Welcome back to the Minikheim show featuring Lenny, the only NFL podcast, where one of the hosts thinks Bo Nix was named after President Obama's Portuguese water dog.

That's Lenny. I'm Minikimes. We're going to be talking about Bo Nix today. We're going to be talking about Brock Purdy, who just signed a monster

deal. We're going to be talking about all of the quarterbacks because today is the pod I do

every year that I would say, I feel pretty comfortable saying enrages the most people. So naturally,

I had to bring in a calming, soothing, intelligent voice, Ali Connolly, the host

and writer of the read-optional substack and podcast, which is an excellent substack,

by the way, you should subscribe.

Welcome back to the show.

Thank you for having me.

I'm honored to be brought on that you will bring all this hatred and and spewing into my

life what a joy the coach rankings eagles fans got a little riled up uh i feel like top

offenses and defenses you get a little bit of surliness but there's something about the quarterback

physician that just breaks people's brains.

Or I guess people few NFL quarterbacks like their children or something.

I don't know.

Just the level of defensiveness you see for teams, their fan bases and their quarterbacks.

What do you think before we get dive into this, what do you think it is that makes it so uniquely

controversial and drives so much passion?

I think it's just a league built on hope and the quarterback is the symbol of the hope all the time

when you tell them, hey, this guy might not be as good as some of the other guys.

They extinguishes some of the hope And people get very upset and very protective.

And it can go the other way too where people are out on their guy and they think he stinks.

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