Welcome back to the Gold Standard podcast.

Everybody, as you see, we have a very special guest today from Pro Football Talk

live and, of course, the Chris Sims on Button podcast.

Christopher David Sims, welcome back.

Hey, well, hey, thank you for having me back.

I appreciate that.

I mean, I, you know, I hope I'm a special guest.

I know when it comes to the quarterback rankings, that can be a sensitive subject. And, you know, sometimes I can be viewed as a special guest, but then the quarterback rankings come out and they go, oh, get that jerk off my damn show. I don't want to listen to him. So I have a feeling that's probably why you got me on here, but always good to hang out with you stats. I hope you're doing well, buddy. I am doing well. And yes, I did hear from

quite a few people who saw Popperdy at 17 and said, you have to get Chris on the show to yell at him.

So that's what I'm here to do today. Okay, good, good. Let me have it then.

You know, go ahead, go full scorched earth on me.

As you know, I will say this just to start.

It's not an easy exercise.

And the one thing I said this year, too, more than ever before, is I feel like 7 through 20 was about as close as I can ever remember. And you know the people that work with me here at NBC. I was really like, oh my gosh, this is so nitpicky this year. And it is

difficult. And the one thing that does jump out to me is that we get a lot of good quarterbacks in the

NFL right now. Well, let's start there because I see 17 and I'm like, well,

okay, there's 32 starters. 17. That means Brock is below average. Well, I know. You think that,

right? But what I would say, and again, you know, I'm not saying I know this or I'm, you know,

whatever I say is, is God's word and it's set in stone. I understand reasonable people in the NFL might see Brock Purdy as the 12th best

quarterback or whatever.

But what I would say is I think that you look at the list and go,

there are some names in front of them that they're pretty damn good football players.

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