Jacksonville Leads NFL Standings; Brock Purdy's MVP Case

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