I like what I'm seeing.

Five touchdowns, no interceptions, completely, about 63% of his passes.

Uh, he has not been awful by any stretch of the imagination, but he hasn't been electrifying, either.

I mean, Justin Herbert came out of blocked or, you know, throwing bombs and what have you we'll see as the season progresses.

But I've been very impressed with tour.

From the standpoint that he came into this league with durability is a question mark.

That hasn't been an issue thus far, and we obviously know that he was an accurate throw in college.

And thus far we've seen him throw some pinpoint passes and we got to give respect where respect is due.

Right now, he's three and Noah's a starter.

We have to respect that.

But couple of those games he completed 55% of his passes one game, 60% another.

They don't have much of a running game.

I'm looking at Devante Parker.

I think it's just sicky.

I think that's the tight ends name along with some others.

We'll see what happens as the season progresses.

But when you look at the Miami Dolphins.

Their defense is clearly the story for their season thus far.

Outside of making the switch from Ryan Fitzpatrick to tour tongue of a lower, the story for the Miami Dolphins has been their defense.

It's a top 10 defense.

They give up yards, rushing and passing, but they don't let you into that end zone much.

And that's credit.

That's a credit to that defense and what they're doing, led by their defensive coordinator for you and obviously blind Bryan Flores.

But the bottom line is, it's about their defense.

We'll see what happens as the season progresses with two.

I like him.

I like him a lot, but in terms of acting like he's arrived, like we've seen the man, is it?

I don't know that yet.

I think he's the real deal.

He looks like the real deal to me, and you know you have teams with really good defense is they can't get anything done on the offense and they lose games.

He's three, and, oh, now he's the defense's he's faced so far.

It's kind of very representative of the NFL in elite one in the Rams, so and by the way, why would you start him against Aaron.

Donald.

Play one.

Here comes Aaron Donald.

He's body slammed, gets up, doesn't try to do too much.

Throws one nice pass for a touchdown.

Otherwise, game manages.

Right?

That's good.

That showed me something.

And then and then since then he wanna, if not a shootout.

Ah, higher scoring type of game in Arizona against an excellent young quarterback where I wouldn't say he was outplayed.

And then he linked up with Justin Herbert and Joey.

Bosa has been out, and the Chargers defense hasn't looked recently what it's looked like earlier in the season.

And that's why I mean, he's faced all different kinds of NFL defense is so far, and each time he's done what he's needed to dio.

He's been around because, like under 100 yards against the Rams, his first time touching the ball in the NFL, he's been around a 200 yard, two touchdown.

No interception guy, right?

I wouldn't say he outplayed Herbert.

I know some people felt that way.

I think Herbert is better than to us so far.

Um, but he didn't get outplayed by Herbert, either.

Herbert had to play his defense, which is a better defense.

But even considering that I wouldn't say he got outplayed by Herbert, I would say it was about even.

And when you think of some of the quarterbacks that Herbert has played against where it looks like Herbert's about the same as that guy.

We're talking about all the best quarterbacks in football.

Whenever Herberts linked up with, like, a future Hall of Fame, it's like I don't know, He looks like he belongs to look like he belonged with him.

So I don't know when you get a guy who's really hasn't been outplayed.

In spite of facing Herbert and Kyler, Murray and the Rams defense and his 305 touchdowns no interceptions hasn't tried to do too much when he hasn't needed to.

When he's needed to be calm and steady at other times, has made the throws he is needed to make.

The whole question with him is his health right?

The hip knock wood has been okay so far, the foot is hurt, but he's been practicing.

Yeah, two.

It looks like the real deal to May.

So look, when I listen to you talk about being the real deal, I think about the I really think about the song, the next episode featuring Corrupt Nate, Snoop Dog and Dr Dre.

And they say in that song, Hold up.

Wait, listen, when I hear that hold up, wait, I think about two of because guess what?

They have a defense that is scoring on defense last week, a blocked punt.

No one's talking about special teams to because they had a score set up by the special teams.

Yes, so when your defense can score on defense, they can set you up with field position.

In his first game, he threw for 93 yards.

How do you win football games?

Throwing for 93 yards defense, special teams the other two phases.

So right now I'm gonna hold up and I'm a weight onto it because I need to Seymour from him for me to decide on if he is the real deal or not.

And Rob, here's another thing with me, usually Max, and I'm not saying that to a can't run because obviously he's got some legs on them and we've got some wheels on them and we've seen it run.

But he's not Lamar Jackson.

He's not Tyler Murray.

He's not Kyler Murray.

And so when I look at it from that standpoint, I'm thinking about his miniature size standing in that pocket.

And when you're talking about elite, defense doesn't even have to be elite.

This is the National Football League.

They can figure out your strong points in your weaknesses and find a way to kind of exploit that to some degree because he doesn't have necessarily the scrambling ability.

Ah, guy like collar Murray does.

I'm gonna be interested to see how is he going to be primarily as that pocket passer?

Once you apply the pressure to him, what are they gonna be able to do schematically to free him up toe fling that football the way I know he's an accurate passer, But what are they gonna do?

Schematically Once thes defense is figuring how figure him out just a little bit.

That's all I'm talking about, Max.

When I'm talking about just waiting to seen thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube for live streaming sports and premium content.