00:00I'm going to throw one at you here.
00:01We are at the midway point of the season here.
00:04Yeah.
00:05Best team in the NFL right now in the first half of the year.
00:09Oh, man.
00:11I'll go Jacksonville.
00:12We just talked about them before the break.
00:14They made a lot of moves right before the deadline,
00:16but all the metrics speak to it.
00:19Before the end of last season and into this regular season,
00:22eight of the last 15 games,
00:23Trevor Lawrence hasn't even had to play the whole fourth quarter.
00:25They are not only winning teams by a dominant margin,
00:28they're doing it with great offensive play.
00:30They're doing it with excellent defensive play.
00:32The decision-making is right.
00:34Liam Cohen and that staff is pressing all the right buttons.
00:38As an AFC South fan, as a Titans fan, I hate to say it,
00:41but I do think that the stuff that they're building in Jacksonville
00:44is not only good for this season, Dan,
00:46but sustainable for the next four to five years
00:48is what you're looking for for success and also this season.
00:51So I like the fact that they swung for the fences at the trade deadline,
00:54but I think that this team has played maybe not as sexy of a pick
00:57or somebody that may be a little more unknown on the national media scale,
01:02right, because the Niners, the Bills, or the sexier names.
01:05But if you've been paying attention to this Jacksonville team,
01:07it's really hard to argue that they're the best in the business right now.
01:10What I like what they're doing now with Gladstone,
01:13their general manager, and a very young general manager,
01:16is that they're investing in their coach, aren't they?
01:18Just the same way in Chicago that they're investing in Ben Johnson.
01:22Hey, you want to give up draft choices to go get one of the premier players?
01:26Go get Jeffrey Simmons.
01:27And now they're doing the same thing here.
01:29You add now a Jordan Davis to that defensive line with Eric Armstead there
01:34and with Allen and with Drayvon Walker.
01:37That's a pretty damn good-looking front four.
01:39They were already third in run defense heading into this weekend.
01:43So, I mean, what a great move here.
01:45All right.
01:46First half.
01:48Now, when I say this to you,
01:50most valuable person to his team, who is he?
01:57I like the way you phrased that because, to me,
01:59that's always what the MVP should represent anyway.
02:03But I think if I had to choose right now, I'd go Brock Purdy.
02:07I mean, it's hard to argue with Joe Burrow.
02:09He's been awesome.
02:10I really like the Bengals as well in the AFC on this side.
02:13Josh Allen's an obvious choice too.
02:14But I think that if you take – and I always view it, Dan,
02:17when I have these discussions about any sport really,
02:19but especially football and basketball,
02:21if you take the player off the team, which team struggles the most?
02:25That's my kind of baseline linchpin for these conversations.
02:29And if you take Brock Purdy off the 49ers, even with Mac Jones,
02:32I still think that this team – yeah, maybe they make the playoffs,
02:35but they're not one of the best teams in the business.
02:37The other quarterbacks on that list, yeah,
02:39you could probably make a similar argument.
02:40You know, Josh Allen's amazing, and that defense is not very good.
02:43But just with what Brock Purdy is able to do in this Kyle Shanahan offense
02:46and how valuable he's been at the start of the season for this Niners team
02:50and how decimated they've been with injuries.
02:52They've dealt with the most injuries in the NFL, holes all over that roster.
02:56I mean, sometimes they were calling me to see if I could play wide receiver
02:59for that team.
03:00Like, it was dire straits for a couple of weeks,
03:02and they just kept chugging along because of how good Brock Purdy can be.
03:06So I guess if I had to choose right now, it's a tough one
03:09because all four of those guys at the top of the list at the quarterback position
03:11I think have valid arguments.
03:13But to me, I think it's Purdy.
