Welcome to the Peter King Podcast, as usual a lot going on in the National Football League after seven weeks.

Looking forward to week eight and I'm joined by Miles Simmons, my friend and partner from NBC Sports to break all of it down. We're going to have a guest today this week.

Joe Person who covers the Carolina Panthers for the Athletic.

I kind of thought that the Panthers were the forgotten entity.

It almost seemed we talked more about the Rams than about the Panthers. The Rams who didn't

get Christian McCaffrey. Obviously the 49ers, everybody talked about, we all talked about the 49ers everybody talked about we all talked about the 49ers who got Christian McCaffrey. Where does this leave the Carolina Panthers?

We're going to talk a little bit about that in our first block and then we'll get into our conversation with Joe person. We're also going to hit on the big news of the week that almost no matter what happens.

It looks like the career of Matt Ryan is very much in dry dock with the announcement that the Indianapolis

Colts, according to head coach Frank Reich, plan to start Sam Ellinger,

the sixth round pick from Texas

for the rest of the season at quarterback.

A startling move for a three three and one team but Matt Ryan leads the

NFL in all quarterbacks in the league in turnovers.

And the Colts just did not feel

that they could go any farther.

We're also gonna touch on in this podcast, Genino Smith in his ridiculous maturity and great play in Seattle.

We're going to implore to a Tongaoea, please slide.

Slide, slide.

Slide.

Padre Holmes played an incredible game and nobody noticed.

In fact, it's the best recorded game in history since 2016 of next-gen stats and how they rank quarterback performance.

And stupid me, I didn't even name him

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