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This is the athletic football show's Kiefer and the Beats.

Welcome back to the athletic football show. This is at Kiefer and this is week five of Keefer in the Beats.

Hell of a week in the NFL.

The 49ers showed everybody last night in San Francisco why they're the best team in the league, full stop.

And I loved what our San Francisco columnist Tim Kawakami wrote this morning.

The debate around Brock Purdy isn't what we thought it was.

It's not, is this guy for real?

It's is this guy a pro bowler already? He sure looked like it last night in a dominating win

over the Dallas Cowboys. And in Denver, you couldn't help but be a little happy for Nathaniel

Hackett, who everybody knows was just utterly trashed in the preseason by Sean

Peyton. Well, yesterday, Hackett and the Jets sent Peyton and the Broncos to one in four on the

season. Denver's just terrible. Russell Wilson is now 5 and 15 as the starter since coming over

last year in that trade, and his cap hit ain't going down

over the next couple seasons. That's not a good situation, and that's not a good team.

Dan Campbell and the Lions in Detroit are showing everyone. They're not just a nice, feel-good

turnaround story. No, they're legitimately a good football team right now. They're four-and-one

for the first time in 12 years.

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