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he certainly might of that week he dropped that interview with Katt. So they might of cherry picked that window or something. I could definitely see him being #1 that week. Athletes are sort of flooding the market at this point. Well, everyone is. Everyone got a podcast. Everyone starting one. From your favorite athlete to the soccer moms down the street. Someone probably about to start one to recap the huddle postings of each day.

Playoff Mahomes ain't regular season Mahomes and I think sometimes you have to look into the # of offensive possessions. They scored 27 vs the Bills on 9 drives (and that includes a kneel down drive). Through 9 drives vs the 49ers they scored 6 points. I mean, eventually, if Mahomes/Reid get enough shots.....points will come.

I mean, that one interview certainly went viral. Current rankings show the Kelce Bros ahead of him of in terms of sports guys. Joe Rogan holding down the actual #1.

NFL teams always scapegoat. Nothing is more predictable than that. Often, you can see how org structure themselves to always have them ready to go.

I mean, he should be a first ballot HOFer. I think Luke is technically the best football player Carolina has ever had. Others played more entertaining positions. Luke technically the best at his craft vs how good others were at theirs.

I think Luke essentially achieved his full potential in the NFL. In terms of being a LB. He was as good as it got. Could probably argue Ron was very good for Luke and Davis. LB play excelled here. Which would make sense given our HC was a LB and defensive guy.

KC had only 6 points after 9 offensive possessions vs the 49ers. For example, KC had a total of 9 offensive possessions all game vs Buffalo. The following IMO is the game. This is exactly when they lost. Biggest issue was the O imploded in the 3rd. 59 second drive off clock despite an INT in KC territory. 1:43 off the clock the 2nd drive.. Only 1:02 off the clock on the 3rd drive. Then you lose your 4th drive with a muff punt and tell Mahomes to go 19 yards. None of that is Wilks. That's O and a little ST with the losing icing on that cake.

D also opened up the 2nd half with an INT in KC territory. Best possible start to the 2nd half you could of asked for. Zero points off it. 3 and out next drive. Eventually, KC was going to find SOME success. That's not on Wilks.

I'd be fine with every single one of them leaving. Except for Luvu.

not sure he even has the #1 athlete lead podcast

shoot, never a full scale rebuild? .... never an actual rebuild in reality on any level IMO. I guess there is an argument for last season.... But we hired a dinosaur HC and dinosaur consultants. Traded away draft picks. Spent the most money of anyone in free agency on a RB in Sanders. Brought in a bunch of old or tired vets like Theilen, Chark, Hurst with playoff and win now talk. That's not a rebuild.

teams love a good scapegoat. I mean, I think Wilks IMO is an NFL average DC. But the D held Mahomes to 3 points in the first half. 19 in regulation. They didn't lose the game because of the defense.

I mean, doesn't seem to be something that has bothered this org. Because they did it with the next QB after him too.

sports is sports. the better team doesn't always win. KC is a well coached and one that catches a lot of breaks IMO. That's sports. I mean, I still don't think KC was the best actual team in the NFL this year. Just like I don't think Denver was in 2015. I wouldn't even say Denver was the 2nd best on the year. They were there at the end and won that game though. They get the trophy. You can replay that game, and I'd still take the 49ers.

Deadpool trailer looks really good though. Walking Dead to Game of Thrones to Disney.....IMO they are repeating the same patterns. Easy to take something people love and make a movie/TV show about it. Everything is awesome at first. But time goes by and you get further way from the easy start.....and once you make it your own, doing your own unique spins and twists from the source material that people loved or making it "better"....it eventually ruins it for the original fans of whatever it was.

end of the day, Roman Harper is a Saint and not a Panther IMO.

man, Marvel was so fun at one point......all good things come to an end. I'm still holding out some hope for Deadpool 3. But the rumors on that haven't sounded good. Lot of Disney thinking they should stick their nose in it and that they know more about what the people want than the Deadpool folks.

personality issues aside. I think there is a little bit of a comparable with Dan Marino when it comes to Rodgers (largely just the talent vs end game resume). Could argue both were the best pure QBs of their era and yet didn't really have the success you would think should come with it.

Steve Wilks inherited what he inherited. I'm talking about what he chose to do on offense. He opted to play football from a prior era as much as possible. And when he was able to do that, THAT is when the OL looked good that season. It helped that schedule was slammed full of opponents with bad run defenses. They looked good run blocking vs bad run defenses. Passing and play action off heavy run. Not much else. It's a passing league. You need an OL that excels in that. It's a QB league. You need an OL that can hopefully get the job done once you finally find the QB everything should be built around. I mean, we lost under Wilks by double digits where we still didn't attempt more passes than runs. We won a game rushing 41 times and completing 5 passes. Won another rushing 46 times with 11 passes completed. Another win was 46 runs with 14 passes completed. Wilks did his best to make us as least embarrassing as possible. Props to him for that. But this OL isn't up to snuff and hasn't been for some time. It's weak doing what the NFL is designed to be in 2024.

OL was decent when asked to play football like it was 1990. To an extent that's still a problem given that's not what you want to do in the year 2024.

he was picked dead last in the 7th round and this is his first season as the starting QB. He is getting paid 2 peanuts and a cracker jack. I don't care what the Skip Bayless type shows want to talk about. No one here is having the elite convo. I know I'm not. If you want to make a long list of why they lost that game.....he isn't one of the top subjects/reasons. And that's who you are spending your time talking about and fixated on. Brock Purdy has and continues to overachieve. He isn't why they lost the Super Bowl. The folks around him turning it over, missing kicks, out coached after halftime, etc. are why they lost. YES, the team around him is why they made the Super Bowl. And they are the ones who lost it and didn't get it done.

sounds great. But Montez Sweat went for a 2nd rounder last year. We aren't getting 2 1st for Burns. Fitterer botched one of those rare rip off deals that you just don't see very often.

the 2 things I really want to watch next year. is he actually risk-averse to a fault? Is that his QB DNA? and there was a weirdness about that team. Hard to tell what is the coach vs players. But almost felt like in the end it was the Sanders inner circle vs everyone else.

yeah, at some point it all comes back to Shanahan IMO. They went to Kittle/Debo 14 times.....for 5 catches and 37 yards. Kittle was arguably the best TE in the game this season. Him not being able to be factor for SF was big in the grand scheme. 2 yards in the end.