 Now who knew the Baltimore Ravens beating the San Francisco 49s was gonna bring out a lot of nasty and disgusting dialogue amongst a lot of people in regards to Lamar Jackson. Now of course, that game, as we have all talked about, that game catapulted Lamar Jackson to the front of so many people's MVP race. They say, all right, Lamar Jackson is now the clear favorite to win the NFL's MVP award this year because of that game. And obviously all the other games before too, because he is a pretty valuable person to the Baltimore Ravens and just to the NFL as a whole. But some people have talked about all Lamar Jackson doesn't deserve it because of numbers. Some people have talked about, oh well, I feel like this player deserves it over Lamar Jackson because of numbers and because of his impact on the team. And I'm cool with all that. I enjoy hearing people's different viewpoints, but where I don't, I'm not the biggest fan is when people take it a step further and not in such a good way. Fox Sports Radio Monse Balanos, she had some interesting comments to say about Lamar Jackson. And you know what? Imma just let you listen to it. You don't think Lamar Jackson's the most valuable player in the national football league? No, I don't. This is absurd. What are you talking about? You're absurd. Listen, this sounds like I don't like Lamar Jackson and that's not what it is at all. I think Lamar Jackson has come out and has become a better quarterback this year. He is doing better than I thought, throwing the ball and just, you know, being the quarterback, especially after losing his favorite target to Mark Andrews. And I see it, I see it. So far so good, right? She ain't say nothing outlandish. She ain't say nothing crazy. She feel like Lamar Jackson has been a better quarterback than he has in the past. And that is true. He has gotten even better this year. And then she also mentioned, hey, he's been doing it without Mark Andrew. So that makes a big difference as well. But let's continue. But to me, the MVP is somebody who has been kicking cheeks and taking names week after week. He had a great game against the 49ers. Great game. The defense exquisite against the 49ers. But he's also had four games this year without a touchdown pass, four. Then he's had other games where he had one touchdown. Two games, like he has not been, in the words of Colin Cowherd, stars attract stars. No, I'm just kidding. This is what we do. You know, in rich way. So she talked about where he's had multiple games without a touchdown pass. And then he's had a game where he only threw one touchdown pass. Again, those are facts. But this is what I was talking about earlier this week when it came to something that I really appreciated about Lamar Jackson even being in the MVP conversation and being the front runner. It showed me that a lot of people are no longer just going by the box score. They're not just looking at a bunch of stats and be like, okay, well, here's that, there's that. Okay, well, that looks like MVP stuff. I don't know if that doesn't. No, they're actually watching the games. And like we said, to really, and I can tell that she doesn't really appreciate him like that. And hey, that's okay. He's not everybody's cup of tea. But I think it's very important to have an accurate discussion when it comes to Lamar Jackson. You have to watch the games. You have to, like, you cannot just go by the box score because Lamar Jackson is not just a box score quarterback. A lot of stuff that he does, there are no numbers for. There are no actual statistics for. You know how many times, and I mean, y'all seen it. I can't even count the number of times off the top of our head where Lamar Jackson has faced pressure, made somebody miss, made somebody else miss, found somebody downfield, or end up taking off for a big play. We've seen that time and time again. Time and time again throughout the years. There's no stat for that. There's no stat for, oh, this is how many past rushes that he made miss in the pocket. And there's so much stuff that he does on a weekly basis. And I just feel like it doesn't go appreciated enough by so many people in the national media because, and I get it, they don't watch every single Ravens game, I get that. But still, to really understand who and how special Lamar Jackson is, you gotta watch him play. But let's continue because we ain't done yet. I want my quarterbacks to be quarterback-y. And to me, Lamar Jackson's just a great athlete and he's done a really good job and he had a great game against the 49ers. Prisoners of the moment, he is not the MVP. Christian McCaffrey is the MVP and he has been, I've been saying this for weeks. It's not like I just decided after this game that that's what happened with Lamar. After this game, he jumped up but he wasn't even in the conversation. He was like an afterthought. It was always like to the, no, it's Christian McCaffrey and then to, and you know, I'm not a huge fan of Tyree Kill because of what he does off the field but you know, a separate