since he left Cleveland.

Whether the personal history materially affects the game is subjective, though the stated public grievance is part of the episode's context.
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The NFL should reduce the season to 16 games

I'm going to say it. I think that 17 games is too much. I like the scarcity. I like if you brought it back to 16, because the NFL's also been playing this game for a long time where they have to find safer-looking ways to do a dangerous activity.

The preferred NFL schedule is a policy judgment, though the player-safety rationale is grounded in the discussion's cited study.