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Like their stuff? Hey, hey, hey. Oh, go. Like, there's stuff to be nervous about because the problem is that you go to Josh Allen,

and he's been asked this question of, you know, what more can you do, Josh?

Like, you play really well in these playoff losses.

The fact is, in the playoffs, guys, he has 33 total touchdowns and six turnovers. He plays great, and yet at the end, they still lose. And he'll say, well, there's this throw that I missed here, and I got to make this throw here. But then you're talking about perfection. No one's ever going to be perfect. He's fantastic in these games, and they still lose. And that's why I just think I go back to the week one matchup of him and Lamar. They really have the same story. They're in the same draft class. They've both been MVP's. They've both been fantastic. They both lose to Kansas City in the playoffs. So one of them is probably not going to get through and win a championship may be both of them.

It's just, I always say with the Ravens, I've said this to you guys this summer, it's just a, it's a one-month conversation. Just, I'll see you in January. I don't have any questions about the Ravens other than can you win that extra game in January. I would say the same thing about Buffalo.

I know they're going to be good.

I know there's going to be great highlights.

They're going to win games.

Can you get over the hump? And that's why I just think full circle. The Peyton Manning thing is very interesting. And Peyton has been very candid that he sees himself and Josh and that he identifies with Josh in the sense that Peyton would be in the playoffs every year. And he would always be knocking on the door. And then the Patriots would beat him. And it would just end. And it was over. And it's like, am I ever going to get through this? Eventually, 2006, Peyton gets the Patriots. He beats them. He goes on to win the Super Bowl. And he's like, I'm watching Josh have the same story with Kansas City. And I've reached out to Josh, and I've said, just keep chopping wood. You'll get through. You'll get through. Will he? We don't know. But Buffalo, Baltimore, Josh, Lamar, great teams, great quarterbacks. That's, sometimes you don't get through. We'll see this year, as always. I think this team is, I think, Manta is all over it. There's no dramatic changes. It's not like they brought in this massive free agent who's going to change everything. They're essentially running it back. And there's questions. There's a lot of questions about their secondary. There's questions about other parts of the team. But we will see in January. And I know that's not a take, but it's like, what can you say other than Baltimore and Buffalo other than we'll see?

Philip Rivers was lurking there and the Chargers had some really good teams and he's a guy who was prolific who ended up not getting there. They had a different deal back then because you had Rathusberger also showing up and the Steelers were a big factor. So Rothesberger kind of represented like that Joe

Burrow other man in who could come in and rip the rug out of everything. But it was all coming

back to Brady. Even the years that Brady didn't win it, they were involved in it. So that's Mahomes

of this era. And somebody's got to knock them off. And the closest anybody's ever really done it

in the AFC is Burrow did it once. Okay. But that's it. It all comes back to Mahomes. And listen, when I sit with Josh Allen, you sit down and you think like, all right, I got to ask him about the chiefs and getting over the hump. I can't sit there for 15 minutes and not get to that topic just because you think maybe that's a trigger he gets

asked all the time can i get over the chiefs he was perfectly happy to talk about in that stuff

he's not he doesn't clam up he does he's not get defensive he knows exactly what time it is

he's very aware this is his eighth season he's the MVP has all the money has everything

but he's never played in a Super Bowl before.

Do you know he has seven playoff wins and he has not been to a Super Bowl? That's really unprecedented. It doesn't happen. You don't win that many games as a quarterback and not get to a Super Bowl in the playoffs. It's becoming a thing where it's like, when is this going to happen? And I think to his credit and the bill's credit, this is not some boogeyman, the Kansas City Chiefs.

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