conversation. He's in the second one. If it's not Christian, it's Tyree Kill. Those are the two that have stood out every week, every week, not Lamar Jackson. It's not that I don't like Lamar. It's not that he's not doing a good job. He is doing a good job but he's not the MVP. So that part right there is what got the world heated with what she had to say because it went from bad to worse because she said, I want my quarterbacks to be quarterbacking. I want my quarterbacks to be quarterbacking. Right there when she said that, I was like, ooh, I hope this doesn't get any worse but then it did because she said, Lamar Jackson is just an athlete. She said he's just an athlete that has been doing a good job, that had a good game against the 49ers but she said so many people are getting caught and being prisoners of the moment because he wasn't in the MVP conversation before. She said before it was guys like two of them. It was CMC, it was Tyree Kill, it was Dag Prescott which it was but Lamar Jackson was usually around like number five when it came to those guys but she said people are prisoners at the moment because they catapulted him to the top because of this one good game but the quarterback-y part and the Justin athlete. In my opinion, I feel like that is extremely disrespectful to Lamar Jackson, to everything that he's accomplished. Like for people to steal, steal. He been in the league since 2018. Been in the league since 2018. That was his rookie year and as you all know so many people wanted him to change positions. They wanted him to be a running back, to be a receiver, to be all other kind of stuff but everything but a quarterback. But him, he said no, I'm a quarterback. Not running a 40, I don't wanna run a 40 to put anybody's head that I'm gonna play any other position, no, I'm a quarterback. And for people, this far down the road years later to still have that same vision of Lamar as just an athlete after everything that he's accomplished and everything that he's done and everything that he's continued to accomplish for people to still say he's just an athlete. That's extremely disrespectful to him. Extremely, extremely. I was just having this conversation with my wife the other day and I was talking about how with athletes it's not just about athleticism because you can be the fastest, you can be the strongest, you can be the quickest, you can have the best hands in the world, you can have the biggest arm in the world, you can have all of that stuff, you can have the best skill set in the world but if you don't have it up here, it's not gonna work, it's not gonna work. You could have all of that stuff but if you don't have the mind, the smarts to get it done, you won't be successful even if you have all those things. With Lamar Jackson, people try to, they try to punish him almost for being somebody that is definitely athletically gifted who has the mindset to, who has the smarts to. Since he has both, people try, some people, not everybody, they try to make it like it's a bad thing and it's not, it just makes him that much more dangerous, the fact that he does have both. I said this back in 2018 that with Lamar Jackson, he will never, ever, ever, ever, no matter what he does, no matter what he accomplishes, that he will never, ever be good enough for some people, ever, ever and that still obviously holds true to this day. If you give Christian McCaffrey a most outstanding offensive player, you can give him the offensive player of the year awards, that's fine but the value of what Lamar Jackson provides to the Baltimore Ravens is more than Christian McCaffrey. This is a Niners team, again, Monty, that chased a stupid touchdown record and tried to get Christian McCaffrey NFL history in a game where they were up 30 points. Just because he scores a lot of touchdowns, doesn't put him over the edge and because he's scoring touchdowns every week, doesn't make him the most valuable player. And I don't even think that's all it is because Raheem Moser has what, 21 touchdowns for Miami scored this season? It's not even just that, it's the eye test. He looks like no one can stop him. When they were playing the Ravens, his touchdown that he scored where it was still close, nobody could stop him. He looked unstoppable when he scored that touchdown and I just like, no quarterback, I know that it's like, this is a quarterback award which is so annoying to hear. No quarterback has had a dominant performance the entire season. And if I am gonna give it to a quarterback, how is it not Tua? Like I don't, it is, I don't think it's Lamar and even though everyone is shifting that way, I just don't see it because of this game, it's prisoners of the moment. Absolutely not. It shouldn't have been this, then this past game be the game that Christian McCaffrey takes over. Shouldn't he have taken over that game? You know, it's really hard when your quarterback throws four picks, it's really hard, you don't get the ball as often, but he had more rushing yards. McCaffrey by himself than the entire Ravens