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Is it me or do the weeks just kind of like fly by?

It's like a blur.

We were just here in the studio doing one of these.

It's flying by, but you know what? That's the NFL season. Yams? It is the NFL season. And this is NFL explained. Man, look, the NFL season when you're going through it, it feels fast, but each day feels slow. You feel what I'm saying? Even now as you're not a player, you're not recovering, like the body blows.

Do you know how much film I look at a week? You feel what I'm saying? Even now as you're not a player, you're not recovering. Absolutely.

It's still the... DMs, do you know how much film I look at a week? I look at every single game at least three times. At least three. You know who you should be hanging out with on a regular basis? Kyler. Kyle Murray? Yeah. Playing video. I don't play Call of Duty. That's coming out this week. The new one's coming out.

I'm actually now worried because this NFL playing video. I don't play Call of Duty. That's coming out this week. The new one's coming out.

I'm actually now worried because this NFL Explained episode is all about quarterback controversies.

And I'm just now wondering, like, did I just set the table in like the worst way absolutely possible for this episode?

No, no. You led me there. I'm blaming you. Today's episode of NFL Explain is all about quarterback controversies.

We actually got the question from a listener who hit me up on social media and we decided to make it a whole episode.

And it's kind of crazy to me, Emrod, because I think about some of these controversies.

You have dudes, established starters, stars in the league who all of a sudden lose their jobs because of maybe age, where they are in their career, or the NFL's a business.

Sometimes it's just a dude that they drafted in the first round, and you've got to find out if he can play or not.

Absolutely.

Look, I think when I first got to Seattle, my San Francisco days were a little bit different just because Alex Smith was a high draft pick a year before I got there. Everybody in the building knew this was Alex Smith's job.

So it really wasn't any controversy there. It was more controversy about the head coaching,

Mike Nolan, coach Singletary, things like that. But when I got to Seattle, Matt Hasselback was there.

Matt Hasselback had went to a Super Bowl in 2005. I got to Seattle in 2010 after training camp. And there wasn't that much of a controversy, but it was that storyline like is Matt washed. Can he still lead a young team? Pete Carroll and John Snyder, they had like 225 business interactions and acquired players and let players go just

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