And yet there may be, in some trouble, their defense last year.

Look, two years ago is a little underrated.

Last year, people saw it had gotten better.

But mainly as we know this time of year, it's How are you trending?

It's a war of attrition.

The NFL.

You're not the same team at the end of the season, every season that you are in the beginning.

And the Chiefs defense in particular, is trending in the wrong direction over the last, like third of the year.

Last month, month and a half of the season was trending in the wrong direction, and as a result, they've had some close games.

Patrick Mahomes is expected to make that a moot point.

He is so great, he's the first quarterback I've ever seen, where because his team has him.

I know they got Tyree killing Travis Kelsey and ballers on that team.

But let's be honest because they have him.

We're expecting them toe win.

His reputation takes an enormous shot.

If they lose, if he can't overcome all of a sudden, it's like, Wait a minute.

Aaron Rodgers won the M V P this year.

We sure Mahomes is better than Rogers.

Steven A.

Already doesn't necessarily think so, but the consensus says yes, he has the most to lose.

He's the biggest favorite.

He's.

His defense is not as good as many of the other teams he's under.

The most pressure, I would say Lamar Jackson is I would say Lamar Jackson is primarily because he's going up against Josh Allen, who's another young lion on to come up and is an M V P candidate.

That would be the reason why Max Kellerman, of course, that he got rid of the most of the pressure because he finally won a playoff game, which is something I alluded to earlier in the week.

But nevertheless, when you're going up against a young lion, it's not only that Patrick Mahomes has already arrived and he's already there, not just a guy that wants through 50 touchdowns in the season, one league MVP honors and then the following year won the Super Bowl and is universally recognized as the best, not just in the game today, but arguably the best to have ever done it in this short period of time.

But now you've got somebody on the back end coming up in Josh Allen, who's a Buffalo bill, By the way.

They made the playoffs last year.

They made it again this year, the number two seed, they won 13 games.

He threw for over 4500 yards and 37 touchdowns.

He's been flat out bawling, and so as a result, when you look at it from that perspective, think about it for a second.

And we talked about Shawn Watson.

We're talking about Lamar Jackson.

Uh, you know, we've been talking about that Prescott all year long because of his contract and things of that nature.

When we look at Josh Allen, he's literally falling under the radar.

Stefon Diggs was a damn good receiver.

We ain't never seen him catch 127 receptions for 1535 yards when Kirk Cousins was throwing the football.

Obviously you had Adam feeling there in Minnesota, but nevertheless, the are arguably the biggest reason why you didn't see that was because he had Josh Allen throwing the football this time around, not Kirk Cousins.

And so when you look at it from that perspective and you see how Buffalo is growing before our very eyes, how McDermott is doing such an outstanding job coaching them and how balanced they are on both sides of the ball the way that they've been playing throughout this year, if Josh Allen continues to be that dude and they continue to rave about him the way that they do defensive players a raving about him, Stefon Diggs loves him.

The coach is talking about his growth in his maturation, all of these different things.

You're Lamar Jackson.

You want to show up in Buffalo and kill that noise, particularly in inclement weather, because you want to go into his house under those adverse conditions conditions, which you've never been exposed to in your career, according to you.

And go up in there and handle your business so you could sort of stymie or quell all that noise that they've been giving you about Josh Allen and say, Excuse me, it ain't there yet.

I'm still that due to some degree, it's about me and Patrick Mahomes.

It's not about you and Patrick Mahomes.

You stop that by knocking this guy off this pedestal this weekend.

I think in that regard, there's more pressure on the Marr than there is on Patrick Moms.

I mean, how in the world could it be brushed on?

A guy who's 25 years old already won a Super Bowl and it's been a league MVP?

He's not sweating anything.

Come on now, Max.

I'm going with I'm going with Stephen, Stephen a guy, that boy, Aaron Rodgers, that bad man up up in Green Bay.

Because here's why, as we I think we can all agree that Aaron Rodgers is the most talented pass of the football of this generation.

There's no question.

I don't think there's no question about that, But he's only got one Super Bowl, one Super Bowl, and we've talked about many times how the Packers organization, particularly Mike McCarthy, who was the head coach at the time, has been have been wasting away Aaron Rodgers talent.

Well, guess what?

Mike McCarthy has moved on to Dallas.

Aaron Rodgers last year, 13 and three got spanked by The Simpsons for 40 Niners in the NFC champion game.

Come back.

Fast forward to this year.

13 and three.

Number one seed in the NFC, likely in NFL M v p.

If an Rogers doesn't get it this year, what is his legacy gonna be here, Max?

Stephen A.

What is Aaron Rodgers legacy gonna be?

What's the excuse gonna be?

There's no better time than to fulfill his legacy.

Then right here, right now with home field advantage that has to run through Green Bay.

I'm going with Aaron Rodgers.

Well, Aaron Rodgers is a very good pick.

I would just say everyone recognizes and, you know, Dan Orlovsky has been on get up all week, talking about the bad matchup defensively for Rogers, and everyone recognizes if the Rams air healthy, like if Aaron Donald is healthy, that's a very tough matchup in a defense capable of being the best defense left in the playoffs, a team that's been to the Super Bowl.

Not that all.

You know, not all that long ago, and we're today the win sure to be bad for Rogers, but it wouldn't be the most shocking thing in the world.

As for Lamar Jackson, Steven, I think you got it right off the bat, which is Lamar.

Really?

The pressure was you got a least won a playoff game this year.

You got to do it.

If they lose to the Bills people, there is some pressure because hey, Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson basically like it or not, the winner of this game, that quarterback's gonna be elevated over the other.

But the monkey is off Lamar Jackson's back.

He has now won in the playoffs.

Onda Similarly.

Josh Allen.

Look, if you've already won a playoff game and you're still ascending, you're not expected to win the Super Bowl.

No one's picking the Browns to beat the Chiefs.

Everyone acknowledges.

I know what you're saying, David.

He already won a Super Bowl over one M v P.

Super Bowl M V P.

Defending champs Only 25.

He's not gonna feel that pressure.

Maybe Mahomes doesn't feel pressure.

That doesn't mean it's not.

There he is.

The the Chiefs are the first team because off my homes that I looked at pre season and I said to me, that's not only the odds on favorite, I'm taking them against the field and many people felt that way.

Many people.

And it's because of Mahomes.

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