offense on the ground. So Dan Baia, who was her co-host for this segment, he made some points about the 49ers and Christian McCaffrey and he talked about how they were chasing this touchdown record, which I got no problem with a team doing, hey, break all the records that you want to. But he talked about with Christian McCaffrey, with them chasing that touchdown record. He said they were still trying to score and they were up 30 and whatnot. But the way I look at it, look, the game ain't over till it's over. It ain't over till the clock hits zero. So score as many points as you want. But another point that he made was that Christian McCaffrey, yeah, he scored a bunch of touchdowns, but he talked about Lamar Jackson's value. He said Lamar Jackson's value is more than Christian McCaffrey's is when it comes to their respective teams. And back to her, in that same portion that we just watched, she also talked about how it's the eye test. Oh, it's the eye test. So what the eye test is, that's when you actually see something for yourself. You don't hear about it. You don't read about it, but you actually see it for yourself. And the eye test in football is when you actually watch the game, you watch specific players, you watch for certain things. But the point is that you watch. And she said for Christian McCaffrey that he looked unstoppable. And in this Ravens game specifically, she talked about where he looked unstoppable. She did not make any mention of Lamar Jackson looking unstoppable, which, hey, okay, if you don't want to make mention of that, that's, it is what it is. But think about this. If Christian McCaffrey is your MVP, Lamar Jackson is some other people's MVPs, not yours obviously, but in a game where it's the best of the best, these are the top two teams in the league. Literally in the league, they got the same record. They had the top of their conferences, two top teams in the league. You would think that this would be the game where your MVP shows up to play, right? Right. So Christian McCaffrey, he did his thing in that game. But she said he looked unstoppable. Lamar Jackson, he did his thing in that game. She didn't say he looked unstoppable. Which one of those two players had the bigger impact on their team? Which one of those two players had the bigger impact on the outcome of their game for their team? And which one of those two players' performances impacted their team more? And then she did talk about, oh, well, it's kind of hard to get touches when you quarterback those four interceptions. And it is. That is true. But it still does not take away Lamar Jackson's value. And if Christian McCaffrey was truly that unstoppable, then Brock Partey wouldn't have had had to throw them passes. He would have just been able to hand it off to Christian McCaffrey, toss it to Christian McCaffrey, pitch it to Christian McCaffrey. And if he was truly that unstoppable, he wouldn't have been stopped. Then she continued the conversation and said that with the MVP, it's a quarterback award. And she doesn't like that. Okay, I get it. I got no problem with that at all. Because I do feel like some other people should be candidates for the MVP award. Like she mentioned earlier, Tyreek Hill, he was a candidate at CMC and whatnot. But she said, since it's a quarterback award, she said she feels like it should go to Tua Takavaloa. Now, I really like Tua. I really like Tua. And I was talking to some of my Dolphins friends, you know, this game coming up, it's personal. Because y'all know I'm down here in Miami, I'm dealing with all these dogs. Anyway, and one of my friends asked me, he's like, how do you feel about the Dolphins? How do you feel about them? And this was before the season started. And I said with the Dolphins, I feel like they can do really good. It just depends on Tua's health. If Tua can be healthy, the Dolphins can be a good team. And Tua has been doing this thing. Now, the thing with Tua though, and the whole MVP thing versus Lamar Jackson, with Tua and the Dolphins before the Cowboys game, when did they beat a team that they were going up against that had a winning record? That right there, that ended the whole Lamar Jackson Tua conversation, in my opinion, because the Dolphins, and you're supposed to do this, they beat up on them bad teams. They beat them bad teams up for sure. Great job. But when it came to playing good teams, when it came to playing playoff teams, they always fell short until the Cowboys game. Now, then you look on the flip side, look at Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens. How have they done against teams with winning records, against playoff teams? And it's no comparison. It's no comparison at all. So again, with Lamar Jackson, this week, I've really appreciated the fact that so many people, they really started to take the eye test for themselves. They really started to realize like, hold up, it's not all about the box score. It's not just all about the numbers. They do play a big role for sure, but it goes much deeper than that.